swap_horiz Adolf Erman Alternatives

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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

9.5 Brilliant

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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm was a prominent German lexicographer and philologist. He is best known for his extensive work on the Deutsch...

German Historical Past Grimm

9.5 Brilliant

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

9.4 Excellent

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

9.4 Excellent

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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a prominent scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He is best known for his meticulous work compiling...

Ancient Chinese Past Characters

9.4 Excellent

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Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

9.3 Excellent

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Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

9.2 Excellent

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

9.2 Excellent

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Panini

Panini was a pioneering Indian linguist who lived around the mid-first millennium BCE. He developed the Ashtadhyayi, a c...

Indian Ancient Pioneering Sanskrit

9.2 Excellent

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Vladimir Dahl

Vladimir Dahl was a prominent Russian lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Explanatory Dictionary of the Livin...

Russian General Folklore Past

9.1 Excellent

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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was a pivotal figure in modern Persian scholarship. He meticulously compiled Loghat-nameh, a comprehe...

Modern Persian Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium was a lexicographer living in Alexandria during the Hellenistic period. He significantly contr...

Classical Ancient Greek Past

9.0 Excellent

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Frederick William Danker

Frederick William Danker was an American New Testament scholar whose 2000 BDAG edition became a standard Greek-English l...

Greek Lexicon Biblical Past

8.5 Great

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Hesychius of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian whose 5th or 6th century lexicon preserves more than 50,000 rare Greek wo...

Ancient Greek Lexicon Past

8.2 Great

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Verrius Flaccus

Verrius Flaccus was a Roman grammarian whose De verborum significatu explained Latin words and survives through later ab...

Ancient Latin Past Orthography

8.0 Great

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Julius Pollux

Julius Pollux was a 2nd-century Greek rhetorician whose *Onomasticon* served as a crucial thesaurus of Attic Greek vocab...

Ancient Greek Past Thesaurus

7.8 Good

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Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th century whose encyclopedic work, *De compendiosa doctrina*, preserved...

Ancient Lexicon Latin Past

7.5 Good

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Sextus Pompeius Festus was a Roman grammarian whose abridgment of Verrius Flaccus preserved rare Latin words and antiqua...

Ancient Latin Past Etymology

7.4 Good

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Philitas of Cos

Philitas of Cos was an ancient Greek scholar and poet whose lost work, *Ataktoi glōssai*, is widely considered to be the...

Ancient Greek Past Glossary

7.2 Good