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

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Indo-European root: mag-

释义

‌‌mag-
Also mak-.
To knead, fashion, fit. Oldest forms *mag̑‑, *mak̑‑, becoming *mag‑, *mak‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include make, mason, mingle, magma, and mass.

1. 1. make, from Old English macian, to make;
  2. mason, from Old French masson, mason;
  3. maquillage, from Middle Dutch maken, to make. (i)-(iii) all from Germanic verb *makōn, to fashion, fit.
2. match¹, from Old English gemæcca, mate, spouse, from Germanic compound noun *ga-mak-(j)ōn‑, "one who is fitted with (another)" (*ga‑, with, together; see kom). Both a and b from Germanic *mak‑.
1. mingle, from Old English mengan, to mix;
2. among, mongrel, from Old English gemang, mixture, crowd (ge‑, together; see kom). Both a and b from Germanic nasalized form *mangjan, to knead together.
Suffixed form *mak-yo‑. magma, from Greek magma, unguent, from massein (aorist stem mag‑), to knead.
Suffixed lengthened-grade form *māg-ya‑. mass; amass, from Greek māza, maza, a (kneaded) lump, barley cake.
Suffixed lengthened-grade form *māk-ero‑. macerate, from Latin mācerāre, to tenderize, to soften (food) by steeping.

[Pokorny mag̑‑ 696, 2. māk‑ 698, men(ə)k‑ 730.]

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