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Fourth, to back up the likelihood of *médhu- and *mad being linked, we have plenty of examples of words for drink and words for being drunk having come from the same root - I've just given one example, drink/drunk, and I gave another in my earlier post, Hebrew shekar and Yiddish shiker.
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As it happens, of course, English DID later borrow shekar, via Greek and French, as it appears to be the root of "cider" - oh, and "shiker", from shekar, is Yiddish for "drunk".
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When my great-grandfather was eighty years old, my grandfather hated seeing him shiker.
The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007
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When my great-grandfather was eighty years old, my grandfather hated seeing him shiker.
The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007
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When my great-grandfather was eighty years old, my grandfather hated seeing him shiker.
The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007
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