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 Dutch historical linguist specializing in 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]

Career

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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 later contributed 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

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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

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Books

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  • Kroonen, Guus (2011). The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A Study in Diachronic Morphophonology. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi (Brill). ISBN 978-90-420-3292-7.
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18340-7.[3]
  • Kroonen, Guus, ed. (2024). Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783111337920. ISBN 978-3-11-133705-0.
  • Kristiansen, Kristian; Kroonen, Guus; Willerslev, Eske, eds. (2023). The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-26174-6.

Selected chapters

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  • 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.

Reception

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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

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  1. ^ a b c "Guus Kroonen – Leiden University". Leiden University. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Guus Kroonen – University of Copenhagen Research Portal". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  3. ^ a b Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18340-7.
  4. ^ a b c 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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