| 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: | aik- |
| DEFINITION: | To be master of, possess. Oldest form * 2ei -, colored to *2ai-, becoming *ai- in satem languages and *aik- in centum languages. 1. ought1, owe, from Old English  gan, to possess, from Germanic *aigan, to possess. 2. own, from Old English gen, one's own, from Germanic participial form *aiganaz, possessed, owned. 3. fraught, freight, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch vrecht, vracht, “earnings,” hire for a ship, freight, from Germanic prefixed form *fra-aihtiz, absolute possession, property (*fra-, intensive prefix; see per1). 4. Reduplicated zero-grade (perfect) form *e-ik-, remade to *i-ik- (> * k-). Ganesh, from Sanskrit   e, he rules over. (Pokorny  ik- 298.) |
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