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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: kens- 'to announce, proclaim, speak formally'

Semantic Field: to Speak, Talk

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
English:	Cassandra	prop.n	daughter of King Priam of Troy (Greek mythology)	LRC
	censor	n	early Roman magistrate: assessor, census taker, inspector of morals/conduct	AHD/W7
	census	n	early Roman population count/property evaluation	AHD/W7
	recension	n	critical revision of text	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
German:	zensieren	vb	to censor	LRC
	Zensor	n.masc	censor	LRC
Italic
Latin:	Cassandra	prop.n.fem	Cassandra	W7
	censeo, censere	vb	to assess, tax	W7
	censor	n.masc	censor	W7
	census	n.masc	census	W7
	recenseo, recensere	vb	to review	W7
	recensio, recensionis	n.fem	enumeration	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	Kassandra	prop.n.fem	Cassandra	W7
Indic
Sanskrit:	samsati	vb	to recite	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
prop	=	proper
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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