ed-

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.
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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