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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: srebh-, srbh-, and serbh- 'to sip, slurp, swallow'

Semantic Field: to Drink

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	absorb	vb	to absorb, swallow up	AHD
English:	absorb	vb.trans	to assimilate, incorporate	AHD/W7
	absorption	n	absorbing, being absorbed	AHD
	adsorb	vb	to hold/take up via surface adhesion	AHD/W7
	resorb	vb	to swallow/suck in again	AHD/W7
	slurp	vb	to eat/drink noisily/with sucking sound	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Dutch:	slurpen	vb	to slurp	W7
Middle Low German:	slorpen	vb	to slurp	W7
German:	absorbieren	vb	to absorb	LRC
	schlürfen	vb	to slurp, sip, swig	LRC
Italic
Latin:	absorbeo, absorbere	vb	to swallow down	W7
	resorbeo, resorbere	vb	to swallow back	W7
	sorbeo, sorbere	vb	to absorb, suck up	W7
Middle French:	absorber	vb	to absorb	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	rophéô	vb	to suck up, gulp down	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
n	=	noun
trans	=	transitive
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)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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