The ''Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch'' (''IEW''; "Indo-European Etymological Dictionary") was published in 1959 by the Austrian-Czech comparative linguist and Celtic languages expert
Julius Pokorny. It is an updated and slimmed-down reworking of the three-volume ''Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen'' (1927–1932, by
Alois Walde and Julius Pokorny).
Both of these works aim to provide an overview of the lexical knowledge of the
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Eu ...
accumulated through the early 20th century. The ''IEW'' is now significantly outdated, especially as it was conservative even when it was written, ignoring the now integral
laryngeal theory
The laryngeal theory is a theory in historical linguistics positing that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language included a number of laryngeal consonants that are not linguistic reconstruction, reconstructable by direct application of the com ...
, and hardly including any
Anatolian material.
Editions
*A. Francke, 1st ed. (1959)
First ed.
three vols. in one, via Internet Archive
Alternative scan
*French & European Publications (1969),
*A. Francke, 4th ed. (2002); 5th ed. (2005),
See also
* Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Eu ...
* Proto-Indo-European root
The roots of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) are basic parts of words to carry a lexical meaning, so-called morphemes. PIE roots usually have verbal meaning like "to eat" or "to run". Roots never occurred alone in the langu ...
Other Proto-Indo-European language dictionaries and grammars
* '' Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen'' (published 1886–1916 by Karl Brugmann and Berthold Delbrück)
* '' Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben'' (''LIV'', published 1998 and 2001 by Helmut Rix
Helmut Rix (4 July 1926, in Amberg – 3 December 2004, in Colmar) was a German linguist and professor of the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.
He is best known for his research into Indo-Euro ...
and others)
* ''Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
The ''Indo-European Etymological Dictionary'' (commonly abbreviated ''IEED'') is a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European studies, Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, initiated in 1991 by Peter Schrijver and ot ...
'', an ongoing project based in Leiden
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, intended to result in the publication of a comprehensive Indo-European etymological dictionary and described by its authors as a successor of the ''IEW''
References
External links
*
''Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch'' by Julius Pokorny
(English translation)
(Eindhoven University of Technology)
(based on the ''IEW'', but includes laryngeals as well as Tocharian and Anatolian material, and a short grammar and an English–Indo-European dictionary)
1959 non-fiction books
Etymological dictionaries
Indo-European linguistics works
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