Jack Rueter

dictionaries

These dictionaries include Heikki Paasonen’s dictionary of the Mordvin dialects as well as other historical word lists of the various language forms.

Cite

If you use this data set in an academic publication, we would be ever so grateful if you cited it as follows:

Introduction

Heikki Paasonen’s Mordwinisches Wörterbuch

Approximately on century after the commence of Heikki Paasonen’s first fieldwork among the Mordvin, the Finno-Ugrian Society published four volumes of his dialect dictionary of the Mordvin languages, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996: Heikki Paasonen’s Mordwinisches Wörterbuch.

• XXIII:1. 1990. CVI + 557 p. Band I (A–J).
• XXIII:2. 1992. P. 558-1305. Band II (K–M).
• XXIII:3. 1994. P. 1306-1927. Band III (N–Ŕ).
• XXIII:4. 1996. P. 1928-2703. Band IV (S–Ž).

The materials of these four volumes contain over 2700 pages dedicated to fieldwork collections featuring approximately 220 locales, which have been expanded upon for more extensive documentation of the Mordvin langauges in space and time here.

The dictionary itself is found in the XML file mordwinisches_woerterbuch_all.xml.

You can search the four volumes of the dictionary as an html file here, where you can read it in you browser and make simple searches – nowadays, searches don’t require «funny letters».

At present, the XML file is under development for use as a SQL database. It contains all of the nearly 7,000 macro articles of the dialect dictionary of the Mordvin languages, Erzya and Moksha.

Development includes:

• alignment of all phonetic variants with their geo_locale.
• introduction of links to the modern Erzya and Moksha language dictionaries.
• alignment of definitions with the geo_locales where these meanings are pertinent.
• alignment of all example sentences with their geo_locale and literary sources.

Acknowledgements

Finno-Ugrian Society