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. dhreugh- 'to harm, deceive'
Semantic Field(s): to Harm, Injure, Damage
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | drog-, droch- | adj | bad | RPN |
| Breton: | droug, drouk | adj | bad | RPN |
| Cornish: | drog | adj | bad | RPN |
| Welsh: | drwg | adj | bad, wild, uncivilized | RPN |
| English | ||||
| Old English: | drēam | n.str.masc | dream, joy, religious ecstasy; noise | GED |
| Middle English: | dreem | n | dream | W7 |
| English: | dream | n | deceptive image, thought/emotion experienced during sleep | AHD/W7 |
| Druadan | prop.n | Woses' forest in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | drām | n.str.masc | dream | GED |
| Frisian: | driech | vb.ptc | enduring | GED |
| Old Saxon: | bi-driogan | vb.str.II | to deceive | GED |
| drōm | n.str.masc | dream | GED | |
| gi-drōg | n | mirage | GED | |
| Old High German: | gi-trog | n.str.neut | deception | GED |
| triogan | vb.str.II | to deceive | GED | |
| troum | n.str.masc | dream | GED | |
| German: | Traum | n.masc | dream | LRC |
| Trug | n | fraud, deception | RPN | |
| trügen | vb | to deceive | RPN | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Icelandic: | draugr | n.str | ghost | GED |
| draumr | n.str.masc | dream | GED | |
| drȳgja | vb.wk | to carry out | GED | |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | *driugan | vb.str.II | to wage/carry on (e.g. campaign) | GED |
| Baltic | ||||
| Old Prussian: | drāktai | adv | firmly | GED |
| podrūktinai | vb | to confirm | GED | |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | drúhyati | vb | to hurt, hate | RPN |
| droha-ḥ | n | harm, wrong, treachery | RPN | |
| dhrúk, druh- | adj | injuring, hurting | RPN | |
| Gujarati: | droh | n | malice | RPN |
| Hindi: | dho | n | malice, injury | RPN |
| dhok(h)ā | n | fear, deceit | RPN | |
| Oriya: | dhokā | n | fear, doubt, injury | RPN |
| Sindhi: | ḍrohu | n | deceit | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| II | = | class 2 |
| adj | = | adjective |
| adv | = | adverb(ial) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| prop | = | proper |
| ptc | = | participle |
| str | = | strong (inflection) |
| 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) |
| GED | = | Winfred P. Lehmann: A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |