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) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |