Ranko Matasović, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb. His interests include Celtic and Indo-European linguistics and language typology. He published nine books, including Gender in Indo-European (Winter, Heidelberg 2004).

"Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (henceforth EDPC), is a welcome and very useful tool for linguistic investigation...we are extremely grateful to Ranko Matasović for his remarkable achievement." Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Folia Linguistica Historica 33 (2012), 215–230."This modern etymological dictionary of Common Celtic fits well into the new, but already famous Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. It is an important step forward, both for Indo-European and for Celtic. It will soon be found on the desk of everyone working in these fields. " Professor Dr. Stefan Zimmer,Chair of Indo-European and Celtic,University of Bonn"Das überaus anregende Buch ist ein starker Stimulus für zukünftige Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der keltischen Etymologie."Review by Irene Balles, Bonn, published in: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2011, volume 58

Ranko Matasović, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb. His interests include Celtic and Indo-European linguistics and language typology. He published nine books, including Gender in Indo-European (Winter, Heidelberg 2004).

"Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (henceforth EDPC), is a welcome and very useful tool for linguistic investigation...we are extremely grateful to Ranko Matasović for his remarkable achievement." Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Folia Linguistica Historica 33 (2012), 215–230."This modern etymological dictionary of Common Celtic fits well into the new, but already famous Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. It is an important step forward, both for Indo-European and for Celtic. It will soon be found on the desk of everyone working in these fields. " Professor Dr. Stefan Zimmer,Chair of Indo-European and Celtic,University of Bonn"Das überaus anregende Buch ist ein starker Stimulus für zukünftige Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der keltischen Etymologie."Review by Irene Balles, Bonn, published in: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2011, volume 58