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. gel(ə)- 'cool, cold; to keel, freeze'
Semantic Field(s): Cold, Frigid
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | calan | vb | to freeze, be cold | GED/RPN |
| c(e)ald | adj/n.neut | cold | ASD/GED/RPN | |
| cēlan | vb | to keel | RPN | |
| cieldu | n.fem | cold, chill | GED | |
| c(i)ele | n.masc | chill, cold | GED | |
| cielian | vb | to be cold, chilly | RPN | |
| cōl | adj | cool | GED/RPN | |
| cōlian | vb | to become cool/cold | RPN | |
| Middle English: | chile | n | cold, frost | W7 |
| chillen | vb | to chill | W7 | |
| cold | adj | cold | W7 | |
| congelen | vb | to congeal | W7 | |
| gelly | n | jelly | W7 | |
| kelen | vb | to keel | W7 | |
| English: | chill | n | sensation of coldness | IEW/W7 |
| chill | vb | to become cold | AHD/W7 | |
| cold | adj | re: temperature notably below norm | AHD/W7 | |
| cold | n | condition of low temperature; illness, disease | W7 | |
| congeal | vb | to change from fluid to solid when cold | AHD/W7 | |
| cool | adj | moderately cold, lacking heat | AHD/W7 | |
| cool | vb | to make/become cool | W7 | |
| gelatin | n | glutinous material obtained by boiling animal tissue | AHD/W7 | |
| gelation | n | action/process of freezing | AHD/W7 | |
| gelid | adj | icy, extremely cold | AHD/W7 | |
| glace | adj | made/finished to have smooth glossy surface | AHD/W7 | |
| glacial | adj | frigid, extremely cold | AHD/W7 | |
| glaciate | vb | to freeze | AHD/W7 | |
| glacier | n | large ice body moving slowly downhill | AHD/W7 | |
| glacis | n | incline, gentle slope | AHD/W7 | |
| jelly | n | food with soft elastic consistency | AHD/W7 | |
| keel | vb | to cool | AHD/W7 | |
| verglas | n | thin ice film on rock | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | kald | adj | cold | GED/RPN |
| kela | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| Dutch: | koel | adj | cool | ASD |
| koelen | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| koud | adj | cold | ASD | |
| verkoudheid | n | cold: illness | TLL | |
| Old Saxon: | kald | adj | cold | GED/RPN |
| kōlōn | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| Middle Low German: | külde | n | cold | GED |
| Old High German: | kalt, chalt | adj | cold | ASD/GED |
| kuol(i), chuoli | adj | cool | GED/W7 | |
| kuoljan | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| Middle High German: | kalt | adj | cold | ASD |
| küele | adj | cool | ASD | |
| kuolēn | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| New High German: | kalt | adj | cold | RPN |
| kühl | adj | cool | RPN | |
| German: | Erkältung | n | cold: illness | TLL |
| kühlen | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | kala | vb | to freeze, be(come) cold | LRC |
| Old Icelandic: | kalda | vb | to become cold | RPN |
| kaldr | adj | cold | GED/RPN | |
| kelda | n | spring, brook | GED | |
| klaki | n | hard-frozen ground | RPN | |
| kólna | vb | to become cold | RPN | |
| kul | n.neut | breeze, gust of wind | GED/RPN | |
| kuldi | n.masc | cold | GED | |
| kylr | n | gust of cold air | RPN | |
| Icelandic: | kala | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD |
| kaldr | adj | cold | ASD | |
| Danish: | forkølelse | n | cold: illness | TLL |
| kilde | n | water spring | TLL | |
| koele | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| kold | adj | cold | ASD | |
| köl(ig) | adj | cool | ASD | |
| Swedish: | förkylning | n | cold: illness | TLL |
| kall | adj | cold | ASD | |
| koela | vb | to cool, be cold | ASD | |
| kylig | adj | cool | ASD | |
| källa | n | water spring | TLL | |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | *kalds | adj | cold | GED/RPN |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | congelo, congelare | vb | to freeze, to harden | W7 |
| gelatio, gelationis | n.fem | action of freezing | W7 | |
| gelidus | adj | cold, icy-cold, frosty | RPN | |
| gelo, gelare, gelavi, gelatus | vb | to (cause to) freeze, congeal | W7 | |
| gelu, gelūs | n.neut | cold, frost, ice | W7 | |
| glacialis | adj | icy | W7 | |
| glacies | n.fem | icicle | W7 | |
| glacio, glaciare | vb | to freeze | W7 | |
| Old French: | verre-glaz | n.masc | glass ice, thin ice film on rock | W7 |
| Middle French: | congeler | vb | to freeze | W7 |
| gelé | vb.ptc | frosted, frozen | W7 | |
| gelee | n.fem | frost | W7 | |
| geler | vb | to freeze, congeal | W7 | |
| glace | n.fem | ice | W7 | |
| French: | gélatine | n.fem | edible jelly, gelatin | W7 |
| glace | n.fem | ice | W7 | |
| glacer | vb | to freeze, ice, glaze | W7 | |
| glacis | n.masc | glacis, glaze | W7 | |
| verglas | n.masc | cold rain freezing as thin ice | W7 | |
| Italian: | gelare | vb | to freeze | W7 |
| gelatina | n.fem | gelatin | W7 | |
| gelato | n.masc | ice, ice-cream | CID/W7 | |
| Baltic | ||||
| Lithuanian: | száltas | adj | cold | ASD |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | jala | adj | cold | ASD |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| ptc | = | participle |
| 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) |
| CID | = | Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1958) |
| GED | = | Winfred P. Lehmann: A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986) |
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |