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Indo-European Lexicon

Pokorny Etymon and IE Reflexes

Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European etymon from Pokorny, with an 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 "principle 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 at the end. All reflex pages are currently under active construction; as time goes on corrections may be made and/or more reflexes may be added.

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Pokorny Etymon: ai-dh- 'to burn, shine'

Semantic Fields: to Burn, Scorch; to Shine, Glisten

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	ad	n	funeral pyre	W7
	ælan	vb	to burn, kindle	W7/ASD
	al	n	fire	W7
Middle English:	anelen	vb	to anneal	W7
	ether	n	ether	W7
English:	aedile	n	aedile (a certain Roman official)	AHD/W7
	anneal	vb.trans	to heat, temper, strengthen	AHD/W7
	estuary	n	inlet, arm of the sea	AHD/W7
	ether	n	upper air, heavens; ether (chemical)	AHD/W7
	Etna	prop.n	volcano in Sicily	AHD
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	eldr	n.masc	fire	LRC
Italic
Latin:	aedes	n.fem	house, building, temple	W7
	aedilis	n.masc	aedile	W7
	aestas	n.fem	heat, summer	W7
	aestuarium	n.neut	low ground covered by sea at high tide	W7
	aestus, aestus	n.masc	heat; swell, surge, tide	LRC
	aether	n.neut	air	W7
	Aetna	prop.n	Etna, lit. fiery one	AHD
Hellenic
Greek:	aithein	vb	to blaze, ignite	W7
	aither	n.neut	air	W7

Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
prop	=	proper
trans	=	transitive
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
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)