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Word final *n in indo-european n-stems

2008-07-25T17:25:13Z

*n stems in PIE traditionally end in *-ōn in the nominative which comes from an earlier *on-s (Known as Szemerenyi's law). While this is a very common reconstruction, much of the reconstruction is dependant on one language, Greek. Greek n-stems i...

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Genitivesis Issue or the Genitivos Issue?

2008-01-09T16:45:13Z

So, I had my Hittite 2 test today. It included Hittite, Hieroglyphic Luwian and Lycian. It went fine, but as I was busy working with it, I stumbled upon the last question of the test which went as follows: What can you tell about the genitive in A...

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Gothic Alphabet is not the Abecedarium

2007-12-08T14:45:30Z

I've read in several places, that Gothic alphabet is believed to be the Greek alphabet combined with runes and the Latin alphabet. Personally I am strongly opposed to the last notion, and am, in fact convinced it's solely the Greek Alphabet filled...

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rereduplication

2007-12-08T02:02:08Z

An interesting feature of the Indo-European verbal (and sometimes nominal) system is so called 'reduplication'. Reduplication in Indo-European is the repetition of the first consonant plus an extra vowel before the action root. A famous example ...

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Ook dat nog!

2007-03-07T00:01:03Z

Today, a bit later than planned, I will write another update. This time it won't be specifically about the translation of a certain text, but I'll show some stuff about my own language, Dutch, and some thoughts on etymology. First of all a transl...

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