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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:bha-bh-
DEFINITION:Broad bean. 1. fava bean, favela, from Latin faba, broad bean. 2. Variant form *bha-un-. bean, from Old English ban, broad bean, bean of any kind, from Germanic *baun. 3. Possible suffixed form *bha-ko-. phacoemulsification, from Greek phakos, lentil. (Pokorny bhabh 106.)
 
 
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