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bher-1 To carry; also to bear children. Derivatives include birth, fertile, suffer, furtive, and metaphor.- bear1, from Old English beran, to carry;
- forbear1, from Old English forberan, to bear, endure (for‑, for‑; see per1). Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *beran.
- bier, from Old English bēr, bǣr, bier, and Old French biere bier, both from Germanic *bērō;
- bore3, from Old Norse bāra, wave, billow, from Germanic *bēr‑.
- bairn, from Old English bearn, child, from Germanic *barnam;
- barrow1, from Old English bearwe, basket, wheelbarrow, from Germanic *barwōn‑.
- burly, from Old English *borlic, excellent, exalted (< "borne up"), from Germanic *bur‑;
- burden, from Old English byrthen, burden, from Germanic *burthinja‑;
- birth, from a source akin to Old Norse burdhr, birth, from Germanic *burthiz;
- birr1, from Old Norse byrr, favorable wind, perhaps from Germanic *burja‑.
- Compound root *bhrenk‑, to bring (< *bher‑ + *enk‑, to reach; see nek-2). bring, from Old English bringan, to bring, from Germanic *brengan.
- -fer, fertile; afferent, circumference, confer, defer1, defer2, differ, efferent, infer, offer, prefer, proffer, refer, suffer, transfer, vociferate, from Latin ferre, to carry.
- Prefixed and suffixed zero-grade form *pro-bhr-o‑, "something brought before one" (*pro‑, before; see per1). opprobrium, from Latin probrum, a reproach.
- Possibly suffixed zero-grade form *bhr̥-tu‑ in Latin words having to do with "chance" (? < "a bringing, that which is brought").
- fortuitous, from Latin fortuītus, happening by chance;
- Fortuna, fortune, from Latin fortūna, chance, good luck, fortune, and Fortūna, goddess of good fortune.
- Probably lengthened o-grade form *bhōr‑. ferret1, furtive, furuncle; furunculosis, from Latin fūr, thief.
- feretory, -phore, -phoresis, -phorous; amphora, anaphora, diaphoresis, euphoria, metaphor, periphery, pheromone, telpher, tocopherol, from Greek pherein, to carry, with o-grade noun phoros, a carrying.
- paraphernalia, from Greek phernē, dowry ("something brought by a bride").
- sambal, from Sanskrit bharati, he carries, brings.
[Pokorny 1. bher‑ 128.] |
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