The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from
other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian …

Discussion of Indo-European origins and dispersal focuses on two hypotheses. Qualitative
evidence from reconstructed vocabulary and correlations with archaeological data suggest …

The Germanic languages, of which English is also a member, are related to many other
languages, such as Sanskrit of ancient India, Russian, Irish, Albanian and Armenian. The …

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in
English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted …

This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English
during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to …

Page 1 BRILL'S STUDIES IN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS The Reflexes
of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic Nicholas Zair 341 gautas oc day chun, de o …

An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective
story About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of …

Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central
to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply …

The main purpose of this paper is to present lexical correspondences that unite Armenian
with Greek and/or Indo-Iranian. They include shared innovations on the one hand, and …

This study investigates systematically the emergence and establishment of geminate
consonants as a phonological class in the Celtic branch of Indo-European. The approach of …