Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

9/1/1981 - 8/31/1983

Funding Totals

$75,000.00 (approved)
$74,861.94 (awarded)


Etymological Dictionary of Geez (Classical Ethiopic)

FAIN: RT-*1916-81

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Wolf Leslau (Project Director: September 1980 to October 1990)

This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.

Subsequent award (renewal) RT-20323-83

To support an etymological dictionary of the Ethiopian language of Geez, a Semitic language no longer spoken but used as the language of the liturgy. The dictionary will be useful to linguists and to scholars interested in Ethiopia.