英语词汇“Indo-European root: peiə-”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: peiə-

释义

‌‌peiə-
To be fat, swell.
Derivatives include fat, pituitary, and Irish.

Zero-grade form *pī‑ (contracted from *piə‑).
1. Possibly suffixed form *pī-tu‑. pip⁵, pituitary, from Latin pītuīta, moisture exuded from trees, gum, phlegm.
2. Possibly suffixed form *pī-nu‑. pine¹, pineal, pinnace, piñon, Pinot; piña cloth, from Latin pīnus, pine tree (yielding a resin).
3. Suffixed form *pī-won‑. propionic acid, from Greek pīōn, fat.
4. Suffixed form *pī-wer‑, "fat, fertile."
  1. Erse, Irish, from Old English Īras, the Irish, from *Īwer-iū, the prehistoric Celtic name for Ireland;
  2. Pierian Spring, from Greek Pīeriā, a region ofMacedonia, from *Pīwer-iā‑.
Extended o-grade form *poid‑. fat, from Old English fǣt(t), fat, from Germanic past participle *faitidaz, fattened, from derivative verb *faitjan, to fatten, from *faitaz, plump, fat.

[Pokorny pei̯(ə)‑ 793.]

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