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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: sleub(h)- 'to slide, slip'

Semantic Field: to Slip, Slide

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	cuslyppe/cusloppe	n.fem	cowslip, lit. cow-dung	W7/ASD
	oferslop	n.neut	slop, surplice	W7/ASD
	oxanslyppe	n.fem	oxlip, lit. ox-dung	W7/ASD
	slefan	vb	to slip (clothes) on	W7
	sliepan	vb	to cause to slip in, make to enter	GED
	slif/sli(e)fe/slef/slyf	n.fem	sleeve	W7/ASD
	slopian	vb	to cause to slip in, make to enter	GED
	slupan	vb.str	to slip (in)	GED/ASD
	slypa/slyppe	n.fem	slime, paste	W7
	slype	n	slip, garment	W7
Middle English:	cowslyppe	n	cowslip	W7
	oxeslippe	n	oxlip	W7
	sleve	n	sleeve	W7
	sloppe	n	slop	W7
	sloveyn	n	sloven, rascal	W7
	slyp	n	slime, slip	W7
English:	cowslip	n	common British primrose	AHD/W7
	lubricate	vb	to make smooth/slippery	AHD/W7
	lubric(i)ous	adj	smooth, slippery; tricky, elusive	W2I
	lubricity	n	having lubricious quality	AHD
	oxlip	n	hybrid primrose	AHD/W7
	sleeve	n	garment part covering arm	AHD/W7
	slip	n	slurry: mixture of water/fine clay	AHD/W7
	sloop	n	boat rigged fore-and-aft with single mast/headsail jib	AHD/W7
	slop	n	slush, soft mud	AHD/W7
	slop	n	loose smock/overall	AHD/W7
	sloven	n	one habitually negligent re: neatness/cleanliness	AHD/W7
	slovenly	adj	untidy, lazily slipshod, re: sloven	W7
W-Germanic
Old Frisian:	slepa	vb	to cause to slip in, make to enter	GED
Middle Dutch:	slop	n	slop (smock)	W7
Dutch:	sloep	n	sloop	W7
Flemish:	sloovin	n	sloven, woman of low character	W7
Middle Low German:	slupen	vb	to slip in	GED
Old High German:	sliofan/sliufan	vb.str	to slip in	GED
	sloufen	vb.wk	to cause to slip in, make to enter	GED
	slupfen	vb.wk	to slip in	GED
German:	schlüpfen	vb	to slip into	LRC
N-Germanic
Icelandic:	yfir-sloppr	n	surplice, over-garment	ASD
E-Germanic
Gothic:	*sliupan	vb.str.II	to slip into	GED
Italic
Latin:	lubricatus	vb.ptc	made slippery	W7
	lubrico, lubricare	vb	to make slippery	W7
	lubricus	adj	slippery	GED
Medieval Latin:	lubricus	adj	lubricious	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
II	=	class 2
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
ptc	=	participle
str	=	strong (inflection)
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)
GED	=	Winfred P. Lehmann: A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986)
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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