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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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Lev Scherba

Lev Vladimirovich Scherba was a prominent Russian and Soviet linguist who made significant contributions to the study of...

Russian 20TH Century Theoretical Bilingual

9.2 Excellent

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Antoni Maria Alcover

Antoni Maria Alcover was a 20th-century Mallorcan lexicographer dedicated to documenting the Catalan language. His work...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Catalan Dialect

8.8 Great

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Samuel Bogumił Linde

Samuel Bogumił Linde (1739-1806) was a Polish lexicographer renowned for his ambitious and influential *Słownik języka p...

Polish 18TH Century Comprehensive Historical

8.7 Great

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Josef Jungmann

Josef Jungmann developed the first comprehensive Czech dictionary in the 19th century. His bilingual work, produced betw...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Czech Pioneering

8.6 Great

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Shinmura Izuru

Shinmura Izuru (1907-1987) was a Japanese lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work on the Kojien dictionary. His c...

Comprehensive Japanese 20TH Century Historical

8.5 Great

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R.J. Thomas

R. J. Thomas was a Welsh lexicographer who organized the editorial work for Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the University of...

Comprehensive 20TH Century Welsh Historical

8.5 Great

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Matthias de Vries

Matthias de Vries was a pioneering 19th-century Dutch lexicographer. His work fundamentally influenced the creation of t...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Historical Dutch

8.4 Great

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Paul Imbs

Paul Imbs was a prominent French lexicographer specializing in historical French language documentation. He established...

French Comprehensive 20TH Century Historical

8.4 Great

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Loránd Benkő

Loránd Benkő was a 20th-century Hungarian lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work on A magyar nyelv történeti-eti...

Hungarian Comprehensive 20TH Century Historical

8.3 Great

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Robert Ilson

Robert Ilson is a British lexicographer recognized for his contributions to modern English language reference publishing...

Theory 20TH Century General Bilingual

8.2 Great

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Clement Doke

Clement Doke was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in Bantu languages. He significantly advanced linguistic unde...

20TH Century Zulu South African Pioneering

8.1 Great

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Niall Ó Dónaill

Niall Ó Dónaill was a prominent Irish lexicographer and writer from County Donegal. He is best known for compiling the F...

English Irish Bilingual Past

8.0 Great

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Tomás de Bhaldraithe

Tomás de Bhaldraithe was a prominent Irish-language scholar, writer, and lexicographer who significantly influenced the...

English Irish Bilingual Past

7.8 Good

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Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was a 16th-century English diplomat, scholar, and humanist who significantly advanced English Renaissance l...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.7 Good

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Edward O'Reilly

Edward O'Reilly was an Irish scholar who compiled An Irish-English Dictionary, published in Dublin in 1817, one of the n...

19TH Century Historical Pioneering Irish

7.6 Good

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Nishio Minoru

Nishio Minoru was a Japanese language scholar and lexicographer who edited the Iwanami Kokugo Jiten, a Japanese-language...

Comprehensive Japanese 20TH Century General

7.6 Good

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Sol Plaatje

Sol Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, linguist, and political activist who lived from 1876 to...

20TH Century South African Pioneering Bilingual

7.5 Good

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Adam Willis Wagnalls

Adam Willis Wagnalls (1843-1924) was an American publisher who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls Company with Isaac Kaufman...

American Comprehensive Pioneering 19TH 20TH Century

7.2 Good

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William Owen Pughe

William Owen Pughe was an 18th- and 19th-century Welsh antiquarian and lexicographer. He is best known for compiling "A...

18TH Century Comprehensive Welsh Pioneering

6.7 Fair