Author: Vacek, Jaroslav
Title: Dravidian and Altaic "Water-Viscosity-Cold" : An Etymological and Typological Model
Description: Prague, Karolinum, 2002. orig. wrappers. 20x14cm, 359 pp. Series : Studia Orientalia Pragensia, 22.. text. tables. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Preliminaries; Formal and semantic "clusters; " Water-visocisty-cold" as a formal and semantic cluster; Formal classification; Water, moist / to flow, to pour; Viscosity / to smear; Cold / ice; Conclusion; References; Appendixes: Appendix I."Water"-" viscosity"-"cold": forms with medial labials or velars and initial vowels; Appendix II. "Water"-"viscosity"-"cold": forms with medial liquids; Appendix III. Sipping/drinking/ chewing/ eating, kissing; Appendix IV. To rot, to decay; Appendix V. to cut, break, dig, pierce, beat, strike; Appendix VI. Japanese and FU parallels; Appendix VII. Select Phonetic Correspondences.

Keywords: Dravidian Linguistics, Altaic Languages, Grammar, Linguistic Typology, Etymology, Comparative, Language, ,