The Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch ("The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary") is an updated and slimmed-down reworking of the three-volume Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen of Alois Walde and Julius Pokorny (1927-32) by the Austrian-German comparative linguist and Celtic languages expert Julius Pokorny, that was published in 1959. Julius Pokorny ( 12 June 1887 – 8 April 1970) was a scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Both of these works aim to provide an overview of the lexical knowledge accumulated until the early 20th century, but with only stray comments on the structure of individual forms. The newer work is now slightly outdated, especially as it was conservative even at the time Pokorny wrote it, ignoring the laryngeal theory, and hardly including any Tocharian or Anatolian material. The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of Historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more Consonant sounds that appear Tocharian or Tokharian is one of the branches of the Indo-European language family. The Anatolian languages are a group of extinct Indo-European languages which were spoken in Asia Minor, the best attested of them being the Hittite language There exists no more modern and updated etymological dictionary of the Indo-European languages except Pokorny, so it is still of interest to scholars. An etymological dictionary discusses the Etymology of the words listed The Indogermanisches Wörterbuch by Gerhard Köbler expands Pokorny's material by significant number of traditional, grammatical and laryngeal roots, but lacks minor number of other traditional roots from Pokorny. The Indogermanisches Wörterbuch ( "Indo-European Dictionary") is an Etymological dictionary of the Proto-Indo-European language by
- French & European Publications (1969), ISBN 0828866023
- Francke 4th ed. (2002), 5th ed. (2005), ISBN 3772009476
See also
- Indogermanisches Wörterbuch
- Lexikon der Indogermanischen Verben
- Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen
External links
- Pokorny PIE Data (University of Texas)
- Pokorny online version (Leiden University)
- Indogermanisches Wörterbuch by Gerhard Köbler (based on IEW and containing PIE grammar from Grundriß in Vorwort section)
This article about a reference book is a stub. The Indogermanisches Wörterbuch ( "Indo-European Dictionary") is an Etymological dictionary of the Proto-Indo-European language by The Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben ( LIV, "Lexicon of the Indo-European Verbs") is an Etymological dictionary of the Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen ("Outline of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages " is This article is about a kind of publication Reference work may also refer to the work that librarians perform at a Library reference desk. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic