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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | pag- |
| DEFINITION: | Also pak-. To fasten. Oldest forms *pa -, *pa -, becoming *pag-, *pak- in centum languages.
Derivatives include fang, peace, pact, palisade, and travel.
1. Lengthened-grade form *p k-. fay1, from Old English f gan, to fit closely, from Germanic *f gjan, to join, fit. 2. Nasalized form *pa-n-g-, also *pa-n-k-. a. (i) fang, from Old English fang, feng, plunder, booty, from Germanic *fangam, *fangiz; (ii) vang, from Dutch vangen, to catch, from remade Germanic verb *fangan; (iii) newfangled, from Middle English *-fangel, taken, akin to Old High German -fangolon, to close, from Germanic *fangln, to grasp. (i)–(iii) all derivatives of Germanic *fanhan, to seize; b. compact1, impact, impinge, spinto, from Latin pangere, to fasten. 3. Root form *p k-. a. pace2, pax, pay1, peace; appease, pacific, pacify, from Latin px, peace (< “a binding together by treaty or agreement”); b. pact, patio, from Latin pac sc, to agree. 4. Suffixed form *pak-slo-. a. pale1, palisade, pawl, peel3, pole2; impale, travail, travel, from Latin plus, stake (fixed in the ground); b. probably Latin pla, spade: palette, peel2. 5. Lengthened-grade form *pg-. a. pagan, peasant, from Latin pgus, “boundary staked out on the ground,” district, village, country; b. page1, pageant, from Latin pgina, “trellis to which a row of vines is fixed,” hence (by metaphor) column of writing, page; c. propagate, from Latin prpgre, to propagate (< “to fix before”; pr-, before, in front; see per1); d. pectin, pegmatite; Areopagus, mastopexy, from Greek pgnunai, to fasten, coagulate, with derivative pagos (< *pag-o-), mass, hill. (Pokorny p- 787.) |
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