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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.

All reflex pages are currently under active construction; as time goes on, corrections may be made and/or more etyma & reflexes may be added.

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Pokorny Etymon: bhrag-, better bhrə-g- 'to scent, smell'

Semantic Fields: to Smell (subj); to Smell (obj)

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	brache	n	brach	W2I
	fragrant	adj	fragrant	W7
English:	brach	n.arch	hound that hunts by scent	W2I
	flair	n	discriminating sense	AHD/W7
	fragrance	n	sweet odor	W7
	fragrant	adj	marked by smell	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	bracko/bracc(h)o	n	brach	W2I/AHD
Middle High German:	bræhen	vb	to smell	W7
Italic
Latin:	fragro, fragrare	vb	to be fragrant, perfumed	W7
Late Latin:	flagro, flagrāre	vb	to burn	W7
Old French:	brachet	n	brach	W2I
	flair	n.masc	odor, action of smelling	W7
	flairier	vb	to give off an odor	W7
French:	flair	n.masc	sense of smell (esp. for dogs)	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
arch	=	archaic
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
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
W2I	=	Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed. (1959)
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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