About Palaeolexicon
Palaeolexicon is a tool for the study of ancient languages. Its name derives from the Greek words palaeo meaning 'old' and lexicon meaning 'dictionary'. If you're interested of the ancient world and its languages, then this is a site for you. It is a place for people who love historical linguistics and ancient history.History
Palaeolexicon started as a project in December 2008 and its aim was to provide a searchable index of Mycenaean Greek glosses. During the early development stages, it was decided that Phrygian should be docked in as well. Then languages of the greater Balkan and Anatolia area followed.
Language support
The Palaeolexicon database contains public and partial dictionaries that in turn contain thousands of words. The difference between a public and partial dictionary, is that a public dictionary is available for browsing, while a partial dictionary will return results corresponding the search criteria of a user.
Palaeolexicon has currently the following public dictionaries:The partial dictionaries include the following languages:
- Avestan
- Cappadocian Greek
- Carian
- Cypriot Syllabic Script
- Early Proto-Albanian
- Eteocypriot
- Etruscan
- Hattic
- Hittite
- Linear B
- C. Luwian
- Lycian
- Lydian
- Old Norse
- Palaic
- Phrygian
- Pre-Celtic
- Pre-Greek toponyms
- Proto-Altaic
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Kartvelian
- Proto-Semitic
- Proto-Turkic
- Safaitic
- Thracian
- Tocharian A
- Tocharian B
- Urartian
- Aeolic Greek
- Ancient Macedonian
- Arcado-Cypriot Greek
- Armenian
- Attic Greek
- Basque/Euskara
- Doric Greek
- Greek
- Hurrian
- Ionic Greek
- Latin
- Lemnian
- Mitanni
- Old Persian
- Ossetian (Iron)
- Pr.Indo-Iranian
- Proto-Anatolian
- Proto-Celtic
- Proto-Italic
- Proto-Tungus
- Proto-Uralic
- Sanskrit
Monday, February 24, 2020
Palaeolexicon: Word study tool for ancient languages
Palaeolexicon: Word study tool for ancient languages
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