swap_horiz Frederick William Danker 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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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

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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Walter Bauer

Walter Bauer was a prominent German theologian and scholar of early Christianity who taught at the University of Götting...

German 20TH Century Greek Biblical

9.3 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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Henry Liddell

Henry Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his meticulous work as editor of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexi...

Classical English Greek Past

8.9 Great

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Robert Scott

Robert Scott was a 19th-century British classical scholar and lexicographer. He is best known for collaborating with Hen...

Classical English Greek Past

8.5 Great

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Hesychius of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian, likely active in the 5th or 6th century, who compiled a comprehensive le...

Ancient Greek Lexicon Past

8.2 Great

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Adolf Erman

Johann Peter Adolf Erman was a prominent German Egyptologist who made foundational contributions to the study of ancient...

Ancient Lexicon Egyptian Past

8.0 Great

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Franz Passow

Franz Passow was a 19th-century German classical scholar and philologist who specialized in Ancient Greek literature and...

Classical Historical Greek Past

7.8 Good

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Julius Pollux

Julius Pollux was a Greek rhetorician, grammarian, and sophist from Naucratis who taught in Athens during the 2nd centur...

Ancient Greek Past Thesaurus

7.8 Good

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Henry Stuart Jones

Henry Stuart Jones was a British classical scholar and lexicographer who worked on major reference resources for ancient...

Classical English Greek Past

7.6 Good

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Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a late Roman grammarian and antiquarian, generally placed in the fourth century. His surviving work...

Ancient Lexicon Latin Past

7.5 Good

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Philitas of Cos

Philitas of Cos was an ancient Greek scholar and poet associated with the early Hellenistic period. He is known as the a...

Ancient Greek Past Glossary

7.2 Good

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer whose work focused in part on ancient Greek. H...

German Classical Greek Past

7.0 Good