英语词汇“Indo-European root: ker-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: ker-

释义

‌‌ker-¹
Horn, head; with derivatives referring to horned animals, horn-shaped objects, and projecting parts. Oldest form *k̑er‑, becoming *ker‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include horn, unicorn, hornet, reindeer, migraine, cheer, rhinoceros, and cerebrum.

Zero-grade form *kr̥‑. Suffixed form *kr̥-no‑.
1. 1. horn, hornbeam, from Old English horn, horn;
  2. alpenhorn, althorn, flugelhorn, hornblende, from Old High German horn, horn. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *hurnaz.
Extended o-grade form *koru‑.
1. corymb, from Greek korumbos, uppermost point (< "head").
2. coryphaeus, from Greek koruphē, head.
3. Suffixed form *koru-do‑. corydalis, from Greek korudos, crested lark.
4. Suffixed form *koru-nā‑. corynebacterium, from Greek korunē, club, mace.
Extended e-grade form *keru‑.
1. Suffixed form *kerw-o‑, "having horns."
  1. cervid, cervine, serval, from Latin cervus, deer;
  2. cervix, from Latin cervīx, neck.
2. Suffixed form *keru-do‑.
  1. hart, from Old English heorot, hart, stag;
  2. hartebeest, from Middle Dutch hert, deer, hart. Both a and b from Germanic *herutaz.
Italic and Celtic blend of (I) *kr̥-no‑ and (II) *koru‑ yielding *kor-nu‑. corn², cornea, corneous, corner, cornet, cornichon, corniculate, cornu; bicornuate, Capricorn, cornification, lamellicorn, longicorn, tricorn, unicorn, from Latin cornū, horn.
Extended zero-grade form *kr̥ə‑.
1. charivari; cheer, from Greek karē, karā, head.
2. carotid, from Greek karoun, to stupefy, be stupefied (< "to feel heavy-headed").
3. carrot, carotene, from Greek karōton, carrot (from its hornlike shape).
Suffixed further extended form *kr̥əs-no‑.
1. cranium; migraine, olecranon, from Greek krānion, skull, upper part of the head.
2. hornet, from Old English hyrnet, hornet, from Germanic *hurznuta‑.
E-grade further extended form *kerəs‑.
1. carat, cerambycid, cerastes, kerato-; ceratopsian, chelicera, cladoceran, keratin, Monoceros, rhinoceros, triceratops, from Greek keras, horn.
2. sirdar, from Persian sar, head.
3. Suffixed form *kerəs-ro. cerebellum, cerebrum, saveloy, from Latin cerebrum, brain.
Extended form *krei‑.
1. reindeer, from Old Norse hreinn, reindeer, from Germanic *hraina‑.
2. rinderpest, from Old High German hrind, ox, from Germanic *hrinda‑.
3. Possibly extended form *krī‑. criosphinx, from Greek krīos, ram.

[Pokorny 1. k̑er‑ 574.]

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