PIE

E160666

PIE is the commonly used abbreviation for Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of most modern European and many South and Central Asian languages.

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Label Occurrences
PIE canonical 2

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hypothetical language
proto-language
reconstructed language
abbreviation PIE
ancestorOf Anatolian languages
Balto-Slavic languages
Celtic languages
Germanic languages
Hellenic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Italic languages
Tocharian languages
fieldOfStudy Indo-European studies
hasBranch Albanian language
surface form: Albanian

Anatolian
Armenian language
surface form: Armenian

Balto-Slavic languages
surface form: Balto-Slavic

Celtic
Germanic
Hellenic
Indo-Iranian languages
surface form: Indo-Iranian

Italic
Tocharian languages
surface form: Tocharian
hasCase ablative
accusative
dative
genitive
instrumental
locative
nominative
hasFeature ablaut
grammatical gender
noun cases
pitch accent (reconstructed)
rich inflectional morphology
verbal aspect
hasGender feminine
masculine
neuter
hasNo direct written records
hasNumber dual
plural
singular
hasPerson first person
second person
third person
hasReconstructedWord *dyēus ph₂tḗr (sky father deity)
*déḱm̥ (ten)
*h₁n̥gʷnis (fire)
*h₂éwsōs (dawn goddess)
*méh₂tēr (mother)
*ph₂tḗr (father)
*wódr̥ (water)
*ḱm̥tóm (hundred)
influenced comparative linguistics
knownFrom comparative method
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
reconstructedBy historical linguistics
reconstructedFrom cognate sets
sound correspondences
refersTo Proto-Indo-European
spokenIn Eurasia
timePeriod Chalcolithic
late Neolithic
writingSystem none

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