Root Extensions
Root extensions are additions of one or two sounds, often plosives, to the end of a root which do not seem to change its meaning. For *(s)teu- "to push, hit, thrust", we can reconstruct
- *(s)teu-k- > Ancient Greek τύκος (túkos) "hammer"
- *(s)teu-g- > English stoke (Germanic k goes back to PIE *g.)
- *(s)teu-d- > Vedic tudáti "beats"
The source of these extensions is not known.
Read more about this topic: Proto-Indo-European Root
Famous quotes containing the words root and/or extensions:
“Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“The psychological umbilical cord is more difficult to cut than the real one. We experience our children as extensions of ourselves, and we feel as though their behavior is an expression of something within us...instead of an expression of something in them. We see in our children our own reflection, and when we don’t like what we see, we feel angry at the reflection.”
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