Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʰe

Particle

 * : indeed, at any rate, in fact
 * : indeed, of course, surely

Usage notes
The particle was indeclinable in Proto-Indo-European. Some daughter languages, particularly Italic, added pronominal inflection later, as also occurred with the particles, , and. This particle could either be postposed to the word it intensified (e.g. *Hyód-gʰe wóyde “that which he knows”) or that it otherwise modified (e.g. *né-gʰí “not at all, not indeed”), or it could begin discourse in which it is placed before everything else (e.g. *gʰí … “of course, …”). The presence or lack of aspiration as well as the ablaut grade appear to have been completely arbitrary, and may have been subject to dialectal variation.

Derived terms

 * *gʰe-ḱe
 * *ne-g(ʰ)i
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *ne-g(ʰ)i
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *sm̥-gʰé
 * *sm̥-gʰé