Olga Stolbova, Этимологический словарь чадских языков.

The aim of this book was, as the author formulated, “to compile a body of Chadic roots with reliable Afrasian parallels, which could serve as a constituent part of a new Afrasian etymological dictionary” (p. 21). In fact, Stolbova (henceforward: OS) extracted and rearranged here the items from her multi-volume Chadic Lexical Database (Stolbova 2005‑2011) with an Afro-Asiatic background. Due to space limitations, the scope of this review only allows to outline my general impressions after a fi..