Guess the word from PIE
*bʰlendʰ-
(To) blend
This sound law describes a certain chain shift from PIE to Proto-Germanic
Grimm's Law
This branch includes the language of English
Germanic
This language is known for writing silent x-s.
French
Zero-grade in PIE means...
A syllable has no vowel in it
*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
(A) tongue
This sound change merged the pronunciation of two vowels in English
Cot-caught merger
This branch contains a non-Slavic language whos word for yes is "da"
Romance (the language is Romanian)
This language has the digraph <xh>, representing an affricate
Albanian
Underring
*bʰeyd-
(To) bait
This sound change causes vowels before a certain vowel to be pronounced closer to that certain vowel
Umlaut
This branch has the common feature of having four sets of stop consonants
This language's names of letters are often used for the names of fraternities in the US
Greek
This affix formed the causative in PIE
*(o)-éy-eti ~ *(o)-éy-onti
éye is also acceptable.
*kóylos
Whole
This sound change is literally translated as "hand"
Ruki sound law
This branch had a very distant language spoken in Crimea
Germanic (Crimean Gothic)
This language retained two sounds that were lost in every other branch
Hittite
This cycle causes a shift in the ways languages represent negation
*h₂eHs-
ash
This sound law states how /o/ became either /a/ or /a:/ depending on the context in Indo-Iranian languages
Brugmann's law
This branch only has 2 surviving languages in it
Hellenic
This language was erroneously classified as an Iranian language
Armenian
This group of languages (part of a branch) went completely extinct, leaving no languages that exist in the modern day from it
East Germanic