Re: [tied] Re: Lists of PIE roots

--- P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

> > Cybalist has in its Files section a collection of Pokorny's roots
> > (albeit, with slightly different orthography than IEW):
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/PIE%20roots/
>
> I posted those two lists a while ago, in the hope that they might be useful
> to somebody. The orthography is slightly different to allow simple
> computer-processing: it's a one-sound one-symbol approach that allows you
> hunt very quickly for combinations of phonemes in these reconstructed roots.
>
> The limitation to basic roots, rather than roots + extensions, is that I
> didn't feel like typing all of Pokorny in!

Yeah, two whole volumes and you have to translate from the original German.
Still a lot of work with just the roots w/out extensions.

Which leads me to my next ?: Where can I find the full Pokorny list online, or
does anybody have a used copy of both volumes of _Indogermanische W�rterbuch_?


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