Morphologische Untersuchungen Auf Dem Gebiete Der Indogermanischen Sprachen

Hermann Osthoff (18471909) and Karl Brugmann (18491919) were central figures in the circle of German scholars who rejected a doctrinal approach to the study of linguistics. They came to be known as the Neogrammarian school. At the core of their work was the theory that European languages together with a subset of languages found in central and southern Asia have a common origin in a single prehistoric language. They called this ancestor Indo-Germanic (known today as Indo-European) and claimed that its descendants are all related to one another by varying degrees of closeness. This six-volume elaboration of this thesis was published between 1878 and 1910. Volume 6 (1910) contains a number of essays including one on the common roots of the word ''light'' in Greek and Latin along with further etymological and morphological analyses.