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A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language and Culture

Indo-European Linguistics

Proto-Indo-European Roots

PIE */g/

Glottalic */k'/

Entries in the table below show Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, rendered as Pokorny etyma where the reconstructed phoneme */g/ (glottalic */k'/) appears in initial or final position. Each root is linked to a page showing the PIE etymon and Indo-European (IE) reflexes thereof.

Note: Pokorny's etyma as spelled on this page have been rendered in ISO-8859-1, but links lead to pages rendered in Unicode 3 -- with other renderings available via links there. [Unicode pages generally render Pokorny's etyma and non-English text more faithfully than is possible in ISO-8859-1, so they are much preferred.]

		Initial Position		Final Position
		PIE *geus- 'to taste, enjoy'		PIE *bhag- 'to divide, apportion'
		PIE *gen- 'to ken, know'		PIE *reg- 'right; king'
		PIE *gel- 'to curl; round'		PIE *leg- 'to leak, drip'