Welcome to the EDICTOR!

The EDICTOR is an interactive tool for creating, maintaining, and publishing etymological data which is stored in simple TSV format.

Use the EDICTOR to

• create your datasets from scratch,
• annotate your existing datasets,
• identify and annotate cognates,
• create alignments,
• annotate language-internal cognates,
• check your data, and
• carry out various kinds of analyses.

In order to get started with an existing example dataset, just click this link. Press here to learn more ABOUT the EDICTOR, or here to get further HELP. If you use the EDICTOR in your work, please cite the paper by List (2017) which can be downloaded here. You can also cite the actual version of the EDICTOR as follows:

List, Johann-Mattis (2024): EDICTOR. A web-based interactive tool for creating and editing etymological datasets. Version 3.0.alpha. MCL Chair at the University of Passau: Passau. URL: https://edictor.org/.