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sek-
To cut.
Derivatives include scythe, Saxon, skin, insect, and sickle.- scythe, from Old English sīthe, sigthe, sickle, from Germanic *segithō, sickle.
- Suffixed o-grade form *sok-ā‑. saw1; hacksaw, from Old English sagu, sage, saw, from Germanic *sagō, a cutting tool, saw.
- Suffixed o-grade form *sok-yo‑. sedge, from Old English secg, sedge, from Germanic *sagjaz, "sword," plant with a cutting edge.
- Suffixed o-grade form *sok-so‑.
- zax, from Old English seax, knife, from Germanic *sahsam, knife, sword;
- Saxon, from Late Latin Saxō (plural Saxonēs), a Saxon, from West Germanic tribal name *Saxon‑, Saxon, traditionally (but doubtfully) regarded as from Germanic *sahsam (as if "warrior with knives").
- Extended root *skend‑, to peel off, flay. skin, from Old Norse skinn, skin, from Germanic *skinth‑.
- Basic form *sek‑.
- secant, -sect, sectile, section, sector, segment; dissect, insect, intersect, resect, transect, from Latin secāre, to cut;
- extispicy, from Latin extispex, diviner who observes entrails, from exta, entrails, perhaps contracted from *exsecta, things cut out, from secāre, to cut (-spex, "he who sees"; see spek-).
- Lengthened-grade form *sēk‑. sickle, from Latin sēcula, sickle.
- Possible suffixed variant form *sak-so‑. sassafras; saxicolous, saxifrage, from Latin saxum, stone (< "broken-off piece"?).
[Pokorny 2. sē̆k‑ 895, sken-(d‑) 929.]
See also extended roots skei-, sker-1. |
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