[INDOLOGY] Fwd: New historical dictionary of the Bengali language

[Dominik Wujastyk]

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From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
Date: 31 January 2014 12:50
Subject: New historical dictionary of the Bengali language

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​Please address queries to the author, Joanna Kirkpatrick
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From: Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net>
Date: 31 January 2014 06:55
Subject: with haste to convey a new production

Dear All,

I just heard from my long-time friend,
​​ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Murshid>
Ghulam Murshid <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Murshid>, formerly on
the Bangla Lang. and Lit. faculty at Rajshahi U., now resident in London a
few decades already, about his and his team’s new diachronic dictionary. I
had to ask for the title and publisher (they are not here). He wrote:


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> *I do not know if you would remember that I was heading a project of 12
> people to compile a diachronic dictionary. I worked for 3 years and a month
> and edited the very last page on Saturday last. I have never worked so hard
> on anything. It has turned into the largest Bengali dictionary (in 3
> volumes, more than 3200 pages) and first ever Bengali dictionary on
> historical principle. In this dictionary we gave the origin of each word,
> and then traced the first use of the word in written texts, with the
> extract, author and year. Afterwards, we tried to trace the changes of the
> word in form and meaning throughout centuries (until 1972). The first
> volume has come out. The second one is expected to be out in the middle of
> February, and third in March. A copy of this dictionary will be presented
> to the PM tomorrow, and I came to Bangladesh on Wednesday to do it, in a
> ceremony (organised by the Bangla Academy). *


This is a prodigious contribution to the history of the Bengali language. I
hope it achieves wide notice, here as well as abroad. Here is Murshid’s
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Best wishes,

Joanna Kirkpatrick


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