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Where does “kʷe” come from?

kʷe (Proto-Hellenic) comes from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

Ancestry of “kʷe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

Words derived from “kʷe”

  • είτε
  • μήτε
  • τε
  • μήτε
  • αὖτε
  • αὐτάρ
  • εἴτε
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →