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: pasto- 'firm, fast, solid'
Semantic Field(s): Strong, Mighty, Powerful
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | fæst | adj | fast | W7 |
fæstan | vb | to fast | W7 | |
fæste, feste | adv | fast | LRC | |
fæstnian, festnian | vb.wk | to fasten | ASD/W7 | |
scamfæst | adj | shamefaced | W7 | |
Middle English: | fast | adj | fast | W7 |
fast(n)en | vb | to fasten | W7 | |
shamefast | adj | shamefaced | W7 | |
English: | avast | vb.imp | stop, cease, hold fast | AHD/W7 |
breakfast | n | first meal of day | AHD/W7 | |
fast | adj | firm, snug, fixed, bound, secure | AHD/W7 | |
fast | adv | firmly, in fixed manner | W7 | |
fast | vb.intrans | to abstain from food | AHD/W7 | |
fasten | vb | to affix, make fast | AHD/W7 | |
Fastred | prop.n | personal name in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
Halfast | prop.n | hobbit in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
Hamfast | prop.n | hobbit name in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
handfast | n.arch | contract, covenant | AHD/W7 | |
Holfast | prop.n | hobbit in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
shamefaced | adj | bashful, showing modesty | AHD/W7 | |
steadfast | adj | firmly fixed in place | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | fest | adj | fast | ASD |
festia | vb | to fast | ASD | |
festigia | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Frisian: | fest | adj | fast | ASD |
festgjen | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Middle Dutch: | vast | adj/adv | fast | AHD |
Dutch: | vast | adj | fast | ASD |
vasten | vb | to fast | ASD | |
vesten | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Old Saxon: | fast | adj | fast | ASD |
fest(i)an | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Old High German: | fastēn | vb | to fast | ASD |
fasti, festi | adj | fast | ASD | |
fastjan, festan | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
festinōn | vb | to fasten | W7 | |
Middle High German: | vast, veste | adj | fast | ASD |
vasten | vb | to fast | ASD | |
vesten | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
German: | fasten | vb | to fast | ASD |
fest | adj | fast | ASD | |
festen, befestigen | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | fastr | adj | fast; hard, severe; continuous | LRC |
Icelandic: | fasta | vb | to fast | ASD |
festa | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Danish: | fast | adj | fast | ASD |
faste | vb | to fast | ASD | |
fæaste | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
Swedish: | fast | adj | fast | ASD |
fasta | vb | to fast | ASD | |
fästa | vb | to fasten | ASD | |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | fastan | vb | to fast, fasten | ASD |
Armenian | ||||
Armenian: | hast | adj | fast | HH/W7 |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
adv | = | adverb(ial) |
arch | = | archaic |
imp | = | imperative (mood) |
intrans | = | intransitive |
n | = | noun |
prop | = | proper |
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) |
HH | = | Heinrich Hübschmann: Armenische Grammatik (1897) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |