On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> Going to my Pokorny
>> Pierre
>
> Online here:
>
> http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/response.cgi?
> root=leiden&morpho=0&basename=\data\ie\pokorny&first=1
>
> Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch
> [Pokorny]
>
> The (or a) site which contains this:
>
> http://ehl.santafe.edu/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config
>
> ... is quite ... hm ... unnerving. Useful if you happen to be
> interested in, for example, South Dravidian etymology. Or, indeed,
> the etymology of what looks like virtually any language.
>
> :-(
>
> Robin
Darn, immediately clicke don your link, Robin & it came up
"temporarily out of order" Ñ & that's maybe why I love the book in my
hands & on my desk. Wrote about it on my blog in September -- here is
my effusive first para:
"This July, for my birthday (a big one) my companion fulfilled one of
my oldest book-wishes when she gave me Julius Pokorny's
Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wšrterbuch. First published in 1959
in Switzerland, it was out of print (with rare second-hand copies
being out of reach financially for me) by the time I came across it.
Which was first in 1971 in Robert Kelly's collection of essays, In
Time, where he juxtaposed as a sort of "found collaged essaylet" two
of Pokorny's entries for the root Ãpel- , on the one hand "flow" and
on the other "polis, city." I had always been fascinated by
etymologies and living and working as much between languages as in
any one, as I did then and still do, this fascination had hardened
into the need to know as much as possible about the origin of the
words I read and write. The first copy of the 1957 edition I actually
saw and held was the one owned by Jeremy Prynne when I visited him in
his Caius and Gonville digs in Cambridge in 1973 or 4. Only one
University I worked or studied at ever owed a copy, and that was,
wierdly enough, SUNY Binghampton. Meanwhile I would every so often
check AbeBooks or whatever antiquarian bookshop I would browse in for
an affordable copy Pokorny. "No glot, no bueno, clome back fliday" Ñ
to use Burrough's Chinese laundry-cum-opium-den line. I guess over
the years I gave up looking for it, for as it turns out I missed the
2002 reprint, satisfying myself for years with the very reduced (50
pages rather than 1200) version you can find in the back of the
Standard desktop edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. But
Nicole did not miss the most recent Ñ 2005 Ñ reprint & offered it to
me on 14 July."
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