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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: 1. mezg- 'to dive, plunge, immerse'

Semantic Fields: to Jump, Leap; to Sink

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
English:	demersal	adj	sinking in water; dwelling at/near bottom	AHD/CDC
	emerge	vb.intrans	to rise (as if) from enveloping fluid	AHD/W7
	immerse	vb.trans	to plunge into fluid that covers/surrounds	AHD/W7
	merge	vb	to immerse, plunge/engulf in something	AHD/W7
	submerge	vb	to put under water	AHD/W7
Italic
Latin:	emergo, emergere	vb	to emerge, come out of water	W7
	immergo, immergere, immersi, immersus	vb	to immerse	W7
	mergo, mergere, mersi, mersus	vb	to dip, dive, plunge	W7
	submergo, submergere	vb	to submerge, immerse	W7
Indic
Sanskrit:	majjati	vb	to dive	W7

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
intrans	=	intransitive
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)
CDC	=	W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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