Re: Cadaver < lat. cadere

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". (Just my own thought.) However, in Latin,
  fluid from a poppy was actually called "latex".

  purge fluid, putrefactive fluids, decomposition fluids

  latex, poppy latex