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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: lou-, louu- 'to lave, wash'

Semantic Field: to Wash

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	lafian	vb.wk	to lave	W7/ASD
	leag	n	lye	W7
	leaðor	n	lather	W7
Middle English:	ablucioun/ablution	n	ablution	AHD/W7
	deluge	n	deluge	W7
	lather	n	lather	W7
	launder	n	launder	W7
	lavas	n	abundance	W7
	lavatorie	n	lavatory	W7
	laven	vb	to lave	W7
	lye	n	lye	W7
English:	ablution	n	washing oneself as religious rite	AHD/W7
	alluvion	n	wash/flow of water against shore	AHD/W7
	colluvium	n	rock detritus/soil accumulated at foot of slope	AHD/W7
	deluge	n	overflowing of land by water	AHD/W7
	dilute	vb.trans	to make thinner/more liquid by mixing	AHD/W7
	eluant/eluent	n	solvent used in elution (chemistry)	AHD
	elute	vb.trans	to extract	AHD/W7
	eluvium	n	rock debris produced by weathering/disintegration	AHD/W7
	lather	n	foam/froth formed by soap/detergent agitated in water	AHD/W7
	latrine	n	receptacle (e.g. pit in earth) used for toilet	AHD/W7
	launder	n	(mining) trough conveying tailings via water	AHD/W7
	launder	vb	to wash (clothes) in water	AHD/W7
	laundress	n	woman who washes clothes	LRC
	lavabo	n	Mass ceremony in which celebrant washes hands reciting Psalm 25:6-12	AHD/W7
	lavage	n	washing	AHD/W7
	lavatory	n	basin/vessel for washing	AHD/W7
	lave	vb	to bathe, wash	AHD/W7
	lavish	adj	prodigal, expending/bestowing profusely	AHD/W7
	loment	n	dry one-celled indehiscent fruit	AHD/W7
	lotion	n	ablution, act of washing	AHD/W7
	lut(e)fisk	n	traditional Scandinavian fish gelatin	AHD/W2I
	lye	n	strong alkaline liquor leached from wood ashes	AHD/W7
	pyrolusite	n	manganese dioxide mineral	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	labon/laben/labian	vb	to lave	W7/ASD
	louga	n	lye	W7
German:	laben	vb	to lave	ASD
	Pyrolusit	n	pyrolusite	W7
N-Germanic
Icelandic:	lauðr	n.neut	lather; sea froth/foam	ASD
Norwegian:	lutfisk	n	lutfisk, lit. lye-fish	W2I
Swedish:	lutfisk	n	lutfisk, lit. lye-fish	W2I
Italic
Latin:	abluo, abluere, ablui, ablutus	vb	to wash away	W7
	ablutio, ablutionis	n.fem	ablution, washing oneself	W7
	alluo, alluere	vb	to wash against	W7
	alluvio, alluvionis	n.fem	alluvion, washing away	W7
	colluo, colluere	vb	to wash	W7
	colluvies	n.fem	medley, a flowing together	W7
	diluo, diluere, dilui, dilutus	vb	to dilute, wash away	W7
	diluvium	n.neut	deluge, flood	W7
	eluo, eluere, elui, elutus	vb	to wash out	W7
	latrina	n.fem	cabinet, latrine	W7
	lavandus	vb.ger	washing	W7
	lavatrina	n.fem	cabinet, latrine	W7
	lavo, lavare/lavere, lavi, lotum/lavatus	vb	to wash	W7
	lomentum	n.neut	face cream, means of cleansing	W7
	lotio, lotionis	n.fem	liquid to wash oneself with	W7
	luo, luere	vb	to release, atone for	W7
	perluo, perluere, perlui, perlutum	vb	to wash, bathe	LRC
Medieval Latin:	colluvium	n.neut	scourings	W7
	lavandarius	n.masc	clothes to be washed	W7
	lavatorium	n.neut	lavatory	W7
New Latin:	colluvium	n.neut	rock detritus at foot of slope	W7
	eluvium	n.neut	rock debris	W7
Middle French:	ablution	n.fem	act of washing oneself	W7
	deluge	n.masc	deluge	W7
	lavage	n.masc	act of washing	W7
	lavandière	n.fem	laundress	W7
	lavasse	n.fem	downpour of rain	W7
	laver	vb	to wash	W7
French:	latrine	n.fem	primitive cabinet, latrine	W7
	lavage	n.masc	laundry, action of washing	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	loúomai	vb	to wash oneself	LRC
	lousis	n.fem	washing	W7
	loutrón	n.neut	bathing	LRC
	louw	vb	to wash (transitive)	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
ger	=	gerund(ive)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
trans	=	transitive
vb	=	verb
wk	=	weak (inflection)

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)
ASD	=	Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W2I	=	Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed. (1959)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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