| 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: | leid- |
| DEFINITION: | To play, jest. Suffixed o-grade form *loid-o-. ludic, ludicrous; allude, collude, delude, elude, illusion, interlude, prelude, prolusion, from Latin l dus, game, play, and l dere, to play (but both words may possibly be from Etruscan). (Pokorny leid- 666.) |
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