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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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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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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

9.4 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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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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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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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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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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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907) was a Romanian writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He served as a professor at...

19TH Century Historical Romanian Philological

8.6 Great

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William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney was a nineteenth-century American linguist, Sanskrit scholar, and lexicographer whose work helped...

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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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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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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Alexander Preobrazhensky

Alexander Preobrazhensky was a Russian philologist and lexicographer who specialized in the linguistic history of the Sl...

Russian Historical 19TH 20TH Century Etymological

8.4 Great