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| Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4066 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes  Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 1 of 3 11 December 2015 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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Can you recommend some books that list individual
vocabulary items grouped according to word root, or recommend some etymological dictionaries? Exotic vocabulary is killing me. I would like those for the following languages, but please feel free to list others. Thank you. Japanese Malay Hindi Arabic Persian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 3 11 December 2015 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know any for your languages, but I love "Spanish vocabulary: an etymological approach".
For Indonesian I've seen good lists of loan words on wikipedia, I guess there should be something for Malay too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6492 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 12 December 2015 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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I would warn against "Roots of the Russian language". It lacks even the most basic grammatical annotations, such as whether a verb is perfective or imperfective. On the positive side it does have examples with translations for each root, but I find more roots and more information in general by poking around in an good standard dictionary.
My Tuttle Concise Indonesian dictionary and my Kamus Dwibahasa Oxford Fajar (to Malaysian) are both very good at indicating roots for compounds and also of proposing derivations for the root words. Derivation in those languages is however so fundamental that any dictionary worth its salt should be built in this way. Edited by Iversen on 12 December 2015 at 10:24am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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