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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	slg-
DEFINITION:	Also lg-. To be slack, be languid. Possibly related to slb- through a hypothetical base sl- (< earlier sle₁-). Zero-grade form slg-, becoming slag-. 1. slack¹, from Old English slæc, “loose,” indolent, careless, from Germanic slak-. 2. Suffixed form lag-so-. lax, lease, lessor; relax, release, relish, from Latin laxus, loose, slack. 3. Suffixed nasalized form la-n-g-u-. laches, languid, languish, lush¹, from Latin langure,* to be languid. 4. Compound lag-ous-, “with drooping ears” (ous-, ear; see ous-). lagomorph, from Greek lags, lagos, hare. 5. Suffixed form lag-no-. algolagnia, from Greek lagnos,* lustful, lascivious. 6. Basic form slg-. catalectic, from Greek lgein,* to leave off. (Pokorny (s)lg- 959.)


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