Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples : a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture : being the "Sprachvergleichung und urgeschichte" of Dr. O. Schrader / translated by Frank Byron Jevons from the second revised and enlarged German edition, with the sanction and co-operation of the author.

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1890
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Credit: Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples : a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture : being the "Sprachvergleichung und urgeschichte" of Dr. O. Schrader / translated by Frank Byron Jevons from the second revised and enlarged German edition, with the sanction and co-operation of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART 1. THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC PALEONTOLOGY. CHAPTEK I. THE BEGINNINGS OF LINGUISTIC PALEONTOLOGY. PAGE Eighteenth Century Views : Adelung and Vater—Sir W. Jones and Bopp—The Original Indo-European Home assumed to be in Central Asia—The Beginnings of Scientific Etymology—Its Application to Indo-European Antiquities by Kuhn and Grimm, ... 1 CHAPTER II. THE RECONSTKtrCTION OF THE PRIMITIVE INDO-GERMANIC PERIOD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE. Mommsen on the Grajco-Italian Period—Pictet on the Primitive Aryans—His Method thoroughly Uncritical—Schleicher's Pedigree Theory—Max Miiller on the Primeval Period, its Culture and its Family Life—Whitney—Attempts to Ascertain the Fauna of the Primitive Period—Indo-Germanic Poetry—A New Departure made by Hehn—The Meaning of Indo-European Eoots to be Interpreted in Accordance with the History of Culture—Fick Fails to Profit by Hehn's Work—Benfey's Erroneous Theory of Degradation in Culture—The Prehistoric Semites : Kremer and Hommel—The Primeval Finns—The Primitive Culture of the Turko-Tataric Peoples, 16 CHAPTER III. HYPOTHETICAL DIVISIONS OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS AND THfilR IM- PORTANCE FOR THE HISTORY OF CULTURE : WITH AN APPENDIX ON LOAN-WORDS IN THE INDO-GERMANIC LANGUAGES. The Migrations from the Original Home, according to Schleicher, accord- ing to Max Miiller, and to Fick—I. The Primitive European Period: (a) The Gra;co-Italians ; (b) The Lithu-Slavo-Teutons ; (c) The Original Teutons; (d) The Original Slavs; (c) The Celts—II. The Hindu-Persian (or Indo-Iranian or Aryan) Group of Languages— Schmidt's Undulation Theory: its Importance as explaining the Affinities of the Indo-Germanie Languages—Its Bearing on the Original Language—Schmidt's Critics—Leskien's View—Brug- mann agrees with Schmidt and Leskien—Appendix: The Investi- gation of Loan-Words in the Indo-Germanic Languages—Loan- Words in Greek from Hebrew and Egyptian—In Latin from Greek —In Teutonic from Latin and from Celtic, 48