Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck

male, deceased (1955)
Yale University, University of Chicago, Philologist, sanskrit, greek, American…Etymologist
Carl Darling Buck (October 2, 1866 - February 8, 1955), American philologist, was born in Bucksport, Maine. He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a...

Aleksander Brückner

male, deceased (1939)
Omelian Ohonovsky, Etymologist, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Philologist, polish language, polish
Aleksander Brückner was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. H...

Yaska

male
Ancient Sanskrit grammarian, That, noun, veda, Sanskrit grammarian, Vedanga…Etymologist
Yaska also gives a test for nouns both concrete and abstract: nouns are words which can be indicated by the pronoun "that".
Manfred Mayrhofer

Manfred Mayrhofer

male, 83 years old
Sanskrit grammarian, Etymologist, semitic, sanskrit, etymological dictionary, philosophy
Manfred Mayrhofer is an Indo-Europeanist specialized on Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is...
Hjalmar Frisk

Hjalmar Frisk

deceased (1984)
Etymologist, Goteborg University, linguist, swedish, indo-europeanist, hellenist
Hjalmar Frisk was a Swedish linguist in Indo-European studies and rector of Göteborg University 1951-1966.
Jaroslav Rudnyckyj

Jaroslav Rudnyckyj

male, deceased (1995)
Austro-Hungarian immigrants to Canada, Canadian of Ukrainian descent, Etymologist, linguistics, folklorist, ukrainian
Jaroslav Bohdan Rudnyckyj OC (1910 - October 19, 1995) was a Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and...

Mahananda Sapkota

male, deceased (1977)
linguistics, nepal, social worker, poet, Etymologist, linguist
Mahananda Sapkota (1896-1977) was a Nepalese social worker, etymologist, linguist, and poet. He received several national awards for his...

Joseph Vendryes

male, deceased (1960)
linguistics, Etymologist, linguist, French, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Joseph Vendryes was a French linguist. After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was École Pratique des Hautes Études's chairman of Celtic la...
Ward van Osta

Ward van Osta

male
flemish, belgian, Etymologist, etymology
Ward van Osta is a Belgian historian and etymologist. He is a member of the "Koninklijke Commissie voor Toponymie en Dialectologie".

Vasily Abaev

male, deceased (2001)
Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev, Russian Empire, Etymological Dictionary of Ossetian Language, linguist, Archaeologist, Russian…Etymologist
Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev (Ossetian: "Абайты Васо", Russian: "Василий Иванович Абаев", also transilterated as Abaity and Abayev; 15 December...