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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.

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Pokorny Etymon: tolk^u̯- 'to speak'

Semantic Field: to Speak, Talk

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
Middle English:	elocucioun	n	elocution	W7
	locucioun	n	locution	W7
English:	allocution	n	address	AHD/W7
	circumlocution	n	unnecessarily many words	AHD/W7
	colloquium	n	conference	AHD/W7
	colloquy	n	conversation	AHD/W7
	elocution	n	effective public speaking	AHD/W7
	grandiloquence	n	bombast, lofty/pompous eloquence	AHD/W7
	interlocution	n	conversation, interchange of speech	AHD/W7
	locution	n	peculiar/particular form of phrasing/expression	AHD/W7
	loquacious	adj	garrulous, given to excessive talking	AHD/W7
	obloquy	n	strongly condemnatory language/utterance	AHD/W7
	prolocutor	n	spokesman, one speaking for another	AHD/W7
	soliloquy	n	act of talking to self	AHD/W7
	ventriloquism	n	vocalism appearing to come from source other than speaker	AHD/W7
Italic
Latin:	allocutio, allocutionis	n.fem	speech	W7
	allocutus	vb.ptc	spoken	W7
	alloquor, alloquī	vb.dep	to address, speak to	W7
	circumlocutio	n.fem	corollary to speech, avoidance of main subject	W7
	colloquium	n.neut	conversation	W7
	colloquor, colloquī	vb.dep	to converse	W7
	elocutio, elocutionis	n.fem	elocution	W7
	elocutus	vb.ptc	having spoken	W7
	eloquentia, eloquentiae	n.fem	eloquence	LRC
	eloquor, eloquī	vb.dep	to speak out	W7
	grandiloquus	adj	using lofty language	W7
	interlocutio, interlocutionis	n.fem	interruption of person speaking	W7
	interlocutus	vb.ptc	interrupted when speaking	W7
	interloquor, interloquī	vb.dep	to interrupt, speak between	W7
	locutio, locutionis	n.fem	speech	W7
	locutor	n.masc	speaker	W7
	locutus	vb.ptc	spoken	W7
	loquax, loquacis	adj	talkative	W7
	loquor, loquī, locutus	vb.dep	to speak	LRC
	prolocutor	n.masc	orator	W7
Late Latin:	obloquium	n.neut	speech against (someone/something)	W7
	obloquor, obloquī	vb.dep	to speak against	W7
	soliloquium	n.neut	soliloquy	W7
	ventriloquus	n.masc	ventriloquist	W7
Middle French:	grandiloquence	n.fem	grandiloquence	W7

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

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