Bakro-Nagy Marianne DSc, Professor Department of Finno-Ugric and Historical Linguistics Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Duray Zsuzsa Research fellow Department of Finno-Ugric and Historical Linguistics Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary uray.[email protected]
Mush N. Junior researcher, Institute of Linguistics, HAS Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Osko B.Research Associate, Institute of Linguistics, HAS,Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Sipos Maria Research fellowDepartment of Finno-Ugric and Historical Linguistics Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences udapest, Hungary [email protected]
Takacs David Project team member, developer Department of Finno-Ugric and Historical Linguistics Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Varnai Zsuzsa Research fellow Department of Finno-Ugric and Historical Linguistics Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Abstract. The present paper is about a multipurpose etymological database of the Uralic languages, which can be found on the website of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. https://www.uralonet.nytud.hu. It is based on the data included in the German language Uralic Etymological Dictionary (Rédei 1986–1989) which was compiled by Károly Rédei and his colleagues in the 1980s. The dictionary, consequently our database contain the following data: daughter language forms and their meanings, the protoforms and their meanings derived from daughter language data, completed with linguistic explanations, and bibliographical data. The database, even in its present state, is containing more linguistic information than the original dictionary. Reconstructed meanings, besides the German, and Hungarian ones, are available in English, as well. The dictionary has been expanded with Dornseiff’s system (1959) for semantic categorization, thus can also be searched for according to semantic fields. The user interface search options are demonstrated through an example, in which the etymology serving as a base for illustration was chosen from the Ugric protolanguage. In our paper, language technological background of the database is also described.
Keywords: Uralic, etymology, electronic database, corpus.