Introduction to Ancient Sanskrit - University of Texas at Austin
The earliest Indo-European poems. The earliest surviving anthology of poems in any of the Indo-European languages is in Ancient Sanskrit. Composed long before Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, it consists of over a thousand songs of considerable merit celebrating the riches of nature, whose forces are frequently deified.
Ancient Sanskrit Online - University of Texas at Austin
Sanskrit: Base Form Dictionary. This Base Form Dictionary index lists, in an alphabetical order suitable to the language and the script employed for it, every unique base form underlying one or more surface (word) forms in lesson texts.
Ancient Sanskrit Online - University of Texas at Austin
Grammar Points. 1. An introduction to the verb √as 'be'.. 2. The personal pronoun.. 3. Nominal stems in - i and - u.. 4. Verb inflection: active and middle forms of the present tense..
Proto-Indo-European Phonology: 1. Introduction - University of …
With the solution of the chief problems in the PIE group of consonants went the assumption that the PIE accent was a variable pitch accent like that of Vedic Sanskrit. Verner demonstrated that if one assumed that the PIE (Vedic) accent had survived into PGmc., one could account for the development of voiced from voiceless spirants.
Introduction to Old Iranian - University of Texas at Austin
These include the Vedic liturgical texts of the Punjab region on the one hand, and a few words and passages from the legal and diplomatic documents of southeastern Anatolia's Mitanni kingdom, ruled by an Indo-Aryan minority, on the other.
The Rigveda: Metrically Restored Text - University of Texas at Austin
For illustration of the many ways in which the later editorial process distorted and obscured the original, see section 45.1 of our online course on the language of the Rigveda, Ancient Sanskrit Online.
Indo-European Lexicon: PIE Etyma and IE Reflexes
PIE Etyma and IE Reflexes. The Indo-European Lexicon (IELEX) project intends to collect in one place the individual words of the common parent of the Indo-European (IE) family of languages. Scholars term this common parent Proto-Indo-European (PIE).
Proto-Indo-European Phonology: 3. Laryngeal theory
The quantity of vowels in Vedic Sanskrit often demands that we assume a laryngeal. For example, Vedic abhí normally retains its final short vowel; in some compounds, however, we find long i . The second member of most such compounds is from a root beginning with laryngeal.
Proto-Indo-European Phonology: 2. PIE Phonology - University of …
In both Greek and Vedic poetry poetic rhythm is based on syllabic quantity, not patterning of accented and unaccented syllables. Both systems of prosody share so many essential features that we must derive them from an earlier common system.
Proto-Indo-European Syntax: 4. Verbal Mod's - University of Texas …
As Delbrück concluded at the end of his examination of the various aorist forms in Sanskrit (Delbrück 1876:88), all the aorist forms were used similarly in Vedic. The surface affix s and its variants simply came to indicate the aorist category, in addition to the zero-grade form of roots.