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Proto-Italic · reconstructed language

*nokeō

verb

Meaning

  1. to harm, hurt, injure
  2. to kill, slay violently

Etymology / origin

From earlier *nokejō, from Proto-Indo-European *noḱé-ye-ti, causative from the root *neḱ- (“to perish, disappear”). Compare Sanskrit नाशयति (nāśáyati).

  1. नाशयति(Sanskrit)
  2. *noḱéyeti(ine-pro)
  3. *neḱ-(ine-pro)
  4. nokeō (Proto-Italic)
  5. Relations: root, inh, cog

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