On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:18 pm, Quentin Read wrote:
> I have recently gotten a book on PIE Roots (The Roots
> of English, by David Claiborne) serendipitously from a
> used bookstore - very interesting. But anyway, I have
> a few questions about it.
>
> First of all, how where the consonants bh, dh, and gh
> actually pronounced? I can't really visualize it (or
> audio-lize it).
*bh is /b/ pronounced lightly blowing air through your lips, and the same
applies to the others...
>
> Second, where can I find a complete list of PIE roots,
> not just those that English has taken a word from? I
> am trying to make some new branches of the IE family
> and it would be biased toward English to only use
> those roots. So far any source I have found including
> the section in the back of the American HEritage
> Dictionary have only English roots. I've spent the
> last few English classes using the list of roots to
> create a new language, Quaroeth.
Most roots have an English derivative...
> And finally has anyone made a .lex file of PIE roots
> yet? If not I will have to myself.
>
> As a parting shot a pithy Quaroeth maxim shamelessly
> plagiarized from english:
>
> Miquotu quiriiri um buyardotum iholual oak.
>
> Grass greener in side other is.
>
> -Penkwe Reudh
> (the roots upon which my name is based)
>