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Words related to proto-indo-european

Pro·to-In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an
P p

  • centum

    denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches

  • goidelic

    Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.

  • grimm's law

    the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.

  • indo-hittite

    a language family in which Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European are considered coordinate. Compare Hittite (def 2).

  • laryngeal

    of, relating to, or located in the larynx.

  • p-celtic

    the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound became a p -sound. Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Gaulish belong to P-Celtic.
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