Dillmann’s Lexicon as Online Resource

The productivity of a language in its lexicon is a feature which does not escape markup languages and web applications. Programming languages might be a good example in their continuous proliferation. Nobody would doubt the core importance of a lexicon as printed work and also here, as for editions of texts,¹ a digital version should be able to offer even more and interact with the texts which use this language and, why not, also others. In this chapter, I will describe the process which led to the establishment of the online Lexicon linguae aethiopicae as an ‘intertwingled’ resource in the