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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	nek-²
DEFINITION:	To reach, attain. Oldest form ne-, becoming nek- in centum languages. I. O-grade form nok-. enough, from Old English geng,* enough, from Germanic ganga-, sufficient, from ga-nah, “suffices” (ga-, intensive prefix; see kom). II.* Variant form enk-. 1. oncogenesis, oncology, from Greek reduplicated enenkein,* to carry (suppletive aorist of pherein, to carry; see bher-), with derived noun onkos, a burden, mass, hence a tumor (from suffixed o-grade onk-o-; see 2 below). 2. Suffixed o-grade form onk-o-. baisa, paisa, pice, from Sanskrit aa, part, portion. 3. Compound root bhrenk- (see bher¹). (Pokorny ene-* 316.)


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