Proto-Indo-European Roots

Proto-Indo-European Roots

*Root/Stem:*	pó- / pí-

*Meanings:*	to drink

*Cognates:*
Hellenic	Greek *pínó* 'I drink, Aeolian & Doric *pónó* 'I drink'; *potos* 'a drink'
Italic	Latin *pótáre* 'to drink hard', *potus* 'a drinker', Old Latin *pócolom* 'a glass'; Latin *bibere* 'to drink', *bibó* 'I drink' < pibó; > Sardinian biere, French boire, Occitan beure, Spanish beber, Catalan beurer, Italian bevere, Ladin baiver, Romanian a bea, Portuguese beber*
Celtic	Common Celtic ibó 'I drink' > Old Irish ibim* 'I drink', Middle Irish *ibh, Irish ibhim, Old Welsh iben* 'we drink', Welsh *yfed* 'to drink', Cornish *evaf, Breton eva*
Indic	Vedic *pipaté* 'he drinks', Sanskrit *páti* 'he drinks', *pítis* 'a drink' Marathi *pine* 'to drink', Gypsy *peav, Lahnda piwen, Nepali piunu, Gujarati piwu, Punjabi & Hindi pina*
Anatolian	Hittite *paš-* 'to swallow' < *pó-
Balkan	Thracian *pinon* 'a drink', Albanian pí 'drink!', aorist *piva* 'I drank'
Baltic	Lithuanian *puota* 'a drink', Old Prussian *poutwei, púton* 'to drink', *poieiti* 'drink!' (pl.)
Slavic	Common Slavic piti 'to drink', pijo. 'I drink', caus. pojiti 'to give to drink' > Bulgarian pija* 'I drink', Macedonian *pijam, Belorussian pic* 'to drink', Czech & Serbo-Croatian & Slovene *piti, Slovak & Russian pit', Polish & Upper Sorbian pic', Lower Sorbian pis'*

Notes:	The simplest lexicon of the ancient humanity consisted of names for relatives, animals, plants, sky objects, and verbs of the most common actions, like this one: 'to drink'. This is why it is rather stable in the Indo-European family, and its cognates can be found practically everywhere except Germanic and Iranian. The two variants of the root hardly used be different semantically.