Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-european Etymological Dictionary, 7) - Hardcover

De Vaan, Michiel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004167978 ISBN 13: 9789004167971

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2008

Synopsis

A new etymological dictionary of the entire Latin lexicon of Indo-European origin, and of the inherited stock of the other ancient Italic languages, such as Oscan, Umbrian and South Picene.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 attested before Cicero are included, together with their first date of attestation in Latin. The dictionary also includes all the inherited words found in the other ancient Italic languages, such as Oscan, Umbrian and South Picene; thus, it also serves as an etymological dictionary of Italic.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9004167978
• ISBN 13: 9789004167971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 825