Kurdish 'nav' perfectly preserves the PIE root *h₁nómn̥. The initial laryngeal was lost in most languages, but the core 'n-m' structure remains. Latin 'nomen' gave French 'nom', while Germanic preserved it as 'name'.
nav *h₁nómn̥
| Kurdish | Persian | Hindi | Russian | French | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nav | nâm | nām | imya | nom | name |
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January 11, 2026
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Core PIE vocabulary