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ed-
To eat; original meaning "to bite." Oldest form *h1ed‑.- eat, from Old English etan, to eat;
- etch, from Old High German ezzen, to feed on, eat;
- ort, from Middle Dutch eten, to eat;
- fret1, from Old English fretan, to devour;
- frass, from Old High German frezzan, to devour. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic compound *fra-etan, to eat up (*fra‑, completely; see per1). a-d all from Germanic *etan.
- edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient; comedo, comestible, obese, from Latin edere, to eat.
- prandial, from Latin compound prandium, lunch, probably from *prām-(e)d-yo‑, "first meal," *prām‑, first; see per1.
- Suffixed form *ed-un-o‑. jotun, from Old Norse jötunn, giant, jotun, from Germanic idunaz (perhaps < "immense eater" or "man-eating giant").
- Suffixed form *ed-un-ā‑. anodyne, pleurodynia, from Greek odunē, pain (< "gnawing care").
- Suffixed zero-grade form *əd-ti‑. alfalfa, from Old Iranian *-sti‑, food, in compound.*aspa-sti‑clover, alfalfa ("horse food") (*aspa‑, horse; see ekwo-).
- Samoyed, from Russian -ed, eater.
[Pokorny ed‑ 287.]
See also derivative dent-. |
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