Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon

In his Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon Rick Derksen discusses the etymology of Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian words while combining recent insights from comparative Indo-European linguistics with modern Balto-Slavic accentology.

About the author

Rick Derksen, Ph.D. (1996), Leiden University, has published extensively on Balto-Slavic historical linguistics, including Metatony in Baltic (1996) and Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (2008). A Slavist and an Indo-Europeanist, he now teaches classics in secondary education.

Product details

• Authors: Rick Derksen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004278981
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27898-1
• No. of pages: 696
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 239 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1100 g
• Series: Leiden Indo-European Etymologi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics