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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	new
DEFINITION:	Nine. 1. nine, nineteen, ninety, ninth, from Old English nigon, nine, with derivatives nigontig, ninety, and nigontne, nineteen (-tne, ten; see dek), from Germanic nigun, variant of niwun. 2. November, novena; nonagenarian, from Latin novem, nine (< noven, with m for n by analogy with the m of septem,* seven, and decem, ten). 3. Ordinal form neweno-. nona-, nones, noon; nonagon, nonanoic acid, from Latin nnus,* ninth. 4. Prothetic or prefixed forms ₁new,* ₁nw.* ennead, from Greek ennea, nine (< ennewa, enwa-). (Pokorny e-neen 318.)


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