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: māk̑- : mək̑- 'long and slender'
Semantic Field(s): Long
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | mæger | adj | meager | W7 |
| Middle English: | megre | adj | meager | W7 |
| English: | amphimacer | n | metrical foot: long + short + long syllable | AHD/W7 |
| emaciate | vb | to lose flesh, become very thin | AHD/W7 | |
| macr(o)- | pfx | long, large | LRC | |
| macron | n | mark placed over vowel to indicate length/stress | AHD/W7 | |
| meager | adj | lean, thin, having little flesh | AHD/W7 | |
| paramecium | n | ciliate protozoan with elongated body | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Dutch: | mager | adj | meager | ASD |
| Old High German: | magar | adj | meager | ASD |
| German: | mager | adj | meager | ASD |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Icelandic: | magr | adj | meager | ASD |
| Danish: | mager | adj | meager | ASD |
| Swedish: | mager | adj | meager | ASD |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | amphimacrus | adj | long at both ends | W7 |
| emacio, emaciāre, emaciāvī, emaciātus | vb | to emaciate, pale | W7 | |
| mācer, mācra, mācrum | adj | meager | W7 | |
| māciēs | n.fem | leanness | W7 | |
| New Latin: | paramecium | n.neut | genus of ciliate protozoans | W7 |
| Middle French: | maigre | adj | meager | W7 |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Greek: | amphimakros | adj | long at both ends | W7 |
| μακάριος | adj | blessed | LRC | |
| μακροθυμέω | vb | to be longsuffering | LRC | |
| makron | n.neut | macron | W7 | |
| makros | adj | long, big | W7 | |
| mēkos | n.neut | length | W7 | |
| paramēkēs | adj | oblong | W7 | |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| pfx | = | prefix |
| 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 |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |
