an asterisk (*) to distinguish them from attested forms.

An attested word from which a root in the proto-language is reconstructed is a '. More generally, a reflex is the known derivative of an earlier form, which may be either attested or reconstructed. A reflex that is predictable from the reconstructed history of the language is a 'regular' reflex. Reflexes of the same source are cognates.

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