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al-2
To grow, nourish.
Derivatives include old, haughty, altitude, enhance, alumnus, coalesce, and prolific.- Suffixed (participial) form *al-to‑, "grown."
- alderman, old, from Old English eald, ald, old;
- elder1, from Old English (comparative) ieldra, eldra, older, elder;
- eldest, from Old English (superlative) ieldesta, eldesta, eldest;
- Germanic compound *wer-ald‑ (see wī-ro-). a-d all from Germanic *alda‑.
- alt1, alto, haughty, hawser; altimeter, altiplano, altitude, altocumulus, altostratus, enhance, exalt, hautboy, from Latin altus, high ("grown tall"), deep.
- Suffixed form *al-mo‑. alma mater, from Latin almus, nurturing, nourishing.
- Suffixed form *al-o‑. adolescent, adult, alible, aliment, alimony, altricial, alumnus; coalesce, from Latin alere, to nourish, and alumnus, fosterling, step-child, originally a participle of alere ("being nourished," < *al-o-mno‑).
- Suffixed (causative) form *ol-eye‑. abolish, from Latin abolēre, to retard the growth of, abolish (ab‑, from; see apo-).
- Compound form *pro-al‑ (pro‑, forth; see per1). proletarian, proliferous, prolific, from Latin prōlēs, offspring.
- Extended form *aldh‑. althea, from Greek althein, althainein, to get well.
[Pokorny 2. al‑ 26.] |
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