Reposted by Martin Konvička
#OTD 96 years ago, Johanna Narten (1930–2019) was born 🎉 An expert in the history of the Indo-Iranian languages, especially Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan, who proposed what is now known as Narten ablaut in the analysis of Proto-Indo-European verbs.
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