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Vacek, Jaroslav: Dravidian and Altaic 'Water - Viscosity - Cold', An Etymological and Typological Model.

Charles University, The Karolinum Press, Prague 2002, 359 pp.

ISBN 80-246-0343-8, ISSN 0587-1255

The work sums up a semantic and phonetic model linked with the specified semantic field and analyses it in the context of the respective languages. The Supplements include parallel etymological nests, examples of select sound correspondences and parallels with some other languages (Japanese, Finno-Ugrian). An attempt to create a new model of lexical comparison of languages.