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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: su̯em- 'to swim, move'

Semantic Fields: to Swim; to Move

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	sund	n.neut	sound, sea; swimming	LRC
	sundlīne	n.fem	sounding line	W7
	swimman, swamm, swummon, swummen	vb.str	to swim	W7/ASD
Middle English:	sound	n	sound	W7
	sounden	vb	to sound	W7
	swimmen	vb	to swim	W7
English:	radiosonde	n	instrument aloft gathering/transmitting meteorological data	AHD
	rocketsonde	n	meteorological instrument transported aloft by rocket	AHD
	sound	n	long broad inlet of sea/ocean	AHD/W7
	sound	vb	to fathom, measure depth of	AHD/W7
	swim, swam, swum	vb.str	to move oneself in water	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	swimman	vb	to swim	W7
German:	schwimmen	vb	to swim	LRC
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	sund	n	sound, strait; swimming	W7
Icelandic:	sund	n	sound; swimming	ASD
	svimma	vb	to swim	ASD
Danish:	sund	n	sound, strait	ASD
Swedish:	sund	n	sound, strait	ASD
Italic
Middle French:	sonder	vb	to sound, drag	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
str	=	strong (inflection)
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)

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