Discussion Details
| Title: | Latin Etymology |
| Submitter: | Richard Durkan |
| Description: | I have been using T G Tucker's Etymological Dictionary of Latin and am
struck how amongst the cognates he cites the same few languages recur at the expense of other Indo-European languages. Sanskrit and Lithuanian I can understand but I am puzzled by the frequency of Old Bulgarian, Old Prussian, Old High German Gothic and Old Norwegian . Of course it is possible these are just the languages he was most familiar with but I wonder if there are any more objective reasons. I would be interested in any observations. |
| Date Posted: | 14-Jun-2010 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Historical Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 21.2584 |
| Posted: | 14-Jun-2010 |
