| 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: | ked- |
| DEFINITION: | To go, yield. 1. Lengthened-grade form *k d-. cease, cede, cession; abscess, accede, access, ancestor, antecede, concede, decease, exceed, incessant, intercede, precede, predecessor, proceed, recede, retrocede, secede, succeed, from Latin cdere, to go, withdraw, yield. 2. Prefixed and suffixed form *ne-ked-ti-, “(there is) no drawing back” (*ne-, not; see ne). necessary, from Latin necesse, inevitable, unavoidable. (In Pokorny sed- 884.) |
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