Etymology

Narten present

Today it means: A proposed inflectional class of the Proto-Indo-European verb, characterized by accent on the root in all of the person-number forms. Full definition →

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The story

Named after the Indo-Iranianist Johanna Narten, who posited its existence in 1968.

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