The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
d-
DEFINITION:
To divide. Oldest form *de2-, colored to *da2-, contracted to *d-. Derivatives include democracy, epidemic, demon, and time. I. Suffixed form *d-mo-, perhaps “division of society.” deme, demos, demotic; demagogue, demiurge, democracy, demography, endemic, epidemic, pandemic, from Greek dmos, people, land. II. Variant *dai-, from extended form *dai-, with zero-grade *d- (< *di-, metathesized from *di-). 1. Root form *dai-.geodesy, from Greek daiesthai, to divide. 2. Suffixed form *dai-mon-, divider, provider. daimon, demon, from Greek daimn, divinity. 3. Suffixed variant form *d-ti-.a.tide1; eventide, from Old English td, time, season; b.tide2, from Old English denominative tdan, to happen (< “to occur in time”); c.tiding, from Old Norse tdhr, occurring; d.Yahrzeit, Zeitgeist, from Old High German zt, time. a–d all from Germanic *tdiz, division of time. 4. Suffixed variant form *d-mon-.time, from Old English tma, time, period, from Germanic *tmn-. (Pokorny d : d- 175.)
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2-, colored to *da
mos, people, land.
- (< *di
n, divinity. 3. Suffixed variant form *d
