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leg-
To collect; with derivatives meaning "to speak. " Oldest form *leg̑‑, becoming *leg‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include leech1, lecture, legend, intelligent, sacrilege, loyal, and logic.- Perhaps Germanic *lēkjaz, enchanter, one who speaks magic words. leech1, from Old English lǣce, physician.
- lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson; coil1, collect1, diligent, elect, florilegium, intelligent, neglect, prelect, sacrilege, select, sortilege, from Latin legere, to gather, choose, pluck, read.
- lexicon, logion, -logue, -logy; alexia, analects, anthology, catalog, dialect, dialogue, dyslexia, eclectic, eclogite, eclogue, horologe, lectotype, prolegomenon, from Greek legein, to gather, speak, with o-grade derivative logos, a gathering, speech (See also 6 below for derivatives independently built to logos).
- Suffixed form *leg-no‑. ligneous, ligni-, from Latin lignum, wood, firewood (< "that which is gathered").
- Possibly lengthened-grade form *lēg‑.
- legal, legist, legitimate, lex, loyal; legislator, privilege, from Latin lēx, law (? < "collection of rules");
- legacy, legate; colleague, collegial, delegate, relegate, from Latin denominative lēgāre, to depute, commission, charge (< "to engage by contract"). (It is also possible, but uncertain, that Latin lēx comes, like English law from a form meaning "that which is set or laid down," from legh-).
- Suffixed o-grade form *log-o‑. logic, logistic, logo-, Logos, -logy; analogous, apologue, apology, Decalogue, epilogue, homologous, logarithm, paralogism, prologue, syllogism, from Greek logos, speech, word, reason.
[Pokorny leg̑‑ 658.] |
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