Allan Bomhard

A study of the missing affricates of Proto-Indo-European.

This is the sixteenth in a series of papers dealing with Anatolian (Hittite) etymology.

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Sturtevant's Law in Hittite.

This is the fourteenth in a series of papers dealing with Anatolian (specifically, Hittite and Cuneiform Luwian here) etymology.

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In this paper, I would like to propose a new Hitttite etymology.

An examination and evaluation of the books of the Bible.

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive, reliable, clear, well-arranged guide to the life and teachings of the Buddha, as preserved in the Pāḷi scriptures of Theravādin Buddhism.

The purpose of this book is to examine the evidence of the Anatolian languages, and, on that basis, to attempt to reconstruct the phonological systems of their immediate ancestors, namely, Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-Anatolian.

There have been numerous attempts to find relatives of Proto-Indo-European, not the least of which is the Indo-Uralic Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic are alleged to descend from a common ancestor. However, attempts to prove this hypothesis have run into numerous difficulties. One difficulty concerns th...

This book discusses all aspects of Nostratic comparative linguistics: phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.

The purpose of this article is to re-ignite a discussion concerning the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European consonant system. The article begins with a discussion of the traditional reconstruction, starting with August Schleicher (1861), continuing on with Karl Brugmann (1904), and ending with current views, as exemplified in the work of Jame...

English translation Together with the Pāḷi text..

Third in a series of papers demonstrating the Nostratic origin of Afrasian (Afroasiatic).

Second in a series of papers dealing with the Nostratic origin of Afrasian.

Reflections on a paper by George Starostin.

A critical review of all three volumes of V. M. Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Dictionary.

Draft of a translation, revision, reformatting of Ilse Wegner's "Introduction to the Hurrian Language".

This book deals with non-Indo-Aryan, Indo-European elements in Hurrian due to prehistoric language contact.

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the consonant inventories of the Transeurasian languages from a comparative perspective. This chapter will begin with a discussion of the reconstruction of the consonant inventory of Proto-Transeurasian (PTEA), the hypothetical proto-language from which the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic...

This paper explores the possibility that the heteroclitic noun stems of Proto-Indo-European may have arisen as the result of prehistoric language contact with Northwest Caucasian.

In preparing this work, my objective has been to pass on existing spiritual truths rather than to create a new work ex nihilo. In so doing, I have intentionally sought out published material of exceptional value either to use as a foundation for new chapters or to incorporate into the chapters written by Nārada Mahāthera. These sources are listed i...

Additional lexical parallels between Proto-Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian pointing to prehistoric language contact.

The original teachings of the Buddha.

There have been numerous attempts to find relatives of Proto-Indo-European, not the least of which is the Indo-Uralic Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic are alleged to descend from a common ancestor. However, attempts to prove this hypothesis have run into numerous difficulties. One difficulty concerns th...

The paper explores the important role that Armenian has to play in understanding the development of the glottalic model of the Proto-Indo-European consonant system in Old Indic, Greek, and Italic.

In this brief article, I would like to propose a new Proto-Indo-European verb root, namely, *kep-/*kop- ‘to desire’.

In this article, I propose several new Indo-European etymologies, as well as comment on one Nostratic etymology originally suggested by Václav Blažek. Note: The Proto-Indo-European forms cited in this article are reconstructed in accordance with the glottalic model of Proto-Indo-European consonantism proposed by Gamkrelidze—Ivanov and Hopper.

Both the semantics and origin of the Hittite verb stem pa-ak-nu- are uncertain. The most probable meaning is 'to defame, to slander, to denounce' or something very close. In this paper, I suggest that possible Indo-European cognates are to be found in Germanic, Celtic, and Baltic.

The Nostratic Hypothesis got its start in 1903 with a suggestion by the Danish Indo-Europeanist Holger Pedersen that a number of languages/language families of northern Eurasia and the ancient Near East might be genetically related (cf. Pedersen 1931:335-339). He coined the term "Nostratic" to refer to this proposed grouping of languages. Early wor...

This paper takes a fresh look at the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers. Evidence is presented that the earliest form of the number "two" was (in traditional reconstruction) *do- and that the form usually given in the standard handbooks, namely, *duwō/*dwō, was a later borrowing, probably from Northwest Caucasian. Moreover,...

Allan R. Bomhard was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College, and City University of New York. He has published six books and over fifty articles on comparative-historical linguistics, among others Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic (Benjamins 1984), The Nostratic...

The question of the relationship among the Indo-European and foreign families of languages came up in the first period of comparative linguistics. Relationship between Semitic and Indo-European was asserted by Rudolf von Raumer, beginning in 1863, and by Ascoli from 1864 on. But convincing proof could not be expected at that time. Resemblances in t...

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the de...

Book notice.

Recent research makes it seem likely that Indo-European is not genetically isolated, but rather that it is distantly related to several other language families. This paper presents an overview of this research and then discusses how this research has thrown light on various problem areas within Indo-European.

SUMMARY The traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system consists of (1) plain voiceless stops, (2) voiceless aspirates, (3) plain voiced stops, and (4) voiced aspirates. A review of the data from the daughter languages shows that series 1 should be reinterpreted as voiceless and aspirated, series 2 should be completely elimina...