Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955)

This is still the most pre-eminent comparative dictionary for the main Indo-European languages. (A paperback printing 2012).

Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. The topical arrangement was Buck's genius, widely emulated today around the meanings of words so that the expression in different languages can be compared.

Buck also discusses the roots and history of the words, so this is a resource for history, etymology, and semantics. And of course, it remains an indispensable indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms.

This work is part of the ongoing comparative dictionary movement. For example the topic and word list, is incorporated in, expanded, and used as the model for the largest dictionary project in the world, now known as The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Max Planck Institute, General Editor, Bernard Comrie. (Founder: Mary Ritchie Key).

Contents

Explanations
Abbreviations for Languages and Dialects
Abbreviations for Works of Reference
Other Abbreviations
Orthography and Transcription
Form of Citation
1. The Physical World in Its Larger Aspects
2. Mankind: Sex, Age, Family Relationship
3. Animals
4. Parts of the Body; Bodily Functions and Conditions
5. Food and Drink; Cooking and Utensils
6. Clothing; Personal Adornment and Care
7. Dwelling, House, Furniture
8. Agriculture, Vegetation
9. Miscellaneous Physical Acts and Those Pertaining to Special Arts and Crafts, with Some Implements, Materials, and Products; Other Miscellaneous Notions
10. Motion; Locomotion, Transportation, Navigation
11. Possession, Property, and Commerce
12. Spatial Relations; Place, Form, Size
13. Quantity and Number
14. Time
15. Sense Perception
16. Emotion (with Some Physical Expressions of Emotion); Temperamental, Moral, and Aesthetic Notions
17. Mind, Thought
18. Vocal Utterance, Speech; Reading and Writing
19. Territorial, Social, and Political Divisions; Social Relations
20. Warfare
21. Law
22. Religion and Superstition
Index - alphabetical list of the ~1400 topics.… (more)