英语词汇“Indo-European root: keuə-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: keuə-

释义

‌‌keuə-
To swell; vault, hole. Oldest form *k̑euh_x‑, becoming *keuh_x‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include cave, excavate, and church.

O-grade form *kouə‑.
1. Basic form *kouə‑ becoming *kaw‑. cava, cave, cavern, cavetto, cavity; concave, excavate, from Latin cavus, hollow.
2. Suffixed form *kow-ilo‑. -cele², celiac, -coel, coelom; acoelomate, coelacanth, from Greek koilos, hollow.
3. Suffixed lengthened-grade form *kōw-o‑. codeine, from Greek kōos, hollow place, cavity.
Zero-grade form *kū‑ (< *kuə‑).
1. Suffixed shortened form *ku-m-olo. cumulate, cumulus; accumulate, from Latin cumulus, heap, mass.
2. Basic form *kū‑.
  1. Suffixed form *kū-ro‑, "swollen," strong, powerful. church, kirk, Kyrie; kermis, from Greek kūrios (vocative kūrie), master, lord;
  2. suffixed form *kuw-eyo‑. cyma, cymatium, cyme; cymophane, kymograph, pseudocyesis, from Greek kuein, to swell, and derivative kūma (< *kū-mn̥), "a swelling," wave;
  3. suffixed form *en-kū-yo‑ (*en, in; see en). enceinte¹, from Latin inciēns, pregnant.

[Pokorny 1. k̑eu‑ 592.]

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