Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky

Over thirty specialists in Indo-European linguistics have contributed this elegant volume in honour of Professor Sasha Lubotsky of Leiden University. Besides giving an excellent snapshot of the research currently being undertaken by his students and colleagues at that institution, Farnah contains contributions from well-known scholars across the world covering topics in Tocharian, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Anatolian linguistics, to name a few.  Some contributions in German.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface........................................................................................................................................... vii

Bibliography of Sasha Lubotsky................................................................................................. ix

Ph.D. Students of Sasha Lubotsky........................................................................................... xvi

List of Contributors................................................................................................................... xvii

Peter C. Bisschop, Vedic Elements in the Pa¯´supatasu¯tra .........................................................

Václav Blažek, The Case of Tocharian ‘silver’: Inherited or Borrowed?..............................

Michiel de Vaan, The Noncanonical Use of Instrumental Plurals in Young Avestan.......

Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Sogdian Plurals in the Vessantara Ja¯taka ........................

Jost  Gippert, A Middle Iranian Word Denoting an Office-Holder.....................................

Stephanie W. Jamison, The Vedic Perfect Imperative and the Status of Modal Forms

to Tense-Aspect Stems.............................................................................................................

Michael Janda, Vedisch dhéna¯-: Bedeutung und Etymologie ..............................................

Jay H.  Jasanoff, The Phonology of Tocharian B okso ‘ox’......................................................

Jared Klein, Syncretism in Indo-European: A Natural History...........................................

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Alwin  Kloekhorst, The Origin of the Hittite hi-Conjugation..............................................

Werner  Knobl, Das Demonstrativpronomen ETÁD im Rgveda.......................................

Petr Kocharov, A Comment on the Vocalization of Word-initial

and Medial Laryngeals in Armenian...................................................................................

Frederik  Kortlandt, The Indo-European k-Aorist.................................................................

Guus Kroonen, Lachmann’s Law, Thurneysen’s Law, and a New Explanation

of the PIE no-Participles.......................................................................................................

Leonid Kulikov, Vedic a¯hanás- and Its Relatives/Cognates within and outside

Indo-Iranian................................................................................................................................

  Martin Joachim Kümmel, The Survival of Laryngeals in Iranian............................................

  Rosemarie  Lühr, Prosody in Indo-European Corpora...............................................................

  Hrach Martirosyan, Armenian Andndayin ¯oj and Vedic Áhi- Budhnyà-

  ‘Abyssal Serpent’..................................................................................................................................

  Ranko Matasovic´, Iranian Loanwords in Proto-Slavic: A Fresh Look ....................................

1. Craig  Melchert, Semantics and Etymology of Hittite takš..................................................

  Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, PIE  *g^wh₃-éu- ‘cow’....................................................................

  Alan J. Nussbaum, A Dedicatory Thigh: Greek µηρoς and µ/jjρα Once Again.........................      

       Norbert Oettinger, Vedisch Vivásvant- und seine avestische Entsprechung      

Birgit Anette Olsen, The Development of Interconsonantal Laryngeals in Indo-Iranian               and Old Avestan za˛θa¯ pta¯ ...........................................................................................................

Michaël Peyrot, Tocharian B etswe ‘mule’ and Eastern East Iranian..................................

Georges-Jean  Pinault, New Look at Vedic ´sám.........................................................................................

Tijmen Pronk, Old Church Slavonic (j)utro, Vedic us.ár- ‘daybreak, morning’................

Velizar Sadovski, Vedic and Avestan Parallels from Ritual Litanies

and Liturgical Practices I......................................................................................................

George Starostin, Typological Expectations and Historic Reality: Once Again

on the Issue of Lexical Cognates between Indo-European and Uralic...........................

Lucien van Beek, Greek πeδιλον ‘sandal’ and the Origin of the e-Grade in PIE ‘foot’........

Michael Weiss, Veneti or Venetes? Observations on a Widespread Indo-European

Tribal Name...........................................................................................................................

Index Verborum