An Amerind Etymological Dictionary

An Amerind Etymological Dictionary is a revision, extension, and refinement of the lexical and grammatical evidence for the Amerind linguistic family that was initially offered in Greenberg (1987). The evidence is presented in terms of 909 etymologies arranged alphabetically according to the English gloss. Each etymology begins with the English gloss followed by a hypothetical phonetic form from which the individual Amerind forms are presumed to have derived. Within the body of each etymology, the evidence is arrayed in terms of the thirteen branches of Amerind. The complete classification of all Amerind languages considered is given in the back of the book.

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4903-8

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Series: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora17

Publication Date: May 31,2025

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

Trim Size: 8.25 x 10.75

Page Count: 312

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4903-8

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An Amerind Etymological Dictionary is a revision, extension, and refinement of the lexical and grammatical evidence for the Amerind linguistic family that was initially offered in Greenberg (1987). The evidence is presented in terms of 909 etymologies arranged alphabetically according to the English gloss. Each etymology begins with the English gloss followed by a hypothetical phonetic form from which the individual Amerind forms are presumed to have derived. Within the body of each etymology, the evidence is arrayed in terms of the thirteen branches of Amerind. The complete classification of all Amerind languages considered is given in the back of the book.

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	Contributor	Biography
	JosephGreenberg
	MerrittRuhlen	Merritt Ruhlen (1944–2021) was a linguist and anthropologist, well known for his books Guide to the World’s Languages, Vol. 1: Classification (1987), The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (1994), On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy (1994), and numerous articles in journals, books, and encyclopedias. Ruhlen worked with Joseph H. Greenberg for three-and-a-half decades and became the principal advocate and defender of Greenberg’s methods of language classification. Ruhlen served as a lecturer in Anthropological Sciences and Human Biology at Stanford University, co-founder of the Evolution of Human Languages Project, advisor on the board of the Genographic Project, visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong, and a Correspondant of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. After a long illness Ruhlen succumbed on January 29, 2021 in his home in Palo Alto, Calif.

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An Amerind Etymological Dictionary