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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	kei-¹
DEFINITION:	To lie; bed, couch; beloved, dear. Oldest form ei-, becoming kei- in centum languages. Derivatives include city and cemetery. I. Basic form kei-. 1. Suffixed form kei-wo-. a. hind³, from Old English hwan, members of a household, from Germanic hwa-; b. hide³, from Old English hgid,* hd, a measure of land (< “household”), from suffixed Germanic form hwid. 2. Suffixed form kei-wi-. city, civic, civil, from Latin cvis, citizen (< “member of a household”). 3. Suffixed form kei-liyo-. ceilidh, from Old Irish céle,* companion. II. O-grade form koi-. 1. Suffixed form koi-n-. incunabulum, from Latin cnae, a cradle. 2. Suffixed form koi-m--. cemetery, from Greek koimn,* to put to sleep. III. Suffixed zero-grade form ki-wo-. Shiva, from Sanskrit iva-,* auspicious, dear. (Pokorny 1. ei- 539.)


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