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Indo-European Lexicon

PIE Etymon and IE Reflexes

Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) etymon from Pokorny, with an 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 "principle 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 at the end. All reflex pages are currently under active construction; as time goes on corrections may be made and/or more reflexes may be added.

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Pokorny Etymon: derk̑- 'to look'

Semantic Field: to Look

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Welsh:	drych	n	aspect	LRC
Old Irish:	derc	n	eye	LRC
English
Old English:	draca	n	dragon	W7
	torht	adj	clear, bright	W7
Middle English:	dragon	n	dragon	W7
	drake	n	drake	W7
	ranclen	vb	to fester	W7
English:	dragon	n	huge serpent	AHD/W7
	dragoon	n	member of European military unit: heavily armed mounted troops	AHD/W7
	drake	n	small artillery piece	AHD/W7
	rankle	vb	to cause anger/bitterness/deep irritation	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	zoraht	adj	clear, bright	LRC
E-Germanic
Gothic:	gatarhjan	vb.wk.I	to note, expose, make public	LRC
Italic
Latin:	draco, draconis	n.masc	snake, dragon	W7
	dracunculus	n.masc	small snake	W7
Old French:	dragon	n.masc	dragon, monster	W7
	draoncle	n.masc	furuncle, abcess	W7
	draoncler	vb	to ooze out pus	W7
	raoncle	n.masc	festering sore	W7
	raoncler	vb	to fester	W7
Middle French:	rancler	vb	to rankle	W7
French:	dragon	n.masc	dragon	W7
Albanian
Albanian:	dritë	n	light	LRC
Hellenic
Homeric Greek:	δέρκομαι	vb	to look (at), see	LRC
	δράκων	n.masc	snake, serpent	LRC
Iranian
Avestan:	daršti-	n	sight	LRC
Indic
Sanskrit:	darś-	vb	to see	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
I	=	class 1
adj	=	adjective
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
vb	=	verb
wk	=	weak (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)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)