Etymological roots are indicated by the sign ç.

Language groups are as follows: SKT: Sanscrt; E: Egyptian; HB: Hebrew; GK: Greek; L: Latin; AS: Anglo Saxon; ME: Middle English; OHG: Old High German; G: German; OFR: Old French; FR: French; IT: Italian; ICL: Icelandic; N: Nordic; SW: Swedish.

GK: polis = (walled) town; polemos = warfare, battle; pollos = plural, many, much, plenteous, extremely (numerous) - Apollo is a-pollon: unparted, undifferentiated; pleos = full (FR: plein; cf. pluie = rain); polites = citizen; politeia = citizenship, polity, condition of a state; politeuma = community, conversation; politeuomai = to behave as a citizen, to converse, to live. On the agonic in the Greek polis, see Vernant, J-P, Myth and Thought Amongst the Greeks; and in postmodernity, see Lyotard, J-F, The Postmodern Condition.