swap_horiz William Rothwell 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

9.48 Excellent

2

Walter William Skeat

Walter William Skeat (1835–1912) was a prominent English philologist who served as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor...

Historical British 19TH 20TH Century Philological

9.38 Excellent

3

Salvatore Battaglia

Salvatore Battaglia was an Italian academic and lexicographer best known for editing the Grande dizionario della lingua...

Italian 20TH Century Multi Volume Historical

9.26 Excellent

4

P.G.W. Glare

British classicist and lexicographer P. G. W. Glare is closely associated with the Oxford Latin Dictionary, commonly abb...

Classical 20TH Century British Latin

9.25 Excellent

5

Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ire...

19TH Century Historical British Ecclesiastical

9.22 Excellent

6

Charles du Fresne du Cange

Charles du Fresne du Cange (1610-1688) was a French lexicographer renowned for his *Glossarium Medii et Infantium*. This...

French Medieval Historical 17TH Century

9.20 Excellent

7

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

9.18 Excellent

8

Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries was a 20th-century Dutch linguist renowned for his authoritative etymological dictionaries of Old Norse and...

20TH Century Historical Dutch Germanic Etymological

9.16 Excellent

9

Frédéric Godefroy

Frédéric Godefroy was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and lexicographer born in 1826. He is best known for...

French 19TH Century Medieval Historical

9.13 Excellent

10

John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.12 Excellent

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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.08 Excellent

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Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones was a 20th-century British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work developing the English Pronouncin...

20TH Century British English Pronouncing

9.02 Excellent

13

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

9.02 Excellent

14

Paul Procter

Paul Procter is a British lexicographer best known for serving as the editor of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary E...

20TH Century Editor British Learner

8.87 Great

15

Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler was a 20th-century British lexicographer known for his meticulous study of English language usage. H...

20TH Century Usage British English

8.86 Great

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Rafael Lapesa

Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908-2001) was a Spanish philologist and lexicographer who made foundational contributions to the...

Spanish Academic 20TH Century Historical

8.76 Great

17

Al-Jawhari

Al-Jawhari (c. 1185-1256) was an influential Arabic lexicographer originating from Farab. He is primarily recognized for...

Comprehensive Medieval Historical Arabic

8.74 Great

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David Murison

David Dalrymple Murison (1913–1997) was a Scottish lexicographer who served as editor of the *Scottish National Dictiona...

20TH Century Historical Scottish Scots

8.72 Great

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John R. Clark Hall

John R. Clark Hall was a British philologist and scholar of Old English whose work aided the study of early medieval lan...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.82 Good

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Eric Stanley

Eric Gerald Stanley was a German-born British academic and lexicographer who specialized in Old English and Anglo-Saxon...

20TH Century Historical British English

7.64 Good