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: bhudh-m(e)n 'base, ground, bottom, fundament'
Semantic Field(s): Ground, Soil, Bottom
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Irish: | bonn | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Gaelic: | bonn, buinn | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| English | ||||
| Old English: | botm | n.masc | bottom | ASD/W7 |
| Middle English: | abissus | n | abyss | W7 |
| boþem, botme | n | bottom | MEV/W7 | |
| fond | n | fond | W7 | |
| fonne | n | dupe, fool, buffoon | W7 | |
| founden | vb | to found | W7 | |
| foundren | vb | to collapse, send to the bottom | W7 | |
| fundament | n | fundament | W7 | |
| profound | adj | profound | W7 | |
| English: | abyss | n | bottomless pit/gulf/chaos of old cosmogonies | AHD/W7 |
| bottom | n | underside, lower surface | AHD/W7 | |
| bumboat | n | boat bringing provisions/commodities for sale to (those in) ship | AHD/W7 | |
| fond | adj | silly, foolish | AHD/W7 | |
| found | vb.trans | to take first step(s) in construction | AHD/W7 | |
| founder | vb | to become disabled | AHD/W7 | |
| fund | n | supply, available resources | AHD/W7 | |
| fundament | n | base upon which structure is erected | AHD/W7 | |
| fundus | n | part below aperture of hollow organ | AHD/W7 | |
| latifundium | n | great landed estate, often with servile labor | AHD/W7 | |
| profound | adj | having intellectual depth/insight | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | boden | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Frisian: | boyem | n | bottom | ASD |
| Dutch: | bōdem | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Old Saxon: | bodom | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Low German: | bum | n | tree | W7 |
| bumboot | n.neut | bumboat | W7 | |
| Old High German: | bodam | n.masc | bottom | ASD/W7 |
| Middle High German: | bodem, boden | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| German: | Bodem, Boden | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Fundament | n.neut | fundament | LRC | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Icelandic: | botn | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Danish: | bund | n | bottom | ASD |
| Swedish: | botten | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | fundamentum | n.neut | foundation | W7 |
| fundo, fundare | vb | to found, lay foundation of | W7 | |
| fundus, fundī | n.masc | bottom, land, farm | W7 | |
| latifundium | n.neut | large property | W7 | |
| latus, lateris | n.neut | side | W7 | |
| profundus | adj | deep | W7 | |
| Late Latin: | abyssus | n.masc | abyss | W7 |
| New Latin: | fundus | n.masc | bottom, land, bottom of an organ | W7 |
| Old French: | fondement | n.masc | base | W7 |
| fonder | vb | to found | W7 | |
| Middle French: | fondrer | vb | to collapse | W7 |
| profond | adj | deep | W7 | |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Greek: | abyssos | n.masc | abyss, bottomless well | W7 |
| bathys | adj | deep | W7 | |
| byssos | n.masc | depth | W7 | |
| pythmēn | n.masc | bottom | W7 | |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | budhna | n.masc | bottom | ASD |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| trans | = | transitive |
| 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) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| MEV | = | J.R.R. Tolkien: A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |