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One might regard it as a popular combination of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (1949 and 1988) and A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), both University of Chicago Press, with something of Edward Pinkerton's Word for Word , Verbatim Books (1982), and my Suffixes and Word-Final Elements of English (1982) and Prefixes and Word-Initial Elements of English (1984), both Gale Research, thrown in.
Etymologies in the OED, The Random House Unabridged , and Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache have cognates of balagan/balcony popping up in Slovene ( blazina ), Greek, and most significantly in Lithuanian ( balǽienas ), purportedly the most conservative of the Indo-European languages.
Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).
There are superb 16th-century Indo-Portuguese and 17th-century Madeiran as well as 18th- and 19th-century English pieces.
Born 1901, John Flagg Gummere received a Ph.D. in Indo-European languages from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933; he died around 1988 --the date is not given in the brief biography provided by John Francis Marion, an old friend.
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