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单词 Indo-European root: meg-
释义
‌‌meg-
Great. Oldest form *meg̑‑, becoming *meg‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include much, magnate, mayor, maestro, and maharajah.
    1. mickle, much, from Old English micel, mycel, great;
    2. mickle, from Old Norse mikill. Both a and b from Germanic suffixed form *mik-ila‑.
  1. Suffixed form *mag-no‑. magnate, magnitude, magnum; magnanimous, magnific, magnificent, magnifico, magnify, magniloquent, from Latin magnus, great.
  2. Suffixed (comparative) form *mag-yos‑.
    1. major, major-domo, majority, majuscule, mayor, from Latin māior, greater;
    2. maestoso, majesty, from Latin māiestās, greatness, authority;
    3. maestro, magisterial, magistral, magistrate, master, Mister, mistral, mistress, from Latin magister, master, high official (< "he who is greater").
  3. Suffixed (superlative) form *mag-samo‑. maxim, maximum, from Latin maximus, greatest.
  4. Suffixed (feminine) form *mag-ya‑, "she who is great." may2, May, from Latin Maia, name of a goddess.
  5. Suffixed form *meg-ə-(l‑). mega-, megalo-; acromegaly, omega, from Greek megas (stem megal‑), great.
  6. Suffixed (superlative) form meg-(ə)-isto‑. Almagest, Hermes Trismegistus, from Greek megistos, greatest.
  7. Variant form *megh‑ (< *meg-ə‑) Mahabharata, maharaja, maharani, maharishi, mahatma, Mahayana, mahout, from Sanskrit mahā‑, mahat‑, great.
[Pokorny meg̑(h)‑ 708.]
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