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The immediate predecessor of this dictionary was the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language under the editorship of academician Dmitry Ushakov (1873–1942). The last, 4th volume of this edition was signed for printing on December 3, 1940 – half a year before the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union with the Nazi Germany began.
The dictionary was conceived in the 1950s with the inadequacy of the existing Slavic etymological dictionaries in mind. [1] Since 1961 the preparations began for the dictionary under the direction of Oleg Trubachev at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the USSR. [2]
A researcher of the etymology of Slavic languages and Slavic onomastics, he was considered a specialist in historical linguistics and lexicography. He was a Doctor of Sciences in Philological Sciences, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as the editor-in-chief of the Etimologiya yearbook.
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The New Oxford American Dictionary (2005) Second edition, published by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517077-6; Pyles, T. (1964). The Origin and Development of the English Language. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Speake, Jennifer (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19 ...
The Russian translation of Vasmer's dictionary – with extensive commentaries by Oleg Trubachyov – was printed in 1964–1973. As of 2015, it remains the most authoritative source for Slavic etymology. The Russian version is available on Sergei Starostin's Tower of Babel web site. [citation needed]
Alexander G. Preobrazhensky, Etymological dictionary of the Russian language , Columbia University Press, 1983 – ISBN 0-231-01889-4 Serguei Sakhno, Dictionnaire russe–français d'étymologie comparée: correspondences lexicales historiques – ISBN 2-7475-0219-8
The Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language, also called just Ushakov's Dictionary, is one of the major dictionaries of the Russian language.. Edited by the philologist and lexicographer Dmitry Ushakov, the dictionary was published in four volumes over the period 1935–1940. [1]