Indo-European Etymological Dictionary

The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (commonly abbreviated IEED) is a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, initiated in 1991 by Peter Schrijver and others.

Overview

The IEED project is supervised by Alexander Lubotsky and Robert Beekes. It aims to accomplish the following goals:

• to compile etymological databases for the individual branches of Indo-European, containing all the words that can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, and print them in Brill's Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series
• to publish those databases free of charge electronically on the Internet, by utilizing Sergei Starostin's STARLING software technology
• finally, once the etymological dictionaries of the individual branches have been compiled, to create a new large Indo-European etymological dictionary that will serve as a replacement of Julius Pokorny's outdated but still immensely valuable Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch

Contributors by branch

• Albanian: Bardhyl Demiraj, Michiel de Vaan
• Anatolian: Alwin Kloekhorst
• Armenian: Hrach Martirosyan
• Baltic: Rick Derksen
• Celtic: Ranko Matasović
• Germanic: Guus Kroonen
  • Old Frisian: Dirk Boutkan, Sjoerd Siebinga
• Greek: Robert Beekes
• Indo-Aryan: Alexander Lubotsky
• Iranian: Garnik Asatrian
  • Iranian verbs: Johnny Cheung
• Italic: Michiel de Vaan
• Slavic: Rick Derksen
• Tocharian: Michaël Peyrot

Printed works

The project has so far resulted in the following printed works:

See also

• Indo-European studies
• Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (LIV, published 1998 and 2001 by Helmut Rix and others)
• Proto-Indo-European language

External links

• Official website (2011 archive)
• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Brill Academic Publishers