Proto-Indo-European root
Term root word
The term root word has two meanings in linguistics. The root word is partly as a unit of analysis of the morphology, which is the lexical nucleus of the word. This gives the root of a word by removing all Ablautvarianten, prefixes, suffixes, infixes and Flexionsmerkmale, for example, is the root of the contract synchronously words inconveniences or it wore. In the historical grammar root word referred diachronically the reconstructed output form on which the cognates of a word equation can be returned within a language family. In this article, especially the second meaning is intended.
Indo-European word roots
The Indo-European word roots are those of the Indo-European family of languages underlying roots. In etymological dictionaries are often indicated with an asterisk in front of it (eg * d ʰ eh ₁) to indicate that these forms not used, but are developed.