| 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: | at- |
| DEFINITION: | To go; with Germanic and Latin derivatives meaning a year (conceived as “the period gone through, the revolving year”). Suffixed form *at-no-. annals, annual, annuity; anniversary, biennium, decennium, millennium, perennial, quadrennium, quindecennial, quinquennium, septennial, sexennial, superannuated, triennium, vicennial, from Latin annus, year. (Pokorny at- 69.) |
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