| 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: | so- |
| DEFINITION: | This, that (nominative). For other cases see to-. 1. the1, from Late Old English the, masculine demonstrative pronoun, replacing se (with th- from oblique forms; see to-). 2. hoi polloi, from Greek ho, the. 3. Feminine form *sy -. she, from Old English s o, s e, she, from Germanic *sj . 4. Compound variant form *sei-ke (*-ke, “this”; see ko-). sic1, from Latin sc, thus, so, in that manner. (Pokorny so(s) 978.) |
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