Re: Stacking up on standard works

 

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> I have noticed that my postings in the etymology department seem to overly rely on a few good standard works and be lacking in others. Could y'all advise me on which standard works on etymology it would be a good idea to supplement one's OCR library with, within
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> Baltic
> Slavic (I've got Vasmer)
> Celtic (is Matasovic really the best there is?
> Indic
> Iranian
> Italic (other than Ernout-Meillet!)
> Anatolian
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> Thank you in advance
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> Torsten
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From the Brill series, I've got original PDFs of Derksen's Slavic dictionary (which I uploaded here) and Kloekhorst's Hittite dictionary (too big to be uploaded). I've also got scanned copies of Matasovic's Proto-Celtic and De Vaan's Latin+Italic, the latter being IMHO a comparatively mediocre work.

Unfortunately, since they gave pusblishing rights to Brill, the old Leiden etymological databases are no longer available. Now you must be an authorized University user or be physically in the library in order to gain access to them.

There's also Mallory & Adams's PIE book (not to be confused with the older Encyclopaedia) from Oxford, whose PDF version I've also uploaded here.