| 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: | sel- |
| DEFINITION: | To jump. 1. Suffixed zero-grade form *sal-yo-. a. salacious, salient, sally, sauté; assail, assault, desultory, dissilient, exult, insult, resile, result, somersault, from Latin sal re, to leap; b. halter2, from Greek hallesthai, to leap, jump. 2. Probably Latin salm (borrowed from Gaulish), salmon (< “the leaping fish”): salmon. (Pokorny 4. sel- 899.) |
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