| 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: | eg |
| DEFINITION: | I. Nominative form of the personal pronoun of the first person singular. Oldest form *e , becoming *eg in centum languages. (For oblique forms see me-1.) 1. I, from Old English ic, I, from Germanic *ek. 2. Extended form *eg . ego, egoist, egotism, from Latin ego, I. (Pokorny e- 291.) |
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