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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: moro- 'murrey, mulberry, blackberry'

Semantic Field: Berry

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Welsh:	merwydden	n	mulberry	IEW
English
English:	morula	n	solid globular blastomere mass	AHD/W7
	mulberry	n	tree with edible purple berrylike fruit	AHD/W7
	murrey	adj/n	(re:) mulberry, dark red	AHD
	sycamore	n	buttonball/buttonwood: deciduous tree with bark that flakes in large patches	AHD
W-Germanic
Old High German:	mūrbere/mōrbere	n	mulberry	IEW
Middle High German:	mūlber	n	mulberry	IEW
Italic
Latin:	mōrum	n.neut	mulberry, blackberry	W7
Baltic
Lithuanian:	mõras	n	mulberry	IEW
Hellenic
Hesychius' Greek Lexicon:	μῶρον	n	mulberry, blackberry	IEW
Homeric Greek:	μορόεις	adj	dark-hued, mulberry-colored	LRC
Greek:	μόρον	n	mulberry, blackberry	IEW
Armenian
Armenian:	mor/mor(en)i	n	blackberry	IEW

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)

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)
IEW	=	Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959)
LRC	=	Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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