23 February 2016

The Strange Case of the Jumbled Vowels

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Though scattered traces of athematic reduplicated presents can be found in several branches of Indo-European, it’s only Indo-Iranian and Gr...
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20 January 2016

Ve-Verbs: A Brief Introduction

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There were several types of Indo-European verbs formed by reduplication. The most important of them are listed below. Each type is represe...
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19 January 2016

The Root Question: Why *bʰer-?

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The verb root * bʰer - has several paradoxical properties. On the one hand, it’s one of the most securely attested Indo-European roots, doc...
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18 January 2016

Towards a More Realistic Beaver

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When we consider the known patterns of CV reduplication in Indo-European, we find that different reduplicated adjectives or nouns with very...
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12 January 2016

Enter the Beaver

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Beaver rampant Arms of Biberach an der Riß Arthur Charles Fox-Davies A Comp lete Guide to Heraldry  (1909) Wikimedia Commons Most e...
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08 January 2016

Setting the Scene for the Beaver

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In the Proto-Indo-European derivational system, adjectives in *- ó - were rarely formed directly from root nouns in zero-grade (often simpl...
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05 January 2016

A Reduplication Manual for Drivers, Metalworkers, and Birdwatchers

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The case of * kʷékʷlo - is relatively clear, perhaps because the word is not as old as some other Indo-European vocabulary, and its derivat...
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