sker-3. 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:	sker-³
DEFINITION:	Excrement, dung. Oldest form ser-, becoming sker- in centum languages. 1. Suffixed unextended form sk-r, alternating with sk--. scato-, scoria, skatole, from Greek skr (stem skat- < sk--t-), dung. 2. Extended form skert- in taboo metathesis sterk-os-. a. stercoraceous, from Latin stercus,* dung; b. variant forms (s)terg-, (s)treg-. dreck, from Middle High German drëc, dung, from Germanic threkka-. (Pokorny ser-(d-)* 947, 8. (s)ter- 1031.)


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