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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.

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Pokorny Etymon: 2. am-, me- 'to mow'

Semantic Field: to Mow, Reap

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Old Irish:	meithleorai	n	party of reapers	LRC
Irish:	meithle	n	reaping, reapers	CDC
English
Old English:	mawan	vb.str	to mow	CDC/ASD
	muga/muha/muwa	n.masc	mow	CDC/ASD
Middle English:	mowe	n	mow	CDC
	mowen/mawen	vb	to mow	CDC
English:	mow	n	heap/pile of hay; barn area storing same	CDC
	mow	vb	to reap, cut down (grasses)	W7
W-Germanic
Old Frisian:	mea	vb	to mow	CDC
Dutch:	maaijen	vb	to mow	CDC
Middle Low German:	meien/meigen/megen	vb	to mow	CDC
Low German:	maien/meien	vb	to mow	CDC
Old High German:	majan/ma(a)n	vb	to mow	CDC
	men	vb	to mow	LRC
Middle High German:	mæjen/mægen/mewen	vb	to mow	CDC
German:	mähen	vb	to mow	CDC
N-Germanic
Icelandic:	mugr, mugi	n	mow, swath	CDC
Norwegian:	mu(g)a/mue	n	mow	CDC
Danish:	meie	vb	to mow	CDC
Swedish:	meja	vb	to mow	CDC
	muga/muva	n	mow	CDC
Italic
Latin:	meto, metere	vb	to mow, harvest	LRC
Hellenic
Greek:	amân	vb	to mow	CDC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
str	=	strong (inflection)
vb	=	verb

Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):

Code		Citation
ASD	=	Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)
CDC	=	W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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