| 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: | gh - |
| DEFINITION: | To release, let go; (in the middle voice) to be released, go. Oldest form * he 1-, contracted to *h- in satem languages and *gh- in centum languages.
Derivatives include heir and gait.
1. go; ago, forego1, forgo, from Old English g n, to go, from Germanic variant form *gaian. 2. Suffixed form *gh-ro-. heir, hereditament, heredity, heritage; inherit, from Latin hrs, heir (? < “orphan” < “bereft”). 3. Possibly suffixed o-grade form *gh -ro-, “empty space.” a. –chore; anchorite, chorography, from Greek khros, place, country, particular spot; b. choripetalous, from Greek khris, khri, apart, separate. 4. Possible suffixed zero-grade form *gh-t(w)-. a. gait, gate2, from Old Norse gata, path, street; b. gantlet1, gauntlet2, from Old Swedish gata, lane. Both a and b from Germanic *gatwn-, a going. 5. Suffixed zero-grade form *gh-no-. Hinayana, from Sanskrit h na-, inferior, verbal adjective of jahti, he leaves, lets go (< reduplicated *ghe-gh-ti, *ghe-ghe-ti). (Pokorny 1. h- 418.) |
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