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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	genu-¹
DEFINITION:	Knee; also angle. Oldest form enu-, becoming genu- in centum languages. 1. Variant form gneu-. a. knee, from Old English cno,* knee, from Germanic knewam; b. kneel, from Old English cnowlian,* to kneel, from Germanic knewljan. 2. Basic form genu-. geniculate, genuflect, from Latin gen, knee. 3. O-grade form gonu. polygonum, pycnogonid, from Greek gonu,* knee. 4. Suffixed variant form gnw-y-. –gon, gonion; amblygonite, diagonal, goniometer, orthogonal, from Greek gni,* angle, corner. (Pokorny 1. enu- 380.)


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