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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	d-
DEFINITION:	To give. Oldest form de₃-, colored to do₃-, contracted to d-. Derivatives include betray, surrender, vend, dose,* and antidote. 1a. Zero-grade form d-. dado, date¹, dative, datum, die²; add, betray, edition, perdition, render, rent¹, surrender, tradition, traitor, treason, vend, from Latin dare,* to give; b. Greek dosis, something given (see 4 below). 2. Suffixed form d-no-. donation, donative, donor; condone, pardon, from Latin dnum,* gift. 3. Suffixed form d-t(i)-. a. dot², dowager, dower, dowry; endow, from Latin ds (genitive dtis), dowry; b. dacha, from Russian dacha,* gift, dacha, from Slavic datja; c. samizdat, from Russian samizdat,* samizdat, from dat', to give. 4. Suffixed form d-ro-. lobster thermidor, Pandora, from Greek dron,* gift. 5. Reduplicated form di-d-. dose; anecdote, antidote, apodosis, epidote, from Greek didonai,* to give, with zero-grade noun dosis (< *d-ti-), something given. (Pokorny d- 223.)


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