| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | leb- |
| DEFINITION: | To lick; lip. 1. lip, from Old English lippa, lip, from Germanic *lep-. 2. Variant form *lab-. a. Suffixed form *lab-yo-. labial, labium, from Latin labium, lip; b. suffixed form *lab-ro-. labellum, labret, labrum, from Latin labrum, lip. (Pokorny l b- 655.) |
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