• professor-in-residence at UCLA. Calvert Watkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1933, to Ralph James Watkins, an economist and government...
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  • about comparative Indo-European poetics by the linguist and classicist Calvert Watkins. It was first published on November 16, 1995, through Oxford University...
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  • Boyce Watkins (born 1971), American economist, academic and social commentator Bruce R. Watkins (1924–1980), American activist Calvert Watkins (1933–2013)...
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  • other Indo-Iranian languages. She was married to the Indo-Europeanist Calvert Watkins from 1980 until his death in 2013. Jamison, Stephanie W (1983), Function...
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    Indo-Europeanists active in the last third of the 20th century (such as Calvert Watkins, Jochem Schindler, and Helmut Rix) developed a better understanding...
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    from the Proto-Indo-European root *kol-. As philologists such as Calvert Watkins note, the same Indo-European root produced Old Norse hel, a proper...
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    Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 45 (Tarḫunna, p. 45, at Google Books). Calvert Watkins: How to Kill a Dragon. Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford University...
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    given by Grimal, s.v. Muses, Tzetzes, Scholia in Hesiodi Opera 1,23 Calvert Watkins, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 3d ed...
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    Haas, Die hethitische Literatur: Texte, Stilistik, Motive (2006), 5. Calvert Watkins, "The Language of the Trojans", Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium...
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    Laroche, Les noms des Hittites (Paris: 1966), 325, 364; cited in Calvert Watkins, “The Language of the Trojans”, Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium...
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    P. Beekes. Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 471. Calvert Watkins, "wes-", in: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots...
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    role as the god of law, legality, and truth. List of solar deities Calvert Watkins: "The Golden Bowl: Thoughts on the New Sappho and its Asianic Background...
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    the words "Nestor's cup, good to drink from." Some scholars, such as Calvert Watkins, have tied this cup to a description of King Nestor's golden cup in...
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  • Mut zum Irrtum) became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European...
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  • linguists and cognitive scientists (Anne Curzan, Steven Pinker and Calvert Watkins) and humorists (Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris and Alison Bechdel)...
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    Jasanoff; Melchert; Oliver (eds.). Mír Curad. Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins. Innsbruck. pp. 317–334. ISBN 3-85124-667-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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    Jasanoff; Melchert; Oliver (eds.). Mír Curad. Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins. Innsbruck. pp. 317–334. ISBN 3851246675.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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  • Europe. That hypothesis fell out of favour after it was re-examined by Calvert Watkins in 1966. Nevertheless, some scholars, such as Frederik Kortlandt, continued...
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  • of comparative mythology such as Martin Litchfield West (1999) and Calvert Watkins (2001). One controversial hypothesis has placed Greek in a Graeco-Armenian...
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    Melchert, H. Craig; Oliver, Lisi (eds.). Mír curad: Studies in honor of Calvert Watkins. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck. pp. 17–28...
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    Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics", Oxford University...
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    venerate"), though some, partially derivative, authorities, such as Calvert Watkins' PIE Roots appendix to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English...
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    from the original on January 25, 2016, retrieved January 19, 2014 Calvert Watkins et al., The American Heritage Dictionary (1975, edited by William Morris)...
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  • Garner, The Elements of Legal Style. (Oxford, 2001. ISBN 0-19-514162-8) Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (Oxford, 2001...
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    Brugmann grundrisz der vergl. gramm. 1, 65. Also mentioned in e.g. Calvert Watkins, American Heritage dictionary of Indo-European Roots, p. 70. Grimm...
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    archaic than that of the remainder of the text, and has been studied by Calvert Watkins. All of the manuscripts of Cato's treatise also include a copy of Varro's...
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    fell somewhat out of favour after reexamination by American linguist Calvert Watkins in 1966. Irrespectively, some scholars such as Ringe, Warnow and Taylor...
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  • of Appeals for the First Circuit Calvert Watkins, American professor Emeritus of linguistics and the classics Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), English-American...
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  • Representative from New York's 16th district (1897-1899)[citation needed] Calvert Watkins, linguist and classicist [citation needed] Nat Wolff, actor "Tuition...
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    altered form of stuprare 'to defile, commit a sexual wrong against'. Calvert Watkins proposed that it derives from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'marrow...
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