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: pē(i)-, pī- 'to hurt, scold, shame'
Semantic Field(s): to Harm, Injure, Damage, Shame (n)
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | fēond, fīond, fȳnd, fīend | n.masc | fiend | AHD/ASD |
| Middle English: | compassion | n | compassion | W7 |
| fiend | n | fiend | W7 | |
| pacient | n | patient | W7 | |
| passible | adj | passible | W7 | |
| passion | n | passion | W7 | |
| passive | adj | passive | W7 | |
| English: | compassion | n | consciousness of/sympathy with/desire to alleviate others' distress | AHD/W7 |
| fiend | n | foe, demon, devil, enemy | AHD/W7 | |
| passible | adj | capable of feeling/suffering | AHD/W7 | |
| passion | n | sufferings (of Christ) | AHD/W7 | |
| passive | adj | acted upon by external agency | AHD/W7 | |
| patient | adj | bearing pains/trials calmly/without complaint | AHD/W7 | |
| pen- | pfx | almost | TLL | |
| penult | n | next to last item (in series) | TLL | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | fiand, fiund | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Frisian: | fynne | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Dutch: | vijand | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Old Saxon: | fīand, fīond, fīund, fīunt | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Low German: | fij(e)nd | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Old High German: | fīant, fīent | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Middle High German: | vīant, vī(e)nt | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| German: | Feind | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Icelandic: | fjāndi | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Danish: | fiende | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Swedish: | fiende | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | fiyands | n.masc | fiend | ASD |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | paene | adv | almost | LRC |
| passivus | adj | passive | W7 | |
| passus | vb.ptc | suffered, experienced | W7 | |
| patiens, patientis | adj/vb.ptc | patient, re: enduring suffering | W7 | |
| patior, patī, passus | vb.dep | to bear, suffer, endure | LRC | |
| penuria | n.fem | need, want | W7 | |
| Late Latin: | compassio | n.fem | sympathy | W7 |
| compassus | vb.ptc | sympathizing | W7 | |
| compatior, compati | vb.dep | to sympathize | W7 | |
| passibilis | adj | passible | W7 | |
| passio, passionis | n.fem | suffering, being acted upon | W7 | |
| Old French: | passion | n.fem | passion | W7 |
| Middle French: | compassion | n.fem | sympathy | W7 |
| pacient | adj | patient, re: enduring suffering | W7 | |
| passible | adj | passible | W7 | |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Homeric Greek: | πάσχω | vb | to bear, suffer, be maltreated | LRC |
| πῆμα | n.neut | woe, harm, suffering | LRC | |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| adv | = | adverb(ial) |
| dep | = | deponent |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| pfx | = | prefix |
| ptc | = | participle |
| 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 |
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |