Pronk, T.C.; Pronk-Tiethoff, S.
(2018)
Balto-Slavic agricultural terminology
Part of book or chapter of book
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.
- All authors
- Pronk, T.C.; Pronk-Tiethoff, S.
- Editor(s)
- Kroonen, G.; Mallory, J.P.; Comrie, B.
- Date
- 2018-12-31
- Title of host publication
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Talking Neolithic: proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013
- Pages
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278 -
314
