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Indo-European Linguistics
Proto-Indo-European Roots
PIE */y/, */i/
Entries in the table below show Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, rendered as Pokorny etyma where the reconstructed phoneme */y/, */i/ 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 *yek- 'to speak' | PIE *bhei- 'bee (insect)' | |||
| PIE *yeu- 'to mix, mingle' | PIE *ei- 'to go' | |||
| PIE *yo[u]s- 'belt; to gird' | PIE *dei- 'to shine; sun; God' |