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Amsalu Aklilu (2 September 1929 – 19 December 2013) was a distinguished lexicographer of Amharic and a language professor at Addis Ababa University, [1] a major figure in Ethiopian studies. He was born in Dessie , Wällo, attended a local church school and later attended and graduated from Holy Trinity Secondary School, in Addis Ababa .
LexSite non-collaborative English-Russian dictionary with contextual phrases; Linguee collaborative dictionary and contextual sentences; Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary free English to Sinhala and vice versa; Multitran multilingual online dictionary centered on Russian, and provides an opportunity of adding own translation
Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Wolf Leslau (Yiddish: וולף לסלאו; born November 14, 1906, in Krzepice, Vistula Land, Poland; died November 18, 2006, in Fullerton, California) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.
In 1929, Baeteman published his Amharic dictionary. It was printed in Dire Dawa (east Ethiopia ) and dedicated to Haile Selassie I , who was then still Negus Tafāri Makwennen. The dictionary comprises more than 1000 pages and includes around 1000 proverbs, from a collection made by the Lazarist Jean-Baptiste Coulbeaux .
There are multiple ways to write some letters in Amharic as some of the sounds that were once used in Geʽez are non-existent in modern Amharic. At the cost of redundancy, Amharic speakers retain the archaic letters in their orthography to preserve the Geʽez origins of many of their words. Also, the English approximations are sometimes very ...
Demon, Ghost, often written in Jamaican English as "duppy" [1] [2] Red Eye Akan Ani bere "envious – direct translation from Akan into English" Adrue Akan, Ewe(The Akwamu-Akan also conquered the Ewe and introduced to them concepts such as matrilineal inheritance, stools and of course Akan loanwords the Ewe were originally and still are ...
Walker's Rhyming Dictionary was made by John Walker and released in 1775. [1] It is an English reverse dictionary , meaning that it is sorted by reading words in reverse order. As spelling somewhat predicts pronunciation, this functions as a rhyming dictionary .