Re: help

This set of PIE Roots from the AHD is the putative basis of Zatona-ye
(ti give it its Rihana-ye name; I have not devised its native name), the
far-western (from Rihana) language I hope to create. So far, however, I am
only part way through the first necessary step: compiling an English-PIE
lexicon from the PIE roots.  This already involves choices, since most of
the PIE roots have several possible (usually related) meanings. I have
done a little on the grammar, but I am not trying to follow the reconstructions
of PIE grammar very closely (frankly, they are too complex for me).
My grammar so far looks like very simplified Latin.
Incidentally, the newest big edition of the AHD, which I recently bought,
has added a shorter list of Semitic roots as well, which I hope to use if
I ever really develop Saryani (in the WIC) and Hemana-ye (in the Rihana
world).
John Leland


 On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:58:50PM -0400, <Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier> wrote:
> > I am in need of a basic grammar for a conlang that is loosely based on the
> > PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN section of a dictionary from forty or fifty years ago. Any
> > help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Well, this may be helpful: the online version of the American Heritage
> Dictionary includes that P-I-E section.  Go to http://www.bartleby.com/61/
> and scroll down to the "Indo-European Roots"  heading.
>
> -Mark
>

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