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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | ghend- |
| DEFINITION: | Also ghed-. To seize, take.
Derivatives include get, guess, prison, comprehend, surprise, and prey.
1a. get, from Old Norse geta, to get; b. beget, from Old English beg(i)etan, to get, beget, from Germanic compound *bigetan, to acquire (*bi-, intensive prefix; see ambhi); c. forget, from Old English forg(i)etan, to forget, from Germanic compound *fer-getan, “to lose one's hold,” forget (*fer-, prefix denoting rejection; see per1). a–c all from Germanic *getan. 2. guess, from Middle English gessen, to guess, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Swedish gissa, to guess, from Germanic *getis n, “to try to get,” aim at. 3. Basic form *ghend-. prehensile, prehension, prison, prize2, prize3, pry2; apprehend, apprentice, apprise, comprehend, comprise, emprise, enterprise, entrepreneur, impresario, misprision1, pregnable, pregnant1, reprehend, reprieve, reprisal, reprise, surprise, from Latin prehendere, pr ndere, to get hold of, seize, grasp (pre-, prae-, before; see per1). 4. Form *ghed-. predatory, prey, spree; depredate, osprey, from Latin praeda, booty (< *prai-heda, “something seized before”; prai-, prae-, before; see per1). (Pokorny ghend- 437.) |
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