| 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: | dheu - |
| DEFINITION: | To close, finish, come full circle. Oldest form *dheu2-. Probably related to dheu-2, “to die.” 1. Suffixed zero-grade form *dh -no- (< *dhu-no-), enclosed, fortified place; hill-fort. a. (i) down1, down3, from Old English dn, hill; (ii) dune, from Middle Dutch dne, sandy hill. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *dnaz, possibly from *dh-no-; b. town, from Old English tn, enclosed place, homestead, village, from Germanic *tnaz, fortified place, borrowed from Celtic *d-no-, hill, stronghold. 2. Suffixed form *dh-nes- (< *dhu-nes-). funeral, from Latin fnus, funeral. (In Pokorny 4. dheu- 261.) |
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