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: 3. dhen- 'to hit, ding, push, thrust'
Semantic Field(s): to Hit, Strike, Beat, to Push, Shove
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | dengan | vb | to beat, strike | RPN |
| dynt | n.masc | dint, bruise | ASD/RPN | |
| Middle English: | dint | n | dint | W7 |
| English: | ding | vb | to knock | IEW |
| dingen | vb | to ding | IEW | |
| dint | n | blow, stroke | W7 | |
| dump | vb | to let fall; beat, knock down | IEW/W7 | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | detta | vb | to drop, fall | LRC |
| Old Icelandic: | dengja | vb | to hammer, whet a scythe | RPN |
| Icelandic: | dynta | n.fem | dint | ASD |
| dyntr, dyttr | n.masc | dint | ASD | |
| Albanian | ||||
| Albanian: | dhend | vb | to lop off, cut down | RPN |
| Gheg: | dhên | vb | to lop off, cut down | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| vb | = | verb |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
| Code | Citation | |
|---|---|---|
| ASD | = | Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) |
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |