A Dictionary for Esperanto

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Esperanto was, in a way, born with a dictionary, which is not too surprising for a planned language.[1] Also not surprising is that the dictionary is a fairly modest one of about a thousand words. Zamenhof knew this was inadequate and set forth procedures by which new words could be added to the language. The initial word list, the Universala Vortaro, takes the form of a root, followed by the word in French, English, German, Russian, and Polish.[2]

This was handy if you wanted to look up an Esperanto word and figure out its equivalent in one of the other languages (typically, your own), but wasn’t so good if you wanted to look up a word in your own language and find out what it was in Esperanto. In 1908, Joseph Rhodes answered that need.

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