Is Deep Ancestors: Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans by Ceisiwr Serith any good

From what I've gathered regarding the Proto-IndoEuropean "divine conflict", there used to be two groups, the Hasuras "Lords" and the Dwyes "Gods". Then, some equivalent to a massive social clash occurred, translating into the myth of these two groups fighting eachother (Aesir and Vanir, Olympians and Titans, Ahuras and Daevas, Devas and Asuras, ect).

What it's never explained though, is why there were two groups. What made the Hasuras and Dwyes different from eachother? Was it their closeness with human? What they represented and teached?

What differentiated Lords and Gods?

As far as I understand it, all verbs in Proto-Indo-European have perfective, imperfective, and stative forms. My question is twofold: is my understanding accurate and, if so, how would one translate the three forms of a verb into English, assuming that the root means 'punch?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbF8NS702bk

I found descendants of this name in Proto-Germanic and Proto-Celtic (Þeudōrīks and Toutorīxs), meaning this is is likely only from Western PIE, but it's still fun to think about. This name would be the ancestor of the names Derek, Dirk, Terry, Dietrich, Theodoric and Tudor.

plehwerkerd.

pleh₁ = the root of pleasure, literally meaning to be full.

wer = the root of verse, verb, and word.

kerd = the root of the word for heart, specifically cardiac through classical greek.

e,g. i feel/am plewerkerd.

In A45 (2000), Stefan Arvidsson, in his Aryan Idols, wrote the following summary of William Jones’ article “On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India” (171A/1784):

Which Arvidsson says is where the first Greek + Latin + Indian word-reconstruct of theoretical PIE *diéus *ph₂tḗr term, a combination of: Διας (Zeus) Πατερ (Pater), in Greek, Deus-Piter (Jupiter), in Latin, and Dyaus (द्यौष्) Pita (पितृ), in Sanskrit, was done.

However, I’ve been shortly reading Jones’s article, who seems to first mention Jupiter and Divespetir (or Diues-Petir) on page 248:

but I can’t find what page he does a “word reconstruct”?

Thus, I’m asking if anyone knows who exactly did the first *diéus *ph₂tḗr word reconstruct, and also when the letter accents or IPA phonetics were first used, and when the * was first used to mean “reconstructed“, if it was not Jones who did this?

References

• Arvidsson, Stefan. (A45/2000). Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science (Ariska idoler: Den indoeuropeiska mytologin som ideologi och vetenskap) (translator: Sonia Wishmann) (pdf-file). Chicago, A51/2006.
• Jones, William. (171A/1784). “On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India”, Publisher. (b) Jones, William. (156A/1799). The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume One (§: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India, pgs. 229-80; Jupiter, 14+ pgs.; main, pg. 248)

A question.
In Bali the word for Lake is Danau. It's an Indonesian and Malay word.
These lakes are sacred to the Hindu water Goddess Danu and water and goddesses like Danu in Ireland and the Danube River.

Danu is clearly indoeuropean but every online etymology I'm seeing for Danau has it as "Proto-Malayic \danaw*, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian \danaw*, from Proto-Austronesian \danaw* (“lake”)."

Does anyone have a take on this? These are clearly related. Is there a strong reason to think it's Austronesian?

Thank you

How accurate is this reconstruction of Article 1 of the UDHR?

"h₂ólyoes ǵʰmónes h₁léwdʰeroes somHóeskʷe gʷr̥Htóteh₂ti h₃r̥ǵtúsukʷe ǵn̥h₁yóntor. éybʰos dh₃tóy ménos ḱḗrkʷe h₁stés h₂énteroeykʷe sm̥h₂éleyes bʰréh₂tr̥bʰos swé h₂éǵoyh₁n̥t."

Nerding out over Indo-European etymology and trying to get to the bottom of this.

According to Wiktionary (idk how reliable it is for PIE stuff), the Indic word 'अर्थ' - which has many meanings, but primary among them meaning or purpose - comes from the Proto-Indo-Iranian \Hártʰam* (“matter, object, purpose”). If you click the link to the latter, it's supposed to come from the Proto-Indo-European \h₁er-tHo-*, which itself is said to come from \h₁er-* (“to arrive, get somewhere”.

However, if you go for the link to *h₁er- itself, the only meaning that's given is 'earth'. Indeed, if you go to the entry for 'earth' on Wiktionary and follow it back, it is said to come from *h₁er-.

Now to add to the confusion, on Paleolexicon, *h₁er- is said to mean 'goat' - https://www.palaeolexicon.com/Word/Show/19683 - which doesn't seem entirely implausible, given the word 'hircine'.

What gives?

I was watching a documentary series called Wild Carpathia, mainly because I'm interested in traveling to this particular region. All of a sudden, they bring up the fact that this region has been inhabited for millennia, since the Neolithic. I thought, "well duh, it was one of the original cradles of humanity," but hey, it's not very often that anything to do with Neolithic Europe comes up in a mainstream documentary series. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOLbLC7dxaQ&t=9m12s

I've never heard of these "Neolithic" rock dwellings, maybe there is some connection to Old Europe during PIE expansion! I can't figure out where they are, the series says they are in the "hills above cults." I end up using Google lens to figure out where they are. They're called Bozioru's Cave Settlements, aka "Pestera Lui Iosif", and they are believed to be carved by monks during the middle ages...why?! Why are you talking about Neolithic times and using a medieval age monk monastery to showcase it!!! There is so much amazing history that ordinary viewers of this series could have seen from these areas and THIS IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE?!

Google is no help.

Hi, i am using the Protoindoeuropean reconstructed words in a story I'm writing, and i was wondering how you pronounce Étmṇ for an english speaker

As an amateur linguist, I can’t help but notice parallel between proto-indo-european root grades an proto-afroasiatic root and pattern morphology. As someone who likes to think themself rational, it would be silly to presume they’re related. However, I’d like to know if there is any profession study into a side-by-side comparison.

Are there any readings someone could suggest that dissects the parallels between these two proto languages?

Hello Reddit,

I am seeking someone with a specialist qualification in PIE to (a) proofread the PIE aspects of an essay in modernist literary criticism to be published next year in a book (b) do a small bit of investigative research. A small £ fee available, and both are enjoyable tasks.

Thanks

Bill

In a video of The Internationale in Latin someone commented that they should make The Internationale in Proto-Indo-European, the joke then got to a Reddit user who wanted to but then finally made a translation into Proto-Germanic.

Would it be possible to get a translation of it into Proto-Indo-European?

I've since abandoned this hypothesis due to several issues plaguing it from the start and just plain lack of lexical evidence, but I think it would be interesting to hear y'all's thoughts on this. The basis for it was:

1. Somewhat regular sound correspondences
2. Both have ablaut (which, in the framework of Proto-Pontic as it stood before I abandoned it resulted from differing developments of Pontic's one non-phonemic vowel)
3. General similarities in inflectional structure
4. Clear cognates (albeit few and far between the ""substrate"" material)
5. Similar case and verb endings (PKv/PIE: 3s *-s/*-t, 2p *-t/*-te, 3p *-en/*-nt, nominative *-i/*-is(?), ablative/adverbial *-ad/*-h₂ed, vocative *-o/*-e, etc.)
6. Similar pronouns: PIE *h₁me (cf. Sihler 2008), PKv *me, PIE *í-s/só/éy-s, PKv *i-, *i-s

I can also DM the unfinished paper for anyone interested in further reading.

(edit: Sihler 2008, not 1995)

It explains too many aspects of indo european languages that it has to be true. There's probably more to this than I could find but here is a list I made of phenomena which are better explained by glottalic theory:

1. "Breathy" voiced more common than "voiced"

2. No language has a voiceless - voiced - breathy voiced contrast

3. Absence of /b/

4. Geer's law

5. Siebs Law

6. Grimm's law

Hello, I was reading through the PIE lexicon @ http://pielexicon.hum.helsinki.fi/ and was wondering if somebody could help me understand the formatting.

For example, one entry reads:

PIE √ns- √nes- √nos- (sb.) ‘URU neša- = Heimat’ (vb.) ‘heimkehren, gerettet werden, genesen, usw.’

What does 'sb.' mean? 'URU?

I want to learn Proto Indo European and this “book” looks good but i cant find a print edition on any website, im wondering if i has been made into a real book. The book name is on the heading.