How To Use Indo-european In A Sentence
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Consequently we have no written record of the common Indo-European language.
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Among objects which played the most important role in the Proto-Indo-European beliefs we should emphasize sacred animals. It is scientifically proved that animalism was one of the earliest stages of the religious development of mankind.
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And now I will confess some important technical issues concerning the aforementioned uvular proposal for Proto-Indo-European PIE.
Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE
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Austronesian languages, like other language families, are very different from Indo-European.
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Though it doesn’t look or sound related, the word vinegar comes from the same root as both acid and acetic: the Indo-European ak-, meaning “sharp.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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We should reject Julius Pokorny's Indo-European root *kaput which is poorly justified both phonetically and distributionally.
Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
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Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family.
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It has been said … that the name Jahveh is of Indo-European origin …
Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
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Modern English hangnail is said to derive from Old English agnail, not related to hanging or nails, but rather referring to a painful corn on the foot and derived from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘tight’ or ‘painful’.
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This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics.
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Theol., p. 38) that the Indo-Europeans furnished at least the idea contained in the name Jahveh, even if they did not originate the name itself, is without any value.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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In another branch of the Indo-European family, the same stem * kro - produced the Latin word crus, "dear.
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The Cossacks and the Pilgrims must have shared some obscure latitudinal gene, some common trait that goes all the way back to the Indo-Europeans.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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The empirical and historical evidence at hand - the linguistic, historical, political, social, cultural and anthropological evidence - attests to the ethnic identity of the citizenry of FYROM; that they are Serbo-Bulgar Slavs in origin, whose language belongs to the south Slavic language group of centum languages, belonging to the indo-European language group, and which is an amalgam of Serbo-Bulgarian, and which has no tie or historical relationship whatsoever to the Ancient north-western Greek dialect of Macedonian Inappropriate comment? nei hoa ma, ponk kai ley mou nai Makedonia yna zehi tse
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In Chinese many attributes order is different from the multitudinous Indo-European language the universal attribute order anangement.
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[Persian is an Indo-European language, Arabic a Hamito-Semitic language.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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The Slavonic languages, like Persian and the Indo-European languages of the Indian sub-continent, are in the satem group, so the Russian word for hundred begins with an sound, its first vowel has disappeared, the corresponds to the in the middle of the
Surprising etymology
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This root supposedly comes from Proto-Indo-European * pul - which otherwise has only an obscure Greek cognate transcribed as pylinx and meaning hair on the posterior, and an Old Indian root pula meaning when your hairs standing on end.
Ulster etymology
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It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word gan (garden) shares the same root as defend (ganan), whereas the Indo-European root of the word, gher, means to grasp or enclose (see Blomley, 'The Borrowed View: Privacy, Property, and the Entanglements of Property', Law and Social Inquiry, 30 2005, 623).
Walled Gardens
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Credit is believed to be an exceptional example of this phenomenon, a rare instance of an ancient locution in Indo-European: *kerd- (“heart”) + *dhē- (“put”), meaning something like “to set the heart,” and thus “to place trust (in).”
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This and other inanimate thematic stems exhibit interesting effects such as the curious disappearance of *m in the locative case e.g. *yugóm "a yoke" but *yugó-i "among a yoke" which leads many to assume that this was a functional ending rather than the product of misanalysis and missegmentation by early Indo-European speakers.
Inanimate thematics that failed to be converted in Pre-IE?
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Adding to my previous explanation of a tenseless conjugation in Common Proto-Indo-European PIE, I notice that by comparing the sigmatic aorist marked in *-s- with the experiential marker guo in Mandarin, a tenseless language, we start to see how it's possible for a number of dialects that have all grammaticized tense can still all derive, strangely enough, from a completely tenseless language.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The Proto-Indo-European phonetics was not stable at all: ablauts (vowel interchanges), assimilations, many different consonant processes at the end of the word.
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These languages, again, form a compact family, and differ entirely from the other family, which we called Aryan or Indo-European.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
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While Luwian verb tabar- 'to rule' is attested, he notes that it coincidentally remains unanalysable in Indo-European terms.
Diktaian Master of Crete?
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This traditional interpretation had to be systematically verified for two reasons: the first was to explain the specificity of the category desiderative inside the complex verbal system of Vedic, and the second was the need to elucidate its historical links, currently claimed by most Indo-Europeanists, with other formally similar categories like the future in Old Greek and Celtic.
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One of the things I came face to face with the other day was the matter of "the look" of athematic versus thematic verb stems in the earliest stage of Common Proto-Indo-European.
Where do Narten presents come from?
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For, as we know, English was born of “mixt” and “mangeled” tongues, and has only grown increasingly “mixt” since then—perhaps especially during the Renaissance, when far-flung non-Indo-European “tungs” added long lists of new reasons for some to cheer and others to despair.
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Etruscan was obviously not an Indo-European language and was unrelated to Basque.
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I do think the languages are related, but not in an exclusive "Altaic" grouping without Uralic, Indo-European, and your Aegean family.
How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese
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Along with Czech and Polish, it is classified as a western Slavic tongue in the Indo-European language family.
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We mention finally that the people closest related to the Celts, linguistically and culturally, were the Indo-European Italics.
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Our word root comes from an Indo-European word that meant both “root” and “branch.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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The form *mlit-ye- is distinctly Indo-European but as you note and I didn't realize that until you mentioned it, the zerograded initial syllable and shifted accent is atypical for denominal presents in *-ye-.
Missing honey
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It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic yeri are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European.
Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
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They speak Ossetic, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch.
International sensitivity
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the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages
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Semitic, and the Aryan, or Indo-European (formerly called the Japhetic).
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Among the extinct descendants of Indo-European are two well-attested main branches, Anatolian including Hittite and Tocharian.
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The first written reports concerning this clan, drafted about 2000 years BP (before present) in the Chinese historical record, Hou Hanshu, described nomadic light-haired blue-eyed Caucasians speaking an Indo-European language (probably a form of Tocharian, an extinct Indo-European tongue related to Celtic, Italic, and Anatolic (Ma and Sun, 1994).
2,700-year-old marijuana stash found
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For English, such forms are usually those of INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS and their derivatives, or Romanic and Germanic roots.
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With these argumental facts advanced, I resume my apologetic, introduction of this ancient race, and maintain that he can be the Indo-European's equal if justice be given him.
Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?
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And what about the Umbrian suffixation is non-Indo-European anyway?
Is Etruscan ais 'deity' an Indo-European loanword?
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Theoretically, the stemfinal *bʰ would devoice to *p in original *skerbʰ- once speakers of Indo-European no longer were consciously aware of the historical connection with *gʰrebʰ-, and this would especially occur after *s- came to be irregularly omitted and phonotactic "stop voicing harmony" pressures took over.
PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ-
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Kessar has an epenthetic vowel in a position that is phonetically viable, also from a phonotactic point of view in Indo-European.
I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
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Zeke already compares the former word of this pair to Middle Persian aspand, another Indo-European language, and this fits my expectation.
Death and daffodils
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Although Polish and Czech both belong to the West Slavic sub-branch of the Indo-European languages.
Google Zeitgeist vs Jozin z Bazin | the POLSKI blog
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Both thumb and thigh go back to the same Indo-European root.
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Serbo-Croatian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists.
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Ethnic Syrians are a mix of Semetic and Indo-European peoples that have occupied the region over time.
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We have lachrima "teardrop" for example, also spelled lacrima from Old Latin dacruma, which is without a doubt an old word inherited directly from Indo-European *dáḱru.
Latin 'pulcher': Is it really an Etruscan loan?
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It is interesting to see that in these earlier periods, Indo-European languages were spoken within a certain latitudinal band, where certain ecological conditions prevailed.
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As such, one imagines that the southern Nigerian Ur-linguist, confronted with Indo-European languages, would see prefixes and suffixes as beside-the-point accidents just as we see tone.
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The term was adopted by 19th-century Germanic philologists to identify similar sounds in Indo-European languages, and the symbol was included in the International Phonetic Alphabet when this was devised in the 1880s.
On schwa
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The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop
The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")
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An alternative form of the Indo-European root, again to do with showing or indicating, is *deig-, which appears in the native English words token, betoken, and that venerable one for pointing students down the best path, teach.
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Gaulish, which, as you can see on our handy Indo-European languages diagram, is a now-extinct tongue of the Celtic branch of Indo-European languages.
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Further research, carried out by the German brothers Grimm and others, later revealed that most European languages and some Indian ones have a common ancestor, now known as Indo-European.
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In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'.
Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
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Descending from the same Indo-European root there are a number of Greek words with meanings including "sweet" but also "pleasure" and "rejoicing.
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The answer is its distant Indo-European cousin Persian, a daughter language of Indo-Iranian.x Check is from the Persian word shāh, meaning “king.”
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In the early nineteenth century, language historians identified German as a member of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
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The Indo-Aryan languages are in fact a part of the Indo-European family (Wikipedia):
What language?
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French, having retained more of its Indo-European morphosyntax, makes use of noun gender and verb conjugation.
French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News
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Sanskrit _bharna_, which signifies "the borne one," "that which is born," from the primitive Indo-European root _bhr_, "to bear, to carry in the womb," whence our "to _bear_" and the German
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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It would literally have meant '(Town of) flowing waters', from *rūmōn 'river; flowing water', a securely Indo-European formation built on the root *reu- 'to flow, to run (as of liquid)' and the derivational suffix *-mo-.
An etymology for 'Rome'
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Some Indo-Europeanists believe that dwellings of PIE-speakers were built of something that would have been kneaded or mixed—mud, for example.
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Furthermore, when he states that the (later so-called) Indo-European languages have a “stronger affinity” than could be produced by accident, he takes sides in another popular controversy, namely that of possible polygenesis.
LINGUISTICS
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menu-ese," "pizzazz" -- may start off with a scholarly account of a word or term's origin, with more than a casual glance at its Proto-Indo-European root, but before long Blount will soft-shoe his way into an anecdote, some comic verse, a bit of wordplay.
3quarksdaily
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The word knead comes from an Indo-European root meaning “to compress into a ball”; related words are gnocchi, quenelle, knoll, and knuckle.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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To use the word cognate implies a family-tree model, which is still the most commonly accepted image that we have for the relations of the Indo-European languages: It ain’t perfect, but it runs.
No Uncertain Terms
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Beyond these “native” ties to PIE, English, which has proven to be an exceptionally absorptive language, has also borrowed many additional words from its Indo-European cousins across different branches of the language family.
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Russian is one of three East Slavic languages of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Of the six Indo-European cases capable of being governed by adpositions, the ablative and genitive singular were not distinguished outside of o-stems.
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Albanian is a synthetic language that is similar in structure to most other Indo-European languages.
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English is the only Indo-European language in Europe with no gender marking on articles or nouns - ever notice that?
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It's EYE-as, and the etymology turns out to be worth knowing as well: Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin ni:dus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots AHD.
Languagehat.com: EYAS.
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The American Heritage Dictionary takes the techn root back beyond Greek to Indo-European teks meaning to weave, linking it to the root of the word textile.
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In light of Hittite militu- 'honeysweet'2, a characteristically Indo-European u-stem adjective derived from milit- 'honey', there should be no doubt where the first element comes from.
Archive 2009-12-01
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If your familiarity with languages is limited to exposure to those of the Indo-European family, and your knowledge of, say, Chinese is about as extensive as your mastery of Swahili or Kechua, you may be interested in learning more about Chinese from a book I have been reading with great interest,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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The English word grape appears to come from an Indo-European root meaning “curved” or “crooked,” probably referring to the curved blade of the knife used to harvest grape bunches, or to the shape of the bunch stem.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Indo-European migrations
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Paleoglot: The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop
The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")
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We should reject Julius Pokorny's Indo-European root *kaput which is poorly justified both phonetically and distributionally.
Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
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Indo-European, a term coined in the early nineteenth century, is clunky.
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The second "a", being unstressed in PSem, was probably pronounced as a short schwa and thus explicably inaudible to some Indo-European ears.
Thoughts on Nostratic, Semitic 'seven' & neolithic trade
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The more widely accepted etymology suggests that kameez is an Indo-European word and related to the French chemise.
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The prehistoric root flourished in many Indo-European languages, mainly carrying ideas to do with “cooking” and “ripening,” as seen in numerous words that English has borrowed: cook, cuisine, kitchen, kiln, terra cotta, and even precocious, as in “pre-ripened,” or “mature ahead of time.”
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The concept of laughter is similarly and thus tellingly expressed in many branches of the Indo-European language family.
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