Is there a root word for poignant?

Words that have the root 'scribe' are: ascribe circumscribe describe inscribe prescribe proscribe subscribe superscribe transcribe

Regulations contains the root word regulation. As does deregulation.

From Bartleby.com: ETYMOLOGY: Middle English morgage, from Old French : mort, dead (from Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Latin mortuus, past participle of mor, to die; (see mer- in Appendix I) +...

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I think you want the prefixes for numers. uni- means "one" as in the word unicorn which has one horn and the word unique which means one of a kind. bi- means two, as in a bicycle having two...