Indo-European Lexicon
PIE Etymon and IE Reflexes
Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) etymon adapted from Pokorny, with our own English gloss; our Semantic Field assignment(s) for the etymon, linked to information about the field(s); an optional Comment; and Reflexes (derived words) in various Indo-European languages, organized by family/group in west-to-east order where Germanic is split into West/North/East families and English, our language of primary emphasis, is artificially separated from West Germanic. IE Reflexes appear most often as single words with any optional letter(s) enclosed in parentheses; but alternative full spellings are separated by '/' and "principal parts" appear in a standard order (e.g. masculine, feminine, and neuter forms) separated by commas.
Reflexes are annotated with: Part-of-Speech and/or other Grammatical feature(s); a short Gloss which, especially for modern English reflexes, may be confined to the oldest sense; and some Source citation(s) with 'LRC' always understood as editor. Keys to PoS/Gram feature abbreviations and Source codes appear below the reflexes; at the end are links to the previous/next etyma [in Pokorny's alphabetic order] that have reflexes.
All reflex pages are currently under active construction; as time goes on, corrections may be made and/or more etyma & reflexes may be added.
Pokorny Etymon: ā̆tos, atta 'daddy, mommy (nursery word)'
Semantic Field(s): Parent(s)
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | æðel, ǣðel, ēðel | n.masc/neut | homeland, property, inheritance; (name for) OE-rune | ASD |
æðele, eðele | adj | noble | ASD | |
æþeling | n | atheling | W7 | |
æþelu | n | nobility | W7 | |
ēðel-land, ēðel-lond | n.neut | native land | ASD | |
Middle English: | atheling | n | atheling | W7 |
English: | atavism | n | throwback, recurrence of ancestral form | AHD/W7 |
athelas | n | healing herb in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
atheling | n | prince, nobleman | AHD/W7 | |
Athelney | prop.n | lit. princes' island | CDC | |
tawdry | adj/n | cheap and gaudy (finery) | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | ethel, edel | adj | noble | ASD |
ēthel | n.masc | home, native land | ASD | |
eþeling, edling | n | atheling | CDC | |
Old Saxon: | eðili | adj | noble | ASD |
eðiling | n | atheling | CDC | |
ōðil | n.masc | home, native land | ASD | |
Old High German: | adal | n | nobility | W7 |
adaling | n | atheling | CDC | |
edili | adj | noble | ASD | |
uodal | n.neut | home, native land | ASD | |
Middle High German: | edele | adj | noble | ASD |
German: | Adel | n.masc | peerage, nobility, aristocracy | LRC |
adeln | vb | to ennoble, bestow peerage | LRC | |
adlig | adj | noble | LRC | |
North Germanic | ||||
Runic: | oþila | n | homeland, inheritance; (name for) O-rune | LRC |
Icelandic: | ōðal | n.neut | home, native land | ASD |
Swedish: | ädel | adj | noble | ASD |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | atta | n.wk.masc | father | LRC |
Italic | ||||
Latin: | atavus | n.masc | ancestor, forefather, grandfather's grandfather | AHD/ELD |
atta | n | father | AHD | |
Middle Latin: | adalingus, adelingus | n | atheling | CDC |
French: | atavisme | n | atavism | AHD |
Albanian | ||||
Albanian: | atdhe | n.masc | fatherland | LRC |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
neut | = | neuter (gender) |
prop | = | proper |
vb | = | verb |
wk | = | weak (inflection) |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
Code | Citation | |
---|---|---|
AHD | = | Calvert Watkins: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed. (2000) |
ASD | = | Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) |
CDC | = | W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911) |
ELD | = | Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary (1999) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |