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Indo-European Linguistics
Proto-Indo-European Roots
PIE */k/
Glottalic */k(h)/
Entries in the table below show Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, rendered as Pokorny etyma where the reconstructed phoneme */k/ (glottalic */k(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 *kap- 'to grab, grasp' | PIE *bak- 'staff; to hit' | |||
| PIE *kan- 'to sing, sound' | PIE *deuk- 'to drag, pull' | |||
| PIE *ker- 'cherry' | PIE *sak- 'to sanctify' |