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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: 6. el-, elu- : la-, el-eu-(dh-) 'to go, move, drive'

Semantic Fields: to Go; to Move; to Drive

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Old Irish:	luid	vb.3.sg.pret	he went	W7
English
Middle English:	proselite	n	proselyte	W7
English:	elasmobranch	adj	fish with lamellate gills, incl. shark/ray/chimaera	AHD/W7
	elastic	adj	able to recover size/shape after deformation	AHD/W7
	elater	n	click beetle	AHD/W7
	elaterite	n	dark brown elastic resin	AHD/W7
	proselyte	n	neophyte, new convert	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
German:	Elaterit	n	elaterite	W7
Italic
Late Latin:	proselytus	n.masc	proselyte, alien resident	W7
New Latin:	elasticus	adj	ductile	W7
	elater	n.masc	click beetle	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	elasmos	n.masc	metal plate	W7
	elater	n.masc	driver	W7
	elaúnô	vb	to drive, set in motion	LRC
	elthein	vb	to go	W7
	-êlutos	sfx	(one who has) come	LRC
	prosêlutos	n.masc	convert	LRC
Late Greek:	elastos	adj	ductile, beaten	W7
Armenian
Classical Armenian:	elanem	vb	to come, go up	LRC
	elanim	vb	to become	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
3	=	3rd person
adj	=	adjective
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
pret	=	preterite (tense)
sfx	=	suffix
sg	=	singular (number)
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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