Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European etymon from Pokorny, with an English gloss;
our Semantic Field
Reflexes are annotated with: Part-of-Speech and/or other Grammatical
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Pokorny Etymon: albho- 'white'
Semantic Field: White
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||||||
| Old English: | ælf | n | elf | W7 | ||||
| albe | n | alb, white garment | W7/ASD | |||||
| Middle English: | albe | n | alb | W7 | ||||
| auborne | adj | blond | W7 | |||||
| dauben | vb | to daub | W7 | |||||
| elf | n | elf | W7 | |||||
| English: | abele | n | white poplar | AHD/W7 | ||||
| alb | n | white garment worn at Eucharist | AHD/W7 | |||||
| albedo | n | reflected lustre | AHD/W7 | |||||
| albino | n | lacking genetic pigment | AHD/W7 | |||||
| albite | n | a kind of feldspar | AHD/W7 | |||||
| album | n | blank notebook; musical record | AHD/W7 | |||||
| albumen | n | egg white | AHD/W7 | |||||
| aubade | n | dawn song, morning song | AHD/W7 | |||||
| auburn | adj | reddish-brown | AHD/W7 | |||||
| daub | vb | to plaster, crudely spread | AHD/W7 | |||||
| elf | n | elf (a supernatural being) | AHD/W7 | |||||
| oaf | n | dullard, fool | AHD/W7 | |||||
| Oberon | prop.n | medieval "king of the fairies" | LRC | |||||
| Oliver | prop.n | paladin of Charlemagne and comrade of Roland | LRC | |||||
| W-Germanic | ||||||||
| Dutch: | abeel | n | white poplar | W7 | ||||
| N-Germanic | ||||||||
| Old Norse: | alfr | n | elf | W7 | ||||
| Álfr | prop.n.masc | Alf, Elf | LRC | |||||
| Swedish: | albit | n | a feldspar | W7 | ||||
| Italic | ||||||||
| Latin: | albus, alba, album | adj | white | LRC | ||||
| Vulgar Latin: | alba | n.fem | dawn | W7 | ||||
| Late Latin: | albedo | n.fem | whiteness | W7 | ||||
| Medieval Latin: | alba | n.fem | white garment worn at the Eucharist | W7 | ||||
| alburnus | adj | whitish | W7 | |||||
| Old French: | Auberon | n.masc | Oberon, king of the fairies in Medieval folklore | W7 | ||||
| dauber | vb | to coat, plaster | W7 | |||||
| Old North French: | abiel | adj | white | W7 | ||||
| Middle French: | auborne | adj | blond | W7 | ||||
| French: | aubade | n.fem | aubade | W7 | ||||
| Oliver | n.masc | a man's name | W7 | |||||
| Old Provencal: | alba, auba | n.fem | dawn | W7 | ||||
| aubada | n.fem | aubade, a morning song | W7 | |||||
| Spanish: | albo | adj | white | W7 | ||||
| Portuguese: | albino | adj | albino | W7 | ||||
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| prop | = | proper |
| 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) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |