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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: pek^u̯- 'to cook'

Semantic Field: to Cook

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Old English:	āfigen	adj	fried	W7
	cōc	n	cook	W7
	cycene	n	kitchen	W7
	cyln	n	kiln	W7
Middle English:	bisquite	n	biscuit	W7
	cook	n	cook	W7
	kichene	n	kitchen	W7
	kilne	n	kiln	W7
	quiture	n	quittor	W7
English:	biscuit	n	hard/crisp dry baked product	AHD/W7
	concoct	vb.trans	to prepare (a meal) by combining crude materials	AHD/W7
	cook	n	one who prepares food/meals	AHD/W7
	cuisine	n	manner of preparing food	AHD/W7
	culinary	adj	re: kitchen/cookery	AHD/W7
	decoct	vb.trans	to extract flavor by boiling	AHD/W7
	drupe	n	one-seeded indehiscent fruit	AHD/W7
	dyspepsia	n	indigestion	AHD/W7
	kiln	n	oven/furnace for processing substance by firing/drying	AHD/W7
	kitchen	n	room/place with cooking facilities	AHD/W7
	pepo	n	many-seeded fruit of gourd family	AHD/W7
	pepsin	n	proteinase in stomach that digests proteins	AHD/W7
	peptic	adj	digestive, re: digestion	AHD/W7
	peptize	vb.trans	to create colloidal solution	AHD/W7
	peptone	n	water-soluble result of partial protein hydrolysis	AHD/W7
	precocious	adj	very early in development/occurrence	AHD/W7
	pukka	adj	authentic, genuine	AHD/W7
	pumpion	n	pumpkin	AHD/W7
	pumpkin	n	round yellow/orange gourd	AHD/W7
	quittor	n	purulent inflammation of feet (esp. in horses/asses)	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Old High German:	chuhhina	n	kitchen	W7
	koch	n	cook	W7
German:	Pepsin	n.neut	pepsin	W7
	Pepton	n	peptone	W7
Italic
Latin:	coctura	n.fem	act of cooking	W7
	coctus	vb.ptc	cooked	W7
	concoctus	vb.ptc	cooked together	W7
	concoquō, concoquere	vb	to cook together	W7
	coquō, coquere	vb	to cook	W7
	coquus	n.masc	cook, chef	W7
	culina	n.fem	kitchen	W7
	culinarius	adj	re: kitchen/cooking	W7
	decoctus	vb.ptc	cooked	W7
	decoquo, decoquere	vb	to cook, boil, melt	W7
	drupa	n.fem	overripe olive	W7
	dyspepsia	n.fem	indigestion	W7
	pepo	n.masc	melon	W7
	pepon-	stem	melon	W7
	pepticus	adj	of digestion	W7
	praecox, praecocis	adj	precocious, early ripening	W7
Late Latin:	coquina	n.fem	kitchen	W7
New Latin:	drupa	n.fem	one-seeded indehiscent fruit	W7
Old French:	quiture	n.fem	act of boiling	W7
Middle French:	bescuit	n.masc	twice-cooked bread	W7
	pain	n.masc	bread	W7
French:	cuisine	n.fem	kitchen	W7
	pompon	n.masc	pumpion	W7
Baltic
Lithuanian:	kepù	vb	to grind	LRC
Slavic
Old Church Slavonic:	peko	vb	to grind	LRC
Hellenic
Greek:	dryppa	n.fem	olive	W7
	dyspepsia	n.fem	indigestion	W7
	peptein	vb	to cook, digest	W7
	peptikos	adj	of digestion	W7
	peptos	adj	cooked, digested	W7
	pepōn	adj	ripened	W7
	πέσσω	vb	to cook, bake; ripen; digest	LRC
	pepsis	n.fem	digestion	W7
Armenian
Armenian:	hac'	n	bread	LRC
Indic
Sanskrit:	pakva	adj	cooked; ripe, solid	W7
	pácanti	vb	to cook, fry	LRC
Hindi:	pakkā	adj	cooked, ripe, solid	W7
Tocharian
Tocharian A:	päk-	vb	to cook, be cooked	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
neut	=	neuter (gender)
ptc	=	participle
stem	=	stem
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
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)