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Further thoughts on Gothic boka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

E. A. Ebbinghaus
E. A. Ebbinghaus
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Abstract

The article* shows that the Germanic-Gothic word for book was originally an athematic stem and that its etymology may lead to one or more of the Eurasian languages which were Indoeuropeanized and thus became Germanic.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 51 - 56
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1991

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