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) |
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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) |