The site is inaccessible now. I wonder if this is not due to over-exposure due to the no doubt thousands of Language Hat readers checking it out.
First the /. effect, now the Language Hat effect!
Congratulations!

damn! it's gone...

Double damn.
*resolves to keep future discoveries close to his chest*

The site works for me... I was reading in the Hungarian Nepszabadsag newspaper today about the Ashkali minority in Serbia. They are muslim, Albanian speaking Roma Gypsies from Kosova who don't want to be called Roma and who don't speak the Romani language. They can't get resettlement right within Serbia, but are afraid to go back to Kosovo because the local Albanian Kosovars see them as allies of the Serbs. The Serbs now see them merely as another Muslim, Albanian speaking problem group living in shanty towns on the outsklirts of Serb cities. It's a mess.

Wonderful place, Kosovo.

zaelic, you've got to write a book. I promise I'll not only buy a copy, I'll promote the hell out of it. You must know more about obscure twigs of the tree of humanity than anyone alive.

You want to see a comparable piece of contrastive linguistic crackpotage, try this. The current version is somewhat less loony.

There is also a group of assimilated Roma around Lake Ochrid, in Macedonia, who call themselves Gupti, or Egyptians. (from which we get English 'gypsy' and greek 'yifti') Basically, in these regions where settled muslim Gypsies enjoyed a middle class status under the Ottomans, assimnilated Roma choose to rename themselves with the idea that they can shake the low status that accrues to the name "Gypsy."

In june I am back up in Maramures recording music from the Covaci clan of musician Gypsies. Same deal. A lot of small brown folk (who no longer speak Romanes) who play music, beg a lot, work as blacksmiths, never keep farm animals or own land loudly denying any connection with other Roma, while everybody around them calls them Gypsy.

The author must have created new links to ease the transfer from his site. Now it seems that the Illyrian mystery will no longer be temporarily out of work. The following links are valid:

Part I (*abh- to *dens-)
Part II (*deph- to *gou̯ǝ-/gū- 'hand')
Part III (*gou̯ǝ-/gū- 'call, cry' to *k̂ē(i)-)
Part IV (*k̂ēko- to *pid-)
Part V (*pik(h)o- to *su̯elplo-s)
Part VI (*su̯em- to *ū̆d-, plus a few additional lemmas)

the first part of Illyrian etymological dictionary

Here I found the first part of Illyrian etymological dictionary

http://us.share.geocities.com/iliria1/etymology1.html

Here I found the second part of the Illyrian etymological dictionary: http://us.share.geocities.com/agimzeneli/etymology2.html

Third part is right here: http://us.share.geocities.com/altingjoka/etymology3.html
The funniest thing - thius guy is using my name!!!!!!!!!!

The fourth part is here: http://us.share.geocities.com/kadrizhulali/etymology4.html
It seems to me that the author is using randomly Muslim names as domain names?!

There's hope.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/ied.htm
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED)‎
‎
A project of the Department of Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University
The aim of the project is twofold: 1) to create an Indo-European etymological data-base which, in ‎due time, will be available to the scholarly community on the Internet; and 2) to compile a new ‎Indo-European etymological dictionary, which will replace Julius Pokorny's Indogermanisches ‎etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959). Pokorny's masterpiece is an indispensable tool used by Indo-‎Europeanists for all kinds of research, but is completely outdated. A new dictionary is a long-felt ‎desideratum.

Amazon.com lists it at USD 595, but they do not quite promise that they can find ít...

Here comes the fifth part and the domain name seems rather Jewish: http://us.share.geocities.com/alijecipuri/etymology5.html

Finally I found the sixth part (I hope there are no more): http://www.geocities.com/andi2000pl/etymology6.html

http://us.share.geocities.com/iliria1/etymology1.html
http://us.share.geocities.com/agimzeneli/etymology2.html
http://us.share.geocities.com/altingjoka/etymology3.html
http://us.share.geocities.com/kadrizhulali/etymology4.html
http://us.share.geocities.com/alijecipuri/etymology5.html
http://www.geocities.com/andi2000pl/etymology6.html
displayed OK.

anders: I'm really looking forward to seeing the new dictionary -- Pokorny is definitely showing its age.

Altin, anders: Thanks for the links!

Sir (whoever you are),

When I try one of the VI Parts of Pokorny-on-line,
I don't see most of the words quoted from
individual languages (probably those with
diacritic marks, but also words in Gothic).
Do you think this might be due to me
using Safari on a Mac OS 10.3.4?

In other words, do YOU have any problems
reading the files?

Thanks,

HC

Yes, I have a problem with that too. I don't know if there are browsers that let you see it properly, or if it's a problem with the source.

Of all links included in this forum only http://www.geocities.com/andi2000pl/etymology6.html didn't work; I found that another mirror site instead though : http://www.geocities.com/iliria6