The article offers an etymological analysis of some of the Indo-European nominal formations with a meaning "dense" and similar or derived meanings such as "thick", "tight" or "frequent". The Proto-Indo-European roots that are discussed include *temk- "to join, coagulate, solidify" *tum. "to swell, become thick", *(s)teg- "firm, impenetrable" and the compund *db-(h)mg- "dense, frequent". The majority of words discussed are Baltic, Slavic and Germanic, but the discussion necessarily involves the etymologies of words in the other branches of Indo-Eurpean as well.
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