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: 2. su̯el- 'to burn, smolder, swelter'
Semantic Field(s): to Burn, Scorch
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | swelan | vb | to burn | W7 |
| sweltan, swealt, swulton, swolten | vb.str | to die | W7 | |
| Middle English: | swale | n | swale | W7 |
| swelten | vb | to die, be overcome by heat | W7 | |
| sweltren | vb.freq | to swelter | W7 | |
| English: | sulter | vb | to swelter | AHD/W7 |
| sultry | adj | sweltering, very hot/humid | AHD/W7 | |
| swale | n | low-lying stretch of (marshy) land | AHD/W7 | |
| swelter | vb | to sweat, faint/suffer from heat | AHD/W7 | |
| sweltry | adj | sultry, extremely hot | IEW | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old Saxon: | sweltan | vb | to die | ASD |
| Old High German: | swelzan | vb | to burn up | W7 |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | svalr | adj | cool, cold | LRC |
| Icelandic: | svelta | vb | to die | ASD |
| Danish: | sulte | vb | to starve | ASD |
| sulten | adj | hungry | ASD | |
| East Germanic | ||||
| Gothic: | swiltan | vb | to die | ASD |
| Crimean Gothic: | *schwalþ, schuualth | n | death | CGo |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| freq | = | frequentative (aspect) |
| n | = | noun |
| str | = | strong (inflection) |
| 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) |
| CGo | = | MacDonald Stearns, Jr: Crimean Gothic (1978) |
| IEW | = | Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |
