Germanic Lexicon Project: Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit (original) (raw)

Credit: Scanned, OCR-ed, and corrected by Sean Crist.

The book is a dictionary of reconstructed Proto-Germanic, organized by reconstructed lemmata, with each entry including the attested reflexes in the daughter Germanic languages, as well as cognates in the other Indo-European branches.

The entries are listed in Sanskrit alphabetical order, adapted for the Proto-Germanic segmental inventory (A, E Ê, I Î, Ô, U Û, K, H, G, T, Þ, D, P, F, B, N, M, J, R, L, V, S). The reconstructions are entirely out of date, and there are of course no cognates listed for the Tocharian or Anatolian branches, which had not yet been rediscovered in 1909. The main value of the text is in its orderly listing of Germanic cognate sets.

This project reached a major milestone in April 2003 with completion of hand corrections of the entire text.

The next task is to incorporate the errata section into the main body of the text. Further, there are also roughly 230 unresolved items where there was an apparent error in the original text or where the correct form of the text could not immediately be determined (e.g. because of an ink smudge on the page); these items have been denoted in the XML document, and for for some of these items, research will be necessary. The longer-term, major task will be to parse the text and create a rich, graph-based markup which encodes the etymological and morphological relations between words in a machine-readable manner.

Please report any errors you find. Although a pass of hand-correction has been made on the entire text, it is extremely unlikely that every error has been caught.