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The American Heritage
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Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
2000.
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
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| ENTRY:
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 -ro-
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| DEFINITION:
| Man. Contracted from
*wi
 -ro-,
derivative of wei
-.
Derivatives include
werewolf, world,
and
virtuoso.
1a.
werewolf
,
wergeld
, from Old English
wer,
man;
b.
(i)
world
, from Old English
weorold,
world;
(ii)
Weltanschauung
,
Weltschmerz
, from Old High German
weralt,
world. Both
(i)
and
(ii)
from Germanic compound
*wer-ald-,
“life or age of man” (
*-ald-,
age; see
al-
2
);
c.
loup-garou
, from Old French
garoul,
werewolf, from Frankish
*wer-wulf,
“man-wolf” (
*wulf,
wolf; see w
 k
w
o-). Both
a
and
b
from Germanic
*weraz,
from shortened form
*wiraz.
2.
virago
,
virile
,
virtue
,
virtuosa
,
virtuoso
;
decemvir
,
decurion
,
duumvir
,
triumvir
, from Latin
vir,
man.
3.
curia
, from Latin
c
 ria,
curia, court, possibly from
*co-vir-ia,
“men together” (
*co-,
together; see
kom
). (Pokorny
  ro-s
1177.)
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Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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