| 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: | swo- |
| DEFINITION: | Pronominal stem; so. Derivative of s(w)e-. 1a. so1, from Old English sw , so; b. such, from Old English swylc, such, from Germanic compound *swa-l k-, “so like,” of the same kind (*lk-, same; see lk-). 2. Adverbial form *swai. nisi, quasi, from Latin s, if, in nisi, unless (n, not; see ne-), and quasi, as if (quam, as; see kwo-). (In Pokorny se- 882.) |
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