Albanian Etymological Dictionary

About the Author Vladimir Orel, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, teaches historical linguistics at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His publications include Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary (Brill, 1995) and The Language of Phrygians (Caravan Books, 1998). Product Description This volume is a new compendium of Albanian etymology tracing thousands of modern Albanian words back to their origins. It contains detailed information on the Indo-European vocabulary preserved in Albanian as well as on numerous loanwords coming from ancient Greek, Latin, early Romance and Slavic.