Balto-Slavic agricultural terminology

Author(s):
Pronk, T.C. (0000-0003-0607-7124); Pronk-Tiethoff, S.
Editor(s):
Kroonen, G.; Mallory, J.P.; Comrie, B.
Published
2018
Publication type
Part of book or chapter of book

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the agricultural lexicon of Balto-Slavic and aims to include all words that can be reconstructed for the Baltic and Slavic proto-languages. In our analysis, we distinguish between the words that can be dated to Proto-Balto-Slavic and those that entered Baltic and/or Slavic independently at a later stage. The paper shows that Baltic and Slavic do not share a large agricultural lexicon, which suggests that the speakers of Balto-Slavic did not practice agriculture in a much more extensive way than the Proto-Indo-European pastoral nomads did. The transition from a pastoral to a more agriculture-based society took place after the parting of Baltic and Slavic.

Date issued
2018-12-31
Language
English
Publisher
Washington: Institute for the Study of Man
Is part of
Talking Neolithic: proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013 (2018), p. 278-314
hdl
1887/3480009