PIE very frequently derived nominals from verbs. Just as English giver and gift are ultimately related to the verb give, déh3tors and déh3nom are derived from deh3- , but the practice was much more common in PIE. For example, pods was derived from ped- , and dómh2s from demh2- .

Morphology

The basic structure of Proto-Indo-European nouns and adjectives was the same as that of PIE verbs. A lexical word (as would appear in a dictionary) was

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