| 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: | wekw- |
| DEFINITION: | To speak. 1. O-grade form *w kw-. a. vocal, voice, vowel, from Latin v x, voice; b. Calliope, from Greek ops, voice. 2. Suffixed o-grade form *wokw- -. vocable, vocation, vouch; advocate, avocation, convoke, equivocal, evoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, univocal, from Latin vocre, to call. 3. Suffixed form *wekw-es-. epic, epos; epopee, orthoepy, from Greek epos, song, word. (Pokorny  ek- 1135.) |
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