- What is a pie root word?
- What words have Indo-European root?
- What is athematic root aorist?
- What is the Indo-European root of Sun?
What is a pie root word?
In its base form, a PIE root consists of a single vowel, preceded and followed by consonants. Except for a very few cases, the root is fully characterized by its consonants, while the vowel may change in accordance with inflection or word derivation.
What words have Indo-European root?
-agogue, agony; anagoge, antagonize, choragus, demagogue, epact, glucagon, hypnagogic, mystagogue, pedagogue, protagonist, stratagem, synagogue, from Greek agein, to drive, lead, weigh.
What is athematic root aorist?
Athematic: Root aorist: The plain verbal root, with no affixes. Identical to the imperfect tense of root presents. Example: *gʷém-t, gʷm̥-ént (“stepped”).
What is the Indo-European root of Sun?
*sāwel-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "the sun." According to Watkins, the *-el- in it originally was a suffix, and there was an alternative form *s(u)wen-, with suffix *-en-, hence the two forms represented by Latin sol, English sun.