mk- 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:	mk-
DEFINITION:	Long, thin. Oldest form me₂-, colored to ma₂-, contracted to m (becoming mk- in centum languages). 1. Zero-grade form mk- becoming mak-. a. (i) meager, from Latin macer, thin; (ii) macro-, macron; amphimacer, from Greek makros, long, large. Both (i) and (ii) from suffixed form mak-ro-; b. emaciate, from Latin macire,* to make thin, from suffixed form mak-ye-. 2. Suffixed full-grade form mk-es-. mecopteran, paramecium, from Greek mkos, length. (Pokorny m- 699.)


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