| 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: | yeu- |
| DEFINITION: | Vital force, youthful vigor. Oldest form * 2yeu-; variant of aiw-. Suffixed zero-grade form *yuwen- (< *yu-en-), “possessing youthful vigor,” young. 1. Further suffixed form *yuw -ti-. youth, from Old English geoguth, youth, from Germanic *jugunthi-, *jugunth . 2. Further suffixed form *yuw-ko-. a. (i) young, from Old English geong, young; (ii) junker, from Old High German junc, young; (iii) younker, from Middle Dutch jonc, young. (i)–(iii) all from Germanic *jungaz, from *juwungaz; b. gallowglass, from Old Irish óac, from Celtic *yowanko-. 3. junior, June, Juno, juvenile; rejuvenate, from Latin iuvenis, young. (Pokorny 3.  eu- 510.) |
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