Indo-European Cognate Dictionary

<p><strong>An indispensable reference for language learners within the Indo-European language family as well as for those who love words and want to deepen their understanding of English or other Indo-European languages.</strong></p><p></p><p>This 2nd edition of the dictionary records words from 46 languages covering the nine living branches of the Indo-European language family. These languages are:</p><p></p><p>Germanic: <strong>English Old English Frisian Dutch German Swedish Danish Norwegian Icelandic Norse</strong></p><p>Celtic: <strong>Welsh Irish Scottish Gaelic Breton Cornish Manx</strong></p><p>Italic: <strong>Latin French Italian Spanish Portuguese Catalan Romanian</strong></p><p>Greek: <strong>Ancient Greek Modern Greek</strong></p><p>Slavic: <strong> Russian Ukrainian Belarusian Polish Czech Slovak Macedonian Bulgarian Serbo-Croatian</strong></p><p>Baltic: <strong>Lithuanian Latvian</strong></p><p><strong>Armenian</strong></p><p><strong>Albanian</strong></p><p>Indo-Iranian: <strong>Sanskrit Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Persian Pashto Kurdish</strong></p><p></p><p>Germanic and Romance languages are covered far more completely and deeply than other branches. Of the 180000 words in the dictionary over 52000 belong to the Germanic branch (18000 of which are English) and 57000 to the Italic branch. Because of its influence on other languages Ancient Greek has also been covered reasonably well with nearly 7000 words.</p><p></p><p>The dictionary consists of two parts. The first part contains the pages for each Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word (the root word spoken thousands of years ago) showing cognates in the chosen languages plus various descendants and derivatives. These pages are arranged thematically. This part allows you to browse or study. Search is enabled by the second part to the dictionary which contains a separate index for each language telling you to which PIE root the word belongs.</p>