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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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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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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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Walter Skeat

Walter Skeat was a British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon roots. His Ety...

British Victorian English Anglo Saxon

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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Amarasimha

Amarasimha was an ancient Indian scholar renowned for compiling the Amarakosha, a foundational Sanskrit lexicon. This wo...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Thesaurus

8.8 Great

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Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in comparative Indo-European languages. His work focused o...

American 20TH Century Comparative Indo European

8.7 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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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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William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary, a major U.S. encycl...

English Past Sanskrit Webster

8.5 Great

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Hemachandra

Hemachandra was an Indian lexicographer active during the medieval period. He is most notably recognized for creating th...

Indian Medieval Encyclopedic Sanskrit

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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Sebastián de Covarrubias

Sebastián de Covarrubias created the *Tesoro*, a groundbreaking 17th-century Spanish dictionary published in 1611. This...

Spanish 17TH Century Pioneering Monolingual

8.4 Great

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Đuro Daničić

Đuro Daničić was a 19th-century Serbian lexicographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced Slavic linguistics. H...

19TH Century Historical Serbian Etymological

8.3 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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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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Hajime Nakamura

Hajime Nakamura was a prominent Japanese scholar of Buddhism and philosophy who directed the compilation of the comprehe...

Past Buddhist Sanskrit Pali

8.2 Great

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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai was a renowned Indian lexicographer who compiled the *Shabdataravali*, a definitive an...

Indian General Past Malayalam

8.2 Great

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Oskar Bloch

Oskar Bloch was a 20th-century French linguist specializing in lexicography and etymology. He is primarily known for his...

French 20TH Century General Historical

8.2 Great