A Dictionary of Tocharian B
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
860 pages
978-90-420-0435-1 (ISBN)
Description
A Dictionary of Tocharian B is the first major dictionary of either Tocharian language to appear. It attempts to include all known Tocharian B words, including the large number of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit borrowings, with as complete a record of meaning, morphology, and etymology as is currently possible. Relevant contextual examples are provided where possible. It also contains a reverse, English-Tocharian B, index including a general index, and index of proper names, an index of names of meters, and an index of words of unknown meaning. This volume is of interest to both students of Tocharian B trying to work their way through Tocharian B texts and to Tocharianists and Indo-Europeanists who are interested in the connection of Tocharian to the rest of Indo-European. Bibliographical references provide a reasonably complete history of lexical and etymological research in Tocharian B.
Reviews / Votes
"De facon exemplaire, dans tous les sens de du terme, l'auteur est realise, seul, un travail gigantesque, que personne d'autre n'a mene jusqu'a son terme, et il a droit ... a la gratitude des tokharologues et des indo-europeanistes." - in: Kratylos, Jahrgang 51 (2006)"This dictionary provides useful access to etymological work of the past ... a valuable tool for the specialist and the non-specialist alike" - in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1 (2003)
"This is a book that deserves an enthusiastic welcome. ...the Dictionary provides invaluable assistance both as an aid to reading the texts and as a compendium of forms for philological study. All in all, a solid achievement that should earn the author our congratulations and gratitude." - in: School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 64/1 (2001)
"I had always near at hand the 1999 edition for my own research, and I have experienced every day the utility of this revised edition, which will remain standard for many years to come." - Georges-Jean Pinault, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114(2) (2019), 91-97
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0435-1 (9789042004351)
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