| Alexander Militarev | AOAT 278/2 |
| Leonid Kogan | |
| (with contributions by A. Arakelova, A. Belova., | ISBN 3-934628-57-5 |
| A. Kovalev, D. Nosnitsyn, E. Vizirova, M. Yakubovich) | |
| xci + 414 pp. | |
| Semitic Etymological Dictionary | |
| Vol. II: Animal Names | 104,- EUR |
The second volume of the Semitic Etymological Dictionary project presents 255 Semitic roots denoting animals and their various attestations in Semitic and Afrasian languages. The introduction provides additions to the first volume's introduction with special attention to popular etymology and roots with phonetic variations and metathesis, phenomena particularly attested in the corpus of animal names. In combination with the lists of patterns of primary nouns and of roots according to semantic groups and extensive indices this volume will become an indispensable reference for scholars of Semitic, Ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and linguistic studies.
| Foreword | vii |
| Contents | ix |
| Bibliographic Abbreviations | xi |
| References | xxiii |
| Abbreviations of Languages, Dialects and Linguistic Periods | xxxix |
| Introduction | xli |
| 1. General Principles and Approaches | xliii |
| 2. Phonology | lvii |
| 3. Nominal Morphology | lxvi |
| 4. Lexical Sources, Notation and Structure of the Volume | lxxxix |
| The Roots | 1 |
| Additions and Corrections to SED I | 327 |
| Introductory Remarks | 329 |
| A. Additional Roots (listed alphabetically) | 331 |
| B. Additions and Corrections to Roots Reconstructed in SED I | 336 |
| Index of Words and Forms Quoted | 349 |
| Index of Reconstructed Roots according to Semantic Groups | 411 |