Buck's book is different from the IE root list in the American
Heritage Dictionary. The former is what it says -- a list of
synonyms
in the IE langauges; the synonyms don't have to come from the same IE
root (they mostly don't), or even from any IE root at all. It might
be good for some kind of "swadeshing" tactics (how many words on this
list are still cognate in.... Greek and Welsh?).
The AHD appendix was originally a separate book, by Calvert Watkins,
I
believe. It is a list of IE roots, with their descendants (mostly
English words descended from them).
If you were going to "roll your own IE lang," and needed some
primitive vocab forms, I'd definitely be more interested in the AHD
appendix.
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> andrew>>>>>>
> Am 11/10 17:48 nicole perrin yscrifef:
> > Hmm...what do you mean, "language list"? I have a New College
Edition
> > American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: it's bright
red
> > and has a list of IE langs inside the back cover. It's more of a
chart
> > than a list, but it's still really cool. My parents have another
> > dictionary downstairs with a table almost like it. This one has
several
> > things about IndoEuropean though: There are articles about "A
Brief
> > History of the English Language," "The Indo-European Origin of
English,"
> > and the appendices "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans" and
> > "Indo-European Roots," as well as a table of Indo-European sound
> > correspondences to numerous dead and living languages. Is this
what
> > you're talking about at all?
> >
> Yes, that's the one I mean. It seems to have legendary status among
> some linguafictors for that list of "Indo-European Roots."
> <<<<<<
>
> In London, And Rosta suggested this dictionary to me, or
specifically an
> appendix by Carl Darling Buck. I've ordered the following from
Amazon, is it
> the right one? Or, is it an acceptable substitute?
>
>
> "A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principle Indo-European
Languages : A
> Contribution to the History of Ideas"
>
> - Carl Darling Buck; Paperback;
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