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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. teng- 'to dunk, soak, wet'

Semantic Field: Wet, Damp

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	steynen	vb	to stain	W7
	tainten/taynten	vb	to taint, color	W7
	tingen	vb	to tinge	W7
English:	dunk	vb	to dip into liquid	AHD/W7
	intinction	n	dipping bread in wine (in Communion)	AHD/W7
	stain	vb	to soil, discolor	AHD/W7
	taint	vb	to touch/affect slightly but badly	AHD/W7
	tinct	adj	tinted, tinged	AHD/W7
	tinge	vb.trans	to tint, color with weak shade/stain	AHD/W7
	tint	n	hue, slight/pale coloration	AHD/W7
W-Germanic
Pennsylvania German:	dunke	vb	to dunk	W7
Old High German:	dunkōn	vb	to dunk	W7
Middle High German:	dunken	vb	to dunk	W7
German:	dunken	vb	to dunk	LRC
N-Germanic
Old Norse:	steina	vb	to stain, paint	W7
Italic
Latin:	intinctus	vb.ptc	dipped in	W7
	intingo, intingere	vb	to dip in	W7
	tinctus	n.masc	act of dyeing	W7
	tinctus	vb.ptc	dyed	W7
	tingo, tingere	vb	to dip, moisten; tinge, dye	W7
Late Latin:	intinctio, intinctionis	n.fem	baptism	W7
Anglo-French:	teinter	vb	to color	W7
Middle French:	teindre	vb	to dye	W7
	teint	vb.ptc	colored	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	τέγγω	vb	to wet, moisten	LRC

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
adj	=	adjective
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
ptc	=	participle
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)

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