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The dictionary definition of Category:Proto-Indo-European roots at Wiktionary; Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch by Julius Pokorny (English translation) ...
The IEED project was supervised by Alexander Lubotsky. [2] It aimed to accomplish the following goals: to compile etymological databases for the individual branches of Indo-European, containing all the words that can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, and print them in Brill's Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series,
A second edition followed in 2001. The book may be seen as an update to the verb entries of the Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (IEW) by Julius Pokorny. It was the first dictionary fully utilizing the modern three-laryngeal theory with reconstructions of Indo-European verbal roots.
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Untranslated reflexes have the same meaning as the PIE word. In the following languages, two reflexes separated by a slash mean: English: Old English / Modern English ...
Proto-Indo-European pronouns have been reconstructed by modern linguists, based on similarities found across all Indo-European languages.This article lists and discusses the hypothesised forms.
Osthoff's law is an Indo-European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by a resonant (Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) *m, *n, *l, *r, *y, *w), followed in turn by another consonant (i.e. in a closed syllable environment).
The law governs the word-final sequences of a vowel, followed by a semivowel (*y or *w) or a laryngeal (*h₁, *h₂ or *h₃), followed by a nasal.According to the law these sequences are simplified such that laryngeals and semivowels are dropped, with compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel.