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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: 1. kenk- 'to bind, gird'

Semantic Field: to Bind

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	precinct	n	precinct	W7
	schingles	n	shingles	W7
	succinct	adj	succinct	W7
English:	cinch	n	strong girth for pack/saddle	AHD/W7
	cincture	n	act of encircling	AHD/W7
	cingulum	n	differentiated band/girdle (e.g. of color)	AHD/W7
	enceinte	n	fortification enclosing town/castle	AHD/W7
	precinct	n	district, territory with definite bounds/functions	AHD/W7
	shingles	n	herpes zoster	AHD/W7
	succinct	adj	girded	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Dutch:	ceintuur	n	belt	TLL
Italic
Latin:	cinctura	n.fem	girdle	W7
	cingo, cingere, cinxi, cinctus	vb	to gird	W7
	cingula	n.fem	girdle	W7
	cingulum	n.neut	girdle	W7
	incingo, incingere	vb	to surround	W7
	praecingo, praecingere, praecinxi, praecinctus	vb	to gird about	W7
	succingo, succingere, succinxi, succintus	vb	to gird from below, tuck up	W7
Medieval Latin:	cingulus	n.masc	girdle	W7
	praecinctum	n.neut	precinct	W7
Spanish:	cincah	n.fem	girdle	W7
Old French:	enceindre	vb	to surround	W7
	enceinte	n.fem	enclosing wall	W7
French:	enceinte	n.fem	enclosing wall	W7
Indic
Sanskrit:	kañci	n	girdle	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)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
TLL	=	Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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