Etymological Dictionary of Latin

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Reference Work

Pages, Illustrations:

xiv, 826 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Biographical note

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).

Readership

All those interested in the history of Latin & the other ancient Italic languages, classicists, scholars of comparative Indo-European linguistics, Romance linguistics and historical linguistics.

Reviews

"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

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
A. Languages, texts and authors
B. Reconstruction, grammar and text
C. Symbols

INTRODUCTION

1. Aim of this dictionary

2. Definition of Italic

3. Research method

4. From Proto-Indo-European to Latin
4.1 Reconstructable stages
4.2 The phonology of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Italic and Latin

5. The entries
5.1 Selection of entries
5.2 The entries
5.3 Dating
5.4 Derivatives
5.5 Proto-Italic
5.6 Italic cognates
5.7 Proto-Indo-European
5.8 Indo-European cognates
5.9 Etymology
5.10 Bibliography

6. Periodization of Latin

DICTIONARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abbreviations of literature
Authors

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