Primary value thinking of Indo-Europeans in reconstructed relics of their language

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying the reconstruction of the Indo-European language based on a fixed register of words denoting cultural, moral, religious concepts, which may indicate the political and social structure of society at that time and highlight the values of the Indo-European community. The language can serve as a means of accumulating and preserving culturally significant information. Turning to Indo-European origins, the researcher receives tools to reproduce the most critical components of the worldview of Indo-Europeans and identify the values of the Indo-European language community in the bowels of which all European civilization was born. The article aims to study the etymological versions of the Indo European roots for the lexemes truth, good, beauty, and benefit and reconstruct Indo-European’s syncretic ideas about fundamental value categories, which eventually acquired the status of crucial value concepts of any linguistic culture. It is grounded that the ethnic consciousness of Indo-Europeans was mythological and syncretic. The main phenomena of the life of the Indo-European ethnic group were rituals and taboos, which united all members of the Indo-European community and formed values that were relevant to them and determined the appropriate behaviour. It is concluded that the value ideas of Indo-Europeans about good indicate the idea of union between themselves and the deity to know the truth to enjoy the material and later spiritual benefits embodied in the concept of benefit. The primary Indo-European *d-roots recorded the idea of the Indo-European community about beauty, which was formed in the worshipping of higher powers and observation of celestial phenomena and was accompanied by a sense of harmony and happiness.