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: 3. u̯er- 'to bend, turn, wrap'
Semantic Field(s): to Bend, to Turn
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | frith- | pfx | against | LRC | 
| English | ||||
| Old English: | gewrinclian | vb | to wind, turn | W7 | 
| stǣlwierðe | adj | stalwart, serviceable | W7 | |
| -wrinclian | sfx | wrinkle | W7 | |
| Middle English: | pevish | adj | peevish, spiteful | W7 | 
| prose | n | prose | W7 | |
| ribald | n | ribald | W7 | |
| vermin | n | vermin | W7 | |
| worien | vb | to worry | W7 | |
| wrappen | vb | to wrap | W7 | |
| wrigglen | vb | to wriggle | W7 | |
| wrinkle | n | wrinkle | W7 | |
| wrinkled | adj | twisted, winding | W7 | |
| wrist | n | wrist | W7 | |
| English: | brusque | adj | markedly short/abrupt, sharp/harsh | AHD/W7 | 
| dextrorse | adj | winding left-to-right (spirally upward) around axis | AHD/W7 | |
| extrorse | adj | facing outward/away from axis of growth | AHD/W7 | |
| gaiter | n | cloth/leather leg covering from instep to ankle/mid-calf/knee | AHD/W7 | |
| introrse | adj | facing inward/toward axis of growth | AHD/W7 | |
| peevish | adj | fretful, querulous in mood/temperament | AHD/W7 | |
| prose | n | ordinary language in speaking/writing | AHD/W7 | |
| retrorse | adj | bent backward/downward | AHD/W7 | |
| rhabdomancy | n | divination by rods/wands | AHD/W7 | |
| rhabdovirus | n | RNA-containing plant/animal virus | AHD | |
| rhaphide | n | needle-shaped crystal in plant tissue | AHD | |
| rhombus | n | equilateral parallelogram | AHD/W7 | |
| ribald | n | crude/wanton/offensive person | AHD/W7 | |
| sinistrorse | adj | winding right-to-left (spirally upward) around axis | AHD/W7 | |
| stalwart | adj | stout, sturdy | AHD/W7 | |
| tenorrhaphy | n | surgical suturing of divided tendons | AHD | |
| verst | n | (ancient) Russian unit of distance (0.6629 miles) | AHD/W7 | |
| worry | vb | to choke, strangle | AHD/W7 | |
| wrap | vb | to cover by winding/folding | AHD/W7 | |
| wriggle | vb | to squirm, move to-and-fro with writhing motion | AHD/W7 | |
| wrinkle | n | crease, small ridge/furrow | AHD/W7 | |
| wrist | n | (region of) joint between hand/arm | AHD/W7 | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Middle Low German: | wriggeln | vb | to wriggle | W7 | 
| Old High German: | rīban | vb | to be ribald/wanton, lit. to twist | W7 | 
| Middle High German: | rigel | n | kerchief wound round head | W7 | 
| German: | Werst | n.fem | verst | W7 | 
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | urðr | n | fate | W7 | 
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | annus | n.masc | year | W7 | 
| dextrorsus | adv | toward the right | W7 | |
| introrsus | adj/adv | inward | W7 | |
| prorsus | adv | forward | W7 | |
| prosa | n.fem | prose | W7 | |
| prosus | adj | straightforward, being in prose | W7 | |
| retrorsum | adv | backwards | W7 | |
| rhombus | n.masc | circle, round object | W7 | |
| sinister | adj | on left side, unlucky, inauspicious | W7 | |
| sinistrorsus | adj | toward the left side | W7 | |
| verto, vertere | vb | to turn (round) | LRC | |
| Late Latin: | extrorsus | adv | outward | W7 | 
| Medieval Latin: | bruscus | n.masc | butcher's broom | W7 | 
| New Latin: | dextrorsus | adj | turning on axis from left to right | W7 | 
| extrorsus | adj | outward, turned away from the axis of growth | W7 | |
| sinistrorsus | adj | toward the left side | W7 | |
| Old French: | ribauld, ribaut | n.masc | ribald, rascal | W7 | 
| Middle French: | prose | n.fem | prose | W7 | 
| French: | brusque | adj | snappy, violent | W7 | 
| guêtre | n.masc | spat, gaiter | W7 | |
| verste | n.fem | verst | W7 | |
| Italian: | brusco | adj | sour, sharp, brusque | CID/W7 | 
| Slavic | ||||
| Old Church Slavonic: | vrŭteti | vb | to turn, roll | LRC | 
| Russian: | vreteno | n | spindle, distaff | LRC | 
| Hellenic | ||||
| Homeric Greek: | ῥαπτός | adj | sewed, patched | LRC | 
| ῥάπτω | vb | to sew, stitch, suture | LRC | |
| Greek: | rhaphē | n | suture | AHD | 
| rhembein | vb | to whirl | W7 | |
| rhoikos | adj | crooked | W7 | |
| rhombos | n.masc | round object | W7 | |
| Late Greek: | rhabdomanteia | n.fem | rhabdomancy | W7 | 
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective | 
| adv | = | adverb(ial) | 
| fem | = | feminine (gender) | 
| masc | = | masculine (gender) | 
| n | = | noun | 
| pfx | = | prefix | 
| sfx | = | suffix | 
| 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) | 
| CID | = | Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1958) | 
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin | 
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |