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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	de-
DEFINITION:	Demonstrative stem, base of prepositions and adverbs. 1. Form d (possibly instrumental). a. (i)* to, too, from Old English t, to; (ii) tsimmes, from Old High German zuo, ze, to; (iii) tattoo¹, from Middle Dutch toe, to, shut. (i)–(iii) all from Germanic t; b. Italic d in compound k^wm-d (see k^wo-). 2. Form d (possibly instrumental), perhaps source of forms meaning “from, out of.” a. de-, from Latin d, d-, from; b. deteriorate, from Latin dterior, worse, from suffixed form d-tero-; c. compound d-bel-i- (see bel-); d. Celtic d, from, in compound eks-d-sedo- (see sed-). (Pokorny de- 181.)


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