er-2. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	er-²
DEFINITION:	Earth, ground. Extended form ert-. a. earth, from Old English eorthe,* earth; b. aardvark, aardwolf, from Middle Dutch aerde, eerde, earth. Both a and b from Germanic erth. (Pokorny 4. er-* 332.)


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