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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: (s)lag^u- 'to grab, latch, seize'

Semantic Field: to Grasp, Seize, Take Hold of

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	læcc(e)an	vb	to latch	W7/ASD
Middle English:	astrolab(i)e/astrelabie/astrolabre	n	astrolabe	W7/CDC
	catalempsi	n	catalepsy	W7
	lachen	vb	to latch	W7
	syllable	n	syllable	W7
English:	analeptic	adj	restorative	AHD/W7
	astrolabe	n	navigational instrument	AHD/W7
	catalepsy	n	condition of suspended animation	AHD/W7
	epilepsy	n	disorder marked by convulsive attacks	AHD/W7
	latch	vb.intrans	to (catch/get) hold	AHD/W7
	lemma	n	proposition accepted as true	AHD/W7
	-lepsy	n.sfx	taking, seizure	AHD/W7
	nympholepsy	n	frenzy/ecstasy thought to be induced by nymphs	AHD
	nympholept	n	one in state of nympholepsy	AHD
	organoleptic	adj	affecting/employing organ of special sense	AHD/W7
	prolepsis	n	anticipation	AHD/W7
	syllable	n	unit of spoken language without stops	AHD/W7
	syllepsis	n	use of word to govern/modify 2+ other words only one of which agrees in gender/number/case	AHD/W7
Italic
Latin:	lemma	n.neut	assumption, thing taken	W7
	syllaba	n.fem	syllable	W7
	syllepsis	n.fem	syllepsis	W7
Late Latin:	catalepsis	n.fem	catalepsy	W7
	epilepsia	n.fem	epilepsy	W7
	-lepsia	sfx	slipping	W7
Middle Latin:	astrolabium	n	astroblabe	CDC
Medieval Latin:	astrolabium	n.neut	astrolabe	W7
	catalepsia	n.fem	catalepsy	W7
Old French:	astrelabe	n	astrolabe	CDC
Middle French:	astrolabe	n.masc	astrolabe	W7
	epilepsie	n.fem	epilepsy	W7
	-lepsie	sfx	-lepsy	W7
	sillabe	n.fem	syllable	W7
French:	astrolabe	n	astrolabe	CDC
	organoleptique	adj	organoleptic	W7
Hellenic
Homeric Greek:	lambánô	vb	to take, capture, receive	LRC
Greek:	ana-lambánô	vb	to restore, lit. take up/along	LRC
	ana-leptikos	adj	taken up	W7
	astro-labos	n.masc	astrolabe	W7
	epi-lambánô	vb	to seize	LRC
	epi-lepsia	n.fem	epilepsy, seizure	W7
	kata-lambánô	vb	to seize	LRC
	kata-lepsis	n.fem	act of seizing	W7
	lemma	n.neut	assumption, thing taken	W7
	leptikos	adj	disposed to take	W7
	-lepsia	afx	fallen, slid	W7
	lepsis	n.fem	abandonment	W7
	para-lambánô	vb	to take	LRC
	pro-lambánô	vb	to take beforehand	LRC
	pro-lepsis	n.fem	abandonment	W7
	syl-labe	n.fem	syllable	W7
	sul-lambánô	vb	to gather together	LRC
	syl-lepsis	n.fem	syllepsis	W7
Late Greek:	astro-labion	n.neut	astrolabe	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
afx	=	affix
fem	=	feminine (gender)
intrans	=	intransitive
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
sfx	=	suffix
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)
CDC	=	W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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