ABSTRACT
The first academic Hungarian dictionary A magyar nyelv szótára (The Dictionary of the Hungarian Language) was a monumental work compiled by two members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Gergely Czuczor (1800-1866) and János Fogarasi (1801-1878) that was published in six volumes between 1862 and 1874 [Figs. 2 and 3]. Rather than just being a list of Hungarian words, Czuczor-Fogarasi’s monolingual dictionary (hereafter, the CzF Dictionary) must be considered a linguistic achievement. It contains 110,784 entries and is structured according to the agglutinative nature of the Hungarian language since it distinguishes roots and suffixes while also referring to interconnections within the root system. Its importance was recognized by one of the leading German linguists of the second half of the nineteenth century, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887), who referred in his survey of European linguistics to the CzF Dictionary as an outstanding accomplishment on the part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2 Gergely Czuczor (1800-1866) A portrait of Gergely Czuczor with short, neatly combed hair wearing a buttoned jacket with a high collar. He faces slightly left with a serious expression. Below the portrait is a handwritten cursive signature reading Arany János. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003706878/af8d3f9c-c312-4d34-aede-17114e6701a5/content/pg114_Image_5.tif"/> János Fogarasi (1801-1878) An engraved portrait of János Fogarasi wearing formal 19th-century attire with a jacket featuring decorative buttons and a high-collared shirt. He has a mustache and short hair. Fine lines create texture. The name Fogarasi János appears below. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003706878/af8d3f9c-c312-4d34-aede-17114e6701a5/content/pg114_Image_6.tif"/>
