Extract
Hittie Etymological Dictionary, vol. 3: Words Beginning with H.
Trends in Linguistics 3. By JAN PUHVEL. Berlin and New York: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 1991. Pp. ix + 441. $176.30 (cloth).
As in previous volumes, the passages cited are grouped together by grammatical form, rather than by meaning or usage, i.e., for verbs sg. 1 exx. (active, then middle!!) then the sg. 2 exx., etc. This makes it tedious to find the justification for the often large number of meanings and/or usages cited by the author in the lemma (e.g., sixteen English words translate Hittite halzai-). Special meanings such as with preverb + verb are not separated out. Thus there are twenty-nine different words given to translate huet- and huet- + preverb, the justification for which require...See the full content of this document
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