A Rig-Vedic Lexicon (Words incipient with i)

The project "A Rigvedic Dictionary (words beginning with the vowel i)" represents a part of a larger project, a dictionary of the whole Rigveda edited by Thomas Krisch. The first part of this dictionary has already been published in 2006 (Krisch, Thomas 2006: RIVELEX. Rig-Veda-Lexikon/A Rigvedic Lexicon. Band 1/Vol. 1. Unter Mitarbeit von Christina Katsikadeli, Stefan Niederreiter und Thomas Kaltenbacher. Leykam. Graz 2006.) The Rigveda is one of the most important religious texts of India, actually it is supposed to be the most important one. As the oldest text of Sanskrit (Vedic) it is of invaluable importance for a lot of fields of research. The projected dictionary is intended to provide an up-to-date tool of reference for Comparative Philologists, Linguists, Indologists, theologists and other philologists and classical scholars interested in Vedic and Sanskrit culture. We have already got a dictionary of the Rigveda at our disposal: the monumental work by Hermann Graßmann. It has been published 132 years ago and appears to be out of date in many respects though it still is a very useful work. Our dictionary is intended to reflect the latest state of research in Indology and Indo-European studies, especially with respect to semantic and formal interpretations of all word-forms in the Rigveda. In addition to that, some modern linguistic concepts are incorporated. Especially prominent among the recent linguistic ideas integrated into the dictionary are the concept of semantic case ("theta roles"), the notion of semantic features and the structure of syntactic arguments. Of our dictionary you may also expect a complete morphological analysis of all the forms occurring in the Rigveda. In order to enhance the seeking possibilities, we enclose a CD-ROM to each printed volume, in the same way as is done in the first volume which has already appeared in print. On this CD-ROM you can find the text (without footnotes) in Word format, in Rich text format and as a pdf-file. The current part of the project (words beginning with the vowel i) is planned for 24 months.

The project "Rigveda Lexicon (RIVELEX): words starting with i" represents a part of a larger project, a dictionary of the whole Rigveda edited by the project leader Thomas Krisch. The first part of this dictionary has already been published in 2006 (Krisch, Thomas 2006: RIVELEX. Rig-Veda Lexikon / A Rigvedic Lexicon. Band 1/Vol. 1. Unter Mitarbeit von Christina Katsikadeli, Stefan Niederreiter und Thomas Kaltenbacher. Leykam. Graz 2006.) The Rigveda is one of the most important religious texts of India, actually it is supposed to be the most important one. As the oldest text of Sanskrit (Vedic) it is of invaluable importance for a lot of fields of research. The projected dictionary is intended to provide an up-to-date tool of reference for Comparative Philologists, Linguists, Indologists, theologists and other philologists and classical scholars interested in Vedic and Sanskrit culture. We have already got a dictionary of the Rigveda at our disposal: the monumental work by Hermann Grassmann. It has been published 138 years ago and appears to be out of date in many respects though it still is a very useful work. Our dictionary is intended to reflect the latest state of research in Indology and Indo-European studies, especially with respect to semantic and formal interpretations of all word-forms in the Rigveda. In addition to that, some modern linguistic concepts are incorporated. Especially prominent among the recent linguistic ideas integrated into the dictionary are the concept of semantic case ("theta roles"), the notion of semantic features and the structure of syntactic arguments. Of our dictionary you may also expect a complete morphological analysis of all the forms occurring in the Rigveda. In order to enhance the seeking possibilities, we enclose a CD-ROM to each printed volume. On the CD-ROM you can find the complete text in Word format, in Rich text format and as a pdf-file. This part of the project dealt with the words starting with i; additionally, to all the words starting with (long) u, (one half of the lemmata u-). syllabic r, e, ai, o, au, the english trnslations were added and have been prepared for printof the second volume, which encompasses the words beginning with long a, i, long i, u, long u, syllabic r, e, o, ai, and au.