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

释义

‌‌peuk-
Also peug-.
To prick. Oldest forms *peuk̑‑, *peug̑‑, becoming *peuk‑, *peug‑ in centum languages. Zero-grade form *pug‑.

Suffixed form *pug-no‑. poniard, pugilism, pugil stick, pugnacious; impugn, oppugn, repugn, from Latin pugil, pugilist, and pugnus, fist, with denominative pugnāre, to fight with the fist.
Nasalized zero-grade form *pu-n-g‑. bung, pink², poignant, point, pointillism, pontil, pounce¹, pounce³, puncheon¹, punctilio, punctual, punctuate, puncture, pungent; bontebok, compunction, expunge, spontoon, trapunto, from Latin pungere, to prick.
pygmaean, Pygmy, from Greek pugmē, fist.
Seen by some as the base of Germanic fuk(k)‑ in words related to sexual intercourse, but uncertain. fuck.

[Pokorny peuk̑‑ 828.]

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