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: | d- |
DEFINITION: | To divide. Oldest form *de2-, colored to *da2-, contracted to *d-. Derivatives include democracy, epidemic, demon, and time. I. Suffixed form *d-mo-, perhaps division of society. deme, demos, demotic; demagogue, demiurge, democracy, demography, endemic, epidemic, pandemic, from Greek dmos, people, land. II. Variant *dai-, from extended form *dai-, with zero-grade *d- (< *di-, metathesized from *di-). 1. Root form *dai-. geodesy, from Greek daiesthai, to divide. 2. Suffixed form *dai-mon-, divider, provider. daimon, demon, from Greek daimn, divinity. 3. Suffixed variant form *d-ti-. a. tide1; eventide, from Old English td, time, season; b. tide2, from Old English denominative tdan, to happen (< to occur in time); c. tiding, from Old Norse tdhr, occurring; d. Yahrzeit, Zeitgeist, from Old High German zt, time. ad all from Germanic *tdiz, division of time. 4. Suffixed variant form *d-mon-. time, from Old English tma, time, period, from Germanic *tmn-. (Pokorny d : d- 175.) |
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