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: kert-, kerət-, krāt- 'to roll, turn, wind'
Semantic Field(s): to Roll, to Turn, to Wind, Wrap
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | hyrd | n | door | RPN | 
| hyrdel | n.masc | hurdle | ASD/RPN | |
| Middle English: | grate | n | grate | W7 | 
| gredil | n | griddle, gridiron | W7 | |
| gredire | n | gridiron | W7 | |
| hurdel | n | hurdle | W7 | |
| English: | crate | n | box made of wooden slats | AHD/W7 | 
| grate | n | cage, prison | AHD/W7 | |
| grid | n | grating | AHD/W7 | |
| griddle | n | flat cooking surface | AHD/W7 | |
| gridiron | n | grated metal food-broiling frame | AHD/W7 | |
| grill | n | parallel bars for cooking food over fire | AHD/W7 | |
| hoard(ing) | n | temporary board fence | AHD/W7 | |
| horst | n | raised block of earth's crust | AHD/W7 | |
| hurdle | n | portable panel of wattled withes/stakes for enclosing land/livestock | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old High German: | hurd | n | hurdle, wattle | RPN | 
| hurt | n | hurdle | ASD | |
| German: | Grill | n.masc | grill | LRC | 
| Horst | n | horst | W7 | |
| Hürde | n | hurdle | ASD | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | hurð | n.fem | door | LRC | 
| Icelandic: | hurð | n | door; hurdle | ASD | 
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | haúrds | n.str.fem | door | LRC | 
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | craticulum | n.neut | grill | W7 | 
| crātis | n.fem | trellis, wicker basket, hurdle-work | RPN | |
| Medieval Latin: | crata, grata | n.fem | hurdle | W7 | 
| Old North French: | gredil | n.masc | griddle | W7 | 
| French: | gril | n.masc | grill | W7 | 
| Baltic | ||||
| Lithuanian: | krañtas | n | bank, seashore | RPN | 
| krãštas | n | edge, border, bank | RPN | |
| Latvian: | krants | n | cliff | RPN | 
| krasts | n | shore, bank (of a river) | RPN | |
| Slavic | ||||
| Slovenian: | krétati | vb | to turn | RPN | 
| Russian: | krug | n | circle | RPN | 
| krugóm | n | round | RPN | |
| kružít' | vb | to turn, whirl, spin | RPN | |
| krutít' | vb | to twist, twirl, roll up | RPN | |
| krutój | n | steep | RPN | |
| krúča | n | steep slope | RPN | |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Greek: | κάρταλος | n | basket with pointed bottom | RPN | 
| Iranian | ||||
| Farsi: | karān | n | shore, side | RPN | 
| Avestan: | karana- | n | end, border, shore | RPN | 
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | kṛṇátti | vb | to twist, spin | RPN | 
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| fem | = | feminine (gender) | 
| masc | = | masculine (gender) | 
| n | = | noun | 
| neut | = | neuter (gender) | 
| str | = | strong (inflection) | 
| 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) | 
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin | 
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) | 
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) | 
