| 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: | n u- |
| DEFINITION: | Boat. Oldest form *ne 2u-, colored to *na2u-, contracted to *nau- (before consonants) and *nw- (before vowels). 1. nacelle, naval, nave1, navicular, navigate, navy, from Latin nvis, ship. 2. nausea, nautical, nautilus, noise; aeronaut, aquanaut, Argonaut, astronaut, cosmonaut, from Greek naus, ship, and naut s, sailor. (Pokorny 1. nus- 755.) |
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