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have been printed since the first half of the 17th century.

History

The first

dictionary was compiled by Konstantinas Sirvydas and printed in 1629 as a trilingual (Polish–Latin–Lithuanian) dictionary. Five editions of it were printed until 1713, but it was used and copied by other lexicographers until the 19th century."Kazimieras Būga and the Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian"
by

Antanas Klimas Antanas Klimas (; April 17, 1924 in Pelekonys–18 September 2016 in Brighton, Monroe County, New York, Brighton) was a prominent Lithuanians, Lithuanian doctor of sciences, Onomastics, onomastician and Comparative linguistics, comparative linguist ...

, ''

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'', vol. 27, no.4, 1981 The first German–Lithuanian–German dictionary, to address the necessities of

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, was published by Friedrich W. Haack in 1730. A better German–Lithuanian–German dictionary, with a sketch of grammar and history of the language, more words, and systematic orthography, was published by Philipp Ruhig in 1747. In 1800, printed an expanded and revised version of Ruhig's dictionary. Its foreword was the last work of

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printed during his life.Mielcke's Lithuanian dictionary
/ref> There also existed a number of notable unpublished dictionaries. At the beginning of the 19th century linguists recognized the

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character of Lithuanian, and it came into the focus of the

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. To address the needs of linguists, Georg H. F. Nesselmann published a Lithuanian–German dictionary in 1851. The culmination of Lithuanian linguists' efforts is the 20-volume '' Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian''. Lkz

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