[English Etymology] *ghrebh- "to seize, reach" ✊

*ghrebh-  "to seize, reach" ✊

Eng grasp
   Old English *græpsan  "to touch, feel"
             Proto-Germanic *grab-, *grap-

[English Etymology] *leg- "to collect, to gather → to gather words → to speak" 🗣

*leg- "to collect, gather → to gather words → to speak" 🗣


 Latin selectus, (past participle)
              seligere "choose out, single out, select; separate, cull" = se- "apart"  + legere

[English Etymology] *wadh- (1) "to pledge" 😮✋ (2) "to go" 🚶

*wadh-  "to pledge" 😮✋

Anglo-French wage "pledge, pay, reward," f
     Frankish *wadja- or another Germanic source 
              Proto-Germanic *wadi-


Eng wed (v), wedding (n)
    Old English weddian "to pledge oneself, covenant to do something, vow; betroth, marry," (verbal noun: weddung )
              Proto-Germanic *wadi-


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*wadh-  "to go" 🚶


Latin evadere "to escape, get away" = ex  + vadere


Latin invadere "to go, come, or get into; enter violently, penetrate into as an enemy, assail, assault, make an attack on" =in-  + vadere

[English Etymology] *(s)tene- "to resound, thunder" ⚡⚡⚡

*(s)tene- "to resound, thunder"  ⚡⚡⚡


Eng thunder
  Old English þunor "thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor"
       Proto-Germanic *thunraz


Eng astonish
Mid Eng  astonien, "to stun, strike senseless" 
    Old French estoner "to stun, daze, deafen, astound" 
        Vulgar Latin *extonare  = Latin ex + tonare

[English Etymology] *apo- "off, away"

 *apo- "off, away"

Lt ab- "off, away from“

Old Eng æfter = of  + -ter (a comparative suffix)

Gk apo "from, away from; after; in descent from“

Eng awk "turned backwards, wrong, contrary"  

    Proto-Germanic *afug- 

                               PIE *apu-ko 

Eng of, off

   Proto-Germanic *af

Latin post "behind, after, afterward" 

             *pos-ti

Eng awkward "in the wrong direction" = awk + -ward

Latin praeposterus "absurd, contrary to nature, inverted, perverted, in reverse order, (lit: before-behind)"  = prae  + posterus

[English Etymology] *kers- "to run" 🏃

 *kers- "to run" 🏃

Eng car 

   Anglo-French carre 

                 Gaulish karros

                          PIE *krsos

Latin curriculum "a running, course, career, a fast chariot, racing car"
             currere "to run"

Lt excursionem "a running forth, sally, excursion, expedition, an outset, opening"  

          excurrere = ex + currere

[English Etymology] *plek- "to plait"

 *plek- "to plait"



Old French emploiier (12c.) "make use of, apply; increase; entangle; devote"
             Latin implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with, unite, associate" = in + plicare "to fold" 


Mid Eng implien, emplien "to enfold, enwrap, entangle" 
     Old French emplier, 
                   Latin implicare