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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: 2. ei-s-, ei-n- 'ice, frost'

Semantic Field: Ice, Frost

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	īs	n.str.neut	ice; (name for) I-rune	GED
	īs-ceald	adj	ice-cold	LRC
	īsig	adj	icy	GED
Middle English:	is	n	ice	W7
English:	ice	n	frozen water	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old Frisian:	īs	n.neut	ice	ASD
Dutch:	ijs	n	ice	TLL
Middle Low German:	īs	n.str.neut	ice	GED
Old High German:	īs	n.str.neut	ice	GED
German:	Eis	n.neut	ice	ASD
	eisig	adj	icy	LRC
	eiskalt	adj	ice-cold	LRC
N-Germanic
Runic:	*isa	n	ice; (name for) I-rune	LRC
Old Norse:	íss	n.str.masc	ice, icicle	LRC
Icelandic:	īss	n.masc	ice	ASD
Danish:	is	n	ice	TLL
Swedish:	is	n	ice	TLL
E-Germanic
Gothic:	iiz	n	ice; (name for) I-rune	GED
Baltic
Lithuanian:	ýnis	n	ice, frost	GED
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	inej	n	snow flurry	GED
Russian:	inej-	n	ice, frost	GED
Iranian
Avestan:	aēxa	n	ice, frost	GED
	isu-	adj	icy, cold	GED
Ossetic:	ix/yex	n	ice	GED
Pamir:	īš	adj	icy, cold	GED

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
str	=	strong (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
TLL	=	Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language (1944)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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