swap_horiz John Minsheu 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

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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

9.38 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

9.18 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

9.05 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

8.72 Great

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Thomas Northcote Toller

Thomas Northcote Toller was a British lexicographer specializing in Anglo-Saxon English. He is notable for his meticulou...

Historical British Victorian English

8.66 Great

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Justus Georg Schottelius

Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) was a German poet and grammarian who played a significant role in the standardizati...

German German Language Historical 17TH Century

8.57 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

8.55 Great

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Richard Cleasby

Richard Cleasby was a 19th-century British lexicographer renowned for his pioneering work on Old Norse and Icelandic lan...

19TH Century Historical British Icelandic

8.52 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

8.52 Great

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Joseph Bosworth

Joseph Bosworth was a British lexicographer working during the Victorian era. He focused on historical English and Anglo...

Historical British Victorian English

8.48 Great

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Caspar von Stieler

Caspar von Stieler was a 17th-century German scholar, poet, and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing the 1691...

German Baroque Historical 17TH Century

8.48 Great

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Manlio Cortelazzo

Manlio Cortelazzo was a twentieth-century Italian linguist and lexicographer whose scholarship focused particularly on d...

Italian 20TH Century Historical Venetian

8.38 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

8.37 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

8.36 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

8.35 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

8.34 Great

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Charles Richardson

Charles Richardson (1775–1865) was a British educator and lexicographer best known for compiling the 1836 "New Dictionar...

19TH Century Historical British English

8.02 Great