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Origin and history of *dhe-

*dhe-

*dhē-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to set, put."

It might form all or part of:abdomen;abscond;affair;affect (v.1) "make a mental impression on;"affect (v.2) "make a pretense of;"affection;amplify;anathema;antithesis;apothecary;artifact;artifice;beatific;benefice;beneficence;beneficial;benefit;bibliothec;bodega;boutique;certify;chafe;chauffeur;comfit;condiment;confection;confetti;counterfeit;deed;deem;deface;defeasance;defeat;defect;deficient;difficulty;dignify;discomfit;do (v.);doom;-dom;duma;edifice;edify;efface;effect;efficacious;efficient;epithet;facade;face;facet;facial;-facient;facile;facilitate;facsimile;fact;faction (n.1) "political party;"-faction;factitious;factitive;factor;factory;factotum;faculty;fashion;feasible;feat;feature;feckless;fetish;-fic;fordo;forfeit;-fy;gratify;hacienda;hypothecate;hypothesis;incondite;indeed;infect;justify;malefactor;malfeasance;manufacture;metathesis;misfeasance;modify;mollify;multifarious;notify;nullify;office;officinal;omnifarious;orifice;parenthesis;perfect;petrify;pluperfect;pontifex;prefect;prima facie;proficient;profit;prosthesis;prothesis;purdah;putrefy;qualify;rarefy;recondite;rectify;refectory;sacrifice;salmagundi;samadhi;satisfy;sconce;suffice;sufficient;surface;surfeit;synthesis;tay;ticking (n.);theco-;thematic;theme;thesis;verify.

It might also be the source of: Sanskritdadhati "puts, places;" Avestandadaiti "he puts;" Old Persianada "he made;" Hittitedai- "to place;" Greektithenai "to put, set, place;" Latinfacere "to make, do; perform; bring about;" Lithuaniandėti "to put;" Polishdziać się "to be happening;" Russiandelat' "to do;" Old High Germantuon, Germantun, Old Englishdon "to do."

Entries linking to *dhe-

abdomen(n.)

1540s, "flesh or meat of the belly" (a sense now obsolete), from Latinabdomen "the belly," a word of unknown origin, Perhaps [OED, Watkins] fromabdere "conceal" (fromab "off, away" + PIE root*dhe- "to set, put"), with a sense of "concealment of the viscera," or else "what is concealed" by proper dress. De Vaan, however, finds this derivation "unfounded." Anatomical sense of "part of the mammalian body between the diaphragm and the pelvis" is from 1610s. Zoological sense of "posterior division of the bodies of arthropods" is by 1725.

abscond(v.)

"depart suddenly and secretly," especially to escape debt or the law, 1560s, from Frenchabscondre "to hide" and directly from Latinabscondere "to hide, conceal, put out of sight," from assimilated form ofab "off, away from" (seeab-) +condere "put together, store," from assimilated form ofcom- "together" (seecom-) +-dere "put" (from PIE root*dhe- "to put, place"). Related:Absconded;absconder;absconding.