Re: Massive PIE online listing?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 38211
Date: 2005-06-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:

> Can you reccomend any websites that have huge collections of PIE
> words/roots? Like thousands, or tens of thousands or more?

"Tens of thousands _or more_" is a tall order; it would be difficult
to collect so much stuff even for a living language :), and the
reconstruction of PIE is of necessity only fragmentary. You'll find
many roots and words in the Leiden databases;

http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=leiden

Just don't take every form cited in Pokorny's dictionary at face
value. The notation is rather outdated and some of the
reconstructions are shakier than others. It's a very useful tool
provided that one knows how to use it. And the best path to learning
that is through reading and asking questions.

Piotr