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

释义

‌‌pent-
To tread, go.
Derivatives include find, pontiff, and sputnik.

find, from Old English findan, to find, from Germanic *finthan, to come upon, discover.
Suffixed o-grade form *pont-i‑.
1. pons, pontifex, pontiff, pontine, pontoon, punt¹; osteopontin, transpontine, from Latin pōns (stem pont‑), bridge (earliest meaning, "way, passage," preserved in the priestly title pontifex, "he who prepares the way"; -fex, maker; see dhē-);
2. sputnik, from Russian sputnik, fellow traveler, sputnik, from put', path, way.
Zero-grade form *pn̥t‑. peripatetic, from Greek patein, to tread, walk.
Suffixed zero-grade form *pn̥t-ə‑.
1. path, from Old English pæth, path;
2. pad²; footpad¹, from Middle Dutch pad, way, path. Both a and b from Germanic *patha‑, way, path, probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path‑.

[Pokorny pent‑ 808.]

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