Pashto, one of the national languages of Afghanistan, is an archaic language of the Iranian family with a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. In his "New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto", Georg Morgenstierne identifies loanwords and traces inherited words back …
Charles M. Kieffer has devoted his life to the study of some of the least known languages of the Iranian family, in particular Ormuri and Parachi, on which he carried out fieldwork in Afghanistan during the years 1959–1971 and on …
The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and its neighbour languages in historical and modern times to sociolinguistic questions of multilingualism and to …
Die Messapier lebten im südlichen Teil des heutigen Apulien und vereinten Einflüsse aus den Kulturen der Griechen, Latiner, Römer und Italiker. Ihre Inschriften stammen meist aus der Zeit zwischen 600 v. Chr. bis ca. 80 n. Chr. und geben Aufschluß …
In this volume, the members of an international research group present the first results of their work on a new „Indo-European Sytanx“. Furthermore, the volume contains contributions from other authors, who made valuable suggestions to the group.
Das "Lessico etimologico italiano" bietet:
1. Das erste etymologische Grundlagenwörterbuch, das systematisch die italienische Schriftsprache und die italienischen Dialekte mitberücksichtigt.
2. Das erste etymologische Wörterbuch des Italienischen, das im Aufbau dem FEW entspricht und den Wortschatz Italiens in den gesamtromanischen Zusammenhang stellt. …
Subject of this book is the morphology and semantics of the Proto-Indo-European primary s-stems. A thourough discussion of nearly a hundred stems that can be reconstructed for the parent language leads to an overall study of their ablaut and semantic …
This investigation deals with virtually unresearched idioms relating to body parts (e. g. eye, hand, head) in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic. By questioning Egyptians and utilizing the few written sources available, a collection of over 1000 idioms was compiled which, in …
Ever since Ossetic was extensively researched by eminent Iranists like Abaev, Bailey, Gershevitch and Benveniste, the language has earned a prominent place in (Indo-)Iranian and Indo-European Linguistics. Dealing with phonology together with etymological and morphological considerations, this study is the …
