Indo-European Jeopardy

Guess the word from PIE

10

*bʰlendʰ-

(To) blend

20

*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s

(A) tongue

30

*bʰeyd-

(To) bait

40

*kóylos

Whole

50

*h₂eHs-

ash

Sound laws and changes

10

This sound law describes a certain chain shift from PIE to Proto-Germanic

Grimm's Law

20

This sound change merged the pronunciation of two vowels in English

Cot-caught merger

30

This sound change causes vowels before a certain vowel to be pronounced closer to that certain vowel

Umlaut

40

This sound change is literally translated as "hand"

Ruki sound law

50

This sound law states how /o/ became either /a/ or /a:/ depending on the context in Indo-Iranian languages

Brugmann's law

Daughter branches

10

This branch includes the language of English

Germanic

20

This branch contains a non-Slavic language whos word for yes is "da"

Romance (the language is Romanian)

30

This branch has the common feature of having four sets of stop consonants

Indo-Aryan

40

This branch had a very distant language spoken in Crimea

Germanic (Crimean Gothic)

50

This branch only has 2 surviving languages in it

Hellenic

Specific languages

10

This language is known for writing silent x-s.

French

20

This language has the digraph <xh>, representing an affricate

Albanian

30

This language's names of letters are often used for the names of fraternities in the US

Greek

40

This language retained two sounds that were lost in every other branch

Hittite

50

This language was erroneously classified as an Iranian language

Armenian

Random

10

Zero-grade in PIE means...

A syllable has no vowel in it

20

PIE notation uses this diacritic for syllabic sonorants

Underring

30

This affix formed the causative in PIE

*(o)-éy-eti ~ *(o)-éy-onti 

éye is also acceptable.

40

This cycle causes a shift in the ways languages represent negation

Jespersen's cycle

50

This group of languages (part of a branch) went completely extinct, leaving no languages that exist in the modern day from it

East Germanic