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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | oi-no- |
| DEFINITION: | One, unique.
Derivatives include once, atone, union, universe, and any.
I. Basic form *oi-no-. 1a. a1, an1, once, one; alone, anon, atone, lone, lonely, none, from Old English  n, one; b. eleven, from Old English endleofan, eleven, from Germanic compound *ain-lif-, “one left (beyond ten),” eleven (*lif-, left over; see leikw-); c. einkorn, turnverein, from Old High German ein, one. a–c all from Germanic *ainaz. 2. uni-, union, unite, unity; coadunate, triune, unanimous, unicorn, universe, from Latin  nus, one. 3. indricothere, from Old Russian in , one. 4. Latin n n, not (< *ne-oinom, “not one thing”; see ne).
II. Suffixed form *oino-ko-. a. any, from Old English  nig, one, anyone, from Germanic *ainigaz; b. unique, from Latin nicus, sole, single; c. inch1, ounce1, uncial; quincunx, from Latin ncia, one twelfth of a unit.
III. Suffixed form *oino-lo- in Latin llus (see ne). (Pokorny 3. D. e- 281.) |
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