*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 1

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01approximateMAPPABLE REGION

Proto-Indo-European prehistory

Pontic–Caspian horizon

love DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The *leubh- form is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence. The approximate point visualizes a broad steppe-homeland hypothesis; it is not the location of an excavated word.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
approximate
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

No source-backed numeric bounds are currently encoded for this route stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Indo-European Lexicon: *leubh-

    Publishes reconstructed leubh- “to love, like, care for” and the cross-branch reflexes that motivate it; it does not localize the prehistoric speech community.

    Pokorny Etymon leubh- and Indo-European reflex tableAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. context

    The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World

    Frames Proto-Indo-European time depth as the dating of a hypothetical construct and surveys the unresolved homeland problem. It supports cautious temporal and geographic context, not a word-specific archaeological location.

    Ch. 6 “A Place in Time,” pp. 86–105; Ch. 26 “Origins: The Never-Ending Story,” pp. 442–463AUDIT SOURCE ↗