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. k̑el- 'to bow, lean, incline'
Semantic Field(s): to Obey
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | hold | adj | true, loyal, faithful, favorable | ASD |
English: | Holdwine | prop.n | epithet for Merry in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | hold | adj | kind, friendly, gracious, favorable | ASD |
Old Saxon: | hold | adj | kind, friendly, gracious, favorable | ASD |
Old High German: | hold | adj | kind, friendly, gracious, favorable | ASD |
German: | hold | adj | kind, friendly, gracious, favorable | ASD |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | hollr | adj | loyal | LRC |
Icelandic: | hollr | adj | faithful, gracious, wholesome | ASD |
Baltic | ||||
Lithuanian: | šalìs | n.fem | side | LRC |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
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adj | = | adjective |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
prop | = | proper |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
Code | Citation | |
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ASD | = | Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |