o-grade
English
Noun
o-grade (uncountable)
- (Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, a term used to describe an ablaut form of a Proto-Indo-European root, characterised by the presence of the */o/ vowel phoneme in place of */e/.
- Ancient Greek γόνος (gónos) is a reflex of *ǵónh₁os (“race”), which is itself an o-grade derivative of the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to produce, bear”).
Related terms
- e-grade
- zero-grade
Anagrams
- dog ear, dog-ear, dogear, goader