Robert S. P. Beekes (Ph.D. 1969) is Professor emeritus of Comparative Indo- European Linguistics at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the historical grammar of Greek, Iranian and Indo-European, including The Development of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Greek (Mouton, 1969), The Origins of the Indo-European Nominal Inflection (IBS, 1985), A Grammar of Gatha-Avestan (Brill, 1988), and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Benjamins, 1995).
A must-have research tool that should be on every classicist’s
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Greek is among the most intensely and widely studied languages
known. Since the publication of the last etymological dictionary of
Greek, both the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and our
knowledge of the Greek substrate have led to numerous, often
surprising new insights into the history and formation of the Greek
vocabulary.
This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient
Greek: from Mycenaean via Homer and the classical period to
lexicographers, such as Hesychius (5th century A.D.).
It consists of 7500 entries with thoroughly revised etymologies.
Each entry gives clear information about the origin of the Greek
word and its first date of attestation. It further provides all
etymologically relevant variants, dialectal forms, derivatives,
compounds, and bibliographical references.
This dictionary is a truly indispensable tool for those in search
of a deeper knowledge of the Greek vocabulary, its history and,
therewith, a better understanding of the language.
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