| 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: | dh gw- |
| DEFINITION: | To stick, fix. 1a. dike1, ditch, from Old English dc, trench, moat; b. dig, from Middle English diggen, to dig, from a source perhaps akin to Old French digue, trench. Both a and b from Germanic *dk-. 2. fibula, fichu, finca, fishgig, fix, fixate, fixity, fixture; affix, antefix, crucify, infibulate, infix, microfiche, prefix, suffix, transfix, from Latin fgere, to fasten, fix, and from fbula, clasp (shortened from *fvibula, from fvere, archaic variant of fgere). (Pokorny dh ig - 243.) |
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