The
following authors/publishers have permitted me to reproduce materials from their
publications as illustrations. I hereby acknowledge their cooperation.
1. Messrs.
G.C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, for permitting p. 310 of
Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms, © 1978 by G.C. Merriam Co., Publishers
of the Merriam-Webster Dictionaries.
2.
University of Kerala, Malayalam Lexicon, for permitting p. 759 of the Malayalam
Lexicon.
3.
Sanskrit Dictionary Department, Deccan College, Poona, for p. 283 of An Encyclopaedic
Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles.
4.
Messrs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, for p. 134 of Concise Oxford Dictionary
(6th Edn.) 1976, p. 146 of Comparative Dictionary of Indo-Aryan Languages by R.L.
Turner, 1966; p. 335 of The English Dialect Dictionary ed. By Joseph Wright, vol.
I, 1898; p. 113 of A.S. Hornby's The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current
English (3rd Edn.) 1974, and p. 799 of A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and
English by John L. Platts, 1884.
5.
Messrs, Russian Language Publishers, Moscow, for p. 419 of Vol. II of Hindi-Rusi-Sabdakosh.
6.
University of Mysore for p. 120 of English-Kannada Dictionary.
Permission
awaited from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, for p. 222 of Lushai-English
Dictionary by H. Lorraine.
I
have discussed some entries for illustrations from some dictionaries (listed in
Appendix I). I am grateful to the authors and publishers of these dictionaries.
Further
I am indebted to Professor Ladislav Zgusta of Illinois for introducing me to the
filed of lexicography. His book Manual of Lexicography has been of immense help
to me in the present work.
I
am grateful to Dr. D.P. Pattanayak, Director of CIIL, Mysore, for his constant
guidance and encouragement and keen personal interest in this work. I am thankful
to Dr. E. Annamalai, Deputy Director of CIIL, Mysore, who spared his time to go
through the manuscript at various stages and offered valuable suggestions. My
thanks are due to Dr. Francis Ekka, Deputy Director, CIIL, for his help and encouragement.
Dr.
B.C. Balakrishnan, Editor, Malayalam Lexicon, offered various useful suggestions
for the improvement of the manuscript.
Dr.
Ashok R. Kelkar, Director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Deccan
Collage, Poona, spared his valuable time for discussion over several problems
in dictionary making. Dr. R.N. Srivastava, Professor of Linguistics, Delhi University,
vetted the manuscript and gave valuable suggestions, which have been incorporated
in the manuscript. I am grateful to all these scholars.
I
am grateful to my colleagues with whom I discussed many points and who provided
many example.
Sri.
Fareeduddin has typed the manuscript carefully, I thank him.
I
am thankful to Sri H.L.N. Bharati for seeing the book through the Press with great
personal care and the Manager and the members of the staff of the Govt. of India
Press Nasik, for printing the book nicely.
RAM
ADHAR SINGH