Studies on Etymology and Semantics. Volume 2. Indo-European Languages and Indo-European Studies. Book 1

The present study suggests three volumes totaling more than 160 author's sheets. Specimen - vocabulary of Indo-European languages. At the heart of the book - the etymology of the Slavic, Baltic, Indo-Iranian, Italic languages; also offers vocabulary and etymology of the Greek, Thracian, Illyrian, Tocharian, Hittite language. The unifying idea of the study are the Reconstruction and semantics, t. E. The definition of semantic motivation designations analyzed words. The implementation of these ideas is of direct relevance to the analysis of very ancient Indo-European proto-language and formation reasons and hypotheses relating to the mentality of these languages and the process of generating meanings and their evolution in the later periods. This range of problems and related problems is organically linked with other than vocabulary and semantics, the language, especially the genesis of certain grammatical categories. The book is intended for specialists in the field of Indo-European languages, typology, cultural anthropology, mythology and ritual.