PIE *mori and PAA *m·r – Are they related?

The Proto-Indo-European word *mori is one of the many words that have been reconstructed for the language without much debate. It is present in enough of the daughter languages, and follows the expected sound change laws that we would expect, and so may be confidently added to the dictionaries and word lists. The only problem …

The Indo-European and Afroasiatic negative particles – A common origin

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) has two securely reconstructable negative particles, *ne and *mē. I believe that these two clearly correspond with, and are descended from the Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA) negative particles *n- and *m-.The Proto-Indo-European negative particlesThe first of the two negative particles is usually reconstructed as *ne, and is understood to mean 'not'. Some argue for an …

100 Proto-Indo-European Words that are inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic

The Afroasiatic Hypothesis maintains that the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is descended from the Proto-Afroasiatic language (PAA). A core part of this hypothesis is a list of words which are inherited from PAA to PIE, with regular sound change laws. There are between 500-1,000 words I have found which fit the criteria of inheritance from PAA-PIE, …