deuk- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	deuk-
DEFINITION:	To lead. Derivatives include wanton, team, duke, subdue, and educate. 1a. tug; wanton, from Old English ton, to pull, draw, lead; b. Zugunruhe, zugzwang, from Old High German ziohan, to pull. Both a and b from Germanic teuhan. 2. Suffixed zero-grade form duk--. tow¹, taut, from Old English togian, to draw, drag, from Germanic tugn. 3. Suffixed o-grade form douk-eyo-. tie, from Old English tegan, tgan,* to bind. 4. Suffixed o-grade form douk-mo-. team, from Old English tam,* descendant, family, race, brood, team, from Germanic tau(h)maz. 5. teem¹, from Old English tman,* teman, to beget, from Germanic denominative tau(h)mjan. 6. Basic form deuk-. doge, douche, ducal, ducat, duce, duchess, duchy, duct, ductile, duke; abducens, abduct, adduce, aqueduct, circumduction, con³, condottiere, conduce, conduct, deduce, deduct, educe, endue, induce, introduce, produce, redoubt, reduce, seduction, subduction, subdue, traduce, transducer, from Latin dcere, to lead. 7. Suffixed zero-grade form duk--. educate, from Latin ducre,* to lead out, bring up (- < ex-, out; see eghs). (Pokorny deuk- 220.)


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