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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | en |
| DEFINITION: | In.
Derivatives include inner, entrails, industry, and dysentery.
1a. in1 (preposition), from Old English in, in; b. in1 (adverb), from Old English inn, into, inne, inside; c. inn, from Old English inn, habitation, inn; d. tsimmes, from Old High German in, in; e. inner, from Old English innera, farther in, inner, from Germanic (comparative) *inn(e)ra; f. (i) ben, from Old English binnan, within; (ii) bilander, from Middle Dutch binnen, within (be, by; see ambhi + innan, in, within). Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *innan. a–f all from Germanic *in. 2. en-1, in-2, from Latin in, in-, in, into. 3. en-2; enkephalin, parenchyma, parenthesis, from Greek en, en-. 4. Suffixed form *en-t(e)ro-. a. intro-; introduce, introit, intromit, introrse, introspect, from Latin intr , inward, within; b. enter, intra-; intrados, from Latin intr , inside, within; c. interim, intrinsic, from Latin interim, meanwhile, with ablative suffix -im, and intr nsecus, on the inside, from int(e)rim + secus, alongside (see sekw-1). 5. Suffixed form *en-ter. entrails, inter-, interior, intern, internal, from Latin inter, inter-, between, among. 6. intima, intimate2, from Latin (superlative) intimus, innermost (*-mo-, superlative suffix). 7. Extended form *en-do. a. industry, from Latin industrius, diligent (Archaic Latin indostruus; *stru-, to construct; see ster-2); b. indigent, from Latin indig re, to be in need (egre, to be in need). Both a and b from indu-, within, from Archaic Latin endo; c. endo-, from Greek endon, endo-, within. 8. Suffixed form *en-tos. a. dedans, intestine, intine, intussusception, from Latin intus, within, inside; b. ento-, from Greek entos, within. 9. Suffixed form *en-tero-. a. enteric, entero-, enteron; dysentery, exenterate, mesentery, from Greek enteron, intestine; b. atoll, perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit antara-, interior. 10. Extended form *ens. a. episode, from Greek eis, into; b. suffixed form *ens-. esoteric, esotropia, from Greek es, within. 11. Possibly suffixed zero-grade form * -dha. and, from Old English and, and, from Germanic *anda, *unda. (Pokorny 1. en 311.) |
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