gheu- 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:	gheu-
DEFINITION:	To pour, pour a libation. Oldest form heu-, becoming gheu- in centum languages. Derivatives include gut, funnel, fusion, and refund¹. I. Extended form gheud-. 1. Zero-grade form ghud-. gut, from Old English guttas, intestines, from Germanic gut-. 2. Nasalized zero-grade form ghu-n-d-. foison, fondant, fondue, font², found², funnel, fuse², fusile, fusion; affusion, circumfuse, confound, confuse, diffuse, effuse, infuse, perfuse, profuse, refund, refuse¹, refuse², suffuse, transfuse, from Latin fundere, to melt, pour out. II. Extended form gheus-. 1a.* gust¹, from Old Norse gustr, a cold blast of wind, from Germanic suffixed form gustiz; b. gush, from Middle English gushen,* to gush, perhaps akin to Icelandic gusa, to gush. Both a and b from Germanic zero-grade form gus-. 2. geyser, from Old Norse geysa,* to gush, from Germanic suffixed o-grade form gausjan. 3a.* Suffixed zero-grade form ghus-mo-. chyme; ecchymosis, from Greek khmos,* juice; b. suffixed zero-grade form ghus-lo-. chyle, from Greek khlos,* juice. III. Suffixed form gheu-ti-. futile, from Latin ftilis,* “(of a vessel) easily emptied, leaky,” hence untrustworthy, useless. IV. Basic form gheu-. choanocyte, parenchyma, from Greek khein,* to pour, with o-grade noun khoan, funnel. (Pokorny heu- 447.)


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