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zedat.fu-berlin.de>Jaan Puhvel HITTITE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY Volume 4: Words beginning with K 1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. X, 333 pages Cloth DM 248,-/approx. US$ 177.00 ISBN 3-11-015491-9 Trends in Linguistics: Documentation Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York This is the fourth volume in the comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the ancient Near East and of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European studies. This basic research tool is based on cuneiform texts from the second millenium B.C.E., and covers both attestations and origins of words with special emphasis on cognates in other Indo-European and Near Eastern languages. Five further volumes are in preparation and will be published as they are finished. The author has tried to eschew excessive rote uniformity of layout and style in etymological discussion, in order to make as many entries as possible self-contained micro-essays of a format best suited to the item at hand. When no etymology is rated certain, the discussion often proceeds from the less likely possibilities and ends up with the most probable. When a preferred etymology is featured as virtually certain, it is usually stated and discussed first, and discarded alternatives, to the extent that they are deemed historically interesting, are mentioned in a coda. _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: 100064.2307Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue