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. u̯eik- 'force, energy (in battle, victory, etc.)'
Semantic Field(s): Strong, Mighty, Powerful, Battle (n), Victory
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | wīg | n.neut | war, strife | LRC |
wīgan | vb | to fight | W7 | |
wīgend | n.masc | warrior | LRC | |
wīg-plega | n.masc | battle, lit. war-play | LRC | |
Middle English: | convicten | vb | to convict | W7 |
evicten | vb | to evict | W7 | |
venquissen | vb | to vanquish | W7 | |
victor | n | victor | W7 | |
English: | convict | vb.trans | to find/prove guilty | AHD/W7 |
convince | vb.trans | to overcome by argument | AHD/W7 | |
evict | vb.trans | to recover (property) from person by legal process | AHD/W7 | |
evince | vb.trans | to show, constitute evidence of | AHD/W7 | |
Ordovician | adj | re: geologic period between Cambrian/Silurian | LRC | |
vanquish | vb.trans | to subdue completely, overcome in battle | AHD/W7 | |
victor | n | winner, one who defeats enemy/opponent | AHD/W7 | |
victory | n | overcoming of enemy/antagonist | W7 | |
vincible | adj | surmountable, able to be subdued/overcome | AHD/W7 | |
wight | adj | valiant, stalwart | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | wīch | n.neut | war, fight, battle, conflict | ASD |
Old Saxon: | wīg | n.neut | war, fight, battle, conflict | ASD |
Old High German: | wīch, wīcg | n.neut | war, fight, battle | ASD |
wīhantero | vb | to fight, battle | ASD | |
North Germanic | ||||
Old Norse: | vega | vb | to smite, fight, kill, slay; lift | LRC |
vīgr | adj | skilled in fighting | W7 | |
Icelandic: | víg | n.neut | war, fight, battle, conflict | ASD |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | weihan | vb | to fight, battle | ASD |
Italic | ||||
Latin: | convictus | vb.ptc | convicted | W7 |
convinco, convincere | vb | to prove, convict | W7 | |
evinco, evincere | vb | to vanquish, win a point | W7 | |
Ordovices | prop.n.masc.pl | ancient people in northern Wales | W7 | |
victor | n.masc | victor, victorious leader | W7 | |
victus | vb.ptc | lived | W7 | |
vincibilis | adj | vincible | W7 | |
vinco, vincere | vb | to win, conquer | W7 | |
Late Latin: | evictus | vb.ptc | evicted | W7 |
evinco, evincere | vb | to evict | W7 | |
New Latin: | victor | n.masc | victor | W7 |
Victoria | prop.n.fem | Victoria: queen of England | W7 | |
Middle French: | veintre | vb | to conquer | W7 |
venquis | vb.ptc | vanquished | W7 | |
Slavic | ||||
Old Church Slavonic: | věkъ | n.masc | age | LRC |
Albanian | ||||
Albanian: | fitore | n.fem | victory | LRC |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
neut | = | neuter (gender) |
pl | = | plural (number) |
prop | = | proper |
ptc | = | participle |
trans | = | transitive |
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) |
LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |