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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: reu-smen- 'to chew, ruminate; throat, rumen'

Semantic Fields: to Bite; Throat

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
Celtic
Welsh:	rhumen	n	rumen, belly	IEW
English
English:	rumen	n	1st stomach chamber in ruminant	W7
	ruminant	n	cud-chewing mammal with multi-chambered stomach	W7
	ruminate	vb	to contemplate, muse upon	W7
Italic
Latin:	rūmen, rūminis	n	maw, throat, gullet, rumen	IEW
	rūminō, rūmināre	vb	to ruminate, chew again	IEW/ELD
Portuguese:	ruminar	vb	to ruminate	CDC
Spanish:	rumiar	vb	to ruminate	CDC
Old French:	ruminer	vb	to ruminate	CDC
French:	ruminer	vb	to ruminate	CDC
Provençal:	romi(n)ar	vb	to ruminate	CDC
Italian:	ruminare	vb	to ruminate	CDC
Indic
Sanskrit:	rōmantha-	n.masc	ruminant	W7/IEW

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
vb	=	verb

Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):

Code		Citation
CDC	=	W.D. Whitney and B.E. Smith: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1889-1911)
ELD	=	Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary (1999)
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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