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Audio Etymologies of the Day

Central to the Proto-Indo-European vowel system is the pattern of vowel changes named "ablaut" by 19th c. German-speaking linguists, e.g.:

root: √*s—d “sit, settle”
e-grade: *sed- > sit
o-grade: *sod- > sat
zero grade: *-sd-, in *ni-sd-o > nest
long e-grade: *se:d-i‑ > seat
long o-grade: *so:d-o- > soot

sometimes leading to differences between languages. Audio examples at
http://www.ancientsounds.net/ablaut.html

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Audio Etymologies of the Day

How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? The next instalment of my sprawling web pages on this question focusses on fricatives and frictionless continants (basically, r and l):
https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants3.html

Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

Audio Etymologies of the Day

How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My next web page about this question, for the phonetics and philology nerds, focusses on the places of articulation of stops, and the nasals: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants2.html

Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

Audio Etymologies of the Day

How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My webpages on this question are starting to sprawl out of control, and unlike earlier posts on Mastodon they are unashamedly pretty technical. Here's the next instalment, for the phonetics nerds out there: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants.html

Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean