Italian linguist
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Alfredo Trombetti (16 January 1866, in Bologna – 5 July 1929, in Venice), was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.
Career overview
Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the Italian Academy.
He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's languages go back to a single common ancestral language. His arguments for monogenesis were first presented in his book L'unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905.[1] This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
Proposed etymologies
A selection of Trombetti's proposed global etymologies:[1]
| Meaning |
Root
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| to hear; ear |
kul (kur)
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| water |
ma; wad (wad, wed, wod), ud
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| dog |
ku (ku-ari, ku-ri, etc.)
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| hair |
tuk, suk
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| behind, back |
kata, taka
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| foot |
ganga; pat
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| earth (clay, ash) |
tu
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| dust |
twar, tur (< tu 'earth')
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| woman |
na (nai)
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| man (person) |
ku, etc.
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| man (male) |
mar
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| egg (testicle) |
umu (mu-n, mu-r, etc.)
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