A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas by Carl Darling Buck
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A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas by Carl Darling Buck, published in 1971. Buck’s Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms from the principal Indo-European languages. Buck first tabulates the words describing a particular concept and then discusses their etymological and semantic history, tracing changes in meaning of the root words as well as presenting cases indicating which of the older forms have been replaced by expressions of colloquial or foreign origin. Massive oversized hardcover with light shelfwear and light bowing to spine as to be expected with such a heavy volume.
