This is the website of the electronic version of V. I. Abaev's Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Ossetic (HEDO). Its digitization and English translation have been carried out by staff members and students of the department of theoretical and applied linguistics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Department of Iranian languages, Institute of Linguistics RAS.

The electronic version of the dictionary and the translation of vols. 3 and 4 have been supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-28-01639.

We are deeply grateful to Amirkhan Torchinov, who has been the initiator of this project and is still providing us with invaluable support in our work. We are also grateful to the Ossetian community of Moscow for their support of the translation of vols. 1 and 2 and the help in publishing its preliminary English version; in particular, to Alexander Totoonov, Valery Dzgoev, Oleg Pukhov, Vladislav Khabliev, Ruslan Bestolov, Vitaly Daurov, Igor Dzutsev, Marina Kabolova, Vladimir Tuganov, Zoinbek Abaev, Viktor Dzhioev, Vladimir Baroev and Boris Bazaev.

The electronic edition of the dictionary is based on an adaptation of the XML-based TEI P5 markup system. The database server runs on BaseX. The markup model and its software realization have been developed by Oleg Belyaev. All sources are available in our repositories.

Site design and logo are by Anna Osipova.

The previous version of the electronic dictionary used a relational data model developed by Yury Makarov (IL RAS, Cambridge University) using the OnLex platform.

How to cite

Belyaev, Oleg, Irina Khomchenkova, Julia Sinitsyna, Vadim Dyachkov. Digitizing print dictionaries using TEI: The Abaev Dictionary Project // IWCLUL 2021: The Seventh International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages. Proceedings of the Workshop. Stroudsburg, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. P. 12–19.

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