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