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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	eghs
DEFINITION:	Out. Oldest form ehs, becoming eghs in centum languages. Derivatives include strange, and extreme. 1. Variant eks. a. ex¹, ex-, from Latin ex,* ex-, out of, away from; b. ecto-, ex-, exo-, exoteric, exotic; electuary, lekvar, synecdoche, from Greek ex, ek, out of, from. 2. Suffixed (comparative) variant form eks-tero-. a. estrange, exterior, external, extra-, strange, from Latin exter,* outward (feminine ablative exter, extr, on the outside); b. further suffixed (superlative) form eks-t(e)r-mo-. extreme, from Latin extrmus,* outermost (-mo-, superlative suffix). 3. Suffixed form eghs-ko-. eschatology, from Greek eskhatos, outermost, last. 4. Celtic eks-, out (of), in compound eks-d-sedo- (see sed-). 5. samizdat, from Russian iz, from, out of, from Balto-Slavic iz. (Pokorny ehs* 292.)


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