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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.
Proposed etymologies
A selection of Trombetti's proposed global etymologies:[1]
Meaning
Root
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.)
Selected works
1902-1903. "Delle relazioni delle lingue caucasiche con le lingue camitosemitiche e con altri gruppi linguistichi. Lettera al professore H. Schuchardt." In Giornale della Società asiatica italiana, T. 15, pp. 177–201 and T. 16, pp. 145–175. Florence.
1902. Nessi genealogici fra le lingue del mondo antîco, 4 volumes, unpublished. Recipient of the Royal Prize of the Italian Academy in 1902.
1927. "La lingua etrusca e le lingue preindoeuropee del Meditarreneo." In Studi etruschi, T. 1. Florence.
1928. La lingua etrusca. Florence: Rinascimento del libro.
1928. "Origine asiatica delle lingue e popolazioni americane." In Atti del 22 congresso internazionale degli americanisti, Roma, Settembre 1926, T. 1, pp. 169–246. Rome: Istituto Cristoforo Colombo.
1929. Il nostro dialetto bolognese. Bologna: Zanichelli.
