"gʰe" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

See gʰe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

Forms: ge [canonical], go [canonical], gi [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|ine-pro|particle|head=*g(ʰ)e|head2=*g(ʰ)o|head3=*g(ʰ)i}} *g(ʰ)e or *g(ʰ)o or *g(ʰ)i
  1. Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact Wikipedia link: Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme Tags: reconstruction Derived forms: h₂éw ge (english: see there for further descendants) Derived forms (Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi): nedz (english: neither, nor) [Latvian], nègi (english: not at all) [Lithuanian] Derived forms (Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi; Old Prussian): neggi Derived forms (Proto-Germanic; Old Saxon): nec (english: neither) Derived forms (Proto-Indo-Aryan): घा (ghā) [Sanskrit], न घ (ná gha) [Sanskrit] Derived forms (Proto-Italic): hō- (in hōc and hōrsum) (english: hither) [Latin]
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
          "lang_code": "sla-pro",
          "word": "*že"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*ge"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Old Lithuanian",
          "lang_code": "olt",
          "word": "-ga"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
          "lang_code": "sla-pro",
          "word": "*-go"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*go"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "lang_code": "got",
          "roman": "-k",
          "word": "-𐌺"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
      "lang_code": "gem-pro",
      "word": "*-k"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "lang_code": "grc",
          "roman": "ge",
          "sense": "at least, at any rate, only; in fact",
          "word": "γε"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Hellenic",
      "lang_code": "grk-pro",
      "word": "*ge"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*źʰa"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*gʰa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*ǰʰa"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*źʰa"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*gʰa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*gʰa"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Italic",
      "lang_code": "itc-pro",
      "word": "*ho"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "lang_code": "txb",
          "sense": "just, scarcely",
          "word": "ka"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Tocharian",
      "lang_code": "ine-toc-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "inherited",
        "uncertain"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ge",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "go",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gi",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "particle",
        "head": "*g(ʰ)e",
        "head2": "*g(ʰ)o",
        "head3": "*g(ʰ)i"
      },
      "expansion": "*g(ʰ)e or *g(ʰ)o or *g(ʰ)i",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʰe",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "ghā",
          "sense": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "tags": [
            "Sanskrit"
          ],
          "word": "घा"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ná gha",
          "sense": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "tags": [
            "Sanskrit"
          ],
          "word": "न घ"
        },
        {
          "english": "hither",
          "roman": "in hōc and hōrsum",
          "sense": "Proto-Italic",
          "tags": [
            "Latin"
          ],
          "translation": "hither",
          "word": "hō-"
        },
        {
          "english": "see there for further descendants",
          "translation": "see there for further descendants",
          "word": "h₂éw ge"
        },
        {
          "english": "neither, nor",
          "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi",
          "tags": [
            "Latvian"
          ],
          "translation": "neither, nor",
          "word": "nedz"
        },
        {
          "english": "not at all",
          "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi",
          "tags": [
            "Lithuanian"
          ],
          "translation": "not at all",
          "word": "nègi"
        },
        {
          "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi; Old Prussian",
          "word": "neggi"
        },
        {
          "english": "neither",
          "sense": "Proto-Germanic; Old Saxon",
          "translation": "neither",
          "word": "nec"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact"
      ],
      "id": "en-gʰe-ine-pro-particle-GxGb-F8~",
      "links": [
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ],
        [
          "at any rate",
          "at any rate"
        ],
        [
          "in fact",
          "in fact"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gʰe"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "ghā",
      "sense": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
      "tags": [
        "Sanskrit"
      ],
      "word": "घा"
    },
    {
      "english": "hither",
      "roman": "in hōc and hōrsum",
      "sense": "Proto-Italic",
      "tags": [
        "Latin"
      ],
      "translation": "hither",
      "word": "hō-"
    },
    {
      "english": "see there for further descendants",
      "translation": "see there for further descendants",
      "word": "h₂éw ge"
    },
    {
      "english": "neither, nor",
      "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi",
      "tags": [
        "Latvian"
      ],
      "translation": "neither, nor",
      "word": "nedz"
    },
    {
      "english": "not at all",
      "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi",
      "tags": [
        "Lithuanian"
      ],
      "translation": "not at all",
      "word": "nègi"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Proto-Balto-Slavic: *negi; Old Prussian",
      "word": "neggi"
    },
    {
      "english": "neither",
      "sense": "Proto-Germanic; Old Saxon",
      "translation": "neither",
      "word": "nec"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ná gha",
      "sense": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
      "tags": [
        "Sanskrit"
      ],
      "word": "न घ"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
          "lang_code": "sla-pro",
          "word": "*že"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*ge"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Old Lithuanian",
          "lang_code": "olt",
          "word": "-ga"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
          "lang_code": "sla-pro",
          "word": "*-go"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*go"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "lang_code": "got",
          "roman": "-k",
          "word": "-𐌺"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
      "lang_code": "gem-pro",
      "word": "*-k"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "lang_code": "grc",
          "roman": "ge",
          "sense": "at least, at any rate, only; in fact",
          "word": "γε"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Hellenic",
      "lang_code": "grk-pro",
      "word": "*ge"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*źʰa"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*gʰa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*ǰʰa"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*źʰa"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "ha",
              "word": "ह"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Sanskrit",
              "lang_code": "sa",
              "roman": "gha",
              "word": "घ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
          "lang_code": "inc-pro",
          "word": "*gʰa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*gʰa"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Italic",
      "lang_code": "itc-pro",
      "word": "*ho"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "lang_code": "txb",
          "sense": "just, scarcely",
          "word": "ka"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Tocharian",
      "lang_code": "ine-toc-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "inherited",
        "uncertain"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ge",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "go",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gi",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "particle",
        "head": "*g(ʰ)e",
        "head2": "*g(ʰ)o",
        "head3": "*g(ʰ)i"
      },
      "expansion": "*g(ʰ)e or *g(ʰ)o or *g(ʰ)i",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʰe",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
        "Proto-Indo-European particles"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ],
        [
          "at any rate",
          "at any rate"
        ],
        [
          "in fact",
          "in fact"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gʰe"
}

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