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PIE base ‘to run, walk, step’.

Other derivatives include dromedary, hippodrome, palindrome, trade, tramp, trample, trampoline, trap, tread, trip, and trot.

[Pokorny (der-3), drā-, dreb-, drem-, dreu-, ‘to run, trip, tread, tramp’, pp. 204–206.]

Jonah Syndrome

Hierarchy of needsAbraham Maslow introduced the term Jonah Syndrome, at the suggestion of Frank E. Manuel, in 1968 in the journal Religious Humanism, changed to Jonah Complex in his posthumously published book Farther Reaches of Human Nature, in the chapter on ‘Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth’.