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: ku̯ās- : ku̯əs- 'to cough'
Semantic Field(s): to Cough
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Middle Irish: | cassach(t) | n.masc | cough | IEW |
| English | ||||
| Old English: | *cohhian | vb | to cough | W7 |
| hwōsta | n.masc | cough | ASD/IEW | |
| Middle English: | coughen | vb | to cough | W7 |
| English: | cough | n | (frequent/repeated) act of coughing | W7 |
| cough | vb | to expel air from lungs explosively | W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Middle Dutch: | cuchen | vb | to cough | OED |
| Dutch: | hoest | n | cough | TLL |
| kuchen | vb | to cough | OED | |
| Low German: | kuchen | vb | to cough | OED |
| Old High German: | huosto | n | cough | IEW |
| German: | Husten | n | cough | TLL |
| husten | vb | to cough | LRC | |
| keuchen | vb | to pant, gasp | OED | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Icelandic: | hosti | n.masc | cough | IEW |
| Danish: | hoste | n | cough | TLL |
| Swedish: | hosta | n | cough | TLL |
| Baltic | ||||
| Lithuanian: | kósiu, | vb | to cough | IEW |
| kosulỹs | n | cough | IEW | |
| Latvian: | kāsẽju, kãsêt | vb | to cough | IEW |
| kãsulis | n | cough | IEW | |
| Indic | ||||
| Sanskrit: | kāsá- | n | cough | IEW |
| kāsate | vb | to cough | IEW | |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| vb | = | verb |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
| Code | Citation | |
|---|---|---|
| ASD | = | Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) |
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| OED | = | James A.H. Murray et al: The Oxford English Dictionary (1933) |
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |