| 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: | p (i)- |
| DEFINITION: | Also p-, p -. To hurt. Contracted from *pe 1(i)-; zero-grades *pi1-, *p1-. 1. Suffixed (participial) form *p-ont- (< *pi-ont-). fiend, from Old English fond, fond, enemy, devil, from Germanic *fjand-, hating, hostile. 2. Possibly *p- in suffixed zero-grade form *p-to-. passible, passion, passive, patient; compassion, from Latin pat, to suffer. (Pokorny p(i)- 792.) |
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