| 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: | skand- |
| DEFINITION: | Also skend-. To leap, climb. 1. scan, scandent, scansion, scansorial, scantling; ascend, condescend, descend, transcend, from Latin scandere, to climb. 2. Suffixed form *skand-alo-. scandal, slander, from Greek skandalon, a snare, trap, stumbling block. 3. Suffixed form *skand-sl -. echelon, escalade, scale2, from Latin sclae, steps, ladder. (Not in Pokorny; compare Sanskrit skandati, he jumps, and Old Irish scendim, I jump.) |
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