Wolf Leslau, English-Amharic Context Dictionary, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1973 ISBN 3 447 01482 2

Abstract

Wolf Leslau has left a rich legacy by composing an Amharic-English dictionary by using grounded
and context specific translation of words and finding meanings by covering almost every possible
word until the period of the early 1970s. It is to be expected that over the last forty years the
Amharic and English words have been growing. Amharic is indeed growing fast, and one wonders
if Wolf Laslau or some one of his calibre, stamina and rich knowledge were to update this already
1000 pages tome of contextualised dictionary by including the additional ways of expressions and
words. One wonders how many more pages would be needed to cover the last forty years of the
development of the Amharic language. Surely, it cannot be a few hundreds