Considering muting the word “indoeuropean”. Will I miss anything interesting?
February 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Considering muting the word “indoeuropean”. Will I miss anything interesting?
A gorgeous representation of the Indo-European language family from the webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent
#IndoEuropean #etymology #history #linguistics #language
#IndoEuropean #etymology #history #linguistics #language
May 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A gorgeous representation of the Indo-European language family from the webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent
#IndoEuropean #etymology #history #linguistics #language
#IndoEuropean #etymology #history #linguistics #language
I’ve got:
Theology (obviously)
Typography and print layout
Heirloom gardening
The proto indoeuropean homeland
Pens
Knowing about languages even if I don’t know the languages
Traditional hand tool woodworking
Theology (obviously)
Typography and print layout
Heirloom gardening
The proto indoeuropean homeland
Pens
Knowing about languages even if I don’t know the languages
Traditional hand tool woodworking
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
I’ve got:
Theology (obviously)
Typography and print layout
Heirloom gardening
The proto indoeuropean homeland
Pens
Knowing about languages even if I don’t know the languages
Traditional hand tool woodworking
Theology (obviously)
Typography and print layout
Heirloom gardening
The proto indoeuropean homeland
Pens
Knowing about languages even if I don’t know the languages
Traditional hand tool woodworking
Rūta is regarded as an Extremely Lithuanian first name in Lithuania precisely because the word sounds so genuinely very Lithuanian but... no. it seems to come from some weird pre-indoeuropean substrate in Greece
July 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Rūta is regarded as an Extremely Lithuanian first name in Lithuania precisely because the word sounds so genuinely very Lithuanian but... no. it seems to come from some weird pre-indoeuropean substrate in Greece
Accompanied by a Proto-IndoEuropean bellow of 'Oi! Get off my land!'.
July 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Accompanied by a Proto-IndoEuropean bellow of 'Oi! Get off my land!'.
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within came out and there are lots of my maps in it!
Dread Domain of Kalakeri
Watercolors, Oils and Inks on primed cotton paper
AD: Emi Tanji
ⓒ Wizards of the Coast
Dread Domain of Kalakeri
Watercolors, Oils and Inks on primed cotton paper
AD: Emi Tanji
ⓒ Wizards of the Coast
June 17, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within came out and there are lots of my maps in it!
Dread Domain of Kalakeri
Watercolors, Oils and Inks on primed cotton paper
AD: Emi Tanji
ⓒ Wizards of the Coast
Dread Domain of Kalakeri
Watercolors, Oils and Inks on primed cotton paper
AD: Emi Tanji
ⓒ Wizards of the Coast
It's actually way older!! In some form or another, the same concept is found in virtually all indoeuropean languages, and should trace its roots to PIE *seǵʰ-seb
December 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's actually way older!! In some form or another, the same concept is found in virtually all indoeuropean languages, and should trace its roots to PIE *seǵʰ-seb
Took part in this workshop on the o-stem genitive singular this last week. The topic at first seemed impossibly narrow, but in the end we had a very rich set of discussions and it and all sorts of related matters in Indo-European (pro)nominal morphology over the course of the last two days.
Branch out: Rethinking the branching order of the Indoeuropean language
International workshop on indoeuropean linguistics.
ctr.hum.ku.dk
May 18, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Took part in this workshop on the o-stem genitive singular this last week. The topic at first seemed impossibly narrow, but in the end we had a very rich set of discussions and it and all sorts of related matters in Indo-European (pro)nominal morphology over the course of the last two days.
basically every form of indoeuropean mythology (and probably all the other ones I just know the IE ones) has "if you do that then you'll fuck up and arrest God and he will End You"
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 PM
basically every form of indoeuropean mythology (and probably all the other ones I just know the IE ones) has "if you do that then you'll fuck up and arrest God and he will End You"
Eine Promotionsstelle, #hethitisch, #Hittite, #anatolisch, #Anatolian, #indogermanisch, #IndoEuropean
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Eine Promotionsstelle, #hethitisch, #Hittite, #anatolisch, #Anatolian, #indogermanisch, #IndoEuropean
You just know that somewhere in her notes, Marija Gimbutienė left us a basic primer to a DnD campaign set in pre-indoeuropean Europe, and it is our duty to find it.
Yes. But she was a real nerd. There's no way Gimbutas hasnt played DnD if nothing else.
January 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You just know that somewhere in her notes, Marija Gimbutienė left us a basic primer to a DnD campaign set in pre-indoeuropean Europe, and it is our duty to find it.
Before yhwh became the "ur not allowed to depict me" god of the isrealites, he was a bull that controlleed storms and war
After he merged with their king god el, he took the apperance of el, the skyfather indoeuropean classic, long white/grey bearded stern grandpa
After he merged with their king god el, he took the apperance of el, the skyfather indoeuropean classic, long white/grey bearded stern grandpa
July 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Before yhwh became the "ur not allowed to depict me" god of the isrealites, he was a bull that controlleed storms and war
After he merged with their king god el, he took the apperance of el, the skyfather indoeuropean classic, long white/grey bearded stern grandpa
After he merged with their king god el, he took the apperance of el, the skyfather indoeuropean classic, long white/grey bearded stern grandpa
Indoeuropean cat pics, obvs
February 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Indoeuropean cat pics, obvs
The Venerable Bate, your SOV article was called out on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/IndoEurope...
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From the IndoEuropean community on Reddit: Usage-based evolutionary models reveal context-specific word order change in Indo-European (Ebert et al. 2025)
Explore this post and more from the IndoEuropean community
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May 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The Venerable Bate, your SOV article was called out on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/IndoEurope...
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Derailing this very interesting and informative conversation to say that when i was a teenager, I learned all the pre-indoeuropean words i could find in preparation for any potential accidental wormhole type events that might have me end up in the ancient past.
Forgotten them all now.
Forgotten them all now.
February 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Derailing this very interesting and informative conversation to say that when i was a teenager, I learned all the pre-indoeuropean words i could find in preparation for any potential accidental wormhole type events that might have me end up in the ancient past.
Forgotten them all now.
Forgotten them all now.
Last night I got super high and started wandering around my kitchen trying to identify things that I thought a time traveling proto-indoeuropean language speaker might recognize and have a similar word for.
January 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Last night I got super high and started wandering around my kitchen trying to identify things that I thought a time traveling proto-indoeuropean language speaker might recognize and have a similar word for.
Two new books on Proto-Indo-European are coming out in May! ⬇️
#IndoEuropean #history #archaeology #linguistics #language
#IndoEuropean #history #archaeology #linguistics #language
April 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Two new books on Proto-Indo-European are coming out in May! ⬇️
#IndoEuropean #history #archaeology #linguistics #language
#IndoEuropean #history #archaeology #linguistics #language
Bronze Age genomes show two steppe migrations into the Mediterranean, aligning with Indo-European language patterns. Bell Beakers to the west, Yamnaya to the east. #AncientDNA #HumanMigration #Anthropology #Linguistics #LinguisticAnthropology #IndoEuropean
Ancient DNA Reveals Genetic and Linguistic Divides in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Insights into Indo-European Language Origins
www.anthropology.net
December 27, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Bronze Age genomes show two steppe migrations into the Mediterranean, aligning with Indo-European language patterns. Bell Beakers to the west, Yamnaya to the east. #AncientDNA #HumanMigration #Anthropology #Linguistics #LinguisticAnthropology #IndoEuropean
The word TRUE comes from
Old English triewe
Proto Germanic treuwaz
Proto IndoEuropean deru—
Which means firm, solid, steadfast and was originally connected to the words TRUST, TRUCE and TREE
What a crevasse between who we are and who we used to be
Birds, though, can still see
#vss365 #crevasse
Old English triewe
Proto Germanic treuwaz
Proto IndoEuropean deru—
Which means firm, solid, steadfast and was originally connected to the words TRUST, TRUCE and TREE
What a crevasse between who we are and who we used to be
Birds, though, can still see
#vss365 #crevasse
May 25, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The name of the Norse god 'Ty' comes from the same Indoeuropean root word for 'day' that also led to the names of the gods Zeus and Jupiter, and the Vedic 'Dyaus.'
June 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The name of the Norse god 'Ty' comes from the same Indoeuropean root word for 'day' that also led to the names of the gods Zeus and Jupiter, and the Vedic 'Dyaus.'
My native language is Finnish. It's not an Indoeuropean language, so despite the fact that I've e.g. translated several books from Indoeuropean languages, I'm never quite sure why some phrasing in English feels right – is it good, or is my Finno-Ugric intuition leading me astray?
April 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
My native language is Finnish. It's not an Indoeuropean language, so despite the fact that I've e.g. translated several books from Indoeuropean languages, I'm never quite sure why some phrasing in English feels right – is it good, or is my Finno-Ugric intuition leading me astray?
my body is a machine that in order to check if an ionic-attic η comes from ᾱ or proto-indoeuropean *ē has to hop on and out of Wiktionary constantly
December 9, 2024 at 10:59 AM
my body is a machine that in order to check if an ionic-attic η comes from ᾱ or proto-indoeuropean *ē has to hop on and out of Wiktionary constantly