| 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: | dus- |
| DEFINITION: | Bad, evil; mis- (used as a prefix). Derivative of deu-1. dys-, from Greek dus-, bad. (Pokorny dus- 227.) |
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