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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: bhlig- : *bhleig- 'to hit, strike, inflict'

Semantic Field: to Hit, Strike, Beat

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	afflight	adj	disturbed, frightened	AHD
	afflighten/afflicten	vb	to afflict	W7
	conflict	n	conflict	W7
English:	afflict	vb.trans	to humble, overthrow	AHD/W7
	conflict	n	disagreement	AHD/W7
	inflict	vb.trans	to give by striking	AHD/W7
	profligate	adj	given to dissipation/licentiousness	AHD/W7
Italic
Latin:	affligo, affligere, afflictus	vb	to cast down	W7
	conflictus, conflictus	n.masc	act of striking together	W7
	confligo, confligere, conflictus	vb	to strike together	W7
	fligo, fligere	vb	to strike	W7
	infligo, infligere, inflictus	vb	to knock	W7
	profligo, profligare, profligatus	vb	to strike down	W7
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	blizi'	prep	near (to)	LRC
Hellenic
Greek:	thlibein	vb	to squeeze	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
prep	=	preposition
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)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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