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: 1. gu̯el- 'to stab; pain, death, quell'
Semantic Field(s): to Press, Knife (tool), Pain, Suffering, to Die; Dead; Death
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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Celtic | ||||
Old Irish: | atbaill | vb | to die, perish | GED |
Middle Welsh: | (a)ballu | vb | to die, perish | GED |
English | ||||
Old English: | cwalu, cwælu | n.fem | violent death, slaughter, destruction | ASD/GED |
cwelan | vb.str | to die | GED | |
cwellan | vb | to kill | W7 | |
cwyld-tīd | n.str.neut | evening, time of rest | ||
Middle English: | killen | vb | to kill | W7 |
quell | n | quell | W7 | |
quellen | vb | to quell, kill | W7 | |
quille | n | quill | IEW | |
English: | belonephobia | n | trypanophobia, fear of pins/needles | AHD |
kill | vb | to deprive of life | AHD/W7 | |
quell | n | killing, slaughter | AHD/W7 | |
quell | vb.trans | to suppress, put down | AHD/W7 | |
quill | n | large feather; weaving spool | IEW | |
West Germanic | ||||
Dutch: | kwaal | n | fatal illness | GED |
kwellen | vb | to vex | ASD | |
quelen | vb | to die | ASD | |
Old Saxon: | qualu | n.str.fem | torment | GED |
quelan | vb | to die violently | ASD | |
quellian | vb | to kill | ASD | |
Old High German: | chelī, quelī | n | torment | GED |
chwilti-werk | n.str.neut | evening work | GED | |
quāla | n.fem | quell, torment, misery, suffering | GED | |
quelan | vb.str.IV | to suffer | GED | |
queljan | vb | to kill | ASD | |
quellen | vb | to quell, kill, torture | W7 | |
Middle High German: | quel(le)n, kellen | vb | to vex, press | ASD |
German: | Qual | n.fem | quell, torment | LRC |
quälen | vb | to vex | ASD | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Icelandic: | kveld | n.str.neut | evening, time of rest | |
kvǫl | n | suffering | GED | |
Icelandic: | kwelja | vb | to torment | ASD |
Danish: | qwäle | vb | to quell, torture | ASD |
Swedish: | kväll | n | evening | TLL |
qwälja | vb | to torment | ASD | |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | *ana-qal | n | rest, quiet | GED |
*ana-qilan | vb | to die, go to rest | GED | |
Baltic | ||||
Old Prussian: | gallan | n | death | GED |
Lithuanian: | gãlas | n.masc | end | GED |
gélti | vb | to prick | GED | |
gėlà | n | severe pain | GED | |
gìltinė | n | death | GED | |
Latvian: | galotne | n.fem | top, summit | LRC |
Slavic | ||||
Old Church Slavonic: | žalь | n | pain | GED |
žęlo | vb | to prick | GED | |
Hellenic | ||||
Greek: | belonē | n.fem | needle | W7 |
Armenian | ||||
Armenian: | kełem | n | torture | GED |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
IV | = | class 4 |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
neut | = | neuter (gender) |
str | = | strong (inflection) |
trans | = | transitive |
vb | = | verb |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
Code | Citation | |
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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 |
TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |