Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was born in Prague and studied at Vienna university. He was a scholar of Gaelic, and supported the Irish nationalist cause from 1908. From 1920 to 1935, he held the chair of Celtic philology in Berlin, before the Nazis discovered that he, in spite of being a German nationalist, was of Jewish descent. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1943, where he taught in Zurich and Berne. After the war, he held an honorary professorship at Munich university. He is the author of the Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959), still widely used today. 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Goidelic is one of two major divisions of modern-day Celtic languages (the other being Brythonic). ... General view showing Grossmünster church. ... For other uses, see Bern (disambiguation). ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... The Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary) by the Czech scholar and Irish nationalist Julius Pokorny, was published in 1959. ...
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Brief review of Pol O Dochartaigh, Julius Pokorny, 1887-1970: Germans, Celts and nationalism (http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=pokorny.xml)
Pokorny (1959) also postulates by implication 2,044 starred or hypothetical forms reconstructed from the extant written reflexes of the languages found in the following fourteen IE language groups.
According to Pokorny (1959:1089) the apparent Germanic cognate form draw (and hence drawer, withdraw, draft, drag, draught) is due to contamination with another IE root 406 (ibid., 273).
Pokorny's dictionary has served as the standard dictionary in the field of Indo-European studies for all those that can read German since 1959 and especially since 1969, when the index was published.
JuliusPokorny in 1959 published his Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, giving an overview of the lexical knowledge accumulated until the early 20th century, but neglecting then-recent trends of morphology and phonology, and largely ignoring Anatolian and Tocharian.
Current efforts are focussed on a better understanding of the relative chronology within the proto-language, aiming at distinctions of "early", "middle" and "late", or "inner" and "outer" PIE dialects, but a general consensus has yet to form.
In German literature, Indo-Europäisch was used by Franz Bopp since 1835, while the term Indo-Germanisch was introduced by Julius von Klapproth in 1823, intending to include the northernmost and the southernmost of the family's branches, as it were as an abbreviation of the full listing of involved languages that had been common in earlier literature.
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