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: *ōs, ōs-i-s, ō̆s-en-, os-k-   'ash (tree)'

Semantic Field(s): Tree (generic), Tree, Oak

 

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language Reflex(es) PoS/Gram. Gloss Source(s)
English  
Old English: æsc n.masc ash, spear; boat, ship LRC
Middle English: assh(e), asch, esche n ash CDC/W7
English: ash n tree in olive family with thin furrowed bark/gray branchlets AHD/W7
West Germanic  
Dutch: esch n ash CDC
Old High German: ask, asc n.masc ash ASD/W7
Middle High German: asch n.masc ash CDC
German: Esche n.fem ash LRC
North Germanic  
Old Norse: askr n.masc ash, spear LRC
Icelandic: askr n ash CDC
Danish: ask n ash CDC
Swedish: ask n ash CDC
Italic  
Latin: ornus n.fem wild mountain ash W7
Baltic  
Lithuanian: usis n ash CDC
Slavic  
Old Church Slavonic: yasika n ash CDC

 

Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:

Abbrev. Meaning
fem=feminine (gender)
masc=masculine (gender)
n=noun

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)
CDC=W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
LRC=Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7=Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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