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Indo-European Lexicon

Pokorny Etymon and IE Reflexes

Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European 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: k^u̯ē̆d- 'to bore, drill, prick, stab'

Semantic Field: to Bore

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	hwæss	adj	sharp, prickly	RPN
	hwæt	adj	quick, active, bold	RPN
	hwettan	vb	to whet; to incite	RPN
Middle English:	whetten	vb	to whet	W7
English:	triquetrous	adj	triangular, having three acute angles	AHD/W7
	whet	vb.trans	to sharpen by rubbing against something	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	(h)waz	adj	sharp, rough, severe	RPN
	wezzan, wezzen	vb	to sharpen, whet	RPN
Middle Dutch:	wetten	vb	to sharpen	RPN
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	hvass	adj	sharp, prickly	LRC
Old Icelandic:	hvetja	vb	to whet, sharpen	RPN
E-Germanic
Gothic:	ga-ƕatjan	vb	to sharpen; to incite, entice	RPN
Italic
Latin:	triquetrus	adj	triangular, three-cornered	RPN

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
trans	=	transitive
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)