| 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: | an- |
| DEFINITION: | On.
I. Extended form *ana. 1a. on; acknowledge, alike, from Old English an, on, a, on, and prefixed on-; b. aloft, amiss, from Old Norse  , in, on; c. anlage, anschluss, from Old High German ana-, on; d. onslaught, from Middle Dutch aen, on. a–d all from Germanic *ana, *an . 2. ana2, ana-, from Greek ana, on, up, at the rate of.
II. Variant form *no. naprapathy, from Old Church Slavonic na, in, on, to, from Slavic *na. (Pokorny 4. an 39.) |
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