Re: [tied] Re: Lexicon of Proto-Indo-European morphological roots

From: Edgard Bikelis
Message: 48134
Date: 2007-03-30

cbmibm escreveu:

> > Piotr
> >
>
> Thus conclusion can be only one (please confirm it or correct me if
> I'm wrong): Brugmannian PIE reconstruction despite of its
> conservatism that is covered by two books:
>
> Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch by Julius Pokorny
> Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen
> by Karl Brugmann and Berthold Delbrück.
>
> is a most comprehensive and complete ever PIE reconstruction. Where I
> can download full online copy of Grundriß - revised second edition?
>
> Both books are described here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundri%c3%9f_der_vergleichenden_Grammatik_der
> _indogermanischen_Sprachen
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indogermanisches_Etymologisches_W%c3%b6rterbuch
>

Ahm, it seems to me that you want a summa indoeuropaea ; ). I think the
Grundriss is really the last one. But are you willing to forget _all_
later research? Just see the Journal of Indo-European Studies. There is
a lot to know...

Anyway, you can download it nowhere, as far as I know. I find it rather
strange... the book is old enough and interesting enough to be scanned.
My university's library have the second german edition, and I'm learning
german just to read that thing. But there is an english translation...
rare and very expensive to buy, the last time I saw...

I suggest you to start with Beekes, then fill the gaps with Sihler's New
Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, and start reading articles &c
for polishing. That's what I did and am still doing... If you want a
list of suffixes, the best I got is in the Vedic Grammar by Macdonell.
You can find it at http://gallica.bnf.fr/, in english. Note that the
book is old, you will have to work out from sanskrit to PIE, and it is
just about vedic sanskrit, not PIE.

I hope it helps,

Edgard.