Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW). Version 1.1: Forschungsdaten und Dokumentation

The .sql and .json data form part of the Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW), Version 1.1 (cf. also the .pdf-version, DOI 10.18452/19817). They were originally collected in a two-phase DFG-project, which was run between 2007 and 2013 at the chair of historical-comparative linguistics at Humboldt university, Berlin. They were first published as a three-volume book publication by baar, Hamburg. For the long-term storage and online publication at Humboldt university’s online repository, the data were partially restructured as is described in the pdf-file “Vorbemerkungen zu ALEW Version 1.1”. – ALEW registers the inherited and loan lexicon of Old Lithuanian, which is defined as the period between the language’s first attestation and 1700. The entries contain information concerning: word class; meaning; references to first attestations as well as further interesting passages, including indications of German, Polish, Latin or Dutch parallels; (possible) Baltic, Slavic or Indo-European cognates; specificities in areal distribution, attestation, form, and meaning in Lithuanian; a commentary discussing the etymology as well as the formal and semantic development of the members of the respective word family.