[English Etymology] Directory 英語詞源：目錄

This is my compilation of etymology of modern English words based on sources from Online Etymology Dictionary. Please note that etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. I do not bear any responsibilities for any consequences that arise from using information on this blog.


Asterisk (*) denotes reconstructed Proto Indo-European (PIE) words unless otherwise stated.


Directory 目錄

Prefixes 前綴

• *ant- (front, forehead) 
• *apo- (off, away)
• *ud- (out, up, up away)

Numerals 數詞

• *oi-no- (one)
• *tri- (three)

PIE Roots 原始印歐語詞根

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B



D

• *dō- "to give" ✋📦

G

• *ghre- "to grow, become green" 🌿
• *ghrebh- "to seize, reach" ✊
• *gno- "to know" 😮💡
• *gwei- "to live" 🕺 🐎 🐂 🐑 .

K

•  *kadh- "cover, protect"
• *kan- "to sing" 😮♫
• *ked- "to go, yield" 🚶 
• *kel-  "to be prominent; hill."⛰
• *kerd- “heart” ♥
• *kers- "to run" 🏃
• *klau- "hook, peg, nail, pin" 📌🔩🔒
• *klei- "to lean" 🛌
• *kwel- "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell" 🐎🚃 ☸

L

• *leg-  "to collect, to gather → to gather words → to speak"   😮

M


N

• *nek- (death) ☠
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O

• *okw- "to see" 👀

P

• *peku- "cattle" 🐂$💵

S

• *segh- "to hold" 👊
•  *sem- "as one, together with" 👥
• *sker- (to bend)

T

• *tag- "to touch, handle"
• *ter- "peg, post, boundary, marker, goal" 🚏⛩ ️

W

• *wadh- (1) "to pledge" 😮✋ (2) "to go" 🚶  
• *wed- (water)💦

Non-PIE Proto-Germanic Animal Roots 非印歐語原始日耳曼語動物詞根





Non-PIE Proto-Germanic Plant Roots 非印歐語原始日耳曼語植物詞根




Miscellaneous Non-PIE Proto-Germanic Roots 襍類非印歐語日耳曼語詞根 




Non-PIE Animal Roots 非印歐語動物詞根

Non-PIE Plant Roots 非印歐語植物詞根









Miscellaneous Non-PIE Roots 襍類非印歐語詞根

Latin *bacca "water vessel"
Proto-Italic *kampo- "camp, field"
Latin gross
Old Persian jarrah "jar"
Latin ponere "put, place"
Greek topos "place, region, space; subject of a speech"

Old French veloper "wrap up,"