A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226079370)

Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms from the principal Indo-European languages. Buck first tabulates the words describing a particular concept and then discusses their etymological and semantic history, tracing changes in meaning of the root words as well as presenting cases indicating which of the older forms have been replaced by expressions of colloquial or foreign origin.

Author: Carl Darling Buck
ISBN-10: 0226079376
ISBN-13: 9780226079370
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1988
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.98h x 8.48w x 0.90d