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: tā-, tə-, tāi-, təi-, tī̆-; [tāu-], təu-, tū̆- 'to thaw, melt, decay, dissipate'
Semantic Field(s): to Spoil
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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Celtic | ||||
Welsh: | tawdd | adj | melting, molten | RPN |
English | ||||
Old English: | þǣnan | vb | to moisten | RPN |
þǣnian, þānian | vb | to be/become moist | RPN | |
þǣsma | n | yeast, leaven | RPN | |
þān | adj | moist, irrigated | RPN | |
þawenian | vb | to moisten | RPN | |
þāwian | vb | to thaw | RPN | |
þīnan | vb | to become moist | RPN | |
þwǣnan | vb | to moisten, soften | RPN | |
þwīnan | vb | to dwindle | RPN | |
Middle English: | thawen | vb | to thaw | W7 |
English: | eutectic | adj | having lowest possible melting point | AHD/W7 |
tabes | n | gradually progressive bodily wasting/emaciation | AHD/CDC | |
tabescent | adj | progressively wasting away | AHD | |
thaw | n | thawing, melting | LRC | |
thaw | vb | to (cause to) melt/unfreeze | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Dutch: | deesem | n.masc | leaven | ASD |
dooi | n | thaw | TLL | |
Old High German: | deismo | n.masc | yeast, leaven | ASD |
douwen, dewen | vb | to thaw, disperse, burn up | ASD/W7 | |
German: | Tau | n.masc | thaw | LRC |
tauen | vb | to thaw | LRC | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Icelandic: | þá | n | thawed ground | RPN |
þána | vb | to thaw | RPN | |
þeyja | vb | to thaw; cease | RPN | |
þeyr | n | thaw | RPN | |
þiðna | vb | to thaw, melt away | RPN | |
þiþinn | adj | thawed, free from ice | RPN | |
þíða | vb | to thaw, melt | RPN | |
þíðr | adj | thawed, not ice-bound | RPN | |
Icelandic: | þeyja | vb.intrans | to thaw | ASD |
Danish: | tø | n/vb | thaw; to thaw | LRC |
Swedish: | tö | n | thaw | LRC |
töa | vb | to thaw | LRC | |
Italic | ||||
Latin: | tābeo, tābēre | vb | to waste away, be consumed | RPN |
tābēs | n.fem | decay, melting; wasting disease | RPN | |
tābesco, tābescere | vb | to melt, waste away | RPN | |
tābum | n.neut | corrupt matter/moisture | RPN | |
Tiber, Tiberis | prop.n.masc | Tiber | LRC | |
Slavic | ||||
Old Church Slavonic: | tajǫ, tajati | vb | to thaw, melt | RPN |
Russian: | tályj | adj | thawed, melted | RPN |
Hellenic | ||||
Doric: | τᾱ́κω | vb | to melt, dissipate | RPN |
Homeric Greek: | τήκω | vb | to melt, waste away | RPN |
Greek: | eu-tēktos | adj | easily melted | W7 |
tēktos | adj | melted | W7 | |
Armenian | ||||
Armenian: | tʰanam | vb | to moisten | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
intrans | = | intransitive |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
neut | = | neuter (gender) |
prop | = | proper |
vb | = | verb |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
Code | Citation | |
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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) |
CDC | = | W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911) |
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) |