Table of contents // Table of contents / 5 By way of introduction / 7 // Bohumil Vykypel (Brno) // Grammaticalization and etymology / 9 // Vít Bocek (Brno) // Etymology and language contact studies: // Some notes on mutual relationships /13 // Jan Bicovský (Praha) // Blind spots of the comparative method / 23 Václav Blažek (Brno) // Glottochronology, its principles and results / 41 // ivo Vasiljev (Ceské Budejovice) // What can etymology do for a better understanding of the Vietnamese language / 67 // Helena Karlíková (Brno) // Etymologische Rekonstruktion // mit Unterstützung durch die kognitive Linguistik? / 75 // ??? M. ??? (???) ??? ??? ? ??? ??? ??? ? ??? / 85