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) |
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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) |