Semitic and Indo-European
Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 1995
XXII, 514 pages
978-90-272-7647-6 (ISBN)
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This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.
The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists' or the Semitists' conception of the prehistoric development of their languages. Nonetheless they are so fundamental that many would take them for evidence of a single original source, 'Proto-Nostratic'. In this book, however, it is considered unsettled whether proto-IE and proto-Semitic had a common forerunner. But the IE-Semitic combinations testify at least to prehistoric language communities in truly intimate contact.
The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists' or the Semitists' conception of the prehistoric development of their languages. Nonetheless they are so fundamental that many would take them for evidence of a single original source, 'Proto-Nostratic'. In this book, however, it is considered unsettled whether proto-IE and proto-Semitic had a common forerunner. But the IE-Semitic combinations testify at least to prehistoric language communities in truly intimate contact.
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Content
- SEMITIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN THE PRINCIPAL ETYMOLOGIES
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter I. NON-VERBAL NOUNS AND THEIR INFLECTIONS
- 1.A. Sem. (Arabic) {pawran} : IE (Gr.) 'bull'
- 1.B. IE (Latin) cornu(m) : Sem. (Akk.) {qarnu(m)} 'horn'
- 1.C. Sem. (Heb.) {?ozen} : IE (Old High German) [?]oren 'ear'
- 1.D. IE (Gr.) : Sem. (Aram.) {te?uwmey} 'twins'
- 1.E. IE (Skt.) {vít} : Sem. (Akt) {bi-it} 'house'
- 1.F. Sem. (Arabic) {?ardan} : IE (Old English) [?]eordan 'earth'
- 1.G. Sem. (Heb.)
- 1.H. Sem. (Arabic)
- 1.I. Sem. (Aram.)
- 1.J. IE (Skt.) {gárbham} : Sem. (Akk.) {qerbam} 'womb'
- 1.K. Sem. (Ge ez) {gwern} 'threshing floor' : IE (OEng.) cweorn 'quern'
- 1.L. Sem. (Ge?ez)
- 1.M. Sem. (Heb.)
- 1.N. Recapitulation of Morphology
- Chapter II. VERBAL ROOTS
- 2.A. Biconsonantal IE
- 2.B. Biconsonantal Sem.
- 2.C. Biconsonantal Sem.
- 2.D. Biconsonantal Sem.
- 2.E. Bi- or triconsonantal IE
- 2.F. Biconsonantal Sem.
- 2.G. Biconsonantal IE (Gr.)
- 2.H. Bi- or triconsonantal IE (Gr.)
- 2.I. Triconsonantal IE (Gr.)
- 2.J. Bi- or triconsonantal Sem. (Heb.)
- 2.K. Triconsonantal IE (Gr.)
- 2.L. Biconsonantal (-)p-T- 'open'
- 2.M. Triconsonantal {br-K-} 'wet, drench'
- 2.N. Triconsonantal IE (Skt.)
- 2.O. Tricons. Sem. (Heb.)
- 2.P. Tricons. Sem.
- 2.Q. Triconsonantal Sem.
- 2.R. Tricons. IE (Gr.)
- 2.S. ?iconsonantal IE (Gr.)
- 2.T. Triconsonantal
- 2.U. Triconsonantal
- 2.V. Triconsonantal Sem. (Heb.)
- 2.W. Triconsonantal Sem. (Heb.) {(-)z(-)z(-)H(-)} :
- 2.X. Bi- or tricons. Sem. (Heb.)
- 2.Y. Triconsonantal Sem.
- 2.Z. Tricons. Sem. (Heb.)
- 2.AA. Reduplicating Biconsonantal Sem.
- 2.BB. Tricons. IE (Skt.
- 2.CC. Tricons. Sem. (Arabic)
- 2.DD. Review of Root Consonants
- Chapter III. PRONOUNS
- 3.A. Sem. (Heb.)
- 3.B. IE (Skt.)
- 3.C. IE (Latin)
- 3.D. Sem. (Akk.)
- 3.E. Sem. (Heb.)
- 3.F. Sem. (Heb.)
- 3.G. Sem. (Aram.)
- 3.H. Concluding Remarks on Pronouns
- Chapter IV. PREPOSITIONS
- 4.A. Sem. (Heb.)
- 4.B. IE (OHG) durec 'through' : Sem. (Heb.)
- 4.C. Egyptian {Hnt(y)} : IE (Latin) ante 'in front of
- 4.D. IE (Gothic, Gr.) {ana} : Sem. (Akk.) {ana} '(up)on, to'
- 4.E. Sem. (Eblaite, Akk.) {in} : IE (Latin, etc)
- 4.F. Sem. (Heb., Aram.)
- 4.G. Sem. (Akk.)
- 4.H. Concluding Remarks on Prepositions
- Chapter V. NUMERALS
- 5.A. Sem. (Aram.)
- 5.B. The Displaced Numerals
- 5.C. The More Problematical Displaced Numerals Sem.
- 5.D. Sem. (Heb.)
- 5.E. Sem. (Akk.)
- 5.F. Egyptian
- 5.G. IE (Gr.)
- 5.H. Concluding Remarks
- ADDENDA
- INDICES
- Index of Scholars
- Index of Languages
- Index of Grammatical or Linguistic Terms
- Index of Miscellaneous Topics
- Index of Linguistic Forms
- Index of English Glosses
