dhīgʷ-

To stick, fix.

1.

a. dike¹, ditch, from Old English dīc, trench, moat;

b. dig, from Middle English diggen, to dig, from a source perhaps akin to Old French digue, trench. Both a and b from Germanic *dīk-.

2. fibula, fichu, finca, fishgig, fix, fixate, fixity, fixture; affix, antefix, crucify, infibulate, infix, microfiche, prefix, suffix, transfix, from Latin fīgere, to fasten, fix, and from fībula, clasp (shortened from *fīvibula, from fīvere, archaic variant of fīgere).

 

[Pokorny dhēigᵘ̯- 243.]

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