The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
sg-
DEFINITION:
To seek out. Oldest form *se2g-, colored to *sa2g-, contracted to *sg-. Derivatives include seek, ransack, and hegemony. 1. Suffixed form *sg-yo-.seek, from Old English scan,scan, to seek, from Germanic *skjan.2. Suffixed form *sg-ni-.soke, from Old English scn, attack, inquiry, right of local jurisdiction, from Germanic *skniz.3. Zero-grade form *sg-.a.sake1, from Old English sacu, lawsuit, case, from Germanic derivative noun *sak, “a seeking,” accusation, strife; b. (i)forsake, from Old English forsacan, to renounce, refuse (for-, prefix denoting exclusion or rejection; see per1); (ii)ramshackle, ransack, from Old Norse *saka, to seek. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *sakan, to seek, accuse, quarrel. Both a and b from Germanic *sak-.4. Independent suffixed form *sg-yo-.presage, from Latin sgre, to perceive, “seek to know.” 5. Zero-grade form *sg-.sagacious, from Latin sagx, of keen perception. 6. Suffixed form *sg-eyo-.exegesis, hegemony, from Greek hgeisthai, to lead (< “to track down”). (Pokorny sg- 876.)
g-
2g-, colored to *sa
can, s
can, to seek, from Germanic *s
kjan. 2. Suffixed form *s
re, to perceive, “seek to know.” 5. Zero-grade form *s
