Thomas Burrow

Thomas Burrow

Thomas Burrow (29 June 1909 - 8 June 1986) was an Indologist and the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1976. His work includes Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, The Problem of Shwa in Sanskrit and The Sanskrit Language.

Early life

Burrow was born at Leck in North Lancashire, the eldest of the six children of Joshua and Frances Eleanor Burrow. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge. Here he became interested in Sanskrit as a result of specialising in comparative philologyref|early_life.

Publications

*with M. B. Emeneau, "A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary", Clarendon Press (1966)
**"A Dravidian etymological dictionary: Supplement", Clarendon Press (1968)
*"The Sanskrit Language", Faber and Faber (1965), reprint Motilal Banarsidass (2001), ISBN 978-8120817678.
*"A comparative vocabulary of the Gondi dialects", Asiatic Society (1960)

Footnotes

# [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X(1987)50%3A2%3C346%3AOTB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R JSTOR Obituary]

External links

* [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/burrow/ A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, 2nd ed.]


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