swap_horiz Calvert Watkins Alternatives

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Mikhail Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (1886–1962), known in Russian as Mikhail Vasmer, was a linguist and Slavist born in Saint Pe...

20TH Century Historical Slavic Russian German

9.5 Brilliant

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Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Joan Coromines

Joan Coromines was a Catalan lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive work on the Catalan language. His most significan...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Catalan Etymological

9.2 Excellent

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Sextil Pușcariu

Sextil Pușcariu (1873–1948) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, and professor who founded the Institute of Linguistics...

Academic 20TH Century Romance Romanian

9.1 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Frederic Cassidy

Frederic Cassidy was an American lexicographer dedicated to documenting regional English dialects. He recognized a signi...

American 20TH Century English Dialect

8.9 Great

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Philip Gove

Philip Gove was an American lexicographer best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New Internati...

American Controversial 20TH Century Descriptive

8.9 Great

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Franz Miklosich

Franz Miklosich was an Austrian scholar specializing in Slavic languages. He is primarily known for his meticulous work...

Austrian 19TH Century Comparative Slavic

8.7 Great

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Pavel Chernykh

Pavel Chernykh (1896–1970) was a Soviet linguist and lexicographer who compiled the *Historical and Etymological Diction...

Russian 20TH Century Historical Etymological

8.7 Great

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Rasmus Christian Rask

Rasmus Christian Rask was a Danish linguist and philologist whose extensive research in the early 19th century establish...

Comparative Past Indo European Etymology

8.6 Great

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Jonathan Lighter

Jonathan Lighter was a prominent lexicographer specializing in American slang and historical language. He is best known...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.6 Great

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Julius Pokorny

Julius Pokorny (1890-1974) was an Austrian scholar specializing in Indo-European linguistics. He is best known for his c...

Austrian 20TH Century Comparative Indo European

8.6 Great

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Joan Hall

Joan Hall was a 20th-century American lexicographer specializing in English dialect. Her work focused on documenting reg...

American 20TH Century English Dialect

8.5 Great

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Oscar Bloch

Oscar Bloch was a French linguist and philologist best known for his work in Romance linguistics and etymology. In 1932,...

French 20TH Century Historical Etymological

8.5 Great

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Albert Dauzat

Albert Dauzat was a prominent 20th-century French lexicographer specializing in the study of the French language. His wo...

French 20TH Century General Onomastics

8.4 Great

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Manlio Cortelazzo

Manlio Cortelazzo was a twentieth-century Italian linguist and lexicographer whose scholarship focused particularly on d...

Italian 20TH Century Historical Venetian

8.4 Great

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José Pedro Machado

José Pedro Machado was a 20th-century Portuguese lexicographer, historian, and Arabist whose scholarly work significantl...

20TH Century Historical Portuguese Etymological

8.4 Great

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Charles Earle Funk

Charles Earle Funk was an American lexicographer and member of the family associated with the Funk & Wagnalls publishing...

American 20TH Century General English

7.3 Good

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Sol Steinmetz

Sol Steinmetz was an American lexicographer and etymologist known for his work documenting 20th-century English vocabula...

American 20TH Century English Random House

7.2 Good