The Yiddish Dictionary Online is just what it says; you can open it in English or Yiddish alphabetical order or use the search box. This will save me having to go over to the bookshelf and pull down my Weinreich, and most people don't have a Weinreich to pull down, so this is a great thing to know about. (Via Plep.)
Posted by languagehat at August 30, 2005 10:07 AMHm... what's about the same for [Biblical] Hebrew?
Posted by: jartur at August 30, 2005 11:56 AMYeah, it doesn't get much better than Weinreich for Yiddish... W A Y better than Harduf... But I haven't used any Yiddish dictionaries for about 5 years, so I'm rusty... ;)
Posted by: Larley at August 31, 2005 01:15 AMI just received Weinreich's dictionary a few days ago in the mail, with an excellent price of US$19.80 at Amazon. I don't regret ordering it, but I actually thought at the time about how unlikely it was that there was a Yiddish-English dictionary online (like dict.leo.org for German). For some reason I didn't make a Google search, but it seems fitting to see one mentioned a few days later on one of my favourite blogs.
Posted by: Nathaniel at August 31, 2005 01:32 AMI don't mean to be churlish -- it's a wonderful endeavor, and all volunteer! -- but it is not without errors. On that basis alone it shouldn't be equated with Weinreich. Still, it's a great resource.
Posted by: Zackary Sholem Berger at August 31, 2005 10:15 PMA scanned copy of the 1910 edition of Harkavy's Yiddish-English dictionary, another one of the classic lexicons, is online at
http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html#ofront
Sorry. The top of the Harkavy page is at:
http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html
Thanks! Here's the direct link.
Posted by: language hat at September 1, 2005 05:04 PM