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I'm not sure, but a form like *-ar- doesn't look like a plausible PIE suffix with that /a/ in it. Any instance of /a/ in a "PIE" word or affix which cannot be explained by an adjacent *h2 is suspicious, and a reconstruction *-h2er- would throw up other problems because except for the colour of the vowel, we have no further evidence in favour of a laryngeal here (though the Latin -ârius seems to come from a formation *-eh2-ri-os, wherein the *-eh2- apparently is the same morpheme as in the a-conjugation verbs). What makes the matter even more suspicious is the limited distribution: Germanic and Slavic are neighbouring branches which both had been in contact with Latin. Also, the suffix is -ari in the earlier stages of the Germanic languages, which is precisely the expected form of a loan from Latin -ârius (and the Slavic suffix AFAIK had a ь, a very short front vowel, at the end, which also is what is to be expected from a loan from the same source). But etymology is always more guesswork than anything else, there are no scientific tests for the origin of a word, just plausible resemblances which make a particular origin more likely than others. And in the case of Germanic -ari and Slavic -arь, a borrowing from Latin -ârius is the most plausible origin.
Also, if the suffix had a long ā in Gothic and some other early Germanic languages (and I think the vowel must have been long at some point), this may also speak in favour of it being a borrowing since long *ā was rare at the PG stage (due to earlier *ā shifting to *ō). This still doesn't completely rule out a native origin, though, since new long *ā did arise in some circumstance. In unstressed contexts, there is at least *ā from contraction of earlier *aja, but I think that would rule out a common PIE origin with the Slavic suffix, and I'm not sure that there is any plausible PIE source for a pre-form like *–oyoryos.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Dec 30, 2025 8:01 amI'm not sure, but a form like *-ar- doesn't look like a plausible PIE suffix with that /a/ in it. Any instance of /a/ in a "PIE" word or affix which cannot be explained by an adjacent *h2 is suspicious, and a reconstruction *-h2er- would throw up other problems because except for the colour of the vowel, we have no further evidence in favour of a laryngeal here (though the Latin -ârius seems to come from a formation *-eh2-ri-os, wherein the *-eh2- apparently is the same morpheme as in the a-conjugation verbs). What makes the matter even more suspicious is the limited distribution: Germanic and Slavic are neighbouring branches which both had been in contact with Latin. Also, the suffix is -ari in the earlier stages of the Germanic languages, which is precisely the expected form of a loan from Latin -ârius (and the Slavic suffix AFAIK had a ь, a very short front vowel, at the end, which also is what is to be expected from a loan from the same source). But etymology is always more guesswork than anything else, there are no scientific tests for the origin of a word, just plausible resemblances which make a particular origin more likely than others. And in the case of Germanic -ari and Slavic -arь, a borrowing from Latin -ârius is the most plausible origin.
No, they aren't. Rather, "wet" is cognate with "water" and "weather" is cognate with "wind" - both deriving from PIE *h₂weh₁- “to blow”.
I understand well that you don't want to rely on a single scholar, especially if that scholar has non-mainstream opinions on some points (e.g., Kloekhorst assumes that the PIE laryngeals were uvular stops, which IMHO is misguided). But I can't point you at the kind of resource you are looking for, either. The prehistory of the Anatolian verb is a matter of much controversy, if you ask N scholars you get at least N+1 opinions; there is especially a divide between those who think that the Anatolian verb was archaic and those who think it was innovative (I lean towards the "the Anatolian verb was archaic" camp, but I am not sure).Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 4:20 pm Does anyone have good resources for the development of Anatolian languages diachronically, especially the verbs¹? Khloekhorst especially has a lot of his papers free on his website², but they obviously don't cover the whole range alone and I don't want to base my understanding solely on Khloekhorst³. Some names would also be useful if people have some I don't already happen to know.
¹ Although I've read a lot of papers arguing about the h2e-conjugation theory, although I've probably missed at least as many, so don't hesitate to mention any.
² Make sure to follow the link if you weren't aware of it to the dictionary of the Hittite Inherited lexicon. It's not perfect and it's a pain to navigate, but it's still very nice, and honestly a saner picture of Hittite than his later papers
[rant] And glottalic theory, because a chain shift of /tː tʼ¹ t/ → /t d1 d2/ in everything else makes more sense than the² reverse³. [/rant]⁴WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:43 am I understand well that you don't want to rely on a single scholar, especially if that scholar has non-mainstream opinions on some points (e.g., Kloekhorst assumes that the PIE laryngeals were uvular stops, which IMHO is misguided).
I know that it's intensely controversial, but even a list of “these are the PIE verbal suffixes we have traces of, these are the ones we have no evidence of” housekeeping paper, or some summary of various theories on any particular subsystem would save me a lot of work, and I'd like to know if they exist before I go and check Hittite sources for every PIE verbal formation I can think of.But I can't point you at the kind of resource you are looking for, either. The prehistory of the Anatolian verb is a matter of much controversy, if you ask N scholars you get at least N+1 opinions; there is especially a divide between those who think that the Anatolian verb was archaic and those who think it was innovative (I lean towards the "the Anatolian verb was archaic" camp, but I am not sure).
The more I think about it, the less I am convinced of the "Indo-Hittite" hypothesis (not that I ever liked the term)! There do not seem to have been many sound changes between "Indo-Hittite" and "PIE proper" as the standard model accounts of Anatolian phonology as easily as it does of any other IE branch, so they can be at most a few generations apart. Does it really make sense that "PIE proper" innovated the feminine gender, the dual number and, most importantly, the complex three-stem verb aspect system within a century or two? Especially the latter seems to have a longer history, even if it perhaps wasn't fully formed yet when "PIE proper" broke up - there is no shortage of cognate verbs forming the present stem, the aorist stem or both differently in different branches. On the other hand, such categories can easily be lost from a language in a short period of time, especially if a substratum lacking them is involved. Yet, I have a gut feeling that the Anatolian verb is more archaic, but gut feelings can be easily misguided, of course.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:43 am I understand well that you don't want to rely on a single scholar, especially if that scholar has non-mainstream opinions on some points (e.g., Kloekhorst assumes that the PIE laryngeals were uvular stops, which IMHO is misguided). But I can't point you at the kind of resource you are looking for, either. The prehistory of the Anatolian verb is a matter of much controversy, if you ask N scholars you get at least N+1 opinions; there is especially a divide between those who think that the Anatolian verb was archaic and those who think it was innovative (I lean towards the "the Anatolian verb was archaic" camp, but I am not sure).
I used to have a pdf of Indo European Language and Culture by Fortson, but I've lost it and can't find where I downloaded it from. If you're interested, it's probably worth getting your hands on somehow.rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 10:40 pm Are there books/docs/websites I can read to learn about IE cognates? Or just PIE?
Thanks.
Another addendum: The area of the Yamnaya culture, who are the most likely speaker community of PIE, is some 2,000 kilometers from one end to the other, and given the absence of either a centralized government or a written standard, there surely were substantial dialectal divisions within it, and in such a dialect continuum, the central dialects are often more innovative than the peripheral ones, as they are affected by innovation waves spreading through the continuum from all sides, while peripheral dialects are likely to miss innovations originating from the far end of the continuum. "PIE proper" most likely was such an innovative central dialect.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 9:24 amThe more I think about it, the less I am convinced of the "Indo-Hittite" hypothesis (not that I ever liked the term)! There do not seem to have been many sound changes between "Indo-Hittite" and "PIE proper" as the standard model accounts of Anatolian phonology as easily as it does of any other IE branch, so they can be at most a few generations apart. Does it really make sense that "PIE proper" innovated the feminine gender, the dual number and, most importantly, the complex three-stem verb aspect system within a century or two? Especially the latter seems to have a longer history, even if it perhaps wasn't fully formed yet when "PIE proper" broke up - there is no shortage of cognate verbs forming the present stem, the aorist stem or both differently in different branches. On the other hand, such categories can easily be lost from a language in a short period of time, especially if a substratum lacking them is involved. Yet, I have a gut feeling that the Anatolian verb is more archaic, but gut feelings can be easily misguided, of course.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:43 am I understand well that you don't want to rely on a single scholar, especially if that scholar has non-mainstream opinions on some points (e.g., Kloekhorst assumes that the PIE laryngeals were uvular stops, which IMHO is misguided). But I can't point you at the kind of resource you are looking for, either. The prehistory of the Anatolian verb is a matter of much controversy, if you ask N scholars you get at least N+1 opinions; there is especially a divide between those who think that the Anatolian verb was archaic and those who think it was innovative (I lean towards the "the Anatolian verb was archaic" camp, but I am not sure).
On the other hand, it is quite clear that Anatolian is a peripheral branch of IE, in this point similar to Tocharian but even more so. There are no meaningful isoglosses (only trivial ones such as "kentum" or D/Dh merger) that connect it to other branches, especially not the geographically closest ones such as Greek or Armenian. The IE languages typologically most similar to Anatolian are curiously the western ones - Germanic, Celtic and Italic - but these apparently have converged towards that type, as if they had been influenced by a substratum related to Anatolian (the language of the Bell Beaker culture?). Also, lost features usually leave traces behind, and we find no clear traces of the "post-Anatolian" features in Anatolian - it seems as if Anatolian had never had them.
I had seen it, but didn't download it because I already have the book in printed form (it is not very expensive), and I don't remember where it was, apart from that it probably was illegal, and may have been taken down by now. But the book is very recommendable. Another recommendable book is The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World by J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams, which can be downloaded here (maybe illegal as well). It includes a good deal of lexicon, sorted by fields of discourse, though for verbs, it only gives roots because the actual verb formations often vary considerably from branch to branch. Then there is this humungous spreadsheet compiled by a former ZBB member from various sources (most of the items are from the aforementioned book by Mallory & Adams). Wikipedia is also quite good on PIE.Lērisama wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 3:58 amI used to have a pdf of Indo European Language and Culture by Fortson, but I've lost it and can't find where I downloaded it from. If you're interested, it's probably worth getting your hands on somehow.rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 10:40 pm Are there books/docs/websites I can read to learn about IE cognates? Or just PIE?
Thanks.
Thanks, I'll go through these first.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 5:30 am Another recommendable book is The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World by J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams, which can be downloaded here (maybe illegal as well). It includes a good deal of lexicon, sorted by fields of discourse, though for verbs, it only gives roots because the actual verb formations often vary considerably from branch to branch. Then there is this humungous spreadsheet compiled by a former ZBB member from various sources (most of the items are from the aforementioned book by Mallory & Adams). Wikipedia is also quite good on PIE.
Indeed, among Beekes' idiosyncratic ideas is the very same glottalic theory. Idiosyncracies aside, Beekes's book is a strange and not very satisfying read; the late Szemerényi's Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics is a harder read but much more rewarding, even if he disagreed with the laryngeal theory (and made a good case against it, too).WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 5:30 am I wouldn't recommend R. S. P. Beekes's Comparative Indo-European Linguistics which is full of idiosyncratic ideas, nor Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, which is not an introduction to PIE but a collection of (mostly misguided) idiosyncratic ideas about PIE (the most famous one being the glottalic theory),