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Alfredo Trombetti
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| Born | 16 January 1866 |
| Died | 5 July 1929 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Institutions | University of Bologna |
| Main interests | Comparative linguistics |
| Notable ideas | Monogenesis |
Alfredo Trombetti (16 January 1866, in Bologna – 5 July 1929, in Venice), was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.
Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the Italian Academy.
He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's languages go back to a single common ancestral language. His arguments for monogenesis were first presented in his book L'unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905.[1] This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
A selection of Trombetti's proposed global etymologies:[1]
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| to hear; ear | kul (kur) |
| water | ma; wad (wad, wed, wod), ud |
| dog | ku (ku-ari, ku-ri, etc.) |
| hair | tuk, suk |
| behind, back | kata, taka |
| foot | ganga; pat |
| earth (clay, ash) | tu |
| dust | twar, tur (< tu 'earth') |
| woman | na (nai) |
| man (person) | ku, etc. |
| man (male) | mar |
| egg (testicle) | umu (mu-n, mu-r, etc.) |
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