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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| 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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