¹ In order to avoid the scanty documentation which characterizes most attempts at explaining Albanian phonology, the writer spent two years (1929–31) in various parts of Albania, solely with the purpose of obtaining fresh linguistic material at first hand. The material is gradually being published in the form of a Historical Albanian and English Dictionary (Brno, 1938-), now unfortunately held up by the war. After removing some thousands of Greek and Turkish loan words admitted by Gustav Meyer into his Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (Strassburg, 1891), it is expected that there will be a residue of some 66,000 entries, many of them showing clear IE affinities.

In the present article, Meyer's dictionary and the two works by Hans Krahe—Die alten balkanillyrischen geographischen Namen (Heidelberg, 1925) and Lexikon altillyrischer Personennamen (Heidelberg, 1929)—are cited simply by the author's name. References will be found s.v. in the appropriate work.