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Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online

Edited by Alexander Lubotsky

About the editor:

Alexander Lubotsky is Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University. His publications include The system of nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European (Brill, 1988), A Rgvedic Word Concordance, 2 Vols. (American Oriental Society, 1997), and Atharvaveda-Paippalāda, kānda five. Text, translation, commentary (Harvard Oriental Series, 2002).

The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IEDO) reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous online reference source for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information. New content will be added on an annual basis.

The online edition includes the following dictionaries:

• Etymological Dictionary of Armenian
• Etymological Dictionary of Greek
• Etymological Dictionary of Hittite
• Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Verb
• Etymological Dictionary of Latin
• Etymological Dictionary of Luvian
• Etymological Dictionary of Old Frisian
• Etymological Dictionary of Persian — forthcoming
• Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic
• Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic
• Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Nostratic
• Etymological Dictionary of Slavic

Features:

• Includes 11 dictionaries
• Contains over 20.000 entries
• Covers over 150 languages
• Rich bibliographical references for further research
• Export, print and save records
• Cross-searchable database, supporting simple and complex queries
• Integrated wordwheel to facilitate searching
• Unicode compliant, displaying and searching complex characters and diacritics