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plek-
To plait. Extension of pel-2 . Oldest form *plek̑‑, becoming *plek‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include flax, pliant, and perplex.- Suffixed o-grade form *plok-so‑. flax, from Old English fleax, flax, from Germanic *flahsam, flax.
- Full-grade form *plek‑. multiplex, from Latin -plex, -fold (in compounds such as duplex, twofold; see dwo-).
- plait, pleat, pliant, plica, plicate, plight1, plissé, ply1; apply, complicate, complice, deploy, display, employ, explicate, explicit, exploit, implicate, implicit, replicate, reply, splay, from Latin plicāre, to fold (also in compounds used as denominatives of words in -plex, genitive -plicis).
- Suffixed forms *plek-to‑ and *plek-t-to‑. pleach, plexus; amplexicaul, amplexus, complect, complex, perplexed, from Latin plectere (past participle plexus), to weave, plait, entwine.
- plecopteran, from Greek plekein, to plait, twine, and plektos, twisted.
[Pokorny plek̑‑ 834.] |
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