Bookmarklets

What is a bookmarklet?

This bookmarklet supports research in Slavonic historical linguistics with focus on Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian. It offers a selection of lexical and grammatical dictionaries, corpora, a transliteration function and a virtual keyboard for historical Cyrillic characters.

By clicking the bookmarklet from your bookmarks toolbar, a dictionary menu will appear on your browser screen. Any word you enter in this menu (or any word you have selected from a web site before) can be looked up in one or more online dictionaries which are listed below the input field. You can also look up a specific word on a web site by selecting it with the cursor and then running the bookmarklet bookmarklet afterwards by clicking on it.

OCS dicts Old Church Slavonic dictionaries, corpora, Cyrillic input and transliteration

It's easiest to understand the concept of the bookmarklet by simply clicking this DEMO.

Details

The Yiddish bookmarklet contains a selection of Yiddish online dictionaries, a virtual Hebrew keyboard and a transliteration function for Yiddish web sites.

By clicking the bookmarklets from your bookmarks toolbar, a dictionary menu will appear on your browser screen. Any word you enter in this menu (or any word you have selected from a web site before) can be looked up in one or more online dictionaries which are listed below the input field. You can also look up a specific word on a web site by selecting it with the cursor and then running the bookmarklet bookmarklet afterwards by clicking on it.


YI dicts Yiddish dictionaries, keyboard input and transliteration

It's easiest to understand the concept of the bookmarklet by simply clicking this DEMO.

Details

These bookmarklets contain a selection of high quality monolingual and bilingual online dictionaries (latter mostly together with English, German, Russian, Danish) and some corpora.

By clicking the bookmarklets from your bookmarks toolbar, a dictionary menu will appear on your browser screen. Any word you enter in this menu (or any word you have selected from a web site before) can be looked up in one or more online dictionaries which are listed below the input field. You can also look up a specific word on a web site by selecting it with the cursor and then running the bookmarklet bookmarklet afterwards by clicking on it.

It's easiest to understand the concept of these bookmarklets by simply clicking this demo:

RU dicts DEMO

The bookmarklets

To use the bookmarklets, you'll have to drag one of the following buttons into your bookmarks toolbar. A right-click → "save as bookmark" would also make it. Important is that it will be saved as a bookmark.


RU dicts Russian mono- / bilingual dictionaries, corpora and transliteration. DEMO


BG/MK dicts Bulgarian and Macedonian mono- and bilingual dictionaries. DEMO


OCS dicts

Old Church Slavonic dictionaries, corpora, Cyrillic input and transliteration. Read more here.


DA dicts Danish mono- / bilingual dictionaries and corpora. DEMO


DE dicts German mono- / bilingual dictionaries and corpora. DEMO


YI dicts

Yiddish dictionaries. See the special article on the bookmarklet for Yiddish dictionaries, keyboard input and transliteration.


Details

1. Virtual Keyboard

Virtual Keyboard

Attaches a virtual keyboard to every input box (text, password and textarea) of the current web page. The bookmarklet can be customized, see the author's web site.

2. Google Transliteration

Google Transliteration offers an option for converting Latin characters to the characters used in language of your choice (e.g. Russian). This lets you type words in your language phonetically in English script and then have them appear in the language script. Use Google Transliteration bookmarklets for typing other scripts on any web site.

3. Bing Universal Text Input

Bing delivers a similar solution with its Universal Text Input tool (see "install Bookmarklet").

 

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