The word greedy comes from the Indo-European root *gher which meant something like to like/want (source).
This is also the root for the incredibly common German word gern and other every day German words. I really let my fantasy roam freely but I was not able to find another English word with that origin.
I would find this quite surprising to see that a root with such a basic meaning almost entirely vanishes.
So my questions is:
Does anyone know of other words that have the same origin (no matter, if they are imports from Latin)?
Best Answer
At your source (etymonline for greed), if you enter gher or gher- or *gher- as the search term you can find other words that stem, eventually, from Indo-European root *gher- in its sense to like, want, such as Eucharist, yearn, hortatory, charisma.
Note that PIE *gher- is shown in etymonline with several additional senses:
• “to scrape, scratch” in the etymologies of gash and character
• “to bristle” for arugula and urchin
• “to grasp, enclose” for cohort, chorus, yard
• “to call out” for greet