Introduction to this issue of Mother Tongue....................................................................................1
Gregory Haynes and Pierre Bancel
MEMORIALS
In Memory of John D. Bengtson (March 26, 1948–March 3, 2024) ...............................................3
Václav Blažek
Tributes to John Bengtson .............................................................................................................12
ASLIP Colleagues
In Memory of Raimo Anttila (muistoja) ........................................................................................15
Lyle Campbell
On Raimo Aulis Anttila (1935–1923)............................................................................................18
Georgios K. Giannakis
Reprint of book review, “Greek and Indo-European etymology in action: Proto Indo-European
*aǵ-” by Raimo Anttila. .........................................................................................................20
Leonid Kulikov
ARTICLES
The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā: Formal patterns and transitivity types
(Indo-Aryan evidence for the Indo-European Schwebeablaut and laryngeal root
extension) ................................................................................................................................23
Leonid Kulikov
Observations on the Reflexes k- and h- for Initial *k- in Hungarian ............................................53
Jan Henrik Holst
(De)classifying Arunachal Languages: Reconsidering the Evidence ............................................63
Roger Blench
Old Norse Yggdrasill. An Etymological Re-evaluation ................................................................95
Gregory Haynes
The Path in Heaven ......................................................................................................................119
Michael Witzel
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Pris aux mots – De l'origine du langage à l'origine des langues, by Pierre Bancel ∙ Mother
Tongue Editorial Board ........................................................................................................153
