Comparative Dictionary of Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic)

Wolf Leslau's dictionary is the standard scholarly lexicon of classical Ge'ez, built from systematic philological comparison, giving each entry beside its cognates across the other Semitic languages rather than treating Ge'ez in isolation. That comparative philological method, checkable against the specific cognate sets it presents, is the dictionary's real evidentiary basis. This atlas cites it here specifically for the letter-by-letter consonant correspondences between the Ge'ez fidel and the Northwest Semitic and Arabic alphabets. Use it to establish a specific Ge'ez word's meaning or its documented Semitic cognates; it is not a source on Ethiopian Orthodox theology or liturgy, which needs a source dedicated to that tradition directly.