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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sēmi (“half”). Cognates include Sanskrit सामि (sāmi), Latin sēmi-, and Old High German sami-.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛː.mi/ → /i.mi/ → /i.mi/
Prefix
ἡμῐ- • (hēmi-)
- half
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἡμι-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 519-20
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