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) |
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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) |