Holy cow--I got to thinking about tsuwm's link to Faldage's post about the prefix in-, and decided to LIU (look it up). Look what Bartleby has via AHD; I'm not going to bother adding in the italics, etc.; there's too much. I did take their suggestion and look up in- and ok-, which I'll post beneath inoculate.


SYLLABICATION: in·oc·u·late
PRONUNCIATION: -nky-lt
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: in·oc·u·lat·ed, in·oc·u·lat·ing, in·oc·u·lates
1. To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease. 2. To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism. 3. To implant microorganisms or infectious material into (a culture medium). 4. To safeguard as if by inoculation; protect. 5. To introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English inoculaten, to graft a scion, from Latin inoculre, inocult- : in-, in; see in–2 + oculus, eye, bud; see okw- in Appendix I.


in–2

VARIANT FORMS: or il– or im– or ir–
PREFIX: 1. In; into; within: inundation. Before l, in- is usually assimilated to il-; before r to ir-; and before b, m, and p to im-. 2. Variant of en–1.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old English (from in, in; see in1) and from Old French (from Latin, from in, in, within; see en in Appendix I).



Indo-European Roots

ENTRY: okw-
DEFINITION: To see. Oldest form *3ekw-, colored to *3okw-, zero-grade *3kw-.
Derivatives include eye, daisy, window, inoculate, and autopsy.
1a. eye; daisy, from Old English age, eye; b. walleyed, window, from Old Norse auga, eye; c. ogle, from Low German oog, oge, eye. a–c all from Germanic *augn- (with taboo deformation). 2. Suffixed form *okw-olo-. a. eyelet, ocellus, ocular, oculist, oculus, ullage; antler, inoculate, monocle, oculomotor, pinochle, from Latin oculus, eye; b. inveigle, from French aveugle, blind, from Gallo-Latin compound *ab-oculus, blind, calqued on Gaulish exs-ops, blind. 3. Form *okw-s. ceratopsian, metopic, myopia, nyctalopia, Pelops, phlogopite, prosopography, prosopopoeia, pyrope, triceratops, from Greek ps, eye (and stem *op-, to see). 4. Suffixed form *okw-ti-. opsin, –opsis, –opsy; autopsy, dropsy, iodopsin, rhodopsin, synopsis, from Greek opsis, sight, appearance. 5. Suffixed form *okw-to-. optic; diopter, optoelectronics, optometry, panoptic, from Greek optos, seen, visible. 6. Suffixed form *okw--. metope, from Greek op, opening. 7. Suffixed form *okw-m. ommatidium, ommatophore, from Greek omma (< *opma), eye. 8. Suffixed form *okw-tro-. catoptric, from Greek katoptron, “back-looker,” mirror (kata-, down, back; see kat-). 9. ophthalmo-; exophthalmos, from Greek ophthalmos, eye (with taboo deformation). 10. Zero-grade form *kw-, in compounds (see ant-, ter-, ghwer-). (Pokorny ok- 775.)