Albanian Etymological Dictionary

Vladimir Orel

This volume is a new compendium of Albanian etymology tracing thousands of modern Albanian words back to their origins. It contains detailed information on the Indo-European vocabulary preserved in Albanian as well as on numerous loanwords coming from ancient Greek, Latin, early Romance and Slavic.
The ancient elements of the Albanian vocabulary are used for the reconstruction of their Proto-Albanian origin and then compared with their Indo-European parallels. The history of Indo-European words and of early loanwords in Albanian shows the history and culture of the Albanian people reflected in the etymology of the Albanian language.
The book also includes a short sketch of Albanian historical phonetics and a vast bibliography. Every entry is extensively documented and contains earlier etymological explanations and interpretations.

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Author:

Vladimir Orel

Category:

History - General

BIC2:

c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

ISBN13:

9789004110243

Publication Year:

1998

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Reference Work

Pages, Illustrations:

xlii, 670 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Publication Value:

Language Ref. Works

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Biographical note

Vladimir Orel, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, teaches historical linguistics at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His publications include Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary (Brill, 1995) and The Language of Phrygians (Caravan Books, 1998).

Readership

All those interested in Indo-European languages, Greek, Slavic and Romance languages, specialists in Balkan studies, general linguists, classical philologists, historians, ethnographers and archaeologists of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

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