Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJ. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams Taylor & Francis, 1997 - 829 pages The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field. |
Contents
Editors Note page | ix |
Phonetic Definitions | xxvii |
Encyclopedia of IndoEuropean Culture | 1 |
Language Index | 659 |
General Index | 795 |
Common terms and phrases
Albanian Anatolian animal appear archaeological Armenian associated attested Avestan Balkans Baltic BMAC borrowed Bronze Age brother Buck burials Celtic Celtic languages central cognate copper deities derived dialects distribution domestic earliest early east Europe European evidence Further Readings Germanic goddess Goth Greek Hittite homeland horse Hurrian IE languages IE stocks IE world Illyrian Indo Indo-Aryan Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian Iranian Iranian language Irish Italic Italic languages Kurgan late PIE Latin Latv least lexical linguistic Lith Maykop culture meaning millennium BC myth Neolithic non-IE northwest noun OInd old in IE Old Indic Olnd OPrus original perhaps phonological PIE word possible Proto-Indo-European reconstructed reflect region ritual root semantic Slavic steppe suffix TochA Tocharian TochB tradition underlying verb voiceless vowel Ware culture Wels west and center Widespread and old Yamna culture