21.2584, Disc: Latin Etymology

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Subject: 21.2584, Disc: Latin Etymology

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Date: 14-Jun-2010
From: Richard Durkan < rdurkan at hotmail.com >
Subject: Latin Etymology
 

	
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:56:23
From: Richard Durkan [rdurkan at hotmail.com]
Subject: Latin Etymology

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I have been using T G Tucker's Etymological Dictionary of Latin and am
struck how amongst the cognates he cites the same few languages recur at
the expense of other Indo-European languages. Sanskrit and Lithuanian I can
understand but I am puzzled by the frequency of Old Bulgarian, Old
Prussian, Old High German Gothic and Old Norwegian . Of course it is
possible these are just the languages he was most familiar with but I
wonder if there are any more objective reasons. I would be interested in
any observations. 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics




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