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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	pek^w-
DEFINITION:	To cook, ripen. 1. Assimilated form (in Italic and Celtic) k^wek^w-. a. cook, cuisine, kitchen, quittor; apricot, biscotto, biscuit, charcuterie, concoct, decoct, precocious, ricotta, terra cotta, from Latin coquere,* to cook; b. culinary, kiln, from Latin culna, kitchen, deformed from coquna. 2. pepo; pumpkin, from Greek pepn, ripe. 3. peptic, peptize; drupe, eupeptic, pepsin, peptone, from Greek peptein, to cook, ripen, digest (> peptos, cooked). 4. dyspepsia, from Greek -pepsi, digestion. 5. pukka, from Sanskrit pakva-, ripe. (Pokorny pek- 798.)


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