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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitizationdī
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Latin / Indo-European
dī-/dis-
apart, asunder
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Latin / Indo-European
dīrigere
set straight, direct, guide
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Latin / Indo-European
dīrēctus
straightened; straight
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European
*dīg-
to knead or form
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- transliteration
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RANK 109GRADE Aranked reveal
Direct is a straight-line word before it is an immediacy word.
Latin dīrigere combines dī-/dis- with regere, to guide or lead straight; its participle dīrēctus supplies the straightened form behind English.
RANK 127GRADE Aranked reveal
Dough and lady are deep cousins.
Germanic *daigaz, dough, and *dīg-, the kneading branch inside lady, meet at *dheigh-, to form or build.
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