A handbook of the Uralic languages. Part 1. Fenno-Ugric vocabulary : an etymological dictionary of the Uralic languages

Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977. — 217 p.Краткий этимологический словарь финно-угорских языков.From the preface of the first editionThirty years ago, Emil Setälä laid out the plan of an "Etymologicum magnum Fenno-Ugricum" which was also to include the etymologica of the following sub-units: 1) Baltic-Fennic, 2) Lappish, 3) Mordvin and Cheremis, 4) Votyak and Ziryene, 5) Ugric, 6) Vogul and Ostyak.Notwithstanding the great results achieved by Toivonen and other scholars in the last three decades, we are still far from the fulfillment of Setälä's programme. There is plenty of work ahead for half a dozen specialists. In the meantime, an Etymologicum Fenno-Ugricum parvum, dealing exclusively with such words as can be attributed to Common Fenno-Ugric, will be welcomed not on1y by the students of the languages in question, but also by specialists in Indo-European and Altaic linguistics. It would seem that no university library could do without an etymological dictionary of the Uralic family, which comes next in rank to Indo-European and Semitic as a subject of investigation. I therefore trust that this book, deficient as it is, will become a gratum opus agricolis. Björn Collinder. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 210-217.