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: (s)ku̯alo-s '(type of large fish, e.g. whale)'
Semantic Field(s): Fish (n)
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | hwæl | n.masc | whale | RPN |
Middle English: | whale | n | whale | W7 |
English: | narwhal | n | arctic cetacean | AHD/W7 |
rorqual | n | large whalebone whale | AHD/W7 | |
squalene | n | acyclic hydrocarbon | AHD/W7 | |
whale | n | large aquatic mammal (order Cetacea) | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Dutch: | walvisch | n | whale | TLL |
Old High German: | (h)wal | n | whale | RPN |
German: | Wahl | n.masc | whale | LRC |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | hvalr | n | whale | W7 |
nāhvalr | n | narwhal | W7 | |
reyþarhvalr | n | rorqual | W7 | |
Old Icelandic: | hvalr | n | whale | RPN |
Icelandic: | hvalr | n | whale | ASD |
nárhvalur | n | narwhal | W7 | |
Faeroese: | hvalur | n | whale | RPN |
Norwegian: | rørhval | n | rorqual | W7 |
Danish: | hval | n | whale | RPN |
narhval | n | narwhal | W7 | |
Swedish: | narval | n | narwhal | W7 |
val | n | whale | RPN | |
Italic | ||||
Latin: | squalus | n.masc | (kind of) sea fish | RPN |
French: | rorqual | n.masc | rorqual | W7 |
Baltic | ||||
Old Prussian: | kalis | n | shad | RPN |
Iranian | ||||
Avestan: | kara- | n | mythological fish | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
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) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |