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ag- To drive, draw, move. Oldest form *ag̑‑, becoming *ag‑ in centum languages. Derivatives include agony, ambiguous, demagogue, essay, and squat.- act, active, actor, actual, actuary, actuate, agendum, agent, agile, agitate; allege, ambage, ambiguous, assay, cache, coagulum, cogent, essay, exact, exacta, examine, exigent, exiguous, fumigate, fustigate, intransigent, levigate, litigate, navigate, objurgate, prodigal, redact, retroactive, squat, transact, variegate, from Latin agere, to do, act, drive, conduct, lead, weigh.
- -agogue, agony; anagoge, antagonize, choragus, demagogue, epact, glucagon, hypnagogic, mystagogue, pedagogue, protagonist, stratagem, synagogue, from Greek agein, to drive, lead, weigh.
- Suffixed form *ag-to‑. ambassador, embassage, embassy, from Latin ambactus, servant, from Celtic *amb(i)-ag-to‑, "one who goes around" (*ambi, around; see ambhi).
- Suffixed form *ag-ti‑, whence adjective *ag-ty-o‑, "weighty." axiom; axiology, chronaxie, from Greek axios, worth, worthy, of like value, weighing as much.
- Possibly suffixed form *ag-ro‑, driving, pursuing, grabbing. pellagra, podagra, from Greek agrā, a seizing.
- O-grade suffixed form *og-mo‑, furrow, track, metaphorically "incised line." ogham, from Old Irish Ogma (from Celtic *Ogmios), name of a Celtic god and traditional inventor of the ogham alphabet.
[Pokorny ag̑‑ 4.] See also derivative agro-. |
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