Linguistics
Almost all grammatical works by A.Dirr were supplied with dictionaries. These dictionaries are the first (and, unfortunately, many of them the only ones) vocabularies of Daghestanian langueges, and thus remain the invaluable materials upon history, culture and languages of the small peoples of Daghestan. Dirr had no special methods of compiling dictionaries: it can be shown with comparison of his different dictionaries. Nevertheless, the most frequent words are represented in these dictionaries.
Institute of Language, Literature and Art
of the Russian Academy of Sciences