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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: pent- 'to go, walk, pad, tread; way, path'

Semantic Fields: to Go; to Walk; Path

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	findan, fond, fundon, funden	vb.str.III	to find	LRC
	onfindan, onfond, onfundon, onfunden	vb.str.III	to find out, realize	LRC
	pæþ/paþ	n.masc	path, track	ASD
	punt	n	punt	W7
Middle English:	finden	vb	to find	W7
	path	n	path	W7
	punt	n	punt	W7
English:	find, found	vb.str	to discover, encounter, come upon	AHD/W7
	footpad	n	one who robs pedestrians	AHD/W7
	Fundin	prop.n	Balin's father in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings	LRC
	pad	n	highwayman	W7
	pad	vb	to traverse on foot	AHD/W7
	path	n	trodden way	AHD/W7
	peripatetic	adj	Aristotelian	AHD/W7
	pons	n	tissue connecting body organ parts	AHD
	pontifex	n	member of Roman Catholic priest council	W7
	pontiff	n	pontifex	AHD/W7
	pontine	adj	re: pons/bridges	AHD
	pontoon	n	flat-bottomed boat	AHD/W7
	punt	n	pontoon with square ends	AHD/W7
	sputnik	n	satellite	AHD/W7
	transpontine	adj	situated on other side of bridge	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old Frisian:	finna	vb	to find	ASD
	path/paed	n	path	ASD
Frisian:	fynnen	vb	to find	ASD
Middle Dutch:	pad	n	path	W7
	paden	vb	to pad, follow a path	W7
Dutch:	pad	n	path	TLL
	vinden	vb	to find	ASD
Old Saxon:	findan	vb	to find	ASD
Low German:	finnen	vb	to find	ASD
Old High German:	findan	vb	to find	ASD
	pfad	n	path	W7
Middle High German:	vinden	vb	to find	ASD
German:	finden	vb	to find	ASD
	Pfad	n.masc	path	LRC
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	finna	vb	to find, meet; invent; notice, perceive	ICE
	Fundinn	prop.n	Voluspa dwarf	TPE
	fundinn	vb.past.ptc	found	ICE
Icelandic:	finna	vb	to find	ASD
Danish:	finde	vb	to find	ASD
Swedish:	finna	vb	to find	ASD
E-Germanic
Gothic:	finþan	vb	to find	ASD
Italic
Latin:	peripateticus	adj	of the peripatetic school	W7
	pons, pontis	n.masc	bridge	LRC
	pontifex, pontificis	n.masc	pontiff, high priest	W7
	ponto, pontonis	n.masc	pontoon	W7
Middle French:	peripatétique	adj	of the peripatetic school	W7
French:	pontife	n.masc	pontiff	W7
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	poti'	n.masc	road, way, journey	LRC
Hellenic
Homeric Greek:	póntos	n.masc	deep sea	LRC
Greek:	patein	vb	to tread	W7
	peripatein	vb	to discourse while pacing (like Aristotle)	W7
	peripatetikos	adj	of the peripatetic school	W7
	Póntos	prop.n.masc	Pontos	LRC
Indic
Sanskrit:	patha	n	path, way	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
III	=	class 3
adj	=	adjective
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
past	=	past (tense)
prop	=	proper
ptc	=	participle
str	=	strong (inflection)
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)
ASD	=	Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)
ICE	=	Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
TLL	=	Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944)
TPE	=	Lee M. Hollander: The Poetic Edda (1962)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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