Etymological Dictionary of Latin
and the other Italic Languages
$274.82
- Paperback
840 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2016
Summary
Latin is one of the major ancient Indo-European languages and one of the cornerstones of Indo-European studies. Since the last comprehensive etymological dictionary of Latin appeared in 1959, enormous progress has been made in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and many etymologies have been revised. This new etymological dictionary covers the entire Latin lexicon of Indo-European origin. It consists of nearly 1900 entries, which altogether discuss about 8000 Latin lemmata. All words …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789004321892 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9004321896 |
| Author: | Michiel de Vaan |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Imprint: | Brill |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 840 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary |
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“Specialists will learn much from this work.”“This is an impressive, handsomely produced volume. It deserves to be in any serious linguistic library.” Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, reviewed for the The Linguist List, 7 April 2009.“This new, important dictionary cannot be neglected by anyone interested in the history of words.”Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, (Universiteit van Gent), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.11.27
About The Author
Michiel de Vaan
Michiel de Vaan (Ph.D. 2002) teaches comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology at Leiden University. He has published extensively on Germanic, Albanian, and Indo-Iranian linguistics and philology, including The Avestan Vowels (2003) and Germanic Tone Accents (ed. 2006).
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