Editor(s)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard, 1941-
Recommended Citation
Cohen, G. L. (1991). Etymology and Linguistic Principles: Volume 2. 2 Rolla, Missouri: Gerald Leonard Cohen.
Department(s)
Arts, Languages, and Philosophy
Print OCLC #
60217382
Document Type
Book
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Table of Contents
Preface – v
Nathan Süsskind: Murphy’s Law in action in the Talmud, resulting in the horrific directive Tov shebagoyim harog ‘Kill the best gentile’ – 1
Nathan Süsskind: Biblical ‘She shall bear on my knees’ and ‘I will be built up’ - 27
Nathan Süsskind: Joseph < ’May he add’; Naftali < ‘My trickery’ – 30
Nathan Süsskind: Jesus, the super-Pharisee – 38
Nathan Süsskind: Why the Gospels blame the Jews – 49
Nathan Süsskind: Purim pastry homenstashen: why ‘Haman’s pockets’? – 52
Gerald Cohen: Compiled Comments on Etymology treatments on reduplication in Indo-European – 55
Introduction – 55
Reflections on the Primitive Indo-European word for ‘six’ – 58
Why palatal k in Primitive Indo-European *ḱm̥tom ‘100’? – 61
Latin calculus ‘pebble’ – 67
Origin of the PIE word for ‘four’ – 69
Some very tentative suggestions on developments in PIE – 72
Reflections on the PIE word for ‘dog’ – 77
Reflections on PIE * éḱw- ‘horse’ – 79
Hittite ḫṷek ‘implore,’, IE *uekṷ ‘speak,’ *ṷek ‘to want, wish’ – 80
PIE *ṷel-/*ṷol- ‘turn, roll’ <*kṷel/ *kṷol? – 85
Origin of the initial nasal in the Greek enclitic pronouns min, nin – 86
Origin of Sanskrit mama ‘of me’ – 88
Joseph Wallfield: IE *se-eĝhs > OCS šestĭ – 89
Gerald Cohen: Sumerian gibil ‘burn; new’: insight from Chinese – 91
Gerald Cohen: Russian pol-yi ‘hollow, open, uncovered’ – 92
Thomas E. Murray: Of etymology and idiom: metaphors from the language of handspinning – 95
Thomas E. Murray: On the origins of cran- in cranberry – 103
Roger Wescott: Note on cran- in cranberry – 108
Albert S. Gatschet: Onomatology of the Catawba River Basin (reprint of unpublished article in the Smithsonian Institute) – 109
Gerald Cohen: To blackball ‘exclude from a society’ – 116
Caldwell Titcomb: On the history of blackballing – 118
Gerald Cohen: Reflections on degree in language – 125
James J. Pontillo: 18th century firearms terminology in modern American English – 132
Lee Crawley Kirk: Pull someone’s leg: ‘joke/tease/ from ‘coax’ – 139
(1) Introduction by Gerald Cohen – 139
(2) Reprint of Kirk’s 1989 article in Righting Words – 139
Lee Crawley Kirk: With bells on – 144
Two items on toast – 146
(1) Excerpts from Lee Crawley Kirk’s item on toast in Righting Words – 146
(2) Letter from Gary Bertrand – 146
Gerald Cohen: Note on the name Steinbrenner – 151
Joseph Wallfield: Judas Iscariot = Judas the Deliverer – 152
Gerald Cohen: Reflections on Hittite ‘Muwatallis named me for the wheel’ – 156
Gerald Cohen: Conclusions? – 158
Index – 161
Rights
© 1991 Gerald Leonard Cohen, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 1991
