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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	terk^w-
DEFINITION:	To twist. 1. Possible variant (metathesized) form twerk-. a. queer, from Middle Low German dwer,* oblique; b. thwart, from Old Norse thverr, transverse. Both a and b from Germanic thwerh-, twisted, oblique. 2. Suffixed (causative) o-grade form tork^w-eyo-. torch, torment, torque¹, torque², torsade, torsion, tort, tortuous, torture, truss; contort, distort, extort, nasturtium, retort¹, torticollis, from Latin torqure, to twist. (Pokorny terk- 1077.)


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