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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	bhag-
DEFINITION:	To share out, apportion, also to get a share. 1. –phage, –phagia, phago-, –phagous; esophagus, from Greek phagein, to eat (< “to have a share of food”). 2. porgy, from Greek phagros, whetstone (“eater, that eats metal”), also a name for the sea bream, from Greek suffixed form phag-ro-. 3. nebbish, from a Slavic source akin to Czech neboh,* poor, unfortunate, from Common Slavic ne-bog, poor (“un-endowed”). 4. pagoda; Bhagavad-Gita, from Sanskrit bhaga,* good fortune. 5. bhakti, from Sanskrit bhajati, he apportions. 6. Extended form bhags-. baksheesh, buckshee, from Persian bakhshdan,* to give, from Avestan bakhsh-. (Pokorny 1. bhag- 107.)


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