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

Indo-European Linguistics

Proto-Indo-European Roots

PIE */g^wh/

Glottalic */gw^(h)/

Entries in the table below show Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, rendered as Pokorny etyma where the reconstructed phoneme */g^wh/ (glottalic */gw^(h)/) 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 *g^whedh- 'to ask, wish for'		PIE *dheg^wh- 'to burn'
		PIE *g^wher- 'hot, warm'		PIE *leg^wh- 'to move easily'
		PIE *g^when- 'to hit, strike'		PIE *seng^wh- 'to sing'

Indo-European Linguistics

Proto-Indo-European Roots

PIE */gwh/

Glottalic */gw(h)/

PIE */g^wh/

Glottalic */gw^(h)/