8 Oct 2010

I want my Pre-Greek back!


I do fear that Beekes' Greek etymological dictionary is no longer accessible online. Every link cached by Google offers an ugly server response now: "Sorry, the server may be busy: please try your request later!" Yet regrettably for me, "later" never comes and "sorry" is inadequate to describe the unnatural loss I feel for yet one more valuable linguistic resource gone asunder.

Alas, to think, I was beginning to believe in academic altruism again. Perhaps this is just a horrible dream and I'll wake up soon.
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5 comments:

  1. Stephen C. Carlson8 October 2010 at 09:45:00 GMT-5

    It looks like Brill put it behind a pay wall. :-(

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  2. Casey Goranson8 October 2010 at 17:47:00 GMT-5

    Cheer up - at least there's still this: http://www.ieed.nl/ied/pdf/pre-greek.pdf

    Plus, although it's only a small solace, there are still cached pages from Google.

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  3. Mattitiahu8 October 2010 at 22:29:00 GMT-5

    To be fair, the online IEED was functionally accessible only at the best of times.

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  4. Mattitiahu9 October 2010 at 18:55:00 GMT-5

    A further consolation prize: A free, HTML encoded (searchable!) E-Text of the Pre-Greek .pdf

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  5. Kim22 November 2010 at 20:14:00 GMT-6

    Ooo. I was not familiar with this dictionary. Want!

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