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Max Vasmer (1886 – 1962), German linguist. He has studied problems of etymology of Indo-European, Finno-Ugrian and Turkic languages and worked on history of Slavic, Baltic, Iranian, and Finno-Ugrian peoples in Eastern Europe.
One of his most important works is the Etymological dictionary of the Russian language (Russisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Heidelberg, 1950-58; Russian translation 1964-73). Russian version is available online: start here (http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?flags=eygtmnl).
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