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1806, gooroo, from Hindi guru "teacher, priest," from Sanskrit guru-
s "one to be honored, teacher," from guru- "venerable, worthy of honor,"
literally "heavy, weighty," from PIE root *gwere- (1) "heavy."
Generalized sense of "mentor" is from 1940 (in H.G. Wells); sense of
"expert in something" first recorded c. 1966 in Canadian English in
reference to Marshall McLuhan.
*gwere- (1)
gwerə-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "heavy."
*bheue-
*bheuə-, also *bheu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to be, exist,
grow."
(Monier, 1899)
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guru (n.)
1806, gooroo, from Hindi guru "teacher, priest," from Sanskrit guru-s "one to be honored,
teacher," from guru- "venerable, worthy of honor," literally "heavy, weighty," from PIE
root *gwere- (1) "heavy." Generalized sense of "mentor" is from 1940 (in H.G. Wells); sense of
"expert in something" first recorded c. 1966 in Canadian English in reference to Marshall
McLuhan.
*gwere- (1)
*bheue-
*bheuə-, also *bheu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to be, exist, grow."
It forms all or part of: Bauhaus; be; beam; Boer; bondage; boodle; boom (n.1) "long pole;"
boor; booth; bound (adj.2) "ready to go;" bower; bowery; build; bumpkin; busk; bustle (v.) "be
active;" byre; bylaw; eisteddfod; Euphues; fiat; forebear; future; husband; imp; Monophysite;
neighbor; neophyte; phyletic; phylo-; phylum; phylogeny; physic; physico-; physics; physio-;
physique; -phyte; phyto-; symphysis.
It is the hypothetical source of Sanskrit bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens,"
bhumih "earth, world;" Greek phyein "to bring forth, make grow," phytos, phyton "a plant,"
physis "growth, nature," phylon "tribe, class, race," phyle "tribe, clan;" Old English beon "be,
exist, come to be, become, happen;" Old Church Slavonic byti "be," Greek phu- "become," Old
Irish bi'u "I am," Lithuanian bu'ti "to be," Russian byt' "to be."