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Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana

The Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana (in English critical and etymological dictionary of the Spanish language ) is an etymological dictionary compiled by the Catalan philologist Joan Corominas (1905-1997), and published in the first instance in Bern by the Francke Editorial in 1954.


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Indo-European Etymological Dictionary

The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (commonly abbreviated IEED) is a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, initiated in 1991 by Peter Schrijver and others.

Lake Ilmen

According to the Max Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, the name of the lake originates from the Finnish "Ilmajärvi", which means "small lake".

Rick Derksen

He's a contributor to Leiden based Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project, for which he wrote the Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Brill, 2008).

Sheksna River

According to the Max Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, the origin of the name of the river is unclear, but it may originate from a Uralic language.