Entertainment / Literature / Proto-Indo-European: The reconstructed ancestor of all Indo-European languages. Many scholars use this term interchangeably with Indo-European.
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Entertainment / Literature / Goidelic: One of the two branches of the Celtic family of languages descended from Proto-Indo-European. Goidelic includes Celtic languages such as Manx, Irish Gaelic, and Scots Gaelic. Contrast with the related MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Cognate: Cognates are words that (1) match each other to some degree in sound and meaning, (2) come from a common root in an older language, but (3) did not actually serve as a root for each other. For instanc MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Laryngeal: (1) Concerning the larynx. (2) A theoretical sound that probably existed in Proto-Indo-European, but which survived later only in Hittite. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Brythonic: (also spelled Brittanic) One of the two branches of the Celtic family of languages descended from Proto-Indo-European. Brythonic includes Celtic languages such as Cornish, Breton, and Welsh. The Bryth MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Grimms Law: A formulation or rule of thumb for tracing a language-shift in the Germanic branch of proto-Indo-European, i.e., the way certain consonants changed in the western or centum subfamily. The term comes f MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Indo-European: The hypothetically reconstructed language that was the ancient ancestor of most European, Middle-Eastern, and Indian languages, including English. Some scholars prefer to use the noun-term proto-Indo- MORE