Brugmann's law — Brugmann s law, named for Karl Brugmann, states that Proto Indo European PIE|*o (the ablaut alternant of *e ) in non final syllables became *ā in open syllables (syllables ending in a single consonant followed by a vowel) in Indo Iranian.… … Wikipedia
Caucasian languages — Group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region that are not members of any language families spoken elsewhere in the world. Caucasian languages, spoken by some nine million people, are divided into three subgroups: the South Caucasian, or… … Universalium
Laryngeal theory — The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more) consonant sounds that appear in most current reconstructions of the Proto Indo European language (PIE). These… … Wikipedia
Indo-Iranians — Indo Iranian peoples consist of the Indo Aryan, Iranian, Dardic and Nuristani peoples, that is, speakers of Indo Iranian languages. OriginThe Indo Iranians are commonly identified with the Andronovo culture, Vedic civilization, Iranian Culture… … Wikipedia
Hirt's law — Hirt s law, named after Hermann Hirt who postulated it originally in 1895, is a Balto Slavic sound law which states in it s modern form that the inherited Proto Indo European stress would retract to non ablauting pretonic vowel or a syllabic… … Wikipedia
dhwer- — Door, doorway (usually in plural). Originally an ablauting noun *dhwor, *dhur , in the plural, designating the entrance to the enclosure (*dhwor o ) surrounding the house proper. Derivatives include forest and foreign. 1. Zero grade form *dhur in … Universalium
zero-grade — noun In Proto Indo European linguistics, a term used to describe an ablaut form of a root characterized by the absence of the basic ablauting vowel phonemes ,/e/ and ,/o/. is the zero grade of the meaning ‘to carry, bear’ … Wiktionary
