| 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: | nogw- |
| DEFINITION: | Naked. 1. Suffixed forms *nogw-eto-, *nogw-oto-. naked, from Old English nacod, naked, from Germanic *nakweda-, *nakwada-. 2. Suffixed form *nogw-edo-. nude, nudi-; denude, from Latin n dus, naked. 3. Suffixed form *nogw-mo-. gymnasium, gymnast; gymnosophist, gymnosperm, from Greek gumnos, naked (with metathesis due to taboo deformation). 4. Suffixed form *nogw-no-. naan, from Old Persian *nagna-, bare, naked. (Pokorny nog - 769.) |
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