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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: médhu 'mead, honey'

Semantic Fields: Honey; Mead

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Welsh:	meddyglyn	n	drink of mead	W7/WE
Old Irish:	mid	n	mead	LRC
English
Old English:	medo/medu	n.masc	mead	W7
Middle English:	amatiste	n	amethyst	W7
	mede	n	mead	W7
English:	amethyst	n	crystallized quartz in clear blue/violet/purple color	AHD/W7
	mead	n	drink made from fermented honey	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	metu	n.masc	mead	W7
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	mjǫðr	n.masc	mead	LRC
Italic
Latin:	amethystus	n.fem	amethyst	W7
Old French:	amatiste	n.fem	amethyst	W7
Baltic
Lithuanian:	medùs	n	honey	LRC
Slavic
Russian:	med	n	honey	LRC
Hellenic
Homeric Greek:	μέθῠ	n.neut	mead, wine	LRC
Greek:	amethystos	n.fem	remedy for drunkenness	W7
	methyw	vb	to be drunk	W7
Anatolian
Luwian:	maddu-	n	mead	LRC
Iranian
Avestan:	madu-	n	mead, wine	LRC
Indic
Sanskrit:	mádhu	n	honey	LRC
Tocharian
Tocharian B:	mit	n	honey	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
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
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)
WE	=	H. Meurig Evans and W.O. Thomas: Welsh-English, English-Welsh Dictionary (1969)