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krei-
To sieve, discriminate, distinguish.
Derivatives include garble, crime, certain, excrement, crisis, and hypocrisy.- Basic form with variant instrumental suffixes.
- Suffixed form *krei-tro‑. riddle1, from Old English hridder, hriddel, sieve, from Germanic *hridra‑;
- suffixed form *krei-dhro‑. cribriform, garble, from Latin crībrum, sieve.
- Suffixed form *krei-men‑.
- crime, criminal; recriminate, from Latin crīmen, judgment, crime;
- discriminate, from Latin discrīmen, distinction (dis‑, apart).
- Suffixed zero-grade form *kri-no‑. certain; ascertain, concern, concert, decree, discern, disconcert, discrete, excrement, excrete, incertitude, recrement, secern, secret, secretary, from Latin cernere (past participle crētus), to sift, separate, decide.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *kri-n-yo‑. crisis, critic, criterion; apocrine, diacritic, eccrine, endocrine, epicritic, exocrine, hematocrit, hypocrisy, paracrine, from Greek krīnein, to separate, decide, judge, and krīnesthai, to explain.
[Pokorny 4. sker‑, Section II. 945.] |
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