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: bhares-, bhores- 'point, bristle, stubble (with formants)'
Semantic Field(s): Point, Hard
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | barr | n | summit | GED/IEW | 
| English | ||||
| Old English: | bærs, bears | n | bass, perch | AHD/IEW | 
| bursta | n.fem | bristle | GED/IEW | |
| byrst | n.fem | bristle | GED/IEW | |
| Middle English: | base, bace | n | bass | CDC/W7 | 
| bristil | n | bristle | W7 | |
| brust | n | bristle | W7 | |
| fastidious | adj | fastidious | W7 | |
| English: | bass | n | edible spiny-finned fish | AHD/W7 | 
| bristle | n | short stiff coarse hair | AHD/W7 | |
| farinaceous | adj | starchy | AHD/W7 | |
| farraginous | adj | formed of various materials | AHD/W7 | |
| fastidious | adj | scornful | AHD/W7 | |
| fastigiate | adj | narrowing toward top | AHD/W7 | |
| fastigium | n | period of greatest (disease) intensity | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Frisian: | boarstel | n.masc/fem | bristle | ASD | 
| Dutch: | borstel | n.masc | bristle | ASD | 
| Old High German: | borst | n.neut | bristle | IEW | 
| burst | n.masc | bristle | IEW | |
| bursta | n.fem | bristle | GED/IEW | |
| bursti, pursta | n.fem | bristle | ASD | |
| Middle High German: | bürste | n | brush | IEW | 
| German: | Barsch | n.masc | bass | LRC | 
| Borste | n.fem | bristle | IEW | |
| Bürste | n.fem | brush | LRC | |
| bürsten | vb | to brush | LRC | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Icelandic: | barr | n.fem | conifer | GED/IEW | 
| burst | n.fem | bristle | GED/IEW | |
| Icelandic: | burst | n.fem | bristle | ASD | 
| Danish: | bōrste | n.masc/fem | bristle | ASD | 
| Swedish: | borst | n.masc | bristle | ASD | 
| borste | n | brush | TLL | |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | fastidiosus | adj | disgusting | W7 | 
| fastidium | n.neut | disgust | W7 | |
| fastīgium | n.neut | tip, top | GED/IEW | |
| fastus | n.masc | arrogance | W7 | |
| New Latin: | fastigiatus | adj | narrowing towards the top | W7 | 
| fastigium | n.neut | top, summit | W7 | |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | bhr̥ṣtís̄ | n | point, tip, edge | GED/IEW | 
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective | 
| fem | = | feminine (gender) | 
| masc | = | masculine (gender) | 
| n | = | noun | 
| neut | = | neuter (gender) | 
| vb | = | verb | 
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) | 
| GED | = | Winfred P. Lehmann: A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986) | 
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) | 
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin | 
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) | 
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |