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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: de- : du-, and dei-, di- 'to tie, bind'

Semantic Field: to Bind

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	diademe	n	diadem	W7
English:	anadem	n	chaplet, garland	AHD/W7
	asyndeton	n	omission of coordinate conjunctions	AHD/W7
	desmid	n	colonial green alga(e)	AHD/W7
	diadem	n	crown	AHD/W7
	syndesmosis	n	articulation where contiguous bones are rough, bound via ligament	AHD/W7
	syndetic	adj	connective, connecting	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
German:	Diadem	n.neut	diadem	LRC
Italic
Latin:	anadema	n.neut	anadem, head fillet/ornament	AHD/CLD
	asyndeton	n	asyndeton	CDC
	diadema	n.neut	diadem, royal headband	W7/CLD
Late Latin:	asyndeton	adj.neut	asyndeton, unconnected	W7
New Latin:	syndesmosis	n.fem	articulation where contiguous bones are rough, bound via ligament	W7
Old French:	diadème	n.masc	diadem, headband	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	anadein	vb	to wreath	W7
	anadema	n.neut	wreath	W7
	asyndetos, asyndeth, asyndeton	adj	unconnected	W7
	dein	vb	to bind	W7
	desmos	n.masc	binding	W7
	diadein	vb	to bind around	W7
	diadema	n.neut	diadem, headband	W7
	syndein	vb	to bind together	W7
	syndesmos	n.masc	fastening, ligament	W7
	syndetikos	adj	binding	W7
	syndetos	adj	bound together	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
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)
CDC	=	W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
CLD	=	Cassell's Latin Dictionary (1959, rev. 1968)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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