Proto-Indo-European Roots

Proto-Indo-European Roots

*Root/Stem:*	*k'r.d-

*Meanings:*	heart

*Cognates ():*
Hellenic	Greek *kradié, kradia* 'heart'
Italic	Latin *cor,* gen. *cordis* 'heart'
Celtic	Common Celtic krdjo-n > Old Irish cride* 'heart', Welsh *craidd, Breton kreiz* 'middle', Irish *croithe, Scottish crithe*
Indic	Sanskrit *hr.d-* 'heart'
Iranian	Avestan *z@r@d* 'heard'
Anatolian	Hittite *kir, kardi-* 'heart', Palaic *kart-, Lycian kride-*
Armenian	Armenian *sirt* 'heart'
Germanic	Common Germanic xirtan > Gothic hairto, Old English heorte, Old Frisian herte, Old Saxon herta, Old High German herza, Old Norse hjarta; Dutch hart, German Herz*
Baltic	Lithuanian *širdis, dial. šerdis* 'heart', Latvian *sirds, Old Prussian seyr* 'heart', Sudovian *sêras*
Slavic	Common Slavic sïrdïce 'heart' > Russian serdtse, Ukrainian & Polish serce, Bulgarian s@rce, Macedonian & Serbo-Croatian & Slovene srce, Czech & Slovak srdce*

Notes:	A perfect Indo-European root which was preserved fairly well in the majority of dialects. In fact the original root used to be ker-, and kr.d- it one of its derivatives shaped by the element *-d-.