{"product_id":"an-etymological-dictionary-of-the-romanian-language-9781636671413","title":"An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is a first attempt to analyze the complex problems of Romanian etymology in English. Romanian is a Romance language, but it also inherits an old Pre-Romance layer represented by both Indo-European and Pre-Indo-European elements such as Greek and Albanian. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 is an extensive introduction which summarises the archaeological, historical, and linguistic problems of southeast Europe, with a focus on Romanian and its neighboring languages (the Slavic languages and Hungarian). It reviews various hypotheses regarding the region’s prehistoric cultures and how they developed across millennia; it continues with the Thracian cultural groups, which represent the substratum of Romanian, and how these groups underwent a long and complex process of Romanization; and finally, it analyzes the migration period and the new cultural groups that emerged during this long period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2, the dictionary, includes more than 5,000 entries reflecting the representative vocabulary, but also rare and dialectal words, and words referring to flora and fauna. It covers the old Latin heritage, the substratum heritage, and Slavic, Hungarian and Ottoman influences, as well as some relevant neo-Romance elements (\"the New Romanization of Romanian\", a mainly nineteenth-century process.). Part 3 includes a glossary, as well as lists of the relevant prehistoric roots quoted in the dictionary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis etymological dictionary constitutes a novel and provoking contribution to the field, and is likely to prove useful for those of those unfamiliar with specific problems posed by Eastern Romance linguistics. The inclusion of introductory chapters devoted to history, phonetics and morphology, and statistical charts, will be welcomed by non-expert readers.  Sorin Paliga’s Etymological Dictionary of Romanian seeks to fill a gap in contemporary lexicography in so far as it approaches the very complex case of Romanian considering all perspectives and applying the techniques of contemporary historical and comparative linguistics. It takes account of the difficulties inherent in the special position of Romanian as a Romance language situated in a Sprachbund comprising languages both related and unrelated to Indo-European, and specifically surrounded by South-Slavic languages and Hungarian. As everybody knows, the question of the identification of Romanian with the Romance dialect of the Pannonian Plain, which infiltrated into Transilvania after the decline of the Roman Empire, or, alternatively, with the Latin dialect spoken in Dacia and more southern regions after the comparatively late Roman conquest, is subject to intense debate, and this makes the description of the history of the language and the study of its connections more difficult than that of other Romance languages.  The most daring part of this kind of work is, of course, the assumed existence of a substrate language or group of languages that we know very little about, as well as the uncertainties about its initial locus and spread in the so-called “dark ages”. As is well known, several attempts to identify this substrate have been made: Hans Krahe’s Alteuropäisch covered the best part of Europe, and, in spite of the meagre or nonexistent written evidence for these dialects, Dacian, Illyrian and Pannonian (a label accepted by some scholars but without direct testimonies) are conceivable candidates.  In sum, this etymological dictionary constitutes a novel and provoking contribution to the field, and is likely to prove useful for those of the author’s colleagues unfamiliar with specific problems posed by Eastern Romance linguistics. The inclusion of introductory chapters devoted to history, phonetics and morphology, and statistical charts, will be welcomed by non-expert readers. Blanca María Prósper University of Salamanca Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTabula Gratulatoria xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations, Etymological Dictionaries and References xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ea. Abbreviations...............................................................................................................................xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eb. Etymological and Bilingual Dictionaries with Etymological Relevance.........................................xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ec. General References (Studies, Books)...........................................................................................xxiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ed. Author’s Studies and Books......................................................................................................xxxiii \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter I. General Considerations 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Etymological Dictionary of Romanian. Why?.............................................................................6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistories of the Romanian Language....................................................................................................12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Historical View of the ‘Romanian Etymological Problem’.................................................................14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThracians, Romanians, Albanians, Slavs: Ethnicity in Central and Southeast Europe............................17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Problems..........................................................................................................................17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Languages Spoken in the Antiquity........................................................................................19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Slavic Homeland....................................................................................................................22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of the Slavic Vocabulary..........................................................................................29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbanian and Albanians................................................................................................................31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The Homeland of the Romanians’................................................................................................36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vlachs (Vlakhs). Are They ‘A Kind of Romanians’ or ‘Genuine Romanians’?.................................38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBack to Linguistics...............................................................................................................................41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘Balkan Linguistic Union’ (Balkansprachbund).......................................................................47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomanian, Its Origins and Its Neighbors......................................................................................49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of the Romanian Vocabulary...................................................................................55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter II. The Strata of the Romanian Vocabulary 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Romanian Language: Its Stratification and the Statistical Data......................................................60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Latin Heritage...............................................................................................................................61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Substratum Heritage......................................................................................................................62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWords Shared with Albanian of Non- Latin Origin...............................................................................62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Slavic Influence.............................................................................................................................63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatistical Data...................................................................................................................................63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.a. The Old Latin Heritage..........................................................................................................63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.b. The New Modern Borrowings of Latin Origin.......................................................................64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Chaotic Group Labeled ‘Unknown Etymology’ (‘et. nec.’) in DEX.................................65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Romanian- Albanian Common Heritage..........................................................................65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Re- organizing the ‘et. nec.’ Data as Substratum Elements......................................................66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Slavic Influence from the Statistical Perspective...............................................................66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Hungarian (Magyar) Influence........................................................................................67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Turkish Influence............................................................................................................67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Swadesh List for Romanian...........................................................................................................67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Alternative List of 100 Roots...................................................................................................75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis of the Two Lists...............................................................................................................85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis of the Three Scenarios......................................................................................................87 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter III. Place- Names and Personal Names 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlace Names.......................................................................................................................................89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersonal Names..................................................................................................................................94 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter IV. The Romanian Language: Structure, Heritage, Etymological Problems 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Brief Synthesis.................................................................................................................................97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nominal Sphere............................................................................................................................97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNoun.................................................................................................................................................97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdjective and Adverb.........................................................................................................................100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePronoun...........................................................................................................................................101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArticle..............................................................................................................................................103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Definite Article of Nouns and Adjectives......................................................................104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Definite Article in Albanian v. Romanian.....................................................................105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Definite Article of Demonstratives and Adverbs...........................................................107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Exceptional Forms: tată\/ tata ‘father’ and popă\/ popa ‘a priest’......................................108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Definite Article of Personal Names...............................................................................109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumming Up......................................................................................................................110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerb.................................................................................................................................................110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Verbs a fi ‘to be’, a aveá ‘to have’ and the Suppletive Forms a vrea, a voi ‘to wish, will’..........112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions................................................................................................................................115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumeral...........................................................................................................................................116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon- Inflected Forms..........................................................................................................................116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDerivational Means............................................................................................................................117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReduplication...................................................................................................................................117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAffixes: Prefixes and Suffixes...............................................................................................................118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.....................................................................................................................................120 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter V. Romanian Phonetics and Phonology 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Specific Vowels of Romanian.......................................................................................................122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Consonantal System of Romanian...............................................................................................126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiphthongs and Triphthongs.............................................................................................................127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Phonemes [oe] and [oe̯]................................................................................................................127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLetter i.............................................................................................................................................128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Phonetics...........................................................................................................................128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Basic Problems of Phonetic Evolution...............................................................................129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColloquial Latin..........................................................................................................................130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTentative Phonetic Reconstructions for Thracian................................................................................133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVocalism...................................................................................................................................133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsonantism.............................................................................................................................134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Indo- European Sonants \u003ci\u003eḷ ṛ ṃ ṇ\u003c\/i\u003e............................................................................................136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA General Tableau.......................................................................................................................136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Slavic Phonetic Inventory............................................................................................................137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVocalism...................................................................................................................................137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsonantism.............................................................................................................................137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterferences Between Proto- Romanian, Thracian and Slavic..............................................................138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTreatment of Proto- Romanian Vowels................................................................................................138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTreatment of Proto- Romanian Consonants........................................................................................139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddenda 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. A Note on Romanian Spelling.....................................................................................................143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. A Comparative Analysis of the Transcriptions Used for the Romanian Dialects...........................145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Etymological Dictionary in alphabetical order 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddenda 529\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary...........................................................................................................................................529\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e– Prehistoric Roots.............................................................................................................................536\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e– Pre- Indo- European Roots................................................................................................................539\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e– Proto- Boreal (‘Nostratic’) Roots......................................................................................................554\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e– \u003c\/b\u003eIndo- European Roots......................................................................................................................575\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041819296087,"sku":"9781636671413","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781636671413.jpg?v=1750951812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-etymological-dictionary-of-the-romanian-language-9781636671413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}