| 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: | deu-1 |
| DEFINITION: | To lack, be wanting. 1. Possibly suffixed form *deu-s-. a. tire1, from Old English t orian, tyrian, to fail, tire (< “to fall behind”), from Germanic *teuz n; b. deontology, from Greek dein, to lack, want. 2. Suffixed form *deu-tero-. deutero-; deuteragonist, deuterium, Deuteronomy, from Greek deuteros, “missing,” next, second. (Pokorny 3. deu- 219.) (For suffixed zero-grade form *du-s-, combining form of *dew-es-, a lack, see dus-.) (In Pokorny 3. deu- 219.) |
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