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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	kom
DEFINITION:	Beside, near, by, with. Derivatives include enough, handiwork, and country. 1. enough, gemot, handiwork, witanagemot, yclept, yean, from Old English ge-, with, also participial, collective, and intensive prefix, from Germanic ga-, together, with (collective and intensive prefix and marker of the past participle). 2. cum¹; cooncan, from Latin cum,* co-, with. 3. co-, com-, from Archaic Latin com, with (collective and intensive prefix). 4. British Celtic kom-, collective prefix, in compound kombrogos (see merg-). 5. Suffixed form kom-tr-. con¹, contra-, contrary, counter¹, counter-, country; encounter, from Latin contr,* against, opposite. 6. Suffixed form kom-yo-. coeno-; cenobite, epicene, Koine, from Greek koinos,* common, shared. 7. Reduced form ko- in compounds (see gher-¹, mei-¹, smei-). (Pokorny kom* 612.)


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