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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	peig-
DEFINITION:	Also peik- (earlier pei-, remaining as such in satem languages). To cut, mark (by incision). 1. Alternate form peik-. file², from Old English fl, file, from Germanic fhala, cutting tool. 2. Nasalized zero-grade form pi-n-g-. paint, Pictor, picture, picturesque, pigment, pimento, pint, pinto; depict, pictograph, from Latin pingere, to embroider, tattoo, paint, picture. 3. Suffixed zero-grade form pik-ro-. picro-, from Greek pikros,* sharp, bitter. 4. O-grade form poik-. poikilotherm, from Greek poikilos,* spotted, pied, various. (Pokorny 1. peig- 794.)


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