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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: pei-m(i)- 'swift, quick, rapid, nimble'

Semantic Field: Fast, Swift, Quick

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Old Irish:	eim	adj	swift, quick, rapid, nimble	IEW
English
English:	fumble	vb	to grope/search clumsily/awkwardly	IEW/W7
W-Germanic
Dutch:	fommelen	vb	to fumble	ODE
Middle Low German:	fimmelen/fimmeren	vb	to fumble	IEW
Low German:	fommelen/fummeln	vb	to fumble	ODE
German:	fummeln	vb	to fumble	LRC
N-Germanic
Old Icelandic:	fimr	adj	swift, quick, rapid, nimble	IEW
Norwegian:	fimra	vb	to fumble	IEW
Swedish:	fumla/famla	vb	to fumble	W7/IEW

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
vb	=	verb

Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):

Code		Citation
IEW	=	Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
ODE	=	C.T. Onions: The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1966)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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