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ENTRY: "*bher-" (1)
DEFINITION: "To carry"; also "to bear children".
Derivatives include "birth", "fertile", "suffer", "furtive", and "metaphor".
1a. (i)
"bear" (1), from Old English "beran", "to carry";
1a. (ii)
"forbear" (1), from Old English "forberan", "to bear", "endure" ("for-", "for-"; see "per" (1)). Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic "*beran";
1b.
"bier", from Old English "ber", "bær", "bier", and Old French "biere" "bier", both from Germanic "*bero";
1c.
"bore" (3), from Old Norse "bara", "wave", "billow", from Germanic "*ber-".
2a.
"bairn", from Old English "bearn", "child", from Germanic "*barnam";
2b.
"barrow" (1), from Old English "bearwe", "basket", "wheelbarrow", from Germanic "*barwon-".
3a.
"burly", from Old English "*borlic", "excellent", "exalted" ("borne up"), from Germanic "*bur-";
3b.
"burden" (1), from Old English "byrthen", "burden", from Germanic "*burthinja-";
3c.
"birth", from a source akin to Old Norse "burdhr", "birth", from Germanic "*burthiz";
3d.
"birr" (1), from Old Norse "byrr", "favorable wind", perhaps from Germanic "*burja-".
4.
Compound root "*bhrenk-", "to bring" ("*bher-" + "*enk-", "to reach"; see "nek-" (2)). "bring", from Old English "bringan", "to bring", from Germanic "*brengan".
5.
"-fer", "fertile"; "afferent", "circumference", "confer", "defer" (1), "defer" (2), "differ", "efferent", "infer", "offer", "prefer", "proffer", "refer", "suffer", "transfer", "vociferate", from Latin "ferre", "to carry".
6.
Prefixed and suffixed zero-grade form "*pro-bhr-o-", "something brought before one" ("*pro-", "before"; see "per" (1)). "opprobrium", from Latin "probrum", "a reproach".
7.
Possibly suffixed zero-grade form "*bhr-tu-" in Latin words having to do with "chance" ("?" "a bringing", "that which is brought").
7a.
"fortuitous", from Latin "fortuitus", "happening by chance";
7b.
"Fortuna", "fortune", from Latin "fortuna", "chance", "good luck", "fortune", and "Fortuna", "goddess of good fortune".
8.
Probably lengthened o-grade form "*bhor-". "ferret" (1), "furtive", "furuncle"; "furunculosis", from Latin "fur", "thief".
9.
"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".
10.
"paraphernalia", from Greek "pherne", "dowry" ("something brought by a bride").
11.
"sambal", from Sanskrit "bharati", "he carries", "he brings". (Pokorny 1. "bher-" 128.)
Erstellt: 2014-10