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

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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	dheigh-
DEFINITION:	To form, build. Oldest form dheih-, becoming dheigh- in centum languages. Derivatives include dairy, lady, dough, and paradise. 1. dairy, from Old English dge, bread kneader, from Germanic daigjn-. 2. lady, from Old English compound hlfdige,* mistress of a household (< “bread kneader”; hlf, bread, loaf), from Germanic dg-. 3. Suffixed o-grade form dhoigh-o-. a. dough, from Old English dg, dough; b. teiglach, from Old High German teic, dough. Both a and b from Germanic daigaz. 4. Suffixed zero-grade form dhigh-r-. figure, figurine; configure, disfigure, prefigure, transfigure, from Latin figra, form, shape (< “result of kneading”). 5. Nasalized zero-grade form dhi-n-gh-. fainéant, faint, feign, feint, fictile, fiction, figment; effigy, from Latin fingere,* to shape. 6. Probable nasalized zero-grade form dhi-n-g(h)-. thigmotaxis, thixotropy, from Greek thinganein,* to touch. 7. Suffixed o-grade form dhoigh-o-. paradise, from Avestan daza-,* wall (originally made of clay or mud bricks). (Pokorny dheih- 244.)


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