On 2008-11-19 16:43, Rick McCallister wrote:
> So, then, how close is the Leiden IE Project to an undated Pokorny?
You mean updated? What we need is a completely new dictionary of PIE
roots and etymologies. Sadly, there is no such project in sight. The LIV
contains only verb roots and the derived verb forms (many of them
doubtful, quite a few evidently misreconstructed), but at least the
phonology is up to date and some (thought not all) new insights
concerning verb morphology are taken into account. A good starting
point, perhaps, but still far from something that could replace Pokorny
as the standard reference book for the field.
Piotr