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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: 4. mei- 'to tie, bind'

Semantic Field: to Bind

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	demyt	n	dimity	W7
	mitre	n	miter	W7
	samit	n	samite	W7
English:	dimity	n	sheer corded plain cotton fabric	AHD/W7
	mir	n	pre-revolutionary Russian village of peasant farmers	AHD
	miter	n	liturgical headdress of abbot/bishop	AHD/W7
	mitosis	n	replication of chromosomes (followed by cell division)	AHD/W7
	samite	n	rich medieval silk fabric with gold/silver interwoven	AHD/W7
Italic
Latin:	mitra	n.fem	miter: turban, headband	W7
Medieval Latin:	examitum	n.neut	samite	W7
	samitum	n.neut	samite	W7
New Latin:	mitosis	n.fem	cell division	W7
Middle French:	mitre	n.fem	miter, headband, headgear	W7
	samit	n.masc	samite, kind of thread	W7
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	miru	n	peace	AHD
Russian:	mir	n	mir, peace, commune	AHD
Hellenic
Greek:	hexamitos	adj	re: six threads	W7
	mitos	n.masc	warp thread	W7
Medieval Greek:	dimitos	adj	re: double thread	W7
Indic
Sanskrit:	mitra	n	friend	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)

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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