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: u̯ī̆ro-s 'man, warrior'
Semantic Field(s): Man, Soldier
Indo-European Reflexes:
Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
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English | ||||
Old English: | wer | n.masc | man | LRC |
wernægl | n.masc | warnel, lit. man-nail | OED | |
werwulf | n.masc | werewolf, lit. man-wolf | LRC | |
woruld, weor(o)ld | n.fem | world, age, human existence | W7 | |
Middle English: | decurioun | n | decurion | W7 |
virtu | n | virtue | W7 | |
werewolf | n | werewolf | W7 | |
world | n | world | W7 | |
English: | curia | n | subdivision of ancient Roman tribe | AHD/W7 |
decemvir | n | one of 10 magistrates (ancient Rome) | AHD/W7 | |
decurion | n | Roman cavalry officer commanding 10 men | AHD/W7 | |
duumvir | n | one of 2 magistrates (ancient Rome) | AHD/W7 | |
triumvir | n | one of 3 magistrates (ancient Rome) | AHD/W7 | |
virago | n | woman of great strength/stature/courage | AHD/W7 | |
virile | adj | having manly nature/properties/qualities | AHD/W7 | |
virtue | n | morality, conformity to standard of right | AHD/W7 | |
virtuosa | n | female virtuoso | AHD/W7 | |
virtuoso | n | savant, experimenter/investigator in arts/sciences | AHD/W7 | |
warnel | n | wart, hard skin tumor | OED | |
weltanschauung | n | philosophy of life | AHD | |
weltschmerz | n | sadness re: world's evils | AHD | |
werewolf | n | lycanthrope, lit. man-wolf | LRC | |
wergeld, weregild | n | recompense, rank-based price set on person's life | AHD/OED | |
world | n | earthly human existence | AHD/W7 | |
West Germanic | ||||
Old Frisian: | warld, wrald | n.fem | world | ASD |
wer | n.masc | man, male person | ASD | |
Dutch: | wereld | n | world | TLL |
Old Saxon: | wer | n.masc | man, male person | ASD |
werold | n.fem | world, men, lifetime | ASD | |
Old High German: | wer | n.masc | man, male person | ASD/W7 |
weralt | n.fem | world, earth; time, age | ASD/W7 | |
werwolf | n | werewolf | W7 | |
German: | Welt | n.fem | world | TLL |
Weltanschauung | n.fem | weltanschauung, lit. world-view | W7 | |
Weltschmerz | n.masc | weltschmerz, lit. world-pain | W7 | |
Werwolf | n.masc | werewolf | LRC | |
North Germanic | ||||
Icelandic: | verr | n.masc | man, male person | ASD |
Danish: | verden | n | world | TLL |
Swedish: | värld | n | world | TLL |
East Germanic | ||||
Gothic: | waír | n.str.masc | man, male person | LRC |
Italic | ||||
Latin: | curia | n.fem | assembly of Roman people | W7 |
decemvir | n.masc | one of college of ten | W7 | |
decuria | n.fem | group of ten | W7 | |
decurio, decurionis | n.masc | decurion | W7 | |
duumvir | n.masc | one of college of two | W7 | |
triumvir | n.masc | one of college of three | W7 | |
vir, viri | n.masc | man | LRC | |
virago, viraginis | n.fem | virago, amazon, heroine | W7 | |
virilis | adj | virile, re: man | W7 | |
virtus, virtutis | n.fem | virtue, manly qualities | W7 | |
vis, vis | n.fem | strength, power | LRC | |
Late Latin: | virtuosus | adj | virtuous | W7 |
Old French: | virtu | n.fem | virtue | W7 |
Middle French: | viril | adj | virile, manly | W7 |
Italian: | virtuoso | adj | good, honest, virtuous | W7 |
virtuoso | n.masc | skilled/virtuous man | W7 | |
Baltic | ||||
Lithuanian: | výras | n.masc | man, husband | LRC |
Indic | ||||
Sanskrit: | vīra | n | man | W7 |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
Abbrev. | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
adj | = | adjective |
fem | = | feminine (gender) |
masc | = | masculine (gender) |
n | = | noun |
str | = | strong (inflection) |
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 |
OED | = | James A.H. Murray et al: The Oxford English Dictionary (1933) |
TLL | = | Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944) |
W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |