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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:
>
> De Vaan's Latin and Italic etym. dict., though it can be read online
on the Scribd website at
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/69111878/EDOLIL ,
>
> cannot be dowloaded as pdf if you don't pay for the download. I think
that Tavi dowloaded his Word version (now uploaded by him in the List's
Files section) from this URL. However, many fonts do not show up
properly in the Word version, so getting a pdf of the book is
*necessary*.
>
Not exactly. You can still download it if you make an upload
contribution to scribd.doc, otherwise you're entitled to pay.
This is the same scanned copy I found elsewhere on the Internet and
whose OCR text (generated by Acrobat Reader) I've just uploaded here in
order to circumvent Yahoo! file size limit. However, some *original*
(i.e. not scanned) PDF copies of Brill's dictionaries have been
circulating around, and these include Hittite, Slavic and the
Indo-Iranian verb. You can readily tell them from the cover.
> The damn Greek Etymological Dictionary of Beekes seems to be
well-protected from any attempt at downloading it freely. I've tried for
hours to find a site from which it can be dowloaded without paying, yet
with no success! Any ideas?
>
It looks like that the "leaked" books were the first being published, so
when Beekes' dictionary came to the print, possibly the "mole" was
already neutralized (I hope not physically!). This would also explain
why Matasovic's and De Vaan's are scanned copies.