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Apr 13 2011

CAD Complete & Online

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After 90 years, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is finally complete with the publication of Volume 20 U/W. All of the volumes are available for purchase or as free searchable PDFs.

See the following related news items:

–Martha Roth discussing “The Final Chapter” (video) and How we wrote the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (JNES article via JSTOR)

–Anna Steinhelper provides an apt portrayal of the feat in the most recent OI News & Notes (Winter 2011).

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Jan 15 2009

Online Afro-Asiatic Dictionaries

Published by under Dictionary,Tools

Berber

Tuareg (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1047497)

 

Chadic

Hausa (http://www.univie.ac.at/Hausa/oracle/KofarHausaE3a.html; Downloadable: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/hausarbaka/Download_vocabulary.html)

 

Cushitic

Oromo (http://www.freelang.net/online/oromo.php)

Somali (http://www.redsea-online.com/modules.php?name=dictionary)

 

Egyptian

Coptic (Crum: http://www.tyndalearchive.com//TABS/Crum/index.htm)

Egyptian (http://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/)

 

Semitic

Akkadian (http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/cuneiform.languages/dictionary/search.php; OB: http://www.klinopis.cz/utf/utf/sj.php)

Amharic (http://www.amharicdictionary.com/)

 

Arabic (Lane: http://www.tyndalearchive.com//TABS/Lane/index.htm; http://www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm)

Aramaic (CAL: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/searching/fulldictionary_search.html)

Biblical Hebrew (Gesenius: http://www.tyndalearchive.com//TABS/Gesenius/index.htm; http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/)

Post-Biblical Hebrew (Jastrow: http://www.tyndalearchive.com//TABS/Jastrow/)

Maltese (http://www.dicts.info/ud.php?l1=Maltese&l2=English)

Syriac (Payne Smith: http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/TABS/PayneSmith/; Jennings: http://bible.zoxt.net/syrlex/syrl.htm)

 

Other

 

Greek (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=greek)

Latin (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=latin)

Sumerian (http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/)

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