ed-

To eat; original meaning “to bite.”

1.

a. eat, from Old English etan, to eat;

b. etch, from Old High German ezzen, to feed on, eat;

c. ort, from Middle Dutch eten, to eat;

d.

(i) fret¹, from Old English fretan, to devour;

(ii) frass, from Old High German frezzan, to devour. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic compound *fra-etan, to eat up (*fra-, completely; see per¹). a-d all from Germanic *etan.

2. edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient; comedo, comestible, obese, from Latin edere, to eat.

3. prandial, from Latin compound prandium, lunch, probably from *prām-(e)d-yo-, “first meal,” *prām-, first; see per¹).

4. Suffixed form *ed-un-ā-. anodyne, pleurodynia, from Greek odunē, pain (< “gnawing care”).

5. Samoyed, from Russian -ed, eater.

 

[Pokorny ed- 287.] See also derivative dent-.

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