Thread:User talk:Rua/about "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰeyd-"/reply (5)

We also show forms that cannot be reconstructed for other languages. In that case, the term is not linked, so only the third parameter of is used and not the second. Sometimes, further descendants of such a form are found later, and when there are enough, we make them into proper PIE words.

So, if I understand correctly, they are descendants of a hypothetical ?