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{{Short description|Dictionary of the Lithuanian language}}
'''Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian''' ({{lang-lt|Didysis lietuvių kalbos žodynas}} or ''Akademinis lietuvių kalbos žodynas'') is the complete [[thesaurus]] of the [[Lithuanian language]] and is one of the most extensive [[lexicography|lexicographical]] pieces in the world.


[[File:Lkz.jpg|thumb|20 volumes of the ''Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian'']]
It contains more than half a million Lithuanian [[headword]]s, and is 20 volumes (22 thousand pages) long. Most words have an explanation of their usage, origins and area of usage with examples. The Dictionary contains words collected from all written forms, since the first Lithuanian [[publishing|published]] book in 1547 until 2001.
The '''Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian''' ({{lang-lt|Didysis lietuvių kalbos žodynas}} or {{lang-lt|Akademinis lietuvių kalbos žodynas|label=none}}) is a comprehensive [[thesaurus]] of the [[Lithuanian language]] and one of the most extensive [[lexicography|lexicographical]] works in the world. The 20 volumes encompassing 22,000 pages were published between 1941 and 2002 by the [[Institute of the Lithuanian Language]]. An online and a CD version was made available in 2005. It contains about 236,000 [[headword]]s,<ref name=vle/> or 500,000 if counting sub-headwords,<ref name=ivadas/> reflecting modern and historical language both from published texts since the [[Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas|first published book in 1547]] until 2001 and recorded from the vernacular. Definitions, usage notes, and examples are given for most words. The entry length varies from one sentence to almost a hundred pages.<ref name=ivadas/> For example, 46 pages are devoted to 298 different meanings of ''taisyti'' (to fix) and its derivatives.<ref name=klimas94/>


==History==
==History==
The idea of the Dictionary belongs to [[Lithuania|Lithuanian]] [[philologist]] [[Kazimieras Būga]]. He started collecting material for the dictionary in 1902 and had over 617,000 cards with words, part of them from [[Antanas Juška]] dictionary. The first part of the dictionary was printed in 1924, the complete first volume in 1941 (letters A-B) under supervision of [[Juozas Balčikonis]]. The second volume appeared in 1947, and together with the first it was banned and hidden by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] authorities because of ideological reasons. These volumes are now bibliographical rarities. The first and second volumes had to be republished later. Work continued as the third volume was published in 1956, although it was difficult under the Soviet regime; some words (especially religious) were forced to be omitted. The loss was restored after Lithuania [[History_of_Lithuania#Independent_modern_Lithuania_.281990-2007.29|regained independence]] and ideological barriers were removed.
[[Lithuania|Lithuanian]] [[philologist]] [[Kazimieras Būga]] started collecting material for a dictionary in 1902.<ref name=vle/> When he returned from Russia to Lithuania in 1920, he started writing a dictionary that would contain all known Lithuanian words as well as [[hydronyms]], [[toponyms]], and surnames. However, he died in 1924 having published only two [[Serial (literature)|fascicule]]s with a lengthy introduction and the dictionary up to the word ''anga''.<ref name=klimas/> Būga attempted to write down everything that was known to science about each word, including etymology and history. He was critical of his own efforts realizing that the dictionary was not comprehensive or consistent, and considered the publication to be only a "draft" of a better dictionary in the future.<ref name=sabal/>


Būga collected about 600,000 [[index card]]s with words, but [[Juozas Balčikonis]], who was selected by the [[Ministry of Education (Lithuania)|Ministry of Education]] to continue the work on the dictionary in 1930,<ref name=vle/> realized that more data is needed and organized a campaign to collect additional words from literary works as well as the spoken language. The focus was on older texts, mostly ignoring contemporary literature and periodicals.<ref name=klimas/> Balčikonis asked Lithuanian public (teachers, students, etc.) to record words from the spoken language. Thus, the dictionary was substantially revised and reworked.<ref name=sabal/> The revised dictionary excluded [[proper noun]]s, infrequently used [[Barbarism (linguistics)|barbarisms]], etymological and historical notes. The words were now explained only in Lithuanian.<ref name=vle/> Būga used to leave the explanation in the language that it was originally recorded; therefore the words could be explained in German, Russian, Polish or even Latin.<ref name=barzd/>
The work on the dictionary took more than six decades by many generations of [[Linguistics|linguists]]. It was finished in 2005, and an online version has appeared.


The first volume covering letters A and B was published in 1941, i.e. during the [[German occupation of Lithuania during World War II|occupation by Nazi Germany]]. The second volume (letters C through F) was published in 1947. These two volumes were attacked by the communists as the words and sample sentences reflected "[[reactionary]] clerical phraseology" and not the "Lithuanian [[Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary]] press and the present [[Lithuanian SSR|Soviet Socialist]] reality."<ref name=klimas/> Balčikonis was removed as the chief editor. It took nine years to revise the dictionary and publish the 3rd volume in 1956. This and subsequent volumes feature numerous quotes from the Lithuanian translations of the works of [[Lenin]], [[Marx]], [[Engels]], [[Stalin]] and other Lithuanian communist texts. The first two volumes were also revised and republished based on these new standards in 1968–1969.<ref name=klimas/>
The dictionary is available printed, on [[CD-Rom]] and online.

With the ''[[Perestroika]]'' and [[Act of March 11|Lithuania's independence in 1990]], Soviet and communist examples were discarded.<ref name=zabar/> Examples were added from religious texts and from texts by Lithuanian linguists who retreated west from the [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)|approaching Red Army]] in 1944.<ref name=schmal/> The final volume of the dictionary was published in 2002. In total, the dictionary was written by 69 and edited by 23 linguists.<ref name=topor/>

==Sources==
The dictionary was written based on words collected and written down on index cards. The main card index contains 4.5 million cards. The supplemental index contains 0.5 million cards with words that were collected after the corresponding volume of the dictionary was printed.<ref name=zabar/> These cards were collected from a great variety of sources – almost 1,000 written sources (both unpublished and published) and more than 500 Lithuanian settlements.<ref name=zabar/>

The card index dates back to 1902 when [[Kazimieras Būga]] decided to record words not in notebooks but on index cards. The first words were written down from the works of [[Simonas Daukantas]] and collections of [[Kazimieras Jaunius]] as well as words collected by Būga near [[Dusetos]]. He continued to collect further words from works of [[Lithuanian literature]] (e.g. works by [[Motiejus Valančius]]), [[Lithuanian dictionaries]] (e.g. dictionary of [[Antanas Juška]]), collections of other linguists (e.g. 10,000 words from [[Jonas Jablonskis]]), as well as from the spoken language of the people. Būga's card index grew from about 150,000 cards in 1920 to 600,000 cards in 1923.<ref name=index/>

[[Juozas Balčikonis]] realized that the index was not comprehensive and organized a wide effort to collect more words. He encouraged members of the [[intelligentsia]], teachers, even students to submit cards with new words, particularly from the living dialects of the village. The card index was further expanded by words from old Lithuanian texts (e.g. bibles of [[Samuel Bogusław Chyliński]] and [[Jonas Bretkūnas]]), old Lithuanian dictionaries (e.g. by [[Konstantinas Sirvydas]], [[Philipp Ruhig]], [[Friedrich Kurschat]]), Lithuanian literature (e.g. works by [[Vincas Kudirka]], [[Antanas Baranauskas]], [[Maironis]], [[Žemaitė]], [[Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas]], [[Vincas Krėvė]], [[Petras Cvirka]]), collections of Lithuanian folklore (e.g. by [[Antanas Juška]] and [[Jonas Basanavičius]]).<ref name=index/> The index grew rapidly; for example, 78,774 cards were collected in 1933 and 97,930 cards in 1940.<ref name=vle/> Over a decade, the index grew by about 1 million cards.<ref name=index/>

After World War II, the card index was expanded by adding Soviet and communist terminology as well as [[international word]]s. From 1963, editors of the dictionary organized expeditions to different regions of Lithuania to collect words from the spoken language.<ref name=index/>

The cards were provided by numerous people of different educational background. Some of the prominent figures who contributed to the card index include [[Presidents of Lithuania]] [[Kazys Grinius]] and [[Antanas Smetona]], archbishop [[Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius]], ophthalmologist [[Petras Avižonis]], and many others. A list of more than 500 contributors who provided 100 or more words was published in the last 20th volume.<ref name=index/>

==Chief editors==
The chief editors of the dictionary were:<ref name=vle/>
* [[Juozas Balčikonis]] (Vols. 1–2 in 1930–1950)
* {{ill|Kazys Ulvydas|lt}} (Vols. 3–5 in 1956–1959, and Vols. 11–16 in 1978–1995)
* {{ill|Jonas Kruopas|lt}} (Vols. 6–10 in 1962–1976, and republished Vols. 1–2 in 1968–1969)
* {{ill|Vytautas Vitkauskas|lt}} (Vols. 17–20 in 1996–2002).


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Lithuanian dictionaries]]
* [[Lithuanian dictionaries]]
* [[List of dictionaries by number of words]]


==References==
{{Reflist|30em|refs=


<ref name=barzd>{{cite journal |first=Stasys |last=Barzdukas |title=Kazimieras Būga |date=December 1948 |url=http://www.aidai.eu/index.php?view=article&catid=168%3A21-gruodis&id=2041%3Ali&option=com_content&Itemid=192 |language=lt |volume=21 |journal=Aidai |pages=512–515}}</ref>

<ref name=index>{{cite web |title=Skaitmeninė Lietuvių kalbos žodyno pagrindinė kartoteka |url=http://lkiis.lki.lt/lkz-kartoteka-apie |publisher= Lietuvių kalbos institutas |work=Lietuvių kalbos išteklių informacinė sistema |year= 2015 |language=lt |access-date=2 February 2021}}</ref>

<ref name=ivadas>{{cite web |title=Apie LKŽe |url=http://old.lkz.lt/dzl.php?12 |language=lt |publisher=Institute of the Lithuanian Language |access-date=3 February 2021}}</ref>

<ref name=klimas>{{cite journal |first=Antanas |last=Klimas |title=Kazimieras Buga and the Academic Dictionary of Lithuania |url=https://www.lituanus.org/1981_4/81_4_01.htm |journal=[[Lituanus]] |date=Winter 1981 |volume=4 |issue=27 |issn=0024-5089 |access-date=2021-02-04 |archive-date=2020-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728051102/http://www.lituanus.org/1981_4/81_4_01.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name=klimas94>{{cite journal |first=Antanas |last=Klimas |title=Lietuvių kalbos žodynas. XV tomas: Šliup-Telžti, Vilnius, "Mokslas," 1991. |url=http://www.lituanus.org/1994_1/94_1_06.htm |journal=[[Lituanus]] |date=Spring 1994 |volume=1 |issue=40 |issn=0024-5089}}</ref>

<ref name=sabal>{{cite journal |first=Algirdas |last=Sabaliauskas |year=1997 |journal=Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimai |volume=XXXVII |title=Kazimieras Būga ir lietuvių leksikografija |url=http://journals.lki.lt/actalinguisticalithuanica/article/download/1369/1464 |language=lt |issn=0130-0172 |page=3}}</ref>

<ref name=schmal>{{cite journal |first=William R. |last=Schmalstieg |title=Some Comments on New Volumes of the Lithuanian Academy Dictionary |url=http://www.lituanus.org/1996/96_1_02.htm |journal=[[Lituanus]] |date=Spring 1996 |volume=1 |issue=42 |issn=0024-5089}}</ref>

<ref name=topor>{{cite journal |first=Vladimir |last=Toporov |translator-first=Danutė |translator-last=Sabromienė |translator-first2=Gertrūda |translator-last2=Naktinienė|url=http://mokslolietuva.lt/numeriu-archyvas/2004/mokslolietuvanr162004.pdf |language=lt |journal=Mokslo Lietuva |title=Didžiajam "Lietuvių kalbos žodynui" išėjus |page=2 |date=23 September 2004 |volume=16 |issue=306 |issn=1392-7191}}</ref>

<ref name=vle>{{cite encyclopedia |first= |last= |date=4 March 2020 |orig-year=2018 |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/lietuviu-kalbos-zodynas/ |title="Lietuvių kalbos žodynas" |encyclopedia=[[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija]] |publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras |language=lt}}</ref>

<ref name=zabar>{{cite book |first1=Elena Jolanta |last1=Zabarskaitė |first2= Gertrūda |last2=Naktinienė |title=Proceedings of the XIV Euralex International Congress |chapter=The Dictionary of Lithuanian (LKŽ) and its Future in Databases and Electronic Versions |editor-first1=Anne |editor-last1=Dykstra |editor-first2= Tanneke |editor-last2=Schoonheim |chapter-url=https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2010/067_Euralex_2010_3_ZABARSKAITE%20NAKTINIENE_The%20Dictionary%20of%20Lithuanian_LKZ_and%20its%20Future%20in%20Databases%20and%20Electronic%20Ve.pdf |year=2010 |publisher=Fryske Akademy |isbn=978-90-6273-840-3 |pages=780–781}}</ref>

}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.lkz.lt/en/dze.htm Official website of the dictionary]
* {{Official website}}
* [http://lkiis.lki.lt/pirma-kartoteka Online database of the card index]


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20 volumes of the Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian

The Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian (Lithuanian: Didysis lietuvių kalbos žodynas or Akademinis lietuvių kalbos žodynas) is a comprehensive thesaurus of the Lithuanian language and one of the most extensive lexicographical works in the world. The 20 volumes encompassing 22,000 pages were published between 1941 and 2002 by the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. An online and a CD version was made available in 2005. It contains about 236,000 headwords,[1] or 500,000 if counting sub-headwords,[2] reflecting modern and historical language both from published texts since the first published book in 1547 until 2001 and recorded from the vernacular. Definitions, usage notes, and examples are given for most words. The entry length varies from one sentence to almost a hundred pages.[2] For example, 46 pages are devoted to 298 different meanings of taisyti (to fix) and its derivatives.[3]

History

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Lithuanian philologist Kazimieras Būga started collecting material for a dictionary in 1902.[1] When he returned from Russia to Lithuania in 1920, he started writing a dictionary that would contain all known Lithuanian words as well as hydronyms, toponyms, and surnames. However, he died in 1924 having published only two fascicules with a lengthy introduction and the dictionary up to the word anga.[4] Būga attempted to write down everything that was known to science about each word, including etymology and history. He was critical of his own efforts realizing that the dictionary was not comprehensive or consistent, and considered the publication to be only a "draft" of a better dictionary in the future.[5]

Būga collected about 600,000 index cards with words, but Juozas Balčikonis, who was selected by the Ministry of Education to continue the work on the dictionary in 1930,[1] realized that more data is needed and organized a campaign to collect additional words from literary works as well as the spoken language. The focus was on older texts, mostly ignoring contemporary literature and periodicals.[4] Balčikonis asked Lithuanian public (teachers, students, etc.) to record words from the spoken language. Thus, the dictionary was substantially revised and reworked.[5] The revised dictionary excluded proper nouns, infrequently used barbarisms, etymological and historical notes. The words were now explained only in Lithuanian.[1] Būga used to leave the explanation in the language that it was originally recorded; therefore the words could be explained in German, Russian, Polish or even Latin.[6]

The first volume covering letters A and B was published in 1941, i.e. during the occupation by Nazi Germany. The second volume (letters C through F) was published in 1947. These two volumes were attacked by the communists as the words and sample sentences reflected "reactionary clerical phraseology" and not the "Lithuanian revolutionary press and the present Soviet Socialist reality."[4] Balčikonis was removed as the chief editor. It took nine years to revise the dictionary and publish the 3rd volume in 1956. This and subsequent volumes feature numerous quotes from the Lithuanian translations of the works of Lenin, Marx, Engels, Stalin and other Lithuanian communist texts. The first two volumes were also revised and republished based on these new standards in 1968–1969.[4]

With the Perestroika and Lithuania's independence in 1990, Soviet and communist examples were discarded.[7] Examples were added from religious texts and from texts by Lithuanian linguists who retreated west from the approaching Red Army in 1944.[8] The final volume of the dictionary was published in 2002. In total, the dictionary was written by 69 and edited by 23 linguists.[9]

Sources

[edit]

The dictionary was written based on words collected and written down on index cards. The main card index contains 4.5 million cards. The supplemental index contains 0.5 million cards with words that were collected after the corresponding volume of the dictionary was printed.[7] These cards were collected from a great variety of sources – almost 1,000 written sources (both unpublished and published) and more than 500 Lithuanian settlements.[7]

The card index dates back to 1902 when Kazimieras Būga decided to record words not in notebooks but on index cards. The first words were written down from the works of Simonas Daukantas and collections of Kazimieras Jaunius as well as words collected by Būga near Dusetos. He continued to collect further words from works of Lithuanian literature (e.g. works by Motiejus Valančius), Lithuanian dictionaries (e.g. dictionary of Antanas Juška), collections of other linguists (e.g. 10,000 words from Jonas Jablonskis), as well as from the spoken language of the people. Būga's card index grew from about 150,000 cards in 1920 to 600,000 cards in 1923.[10]

Juozas Balčikonis realized that the index was not comprehensive and organized a wide effort to collect more words. He encouraged members of the intelligentsia, teachers, even students to submit cards with new words, particularly from the living dialects of the village. The card index was further expanded by words from old Lithuanian texts (e.g. bibles of Samuel Bogusław Chyliński and Jonas Bretkūnas), old Lithuanian dictionaries (e.g. by Konstantinas Sirvydas, Philipp Ruhig, Friedrich Kurschat), Lithuanian literature (e.g. works by Vincas Kudirka, Antanas Baranauskas, Maironis, Žemaitė, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, Vincas Krėvė, Petras Cvirka), collections of Lithuanian folklore (e.g. by Antanas Juška and Jonas Basanavičius).[10] The index grew rapidly; for example, 78,774 cards were collected in 1933 and 97,930 cards in 1940.[1] Over a decade, the index grew by about 1 million cards.[10]

After World War II, the card index was expanded by adding Soviet and communist terminology as well as international words. From 1963, editors of the dictionary organized expeditions to different regions of Lithuania to collect words from the spoken language.[10]

The cards were provided by numerous people of different educational background. Some of the prominent figures who contributed to the card index include Presidents of Lithuania Kazys Grinius and Antanas Smetona, archbishop Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, ophthalmologist Petras Avižonis, and many others. A list of more than 500 contributors who provided 100 or more words was published in the last 20th volume.[10]

Chief editors

[edit]

The chief editors of the dictionary were:[1]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f ""Lietuvių kalbos žodynas"". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. 4 March 2020 [2018].
  2. ^ a b "Apie LKŽe" (in Lithuanian). Institute of the Lithuanian Language. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  3. ^ Klimas, Antanas (Spring 1994). "Lietuvių kalbos žodynas. XV tomas: Šliup-Telžti, Vilnius, "Mokslas," 1991". Lituanus. 1 (40). ISSN 0024-5089.
  4. ^ a b c d Klimas, Antanas (Winter 1981). "Kazimieras Buga and the Academic Dictionary of Lithuania". Lituanus. 4 (27). ISSN 0024-5089. Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  5. ^ a b Sabaliauskas, Algirdas (1997). "Kazimieras Būga ir lietuvių leksikografija". Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimai (in Lithuanian). XXXVII: 3. ISSN 0130-0172.
  6. ^ Barzdukas, Stasys (December 1948). "Kazimieras Būga". Aidai (in Lithuanian). 21: 512–515.
  7. ^ a b c Zabarskaitė, Elena Jolanta; Naktinienė, Gertrūda (2010). "The Dictionary of Lithuanian (LKŽ) and its Future in Databases and Electronic Versions" (PDF). In Dykstra, Anne; Schoonheim, Tanneke (eds.). Proceedings of the XIV Euralex International Congress. Fryske Akademy. pp. 780–781. ISBN 978-90-6273-840-3.
  8. ^ Schmalstieg, William R. (Spring 1996). "Some Comments on New Volumes of the Lithuanian Academy Dictionary". Lituanus. 1 (42). ISSN 0024-5089.
  9. ^ Toporov, Vladimir (23 September 2004). "Didžiajam "Lietuvių kalbos žodynui" išėjus" (PDF). Mokslo Lietuva (in Lithuanian). 16 (306). Translated by Sabromienė, Danutė; Naktinienė, Gertrūda: 2. ISSN 1392-7191.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Skaitmeninė Lietuvių kalbos žodyno pagrindinė kartoteka". Lietuvių kalbos išteklių informacinė sistema (in Lithuanian). Lietuvių kalbos institutas. 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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