#  Keyterms 

 



**A set of key terms for the study of Indo-European languages.**

Indo-European  
 Kurgan  
 genetic classification  
 typological classification  
 inflected language  
 satem and centum languages  
 cognate words  
 inflection  
 cases  
 personal verb endings  
 number  
 tense  
 gender  
 strong and weak verbs  
 Germanic Consonant Shift: Grimm's Law and Verner's Law  
 Rasmus Rask  
 proto-Germanic

Sixth century BCE: Germanic Consonant shift  
 1786 William Jones  
 1822 Jacob Grimm, German Grammar, 2nd ed.  
 1915 Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics