Indo-European Etymological Dictionary

Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (commonly abbreviated IEED) is the name of a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University. It aims at producing a dictionary containing all words in the Indo-European languages that can be traced back to the proto-language.

The project is supervised by Alexander Lubotsky and Robert Beekes. The aim of the project is threefold:
* to compile etymological databases containing the inherited vocabulary of various Indo-European branches and to publish them freely on the Internet
* to create an Indo-European etymological database on the Internet using Sergei Starostin's STARLING software
* to compile a new Indo-European etymological dictionary, which will replace outdated but still immensely valuable Julius Pokorny's Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch

Contributors of the project by branch include:
*Albanian: Bardhyl Demiraj, Michiel de Vaan
*Anatolian: Alwin Kloekhorst
*Armenian: Hratchik Martirosyan
*Baltic: Rick Derksen
*Celtic: Ranko Matasović
*Germanic: Guus Kroonen
*Germanic, Old Frisian: Dirk Boutkan, Sjoerd Siebinga
*Greek: Robert Beekes
*Indo-Aryan: Alexander Lubotsky
*Iranian: Johnny Cheung
*Italic: Michiel de Vaan
*Slavic: Rick Derksen
*Tocharian: Michael Peyrot

The project has so far resulted in following printed works:
* "Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary", Dirk Boutkan and Sjoerd Michiel Siebinga, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, 598 pp., ISBN 978-9004145313
* "Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb", Johnny Cheung, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007, 600 pp., ISBN 978-9004154964
* "The Origin of the Indo-Iranians", Elena E. Kuz'mina; Edited by J.P. Mallory, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007, 766 pp., ISBN 978-9004160545
* "Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon", Rick Derksen, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007, 800 pp., ISBN 978-9004155046
* "Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon", Alwin Kloekhorst, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, 1150 pp., ISBN 978-9004160927
* "Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic", Allan R. Bomhard, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, 942 pp., ISBN 978-9004168534
* "Etymological Dictionary of Latin (and the other Italic Languages)", Michiel de Vaan, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, 826 pp., ISBN 978-9004167971

External links

* [http://www.indo-european.nl/ Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IEED)]
* [http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=24131 Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series] , Brill Academic Publishers