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: bhrā́ter- 'brother, family member'
Semantic Field(s): Brother, Relative(s)
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | brāthir | n | brother | GED | 
| Irish: | brathair | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| Welsh: | brodyr, brawd | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| English | ||||
| Old English: | brōðor, brōðer, brōder | n.masc | brother | ASD/GED | 
| gebrōðra, gebrōðru, gebrōðro | n.masc.pl | brethren | LRC | |
| Middle English: | boy | n | boy | W7 | 
| brother | n | brother | W7 | |
| confrere | n | confrere | W7 | |
| fraternal | adj | fraternal | W7 | |
| fratricide | n | fratricide | W7 | |
| frere, fryer | n | friar | W7 | |
| English: | boy | n | male child | IEW | 
| brethren | n.pl | brothers | W7 | |
| brother | n | male sibling | AHD/W7 | |
| bully | n | habitually cruel/overbearing person | AHD | |
| confrere | n | comrade, colleague | AHD/W7 | |
| Fra | prop.n | Brother (religious title) | AHD/W7 | |
| fraternal | adj | re: brothers | AHD/W7 | |
| fraternity | n | guild, brotherhood | AHD/W7 | |
| fraternize | vb | to mingle/associate as brothers | AHD/W7 | |
| fratricide | n | one who kills a sibling | AHD/W7 | |
| friar | n | member of mendicant order | AHD/W7 | |
| pal | n | partner | AHD/W7 | |
| phratry | n | brotherhood, (religious) clan/tribe | AHD/W7 | |
| American English: | bro | n.sl | brother | LRC | 
| British English: | fraternise | vb | to fraternize | LRC | 
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | brōther, broder | n.masc | brother | ASD/GED | 
| Frisian: | boi | n | boy | W7 | 
| Dutch: | broeder | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| Old Saxon: | brōðar | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| gibroðar | n.pl | brethren | ASD | |
| Old High German: | bruoder, bruodor, brōdar | n.masc | brother | ASD/GED | 
| gapruoder | n.pl | brethren | ASD | |
| Middle High German: | bruoder | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| German: | Bruder | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| Gebrüder | n.pl | brethren | ASD | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | bróðir, bródir | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| Old Icelandic: | brōðir | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| Danish: | broder | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| Swedish: | broder | n.masc | brother | ASD | 
| bror | n | brother | TLL | |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | broþar | n.wk.masc | brother | GED | 
| Crimean Gothic: | bruder | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | frāter, frātris | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| fraternus | adj | fraternal, re: brother | W7 | |
| fratricida | n.fem | fratricide | W7 | |
| fratricidium | n.neut | killing of a brother | W7 | |
| Medieval Latin: | confrater | n.masc | confrere, fellow, brother | W7 | 
| fraternalis | adj | fraternal, re: brother | W7 | |
| Old French: | frere | n.masc | friar, brother | W7 | 
| Middle French: | confrere | n.masc | confrere, member of same fraternity | W7 | 
| fratricide | n.masc | killing of a brother | W7 | |
| Italian: | Fra | prop.n.masc | Fra [religious title] | W7 | 
| frate | n.masc | friar, monk | W7 | |
| Baltic | ||||
| Old Prussian: | brote, brāti | n | brother | GED | 
| Lithuanian: | brólis | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| broter-èlis | n | brother | GED | |
| Latvian: | bràlis | n | brother | GED | 
| Slavic | ||||
| Old Church Slavonic: | brat(r)ъ | n.masc | brother | GED | 
| brat(r)ъja | n | phratry | GED | |
| Russian: | brat | n | brother | LRC | 
| Hellenic | ||||
| Hesychius' Greek Lexicon: | φρᾱτρία | n.fem | phratry | GED | 
| φρήτηρ | n | phratry member | GED | |
| Doric: | πάτρα | n.fem | phratry | LS | 
| Ionic: | φρήτρη | n.fem | phratry | LS | 
| Homeric Greek: | φράτρα | n.fem | phratry, people of kindred race | GED | 
| Attic: | φρατρία | n.fem | phratry | LS | 
| Greek: | φράτηρ, φράτωρ | n.masc | brother, clansman, phratry member | LRC | 
| φράτρα | n.fem | phratry | GED | |
| Armenian | ||||
| Classical Armenian: | ełbayr | n | brother | LRC | 
| Iranian | ||||
| Old Persian: | brātā | n | brother | GED | 
| Avestan: | bhrātar- | n | brother | LRC | 
| brātā | n | brother | GED | |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | bhrā́tar- | n | brother | LRC | 
| bhrā́tā | n | brother | GED | |
| bhrātrám | n | phratry | GED | |
| bhrātryam | n | phratry | GED | |
| Romani: | ph(r)al | n | brother, friend | W7 | 
| Tocharian | ||||
| Tocharian B: | pracer | n | brother | LRC | 
| procer | n | brother | GED | |
| Tocharian A: | pracar | n | brother | GED | 
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective | 
| fem | = | feminine (gender) | 
| masc | = | masculine (gender) | 
| n | = | noun | 
| neut | = | neuter (gender) | 
| pl | = | plural (number) | 
| prop | = | proper | 
| sl | = | slang | 
| 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) | 
| GED | = | Winfred P. Lehmann: A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986) | 
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) | 
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin | 
| LS | = | Liddell and Scott: Greek-English Lexicon, 7th-9th ed's (1882-1940), rev. | 
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) | 
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) | 
