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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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Anatoly Zaliznyak

Anatoly Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist specializing in structural linguistics, morphology, and the study o...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Grammar

9.5 Brilliant

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P.G.W. Glare

P. G. W. Glare is a British classicist and lexicographer who served as the primary editor of the *Oxford Latin Dictionar...

Classical 20TH Century British Latin

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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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

9.3 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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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

9.2 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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Vladimir Dahl

Vladimir Dahl was a prominent Russian lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Explanatory Dictionary of the Livin...

Russian General Folklore Past

9.1 Excellent

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Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Dal was a 19th-century Russian lexicographer renowned for his exhaustive Explanatory Dictionary of the Great Ru...

Russian Comprehensive 19TH Century Dialect

9.1 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

9.1 Excellent

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Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira was a prominent Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, and translator. He is best kno...

20TH Century General Monolingual Brazilian Portuguese

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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Viktor Vinogradov

Viktor Vinogradov was a prominent Soviet linguist and literary historian who profoundly influenced the modern fields of...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Theoretical

9.1 Excellent

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John Chadwick

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

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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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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Bernard Quemada

Bernard Quemada was a French lexicographer instrumental in the creation of the *Trezor de la langue française*. His work...

French 20TH Century Historical Computational

8.2 Great

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Nikolai Shansky

Nikolai Shansky was a prominent Soviet linguist, philologist, and educator recognized for his extensive contributions to...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Etymological

8.2 Great

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Sidney Landau

Sidney Landau was an American lexicographer who significantly shaped the field during the 20th century. His work focused...

American 20TH Century General English

8.1 Great