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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	tkei-
DEFINITION:	To settle, dwell, be home. Oldest form tei-, becoming tkei- in centum languages. Derivatives include home, hangar, and situate. 1. Suffixed o-grade form (t)koi-mo-. a. home, from Old English hm,* home; b. Niflheim, from Old Norse heimr, home; c. haimish, from Old High German heim, home; d. hame, from Middle Dutch hame, hame (< “covering”); e. hamlet, from Old French ham, village, home; f. haunt, from Old French hanter, to frequent, haunt, from Germanic haimatjan, to go or bring home; g. hangar, from Old French hangard,* shelter, possibly from Germanic haimgardaz (gardaz, enclosure; see gher-¹). a–g all from Germanic haimaz, home. 2. Zero-grade form tki-. a. amphictyony, protoctist, from Greek ktizein, to found, settle, from metathesized kti-; b. probably Italic si-. situate, situs, from Latin situs, location, from suffixed form si-tu-. (Pokorny 1. ei-* 539, ei- 626.)


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