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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	d-
DEFINITION:	To divide. Oldest form de₂-, colored to da₂-, contracted to d-. Derivatives include democracy, epidemic, demon,* and time. I. Suffixed form d-mo-, perhaps “division of society.” deme, demos, demotic; demagogue, demiurge, democracy, demography, endemic, epidemic, pandemic, from Greek dmos,* people, land. II. Variant dai-, from extended form dai-, with zero-grade d- (< di-, metathesized from di-). 1. Root form dai-. geodesy, from Greek daiesthai, to divide. 2. Suffixed form dai-mon-, divider, provider. daimon, demon, from Greek daimn,* divinity. 3. Suffixed variant form d-ti-. a. tide¹; eventide, from Old English td,* time, season; b. tide², from Old English denominative tdan, to happen (< “to occur in time”); c. tiding, from Old Norse tdhr, occurring; d. Yahrzeit, Zeitgeist, from Old High German zt, time. a–d all from Germanic tdiz, division of time. 4. Suffixed variant form d-mon-. time, from Old English tma, time, period, from Germanic tmn-. (Pokorny d : d-* 175.)


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