| 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: | dheub- |
| DEFINITION: | Also dheubh-. Deep, hollow. 1. deep, depth, from Old English d op, deep, from Germanic *deupaz. 2. dip, from Old English dyppan, to immerse, dip, from Germanic expressive denominative *duppjan. 3. Parallel root form *dheubh-. dive, from Old English d fan, to dip, and d fan, to sink, dive, from Germanic verb *dbjan, from *deub-, *dub-. 4. Suffixed parallel root form *dh bh-(o)n-, with expressive variants. python, Python, Typhon, from Greek Pth n and Tuphn, mythical monsters, from *dhub(h)-n- and *b(h)ud(h)-n-, which already in Indo-European were doublets by inversion, referring to “bottom,” “foundation,” “depths,” and the mythological monsters that inhabited them. (Pokorny dheu-b- 267.) |
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