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. ku̯elp-, ku̯elb- : ku̯l̥p/b- : klup/b- 'to stumble, buckle at the knees; to trot'
Semantic Field(s): to Fall
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | hlēapan, hlēop, hlēopon, hlupon, hlēapen | vb.str | to leap | ASD/W7 |
Middle English: | lepen | vb | to leap | W7 |
loup, lope | n | leap, lope | W7 | |
English: | elope | vb | to run away with lover | AHD/W7 |
interloper | n | meddler, intruder, encroacher | AHD/W7 | |
leap, leapt | vb.wk | to jump, spring free from the ground | AHD/W7 | |
leap | n | spring, bound, act of jumping | AHD/W7 | |
lope | n | easy natural bounding gait | W7 | |
lope | vb | to go/move/ride at a lope | W7 | |
orlop | n | lowest deck of ship | AHD | |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | hlāpa | vb | to leap | ASD |
Middle Dutch: | loopen | vb | to leap, lope | AHD |
Dutch: | loop | n | course | TLL |
lopen | vb | to lope | TLL | |
Old Saxon: | a-hlōpan | vb | to leap | ASD |
Old High German: | hlouf(f)an, hlaufen | vb | to leap, lope | AHD/ASD/W7 |
German: | Lauf | n | course | TLL |
laufen | vb.str | to run, lope | ASD | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | hlaup | n | leap | W7 |
hlaupa | vb | to leap, spring; mount, climb; lope | LRC | |
Icelandic: | hlaupa | vb | to leap, lope | ASD |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | us-hlaupan | vb | to leap up | ASD |
Italic | ||||
Anglo-French: | aloper | vb | to elope | W7 |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
n | = | noun |
str | = | strong (inflection) |
vb | = | verb |
wk | = | weak (inflection) |
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) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |