Xavier Delamarre

Xavier Delamarre is a French linguist, lexicographer and diplomat.[1][2] He is considered a specialist of the Gaulish language.[3][4][5]

Xavier Delamarre
NationalityFrench
Known forEtymological dictionary of the Gaulish language
Academic background
EducationIEP Paris (1977), INALCO (1978)
Academic work
DisciplineIndo-European linguistics, Gaulish language
Sub-disciplineEtymology, onomastics, toponymy, hydronymy, lexicography

Since 2019, he has been an associate researcher for the CNRS-PSL AOrOc laboratory (Archéologie & Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident), and the co-administrator, with Pierre-Yves Lambert, of Thesaurus Paleo-Celticus, a CNRS project that aims to replace Alfred Holder's Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz (1913).[6][2]

With linguist Romain Garnier, Delamarre is the co-publishing editor of Wékwos, a journal founded in 2014 and devoted to Indo-European comparative linguistics.[2][7]

Career

Delamarre worked for the French diplomatic post in Helsinki (1984–86), then in Harare (1989–92), in Vilnius (1992–97), in Osaka (1997–98), and in Ljubljana (1998–2000). He has been first counsellor at the French embassy in Helsinki from 2004 to 2006, and a special adviser for international cooperation to the Secretary-General of the French government from 2008 to 2014.[2]

Works
  • Le Vocabulaire indo-européen: lexique étymologique thématique (in French). Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. 1984. ISBN 978-2-7200-1028-6.
  • Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (in French). Errance. 2003. ISBN 9782877723695.
  • Les Noms Des Gaulois (in French). Les Cent Chemins. 2017. ISBN 978-1-5468-6932-0.

References
  1. Trudgill, Peter. "This is why Paris is more like Hull than Troy". The New European. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  2. "Delamarre Xavier - Archéologie & Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident". www.archeo.ens.fr. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Brill. p. 4. ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1.
  4. Taverdet, Gérard (2007). "Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique (Nomina celtica antiqua selecta inscriptionum), 2007". Nouvelle revue d'onomastique. 47 (1): 257.
  5. "Que doit le français à la langue gauloise ?". France Culture (in French). p. 16m00s.
  6. AFEAF (Association Française pour l'étude de l'âge du Fer) (20 November 2019). "THESAURUS Paleo-Celticus (CNRS) – Appel à contributeurs". Le blog de l'AFEAF (in French). Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  7. "Wékwos". BNF. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
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