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: seug- 'sad, sick, grievous, afflicted'
Semantic Field(s): Sad, Sick; Sickness, Grief, Sorrow
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | seōc | adj | sick | CDC | 
| Middle English: | se(e)ken, siiken, syken | vb | to sicken | CDC | 
| sic, syk, sik(e), se(o)k | adj | sick | CDC | |
| English: | sick | adj | ill, having disease | CDC | 
| sicken | vb | to fall ill, become sick | LRC | |
| sickness | n | illness, malady | W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Frisian: | siak, s(i)ek | adj | sick | CDC | 
| Middle Dutch: | siek | adj | sick | CDC | 
| Dutch: | ziekte | n | sickness | TLL | 
| Old Saxon: | seok, siak, siec, sioc, siok | adj | sick | ASD/CDC | 
| Old High German: | sieh, sioh, siuh | adj | sick | ASD/CDC | 
| siuchan, siuhhan | vb | to sicken | CDC | |
| German: | siech | adj | sick | ASD | 
| North Germanic | ||||
| Icelandic: | sjūkr | adj | sick | CDC | 
| Danish: | syg | adj | sick | CDC | 
| syge | n | sickness | TLL | |
| Swedish: | sjuk | adj | sick | CDC | 
| sjuka | n | sickness | TLL | |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | siukan | vb.str | to sicken | CDC | 
| siuks | adj | sick | LRC | |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective | 
| n | = | noun | 
| str | = | strong (inflection) | 
| 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) | 
| CDC | = | W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911) | 
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin | 
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) | 
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) | 
