Re: Cadaver < lat. cadere

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".