| 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: | pau-2 |
| DEFINITION: | To cut, strike, stamp. Oldest form *pe 2u-, colored to *pa2u-. 1. Suffixed (participial) zero-grade form *pu-to-, cut, struck. a. putamen, putative; account, amputate, compute, count1, depute, dispute, impute, repute, from Latin put re, to prune, clean, settle an account, think over, reflect; b. possibly Latin puteus, well: pit1. 2. Basic form *pau-. a. Suffixed form *pau-yo. pave, pavé, from Latin pav re, to beat; b. suffixed (stative) form *paw- -. pavid, from Latin pavre, to fear (< “to be struck”); c. perhaps Greek paiein, to beat: anapest. (Pokorny 3. pu- 827.) |
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