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Volume 17, Issue 4

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Publication date: 09.10.2012

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Editor-in-Chief Marek Stachowski

Secretary Barbara Podolak

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Michael Knüppel

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 179 - 183

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.12.012.0402

Nothing new since Lichtenstein? – Or, the idea of a common origin of Arabic and German
The following review article deals with the dilettantish attempts of cAbdal-Ḥaqq Fāḍil to connect German and Arabic in the sense of genetic language relationship. The author of the book under review is neither able to clarify whether he means “German” or “Germanic”, nor whether he wants to postulate Arabic as a kind of worldproto-language or to create a new language family. In addition, he ignores all well-known Lautgesetze (sound laws) as well as all researches in the field of historical linguistics of the last two hundred years.

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Anatoly Liberman

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 185 - 190

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.12.013.0403

n 2006 Thomas O. Lambdin brought out An Introduction to the Gothic Language. Every lesson is followed by vocabulary notes that include etymologies. Most of them were borrowed from well-known dictionaries, but a few are new. The paper contains comments on those etymologies.

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