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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: bhog- 'beck, flowing water'

Semantic Fields: to Flow; to Wash

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Middle Irish:	būal	n.fem	flowing water	W7
English
Old English:	bæc/bec(c)	n.masc	beck	W7/ASD
Middle English:	bek/becc	n	beck	W7/CDC
English:	beck	n	brook	AHD/W7
British English:	beck	n	brook, small rapid stream	ASD/CDC
W-Germanic
Old Dutch:	beke	n	beck	CDC
Dutch:	beek	n	beck	CDC
Old Saxon:	beki	n	beck	CDC
Low German:	beke/bäk	n	beck	CDC
Old High German:	bah	n.masc	beck	IEW
Middle High German:	bach	n	beck	CDC
German:	Bach	n.masc	beck	LRC
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	bekkr	n.masc	beck	W7
Icelandic:	bekkr	n	beck	CDC
Danish:	bæk	n	beck	CDC
Swedish:	bäck	n	beck	CDC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun

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)
IEW	=	Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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