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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	gel-
DEFINITION:	Cold; to freeze. Derivatives include chill, jelly, and glacier. 1. chill, from Old English c(i)ele, chill, from Germanic kaliz, coldness. 2. cold, from Old English ceald,* cold, from Germanic kaldaz, cold. 3a.* cool, from Old English cl, cold, cool; b. keel³, from Old English clan, to cool, from Germanic kljan, to cool. Both a and b from Germanic kl-, cool. 4. Suffixed form gel--. gelatin, gelation, jelly; congeal, from Latin gelre,* to freeze. 5. Suffixed form gel-u-. gelid, from Latin gel,* frost, cold. 6. Probably suffixed zero-grade form g-k-. glacé, glacial, glaciate, glacier, glacis; verglas, from Latin glacis,* ice. (Pokorny 3. gel()- 365.)


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