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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | okw- |
| DEFINITION: | To see. Oldest form * 3ekw-, colored to *3okw-, zero-grade *3kw-.
Derivatives include eye, daisy, window, inoculate, and autopsy.
1a. eye; daisy, from Old English  age, eye; b. walleyed, window, from Old Norse auga, eye; c. ogle, from Low German oog, oge, eye. a–c all from Germanic *aug n- (with taboo deformation). 2. Suffixed form *okw-olo-. a. eyelet, ocellus, ocular, oculist, oculus, ullage; antler, inoculate, monocle, oculomotor, pinochle, from Latin oculus, eye; b. inveigle, from French aveugle, blind, from Gallo-Latin compound *ab-oculus, blind, calqued on Gaulish exs-ops, blind. 3. Form *okw-s. ceratopsian, metopic, myopia, nyctalopia, Pelops, phlogopite, prosopography, prosopopoeia, pyrope, triceratops, from Greek ps, eye (and stem *op-, to see). 4. Suffixed form *okw-ti-. opsin, –opsis, –opsy; autopsy, dropsy, iodopsin, rhodopsin, synopsis, from Greek opsis, sight, appearance. 5. Suffixed form *okw-to-. optic; diopter, optoelectronics, optometry, panoptic, from Greek optos, seen, visible. 6. Suffixed form *okw- -. metope, from Greek op, opening. 7. Suffixed form *okw-m . ommatidium, ommatophore, from Greek omma (< *opma), eye. 8. Suffixed form *okw-tro-. catoptric, from Greek katoptron, “back-looker,” mirror (kata-, down, back; see kat-). 9. ophthalmo-; exophthalmos, from Greek ophthalmos, eye (with taboo deformation). 10. Zero-grade form *kw-, in compounds (see ant-, ter-, ghwer-). (Pokorny ok - 775.) |
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