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A good book on this is Proto by Laura Spinney, it covers all the branches of Proto-Indo-European and also postulates that the entire family may have started fro
by satvikpendem 2mo ago
A good book on this is Proto by Laura Spinney, it covers all the branches of Proto-Indo-European and also postulates that the entire family may have started from as few as a hundred speakers who were steppe nomads, which is mindboggling if true.
- Insanity 2mo agoA book I enjoyed in a similar vain is "Wordslut", it's an exploration of the etymology of various English words (mostly pejoratives today) and the difference in language use between genders. It's more sociolinguistics than linguistics, but a good read.
- euroderf 2mo ago+1 on Proto. It focuses on the tremendous amount of information revealed by DNA analysis, and it weaves this together with historical linguistics and archeology.
- oliculipolicula 2mo agoIndeed, there is a PIE 2-branched theogony behind TFA's example Asura - Aesir - Olympians Devas - Vanir - Titans And the etymology of "Hormuz", allegedly, "Ahura Mazda"
- timoteostewart 2mo agoIn a similar vein: "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World" by David W. Anthony https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691148182/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691148182/th...