Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/wer-

All those meanings grouped together..it's beyond belief. What a baroque speech PIE must have been. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 21:33, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Take a look at vērt -- Karulis is trying to offload two more meanings (not mentioned here) on this already overloaded root, lol. Neitrāls vārds (talk) 17:04, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

*wer- is not alone. Even well-established roots such *bʰer- (“to carry, to bear, to pick, to collect, to bring”), *deh₃- (“to give, to take”) are attested with several distinct meanings. Perhaps, the early Indo-European meaning of *wer- was to turn, to twist → screening, guarding with secondary "expressive" nuance to wreck, to perturb → burning, boiling, wrecking, etc.. Given that Wiktionary and most dictionaries try to reconstruct the meaning of the last common ancestor of Core IE languages, there is just no other option than reconstructing multiple meanings of archaic roots.

Admittedly, though, the whole page is poorly referenced and the attested descendants are inconclusive. In Balto-Slavic, it looks as if the roots *wer- and *werH- have amalgamated: cf. Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás m and Proto-Balto-Slavic *wárˀnāˀ f or the accent of Proto-Slavic *variti (ō-grade, ap b/c?), Latvian vàrît (possibly Slavic loanword). I have no idea how Victar or some other admin has not chopped it until now. 90.194.220.234 18:12, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

And hand: ránkāˀ

See Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ránkāˀ Zezen (talk) 22:51, 26 November 2021 (UTC)