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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453394203321

Autore

Kloekhorst Alwin

Titolo

Etymological dictionary of the Hittite inherited lexicon [[electronic resource] /] / by Alwin Kloekhorst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-281-93619-7

9786611936198

90-474-3060-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1177 p.)

Collana

Leiden Indo-European etymological dictionary series, , 1574-3586 ; v. 5

Disciplina

491/.998

Soggetti

Hittite language - Etymology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1041]-1078) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- General introduction -- Aim of this work -- The study of Hittite -- Dating of texts -- Methods of transcription --Anatolian language family -- The place of the Anatolian branch within PIE -- Towards a Hittite historical grammar -- Historical phonology -- Proto-Indo-European phoneme inventory -- Proto-Anatolian phoneme inventory -- Hittite phoneme inventory -- Cuneiform script -- Stops -- Glottal stop -- Affricate -- Fricatives -- Resonants -- Syllabic resonants -- Semi-vowels -- Vowels -- Plene spelling -- Ambiguity --Plene spelling of E and I -- The signs U and U -- Word-initially before vowels -- Word-initially before --Consonants -- Word-internally between consonant and vowel -- Word-internally between vowels -- Word-internally between vowel and consonant -- Word-internally between consonants -- overview of interconsonantal reflexes -- Word-finally after --Consonants -- Word-finally after vowels -- Conclusions -- Regarding U and U -- Epenthetic vowels -- Overview of the Hittite phoneme -- Inventory -- Changes from PIE to Hittite -- Lenition -- Fortition -- Stops.