Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.

An illustrated English language dictionary with over 350,000 entries.

This new edition offers newly updated terms, and provides the latest research on word origins and meanings, with guidelines on accurate usage.

This fourth edition has entries for over 10,000 new words reflecting the explosion of computer and Internet technology as well as popular culture and slang.

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditio