| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | bhr ter- |
| DEFINITION: | Brother, male agnate. 1a. brother, from Old English br thor, brother; b. bully1, from Middle Dutch broeder, brother. Both a and b from Germanic *brthar-. 2. Fra, fraternal, fraternity, fraternize, friar; confrere, fratricide, from Latin frter, brother. 3. phratry, from Greek phrt r, fellow member of a clan. 4. pal, from Sanskrit bhrt, bhrtar-, brother. (Pokorny bhrter- 163.) |
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