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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: udero-, u̯ēdero- 'belly, uterus'

Semantic Fields: Belly, Stomach; Womb

Indo-European Reflexes:

Family/Language	Reflex(es)	PoS/Gram.	Gloss	Source(s)
English
English:	hysteria	n	neurosis: physical ailment without organic cause	AHD
	hysteric	n	one suffering from hysteria	AHD
	hyster(o)-	pfx	uterus	AHD
	uterus	n	womb	LRC
	venter	n	wife/mother who is source of offspring	AHD/W7
	vesica	n	sac, cyst, bladder	AHD/CDC
W-Germanic
Old High German:	wanast	n	paunch, belly	W7
German:	Wanst	n.masc	paunch, belly	LRC
Italic
Latin:	uterus, uterī	n.masc	uterus	IEW/ELD
	venter	n.masc	womb, belly	W7
	vesica	n.fem	vesica; blister	W7
Anglo-French:	venter	n.masc	womb, belly, venter	W7
Hellenic
Greek:	ὑστέρα	n.fem	uterus	AHD/LS

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

Abbrev.		Meaning
fem	=	feminine (gender)
masc	=	masculine (gender)
n	=	noun
pfx	=	prefix

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)
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
LS	=	Liddell and Scott: Greek-English Lexicon, 7th-9th ed's (1882-1940), rev.
W7	=	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)

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