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: 2. bher- 'to boil, swell, well up'
Semantic Field(s): to Boil (intrans, to Grow
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | beorma, bearm | n.masc | barm | ASD/GED |
brǣþ, brēþ | n.fem | breath, vapor | ASD/GED | |
brim-man | n.masc | sailor, lit. sea man | LRC | |
Middle English: | berme | n | barm | W7 |
breth | n | breath | W7 | |
brethen | vb | to breathe | W7 | |
broþe | adj | fierce | MEV | |
broþely | adv | fiercely | MEV | |
ferment | n | ferment | W7 | |
fervent | adj | fervent | W7 | |
fervour | n | fervor | W7 | |
English: | barm | n | yeast/froth on fermenting malt liquor | AHD/W7 |
barmy | adj | full of froth/ferment | AHD/W7 | |
breath | n | air charged with odor/fragrance | AHD/W7 | |
breathe | vb | to emit aura/fragrance | AHD/W7 | |
breeze | n | residue from making coke/charcoal | AHD/W7 | |
defervescence | n | subsidence of fever | AHD/W7 | |
effervesce | vb.intrans | to hiss/foam/bubble as gas escapes | AHD/W7 | |
ferment | n | agent (e.g. yeast) causing fermentation | AHD/W7 | |
ferment | vb | to brew/become (e.g.) alcoholic beverage | LRC | |
fervent | adj | glowing, very hot | AHD/W7 | |
fervid | adj | burning, very hot | AHD/W7 | |
fervor | n | intense heat | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Frisian: | barm, berme | n | barm | CDC |
Middle Dutch: | bræyen | vb | to roast | GED |
Dutch: | barm | n.masc | barm, lees, dregs | |
Middle Low German: | barm, berm | n | barm | CDC |
brādem | n.str.masc | vapor | GED | |
Low German: | barm(e), borme | n | barm | CDC |
Old High German: | brādam | n | breath | W7 |
Middle High German: | bradem | n.masc | breath | ASD |
bræjen | vb.wk | to smell, be fragrant | GED | |
German: | Barme, Bärme | n.fem | barm | ASD |
Bradem | n.masc | breath | ASD | |
fermentieren | vb | to ferment | LRC | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | bráð-liga | adv | soon, rashly, hastily, at once | ICE/MEV |
bráðr | adj | rash, hasty, impatient | LRC | |
Old Icelandic: | brādna | vb | to melt | GED |
brǣða | vb | to melt | GED | |
Danish: | bærme | n | barm, lees, dregs | ASD |
Swedish: | bärma, bærme | n | barm, lees, dregs | ASD/CDC |
East Germanic | ||||
Crimean Gothic: | breen | vb | to roast | GED |
Italic | ||||
Old Latin: | fervō | vb | to boil, bubble | GED |
Latin: | defervescens, defervescentis | adj/vb.ptc | ceasing to boil | W7 |
defervesco, defervescere | vb | to stop boiling | W7 | |
effervesco, effervescere | vb | to bubble, boil | W7 | |
fermentum | n.neut | yeast, barm | W7 | |
fervens, ferventis | adj/vb.ptc | boiling | W7 | |
ferveō, fervēre | vb | to seethe, boil, bubble | GED/RPN | |
fervesco, fervescere | vb | to begin to boil | W7 | |
fervidus | adj | boiling, foaming | W7 | |
fervor | n.masc | boiling heat, seething | W7 | |
frĕtus, frĕtum | n.masc/neut | strait, gulf, (surging of the) sea | GED | |
Portuguese: | fervor | n | fervor | TLL |
Spanish: | hervor | n | fervor | TLL |
Old French: | braser | vb | to burn | W7 |
brasier | n.masc | fire of hot coals | W7 | |
brese | n.fem | live coals | W7 | |
Middle French: | fervent | adj | fervent, ardent | W7 |
ferveur | n.fem | fervor | W7 | |
French: | braise | n.fem | coal, cinders | W7 |
braiser | vb | to cook over coals | W7 | |
braser | vb | to join metals by brazing | R1/W7 | |
brasier | n.fem | furnace, large open fire | W7 | |
ferveur | n | fervor | TLL | |
Italian: | fervore | n | fervor | TLL |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
adv | = | adverb(ial) |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
intrans | = | intransitive |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
neut | = | neuter (gender) |
ptc | = | participle |
str | = | strong (inflection) |
vb | = | verb |
wk | = | weak (inflection) |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
Code | Citation | |
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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) |
ICE | = | Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
MEV | = | J.R.R. Tolkien: A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) |
R1 | = | Josette Rey-Debove and Alain Rey, eds. Le Nouveau Petit Robert (1993) |
RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |