Materials to the Russian-Bulgarian Comparative Dictionary "EAD"

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new web-based Russian-Bulgarian comparative dictionary focusing on expansive action words, detailing its structure, principles, and potential as a next-generation linguistic resource.

Contribution

It presents the design, principles, and initial prototype of a novel online comparative dictionary for Russian and Bulgarian languages, emphasizing a new model of double comparison.

Findings

Prototype with key pages published

Classification scheme of dictionary pages proposed

Discussion on the dictionary's potential evolution

Abstract

This article presents a fragment of a new comparative dictionary "A comparative dictionary of names of expansive action in Russian and Bulgarian languages". Main features of the new web-based comparative dictionary are placed, the principles of its formation are shown, primary links between the word-matches are classified. The principal difference between translation dictionaries and the model of double comparison is also shown. The classification scheme of the pages is proposed. New concepts and keywords have been introduced. The real prototype of the dictionary with a few key pages is published. The broad debate about the possibility of this prototype to become a version of Russian-Bulgarian comparative dictionary of a new generation is available.