Root words...?

Question

Whats the root word for.... Carnivore
and
whats the root word for Horse

thanks

Answer 1

Carnivore: Meat eater. The root word carn is a Greek word meaning "meat."

Horse:

Proto-Indo-European Roots

Root/Stem: *ekwo-

Meanings: a horse

Cognates: Greek hippos (horse) - an example of how *kw > p in Greek
Latin equus (horse)
Common Celtic *ekwos (horse) >
Gaulish epos, eqos, Goidelic *ehwah, Ogham Irish eqa, Old Irish ech, Irish and Scottish Gaelic each, Welsh & Cornish ebol (a colt), Breton ebeul (a colt)
Common Germanic *ihwaz >
Gothic aihwa- (horse), Old English eoh, Old Norse jo'r, Old Saxon ehu-, Old High German eha-
Hieroglyphic Hittite asu, asuwa (horse) - this form made some scientists say that *-k- in *ekwo- was palatal *-k'- that changed into -s- in Anatolian languages;
Lycian esbedi (cavalry)
Tocharic A yuk (a horse), B yakwe
Sanskrit açva- (horse), Mitanni Aryan asvasanni (a stableman)
Avestan asva- (a horse), Old Persian asa-, Pamir yas', Ossetic jäfs
Thracian esb, esvas (a donkey, a horse),

Answer 2

The Oxford dictionary of English Etymology traces the word horse to old Frieien (a language of Friesland, Northern Netherlands), hors, hers, or hars. Spelling was not standaredised until recently. Also Middle High German (which is a later language), has the word ros ors, which comes form the veryt old common Germanic words xorsam, and xorsaz. phylologists cannot trace it back earlier than that.
Carnivore comes Latin from the word carn whuch means flesh. Many languages adopted this word root. e.g "chile con carne.". Which is Spanish for meat chile.
Dan.

Answer 3

Well, in my best opinion those are root words. They can not stand alone.
Now words such with prefixes and suffixes often have root words, but for the ones you mentioned I don't get the gist of it.
I mean like the word or is in horse, but that changes the entire word.

Answer 4

Carnivore & Horse

Answer 5

Well, the root for Carnivore is carn-, which means "flesh" or "meat", but I don't think "Horse" has a root, but if it did, it would have to be "hor".

Answer 6

ped has to do with a foot or feet. biped a creature with two feet pedestrian a person who walks across the street on foot peddler a person who goes door to door on foot trying to sell products pedal a lever that is moved with one's foot mort means death i am not sure about mortgage mortal means subject to death immortal exempt from death morgue a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy