Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

In the last episode, we began to look at some of the specific words used by the original

Indo-Europeans, many of which are still found in various forms in modern English.

In this episode, I want to continue looking at some of the original Indo-European words.

Many of the words in this episode relate to the society and culture of the Indo-Europeans,

so these words will begin to reveal more about who these people were.

Remember that as linguists began to reconstruct these words, they were not really sure who

these people were.

They had some guesses and made certain assumptions, but they didn't really know when or where

these people lived.

So the language helps to narrow the range of possibilities.

In the last episode, I pointed out a few clues, like the existence of honeybees and beach

trees.

And we'll look at all of these clues in an upcoming episode of the podcast.

But for now, let's look at some more words which the Indo-Europeans used to learn a

bit more about these ancient people.

Let's start with some of the kinship and family terms.

The Indo-European language contained the original version of the words Father and Mother.

We've talked about the word Father quite a few times in this podcast.

Remember that the word in Latin was Potter, and the word in Old English was Fatter.

Both words originated in the original Indo-European language, as did the word for Mother.

We also find the original version of the words Brother and Sister, which were pronounced

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