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BOOKREVIEWS NOTESRobertDankoff. rmenian oanwords n Turkish.Wiesbaden: "Harrassowitz erlag",1995.-217 pp.Despite the fact thatArmenian-Turkishin-guistic relations,and the lexical aspect, aboveall, have always been the subject of keen

scholastic interest H. Pedersen, F. von Kraelitz-Greifenhorst, Hr. Acharian, etc.), the lastdecade of our century seems to be the mostprolific eriod of the history f Armeno-Turkica.It has produced already three fundamentalworkson Armenianborrowingsn Turkish lone,I mean the two monographs of Uwe Blazing(Armenisches Lehngut im TurkeitOrkischenmBeispiel von Hamvin, 1992, and Armenisch-Turkisch:Etymologische Betrachtungen ausge-hend von Materialen aus dem Hem?ngebiet,1995) and the book underreview, eaving asidevarious minorpublicationson the subject.The main corpus of Armenisms n Turkishnthe book of R.Dankoff s preceded by a generalbibliographical ntroduction,ections on Armen-ian historicaldialectology, phonetic correspon-dences, topical classificationof the loan-words,etc. The corpus itself ncludes 806 items withdetailed linguistic nalysis ofeach form nd richillustrativematerial:dialect variants, parallel ex-ical data, etc.Besides, the authorgives at the endAppen-dices with ists of various putative,speculativeand not firmly stablished etymologies andwords found in both languages, as well as ashort section on the Turkish words "whoseimmediatederivation s anotherlanguage", etc.The book is supplied by a comprehensivewordindex. One of its conspicuous merits s that theauthortriesto take into account all side materi-als from he neighbouring anguages, Kurdish nfirst lace.Below are given some of mymarginalnotesand suggestions on certain lexical items dis-cussed inthis valuable work.N 3, p.16 - Arm. dial. ade(ate) "mother"belongs to the widespread category of Lall-w6rter, cf. in Iranian dialects: dada "sister,brother", da "father",kaka, kaka, gagn, etc."brother", rm.dial. azi "mother', at(lk) "grand-mother', Georg. deda "mother",mama "father",and, here also, why not, English dad, daddy,etc. The Arm.form annot be by any means aborrowing romKurdishde' which s, perhaps, ababy-wordtoo, although it mightbe also fromOlr.da- (< IE dhe(i)-).

N 14, p.19 - Arm.dial. axt'ik 'girl' = Turk.ahsik "foreign ady or girl,female tourist", tc.Add: Zaza axcig, aksig "girl,woman" (< Arm.dialect ofDersim axc"ig.).N 22, p.20 - Arm. apur, dial. abur"pottage,soup' (also "livelihood,wage') = Turk. abur "adish", etc. Add here: Kurdish abur, abor "liveli-hood; economy" (< Arm.).N 36, p.23 - Arm. dial. awel "broom",aweluk "a wild herb' = Turk. avelik 'a type ofacrid wild grass, etc.", etc. Add here: Cf. alsoZaza avilik "broom", vilok "a wildplant used in

food". Itdeserves to be noted thatthe suffixuk(

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BOOK REVIEWS& NOTESArm. ial.xgkil todry",s a Persianword,notArabic.N 267, p.65 - Arm.xox, xoxon "bugbear"and Turk.hohucuk, hoho, etc. again are ideo-phonicwords, or baby-words, nd, therefore,mustnotbe derived romach other. s to Per-sian kax, tmeans ratherworm"nd has quiteanother tymon.N 272, p.66 - Add here also Kurd.xopan"uncultivatedand".N 281, p.68 -Kurdish ulik ndeed s one oftheoldestArmenianexical lementsnKurdish,borrowed, resumably,uring hefirst ncoun-ters of the Kurdswith he Armenians n X-XIcenturies, henthephonetic ulesof Olr. nitial*x- Kurd. cf. lar"donkey" OIr. xara-) ndpronounciationf heArm. ricativeys I werestill operant (see in details: r. AcampsrH.3MHozeHe3 i

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BOOK REVIEWS& NOTES"tent"o backdefinitelyoKurd.kon d.,a gen-uine ranian orm Oir.*kau-na-.E167, p.189 - Arm. tcOWco,Turk. ovo,soslk are mere baby-words.Unfortunately,nR.Dankoff'sooksuch kinds f derivationsretoocommoncf.besides thealreadymentionedforms lso NN 401, 570), whichconsiderablyweakenthevalue ofthis mportant onograph.As far s I know, he bookof R. Dankoffsforthe time being the most comprehensive

depositoryf theArmenian exicalelements nTurkish.he author, erhaps, houldhave paidspecial attentiono the ideophonic ormations,baby-wordsnd wandering exemes.They areabundantlyepresentednthe dialect exicon fall of the languages discussed here. In mostcases thesekinds f exical tems re theresultof he nneringuisticevelopmentsf hegivenlanguages.Theyare alwaysa great tumbling-stone nthewayofanyetymologist. G. AS.Medieval Armenian Manuscripts of the University fCalifornia,Los Angeles.ByProf.AvedisK. Sanjian. With ontributionsyAlice Taylor nd SylvieL. MerianAndwith he ssistance ofPeterCowe. UniversityfCaliforniaublications.Cataloguesandbibliographies, volume 14). 1999 by the Regents of the University f California.-(I-XXIV)+383 pp.+34 ill.

The author of this Catalogue, Avedis K.Sanjian (passed away on July 2, 1995), was awell-known pecialist intheArmenian anguageand literaturet the University fCalifomia,LosAngeles. His "A Catalogue of Medieval Armen-ian Manuscripts in the United States"was thefirstttempt t a systematic,detailed descriptionof 178 Armenian manuscripts he had found inmuseums and libraries throughoutthe UnitedStates.The Subject of this second, posthumous,catalogue are the Armenian manuscripthold-ings inthe DepartmentofSpecial Collections ofthe Research Library t the University f Cali-fornia,Los Angeles, not included in his firstwork.For thepublicationof thisCatalogue, afterASanjian's passing away, S.Peter Cowe, visitingAssociate Professor in the DepartmentofNearEastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, withthe assistance of his collegues, completed theediting process, as well as reading the proofs,and compiling he indices, etc.The book contains a Preface (VII-XIV),Abbreviations Used in Citations (XV-XVI),Transliterationystem (XVII-XVIII),List of Man-uscripts XIX-XXII),Lists of llustrationsXXIII-1),Introduction 1-44), Catalogue itself 45-330),Bibliography (331-342), Index of Personalnames (343-366), Topographical Index (367-371), Subject Index (372-380), Index of Scrip-tural citations 381), Appendix (382) and Illus-trations 383).The representationfollows a consistent for-mat - Description, Binding,Condition,History,Contents, Illustrations,Colophons and Inscrip-tions.The Catalogue includes detailed descrip-tions of 91 items in the Armenian ManuscriptCollection(No 2089) at the Departmentof Spe-cial Collections, UniversityResearch Library fthe Universityf California,Los Angeles.The chronological frames of these manu-scripts include the XIV to XIX centuries. Geo-graphically heyare fromNew Julfa, he IndianSubcontinent (Surat, Calcutta and Madras),Europe (Venice and Kameniec-Podolski),Arme-

nia (Ejmiadzin, Gladzor, Ayrarat,Vaspurakan),Turkey Constantinopole, Konya, Kayseri),Syria(Aleppo) and Cyprus.The origin of 37 manuscripts is unknown,either because theircolophons and/or nscrip-tions are missing or because they are merelypreserved infragments.Among the manuscripts in the UCLA Col-lection are 5 codices ofthe Four Gospels (Mss.1,2,3,4,88) or fragments of Gospels (Mss. 77,87).A manuscriptrelated to theHoly Scripture sMs74, which contains "A BriefLexicon of theBooks ofthe Bible" compiled by the 17 centurylexicographerYeremia Melrec'i.In the UCLA Collectionthereare also repre-sented some biblical, commentarial, nd patris-ticworks (Ms 6,86,7,12,15,55,11). Published bytheUniversity fCalifomia Press in 1976 as no.16 in the "Near Eastem Studies" Series.Nerses Lambronac'i (1153-98), one of themost outstanding clerical authors in CilicianArmenia, s represented inthe Collectionbyoneofhis major works "Commentaryon the DivineLiturgy"Ms 13).The largest group of manuscripts at UCLAconsists of42 liturgical ooks, namely, Hymns,Psalms, Breviaries, Calendars of Feasts, RitualBooks, and Collections of Canticles (Mss. 17,32, 34,40, 41, 44, 45,46, 48, 37, 36, 35, 39, 43,83 et al. "The Armenian Canon Book" known asKanonagirk' Hayoc', was the "Corpus JurisCanonicus" of the Armenians. Ms 72 of UCLACollection is a Single copy of the "ArmenianCanon-Book".

Anothercodex (Ms 54), a miscellany writtenin 1563, contains the "Canons and Rules"established at Urfa (Edessa) by St. ThaddeustheApostle.The UCLA Collectionhas also a single copy(Ms. 5) of the "Book of Questions" (Girk' Harc'-manc) of Grigor Tatewac'i (d. 1409), a notedtheologian and pedagogue, renown as thechampion of the Armenian orthodoxy,whosemission was the conversion of the, CatholicArmenians.Five other codices in the UCLA Collection428

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