Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Cadaver < lat. cadere Date: 18 May 2025 10:59:51 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 14 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <100b6k5$kjok$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de /z4hEGOin3bFKAwmSu+SMQNud9vCCwwOLRRO6/O7AdJ3yA Cancel-Lock: sha1:1c3LKQ+GlrJlMDFEGa3lKplRKz4= sha256:tp1bWMTo0MB41tJ9bACzgWv4omPgCYGzEldoAOtNIlQ= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2165 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >>it might be a loanword. Sometimes folks link it to the Indo-European >>root "wer", but "wer" is really just a root, not a suffix. >Yeah, sometimes a root can wind up as a suffix. Both cadavers and >poppies can let out some fluid, and there is an Indo-European root >"wē-r-" that means "liquid". cadaver, papaver, river, ... But no! The English word "river" comes from Middle English "rivere", from Anglo-Norman, from Vulgar Latin *"rīpāria", from Latin, feminine of "rīpārius", "of a bank", from "rīpa", "bank".