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Re: IELang

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 4:10
dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> comunu:

> There is also _The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European > Roots_ which sports a nice introduction by Calvert Watkins. My > copy is well-thumbed and sitting on my desk at home. I found it > at a used book store in Tucson for about $4.00; I don't know if > it is still in print.
I checked last night. It's not in print any more, alas. I misplaced my copy. I think anyone's best bet is to buy the dictionary (available as a traditional book and as software). The software's pretty handy for doing wildcard searches on the English language (type *gry in it! :-) and for looking all up the words that meet some criteria (a while ago I statistically demonstrated that 'sn-' is disproportionately associated with the nose, in an effort to show the type of documentation I would like to see on subphonetic semantic research). And of course you can copy and paste the IE definitions into your word processor to hack on. Best regards, Jeffrey Henning http://www.LangMaker.com/ - Invent Your Own Language http://www.Jeffrey.Henning.com/ - Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio for Windows