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*peyǵ-^[1]

inactive, reluctant

Only Italic descendants are known with certainty.

*piǵ-éh₁-(ye)- (stative)
- Proto-Italic: *pigēō
  - Latin: pigeō (“to be annoyed, to be reluctant, to irk”)
*piǵ-rós
- Proto-Italic: *pigros
  - Latin: piger (“slow, lazy, inactive”)
*pig-ús
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  - >? Lithuanian: pigùs (“cheap”)
*piǵ-wós
- Proto-Italic: *pigwos
  - Latin: piguus (“lazy”)
*poyǵ-no-
- Proto-Germanic: *faikną (see there for further descendants)

*peyḱ-

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “piger, -gra, -grum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 464-465