The LAD website is available to the public for the first time
Our dictionary is a work in progress. It will change and grow during its 17-year production time and is expected to be completed by the end of 2041.
What to expect
LAD’s lemma list represents the current state of lexicographical research. It was compiled from lists kindly provided to us by Enrique Jiménez (eBL), Walter Sommerfeld (DAL), and Manfred Krebernik.
- At minimum, each dictionary entry contains the lemma headword, part of speech, and English translation.
- More than 4,000 entries already contain new information, often new attestations (currently ca. 11,500) and discussions. Translations may have been adjusted based on re-evaluation of the material.
- The majority of entries have been mapped to at least one of the two major Akkadian dictionaries, CAD and AHw.
- More than 1,000 entries are new.
- A substantial amount of material previously published in our predecessor project, the Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries (SAD), has been included (see LAD and SAD).
The project outline, methodology, and structure of the dictionary are explained in detail in our About section.
A detailed guide on LAD’s current search capabilities can be found in our How to use section.
What we’re working on
- The team is currently collecting references from scholarly Akkadian texts (module 2 in our schedule), including lexical, divinatory, and medical texts.
- We are creating a classification of semantic domains, tailored to Akkadian.
- The mapping of LAD to AHw and CAD is ongoing and expected to be completed in a few months.
- The material previously published in the SAD is continuously reviewed and imported.
- Search capabilities will be expanded over time to enable complex, advanced searches with filters.