Guus Kroonen

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Guus J. Kroonen
Born1979 (age 45–46)
Alma mater
  • Leiden University
  • University of Amsterdam
Known forEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsHistorical linguistics, Indo-European studies, etymology
Institutions

Guus J. Kroonen is a linguist and etymologist specializing in historical linguistics and Indo-European studies. He is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and a Professor with Special Responsibilities (MSO) at the University of Copenhagen. [1] [2] He is the author of Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Brill, 2013), which has been reviewed in the peer-reviewed journal Diachronica. [3] [4]

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Career

Kroonen holds MAs from Leiden University (Comparative Indo-European Linguistics) and the University of Amsterdam (Scandinavian Languages and Literatures). He completed his PhD at Leiden University and has held research and teaching posts at Leiden and Copenhagen. [1] [2] His PhD supervisor was Sasha Lubotsky, who also supervised the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project [5] to which Kroonen would later contribute the Proto-Germanic volume.

He has led or collaborated on interdisciplinary projects in archaeolinguistics and linguistic prehistory, including the ERC Starting Grant project The Linguistic Roots of Europe’s Agricultural Transition. [1] [2]

Research

Kroonen’s research focuses on Germanic and Indo-European historical linguistics, etymology, and prehistoric language contact. [2] He has argued for an 'agricultural substrate' component in Proto-Germanic—non-Indo-European lexical elements related to early farming—set out in a frequently cited chapter on non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic. [6]

Publications

Books

Selected chapters

Reception

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic received a substantive review in Diachronica [7] noting its breadth within the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series. [4] This is a series of texts, by a team of authors centred around Leiden, and intended as an updated replacement for Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch , Pokorny (1959). [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Guus Kroonen – Leiden University". Leiden University. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Guus Kroonen – University of Copenhagen Research Portal". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  3. 1 2 Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN   978-90-04-18340-7.
  4. 1 2 3 Pierce, Marc (2016). "Review of Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Guus Kroonen)". Diachronica. 33 (1): 144–149. doi:10.1075/dia.33.1.07pie.
  5. ↑ "Sasha Lubotsky". Leiden University.
  6. ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2012). "Non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic: evidence in support of the Agricultural Substrate Hypothesis". In Grünthal, Riho; Kallio, Petri (eds.). A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe (PDF). Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society. pp. 239–260. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  7. ↑ "Diachronica". John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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