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: gu̯ou- 'cow, ox, gaur'
Semantic Field(s): Cow, Ox, Steer
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | bó | n | cow | RPN |
| English | ||||
| Old English: | butere | n.fem | butter, cheese | ASD |
| cū, cȳ(e) | n.fem | cow | AHD/ASD/RPN | |
| Middle English: | beef | n | beef | W7 |
| bugle | n | bugle | W7 | |
| butter | n | butter | W7 | |
| cou, kyn | n | cow(s) | AHD/W7 | |
| English: | beef | n | flesh of adult domestic bovine | AHD/W7 |
| Bootes | prop.n | northern circumpolar constellation | LRC | |
| bovine | adj/n | (re:) ox/cow | AHD/W7 | |
| buccinator | n | muscle forming cheek wall | AHD | |
| buffalo | n | oxlike Old World mammal | AHD | |
| bugle | n | brass instrument with cupped mouthpiece (like trumpet) | AHD/W7 | |
| bulimia | n | insatiable appetite | AHD | |
| bumelia | n | tree/shrub with very hard wood | AHD | |
| buprestid | n | destructive wood-boring beetle | AHD | |
| butter | n | solid food emulsion made by churning milk/cream | AHD/W7 | |
| Butterbur(r) | prop.n | Bree surname in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
| butyric | adj | re: a certain isomeric fatty acid | AHD/W7 | |
| cow | n | mature female of cattle | AHD/W7 | |
| gaur | n | (East Indian) wild ox | AHD/W7 | |
| gayal | n | domesticated bovine mammal | AHD | |
| gunny | n | coarse jute sacking | AHD/W7 | |
| kine | n.pl | cows, cattle | AHD | |
| nilgai | n | large long-legged Indian antelope | AHD | |
| proboscis | n | trunk (e.g. of elephant) | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | botera, butera | n | butter | ASD |
| kū | n.fem | cow | ASD/RPN | |
| Frisian: | buter | n | butter | ASD |
| kw, ky | n.fem | cow(s) | ASD | |
| Dutch: | bōter | n.fem | butter | ASD |
| koe | n.fem | cow | ASD | |
| Old Saxon: | kō | n.fem | cow | ASD/RPN |
| Old High German: | butera, butere | n.fem | butter | ASD/W7 |
| kuo, chuo, kua, kō | n.fem | cow | ASD/W7 | |
| Middle High German: | buter | n | butter | ASD |
| kuo | n.fem | cow | ASD | |
| German: | Butter | n.fem | butter | ASD |
| Kuh | n.fem | cow | ASD | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | kýr | n.fem | cow | LRC |
| Icelandic: | kȳr | n.fem | cow | ASD |
| Danish: | ko(e) | n | cow | ASD |
| Swedish: | ko | n.fem | cow | ASD |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | bōs, bovis | n.masc/fem | bull, bovine | RPN |
| bucca | n.fem | cheek | ELD | |
| būcina | n.fem | horn, trumpet | AHD | |
| būcinātor | n.masc | trumpeter | ELD | |
| būcula | n.fem.dim | heifer, young cow | ELD | |
| buculus | n.masc | little ox | W7 | |
| butyrum | n.neut | butter | W7 | |
| proboscis | n.fem | a growth | W7 | |
| Late Latin: | bōs, bovis | n.masc/fem | bull, bovine | W7 |
| bovinus | adj | bovine | W7 | |
| Portuguese: | boi | n | bovine: ox | TLL |
| Spanish: | buey | n.masc | bovine: ox | TLL |
| Old French: | buef | n.masc | beef; bovine: ox | W7 |
| bugle | n.masc | ox, bugle | W7 | |
| French: | beurre | n.masc | butter | ASD |
| bœuf | n.masc | beef; bovine: ox | TLL | |
| butyrique | adj | re: butter | W7 | |
| Italian: | bove | n | bovine: ox | TLL |
| bue | n.masc | bovine: ox | LRC | |
| bu(ti)rro | n.masc | butter | ASD | |
| Baltic | ||||
| Lithuanian: | gauja | n.fem | herd, band | W7 |
| Latvian: | gotiņa | n.fem | little cow | LRC |
| gùovs | n | cow | RPN | |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Greek: | βόσκω | vb | to feed, tend (cattle) | LS |
| βοῦς | n.masc/fem | ox, bull, cow | LRC | |
| βούτης | n.masc | herdsman, plowman | LS | |
| βού-τῡρον | n.neut | butter | LS | |
| πουλυβότειρα | adj | fruitful, all-nourishing | LRC | |
| προβοσκίς | n.fem | means of providing food | LS | |
| Armenian | ||||
| Armenian: | kov | n | cow | RPN |
| Iranian | ||||
| Avestan: | gāuš | n | ox, bull, cow | RPN |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | gáuḥ, gouḥ | n | ox, bull, cow | RPN |
| gaura | n | gaur, bull | W7 | |
| Bengali: | gayāl | n | gayal | AHD |
| Hindi: | ganī | n | coarse jute sacking | W7 |
| gaur | n | gaur | W7 | |
| Tocharian | ||||
| Tocharian B: | keu | n | cow | RPN |
| Tocharian A: | ko | n | cow | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| dim | = | diminutive |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| pl | = | plural (number) |
| prop | = | proper |
| 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) |
| ELD | = | Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary (1999) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| LS | = | Liddell and Scott: Greek-English Lexicon, 7th-9th ed's (1882-1940), rev. |
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |