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[English Etymology] Less Productive PIE Roots



Eng ask

   Old English ascian "ask, call for an answer; make a request,"
        Proto-Germanic *aiskon


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 *kenk-  "to gird, encircle"


Eng succinct "concise, having one's belt fastened tightly" 
          Latin succinctus"prepared, ready; contracted, short" 
                        succingere "tuck up (clothes for action), gird from below," = sub cingere



Eng cinch "saddle-girth," 
     Spanish cincha "girdle"
               Latin cingulum "a girdle, a swordbelt" 
                             cingere "to surround, encircle"


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 *kwent(h)- "to suffer"


Eng -path
     Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity" 


Latin pathologia "study of disease," 
    Greek pathos  + -logia

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*m(e)ith- "to exchange, remove" 

 Eng premise "a previous proposition from which another follows," 
     Old French premisse (14c.), 
           Medieval Latin premissa "set before," 
                                 Latin praemittere "send forward, put before," = prae  + mittere 



Eng premises "matter previously stated" (early 15c.), which in deeds or wills often was a house or building, hence → house or building with grounds (1730)."



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*nau- "death, to be exhausted"

Eng need
   Old English nied (West Saxon), ned (Mercian) "necessity, compulsion, duty; hardship, distress; errand, business, violence, force," 
        Proto-Germanic *nauthiz/*naudiz 

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*srig- "cold" 

 Latin frigidus "cold, chill, cool, indifferent"
              frigere "be cold;" 

                Proto-Italic *srigos-

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 *swel- "to eat, drink" 


Eng swallow "ingest through the throat"
     Old English swelgan "swallow, imbibe, absorb" 
            Proto-Germanic *swelgan/*swelhan


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*ter- "peg, post, boundary, marker, goal"  🚏⛩


Old French terme "limit of time or place, date, appointed time, duration (11c.); word or phrase used in a limited or precise sense (14c)"
              Latin terminus "end, boundary line (old Lt) ; expression, definition (Medieval Latin) "


Latin terminus "end, boundary line" 

       PIE *ter-men-

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