8.894, Books: Etymology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-894. Wed Jun 18 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.894, Books: Etymology

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                         Jaan Puhvel

              HITTITE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY

              Volume 4: Words beginning with K
              1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. X, 333 pages
              Cloth DM 248,-/approx. US$ 177.00
                     ISBN 3-11-015491-9
            Trends in Linguistics: Documentation

            Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York


This is the fourth volume in the comprehensive compendium of the
vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the ancient Near
East and of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European
studies.

This basic research tool is based on cuneiform texts from the second
millenium B.C.E., and covers both attestations and origins of words
with special emphasis on cognates in other Indo-European and Near
Eastern languages. Five further volumes are in preparation and will be
published as they are finished.

The author has tried to eschew excessive rote uniformity of layout and
style in etymological discussion, in order to make as many entries as
possible self-contained micro-essays of a format best suited to the
item at hand. When no etymology is rated certain, the discussion often
proceeds from the less likely possibilities and ends up with the most
probable. When a preferred etymology is featured as virtually certain,
it is usually stated and discussed first, and discarded alternatives,
to the extent that they are deemed historically interesting, are
mentioned in a coda.

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