See gem- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "*gém-t ~ *gm-ént (root thematic aorist)"
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"text": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *gémtei (present stem: *gim-)"
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"t": "to press"
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"text": "Proto-Slavic: *žęti (“to press”) (see there for further descendants)"
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"text": "Proto-Hellenic: *gémto"
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"text": "⇒ Ancient Greek: γέντο (génto, “grasped”)"
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"text": "*ge-góm-e ~ *ge-gm-ḗr (reduplicated root stative)"
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"text": "Proto-Tocharian:"
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"text": "Tocharian A: kāmat"
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],
"text": "Tocharian B: kamāte"
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"text": "*góm-o-s"
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"text": "Proto-Hellenic: *gómos"
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"1": "grc",
"2": "γόμος",
"t": "cargo"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek: γόμος (gómos, “cargo”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ancient Greek: γόμος (gómos, “cargo”)"
}
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],
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"text": "Ancient Greek: γέμω (gémō)"
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"text": ">? Proto-Italic: *gemō"
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"text": "Latin: gemō"
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"text": "*gém-t ~ *gm-ént (root thematic aorist)"
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"t": "to press"
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"name": "desc"
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"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
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}
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"text": "Proto-Slavic: *žęti (“to press”) (see there for further descendants)"
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"templates": [
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"expansion": "Proto-Hellenic: *gémto",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "Proto-Hellenic: *gémto"
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"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "⇒ Ancient Greek: γέντο (génto, “grasped”)"
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"text": "*ge-góm-e ~ *ge-gm-ḗr (reduplicated root stative)"
},
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"1": "ine-toc-pro"
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"text": "Proto-Tocharian:"
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"text": "*góm-o-s"
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"name": "desc"
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