Table of Contents

Preface 20

Veronika Milanova
Indo-European kinship terms as an interdisciplinary topic 23

Birgit Anette Olsen
Kin, clan and community in Proto-Indo-European society 39

Matilde Serangeli
Kinship terms in the Anatolian languages 181

Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
Avestan kinship terms and the ninefold division of the Avestan family 219

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead
Family structures in Rome 233

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen
Primary kinship terms in Germanic 361

Adam Hyllested
First-degree kinship terms in Albanian 397

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead
Consanguinity and marriage in some early Indo-European cultures 423

Matilde Serangeli
Marriage in Hittite Anatolia 475

Michael Janda
Wooing in Indo-European culture 499

Bibliography 515

Index verborum 569

Index rerum 605

About the Author

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead is associate professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. Her research primarily deals with historical morphology, in particular nominal word formation and composition, focusing especially on Old Indic and Latin languages. Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and previously leader of the five-year University of Copenhagen excellence programme Roots of Europe (20082013). She has published in particular about the Classical Armenian language and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages. Janus Bahs Jacquet holds a BA in Chinese and an MA in Indo-European Studies specialising in Celtic languages, both from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2015 he has worked as an editor with Museum Tusculanum Press.