Studies In Turkic Etymology

Studies in Turkic Etymology" is a posthumous selection of articles in English and German written by the distinguished Hungarian scholar Arpad Berta (1951-2008), professor at the Department of Altaistics at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Most articles deal with Turkic loanwords in Hungarian and the Turkic origin of the old Hungarian tribal names. The volume, which is compiled by Bela Kempf, also contains a complete bibliography of Arpad Berta's books, articles and reviews published since 1977."Studies in Turkic Etymology" enthalt eine postume Auswahl von Aufsatzen in Englisch und Deutsch aus der Feder des bedeutenden ungarischen Gelehrten Arpad Berta (1951-2008), Professor am Institut fur Altaistik an der Universitat Szeged, Ungarn. Die Mehrzahl der Aufsatze behandelt turkische Lehnworter im Ungarischen und die turkische Herkunft der alten ungarischen Stammesnamen. Der von Bela Kempf zusammengestellte Band enthalt zudem eine vollstandige Bibliographie der seit 1977 erschienenen Bucher, Aufsatze und Besprechungen von Arpad Berta.

Dictionaries usually give only brief treatment to etymologies and even etymological dictionaries often do not lavish on them the attention which many deserve. To help fill the gap, the author deals in depth with several etymologically problematic words in various Germanic, Jewish, Romance, and Slavic languages, all of which have hitherto either been misetymologized or not etymologized at all. Sometimes, he succeeds in cracking the nut. Sometimes, he is able only to clear away misunderstanding and set the stage for further treatment. Usually, he marshals not only linguistic but also historical and cultural information. Since this book also discusses methodology, it has the makings of an introduction to the science, art, and craft of etymology. David L. Gold is the founder of the Jewish Name and Family Name File, the Jewish English Archives, and the Association for the Study of Jewish Languages, as well as the editor of Jewish Language Review and Jewish Linguistic Studies.

Materials for a historical dictionary of New Persian loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th century. The work is a collection of New Persian loanwords in Old Anatolian and early Ottoman Turkish. It consists of nearly 2000 items. The vocabulary presented here has been extracted from various sources originally written in the Arabic script, in present times transcribed into the Latin script and edited by modern scholars.--