The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Watkins, Calvert (9780547549446)

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots - Edition #3

by Watkins, Calvert

Paperback - English

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots traces over 13,000 words, representing nearly 1,350 basic roots, to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English. The dictionary includes an introductory essay by Dr. Calvert Watkins, explaining how it is possible to reconstruct the words of an ancient and unwritten language and describing what scholars have discovered about Proto-Indo-European culture. Interspersed throughout the body of the dictionary are Language and Culture notes that provide more detailed information on particularly interesting roots and the vocabulary derived from them. The Dictionary of Indo-European Roots is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place within the Indo-European language family.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Edition Number

ISBN

054754944X

EAN

9780547549446

Publisher

COLLINS REFERENCE

Publication Date

13 Sep 2011

Pages

192

Weight (kg)

0.29

Dimensions (cm)

22.6 x 15.2 x 1.3

About Author

Calvert Watkins is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Classics and the Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in Indo-European comparative linguistics, especially Latin, Greek, Celtic, Hittite, and comparative morphology and poetics. He wrote the "Appendix of Indo-European Roots" for the first edition of The American Heritage Dictionary and has revised it for the third, fourth, and fifth editions.