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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. k^u̯ei- 'to stow, gather, pile up'

Semantic Field: to Gather, Collect

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	poesie	n	poesy	W7
	poet	n	poet	W7
English:	mythopoeic	adj	re: making of myths	AHD
	onomatopoeia	n	naming by vocal imitation of associated sound	AHD/W7
	pharmacopoeia	n	book describing drugs/chemicals/medicinal preparations	AHD/W7
	poem	n	composition in verse	AHD/W7
	poesy	n	poem, body of poems	AHD/W7
	poet	n	one who writes poetry	AHD/W7
	poetic	adj	re: poetry	AHD
	poetry	n	poems, verse, metrical writing	W7
	-poiesis	n.sfx	production, formation	AHD/W7
	-poietic	adj	productive, formative	AHD/W7
	prosopopoeia	n	figure of speech with absent/imaginary person represented as acting/speaking	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
German:	Poesie	n.fem	poesy, poetry	LRC
	Poet	n.masc	poet	LRC
Italic
Latin:	poema	n.neut	poem	W7
	poesis	n.fem	poetry	W7
	poeta	n.masc	poet	W7
Late Latin:	onomatopoeia	n.fem	onomatopoeia	W7
New Latin:	pharmacopoeia	n.fem	stock/collection of standard drugs	W7
	-poiesis	sfx	action, creation	W7
Old French:	poete	n.masc	poet	W7
Middle French:	poeme	n.masc	poem	W7
	poésie	n.fem	poetry	W7
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	činiti	vb	to arrange	RPN
Hellenic
Greek:	εἰρηνοποιός	adj	peacemaker	LRC
	onomatopoiia	n.fem	creation of names	W7
	ποιέω	vb	to make, do	LRC
	poiēma	n.neut	poem, made-up thing	W7
	poiēsis	n.fem	creation	W7
	poiētēs	n.masc	maker, poet	W7
	poiētikos	adj	of creation	W7
Late Greek:	pharmakopoiia	n.fem	preparation of drugs	W7
Indic
Sanskrit:	kāya	n	body	W7
	cáyati	vb	to arrange, heap up, gather	RPN
	citrakāya	n	tiger	W7
	cinóti	vb	to arrange, heap up, gather	RPN
Gujarati:	caṇvũ	vb	to build, make, erect	RPN
	ciṇvũ, cuṇvũ	vb	to fold into long strips	RPN
Marathi:	ċuṇṇē	vb	to fold, pile up in orderly way	RPN
Panjabi:	ciṇṇā	vb	to arrange, pile up	RPN
	cuṇṇā	vb	to plait, build up in layers	RPN

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
sfx	=	suffix
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
RPN	=	Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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