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: trozdos- : tr̥zdos- 'thrush, blackbird'
Semantic Field(s): Bird
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Old English: | þrostle | n.fem | throstle | W7 |
| þrysce | n.fem | thrush | W7 | |
| Middle English: | ostrich | n | ostrich | W7 |
| sturdy | adj | sturdy | W7 | |
| throstle | n | throstle | W7 | |
| thrusche | n | thrush | W7 | |
| English: | ostrich | n | swift two-toed flightless African bird | AHD/W7 |
| struthious | adj | ratite, re: ostriches/related birds | AHD/W7 | |
| sturdy | adj | stout, firmly built/constituted | AHD/W7 | |
| throstle | n | thrush | AHD/W7 | |
| thrush | n | small/medium passerine bird | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Old High German: | drosca | n.fem | thrush | ASD |
| droscala | n | throstle | W7 | |
| Middle High German: | drostel | n.fem | throstle, singing thrush | ASD |
| German: | Drossel | n.fem | throstle | LRC |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Swedish: | koltrast | n | blackbird, lit. black-thrush | TLL |
| trast | n | thrush | SAO | |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | turdus | n.masc | thrush | W7 |
| Vulgar Latin: | exturdio, exturdīre | vb | to be dizzy like thrush drunk from eating grapes | W7 |
| Late Latin: | struthio | n.masc | ostrich | W7 |
| Old French: | estourdir | vb | to stun | W7 |
| ostrusce | n.fem | ostrich | W7 | |
| Hellenic | ||||
| Homeric Greek: | στροψθός | n | sparrow | LRC |
| Greek: | στροψθός | n.masc/fem | sparrow | LS |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| 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) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| LS | = | Liddell and Scott: Greek-English Lexicon, 7th-9th ed's (1882-1940), rev. |
| SAO | = | Swedish Academy: Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (2011) |
| TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |
