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VedaWeb is an established research website for the ancient Vedic text Rigveda. It now evolves into an open collaborative platform for researching and sharing Vedic Sanskrit language data in a broader perspective. How will the new platform stimulate collaborative processes among researchers of Vedic Sanskrit and beyond?

The adjective καρπάλιμος ‘swift’ (H.+) is argued to be based on a reduplicated adjective *ku̯ l̥[h1 ]-ku̯ l̥ h1 -o- ‘turning’ from PIE *ku̯ elh1 - ‘to turn’, dissimilated to *kalku̯ alo- and further to *karpalo-. The form in -imo- can derive from the corresponding abstract noun in -i- and/or be extracted from compounds with *karpali- as first member following models like καλλιπλόκαμος : κάλλιμος.

The paper argues that a) Germanic *tauf/ƀra- (Germ. Zauber, etc.) is related to a root PIE *deu̯p- ‘beat; make a hollow sound, resound’ found in Greek δοῦπος ‘thud’, etc., b) Greek φάρμακον goes back to the root PIE *gʷʰer- ‘heat’ (Gk. θερμός, etc.) implying healing by fomentation, and c) Armenian hiwand ‘sick’, borrowed from Iranian, to PIE *sh₂ei̯- ‘bind’ relying on the notion of disease as a supernatural bond.

Within the series on Iranian personal names (PN) attested in direct and indirect transmission, running since Manfred Mayrhofer's volume from 1979 on Avestan and Old Persian onomastics, this book is another impressive collection of Iranian data in one of the most important “Nebenüberlieferungen”, viz. Armenian, which was in contact with Iranian languages at least since the invasion of the Assyrian empire by the Medes in the 7th c. BC. Especially Parthian and Middle Persian have left their mark...

The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together in chains of considerable length. The lexicon attempts to give a comprehensive account of the roughly 850 epithets, bringing together the most relevant information scattered in the scholarly literature and adding others from various sources (literary, epigraphic, lexicographic, scholia etc.) in order to provide an overview of their usage and the main details of their models.

In this paper, we present a strategy for the integration of existing heterogeneous language resources like texts and dictionaries by connecting these resources and making them available for internal projects and third party applications through APIs. We describe our approach in the context of the C-SALT (Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts http://c-salt.uni- koeln.de/) initiative, where projects and resources hosted at the University of Cologne covering South Asian languages are presented. To illustrate the potential use of our setup, we first introduce VedaWeb, a web-based platform that provides access to ancient Indian texts written in Vedic Sanskrit, the oldest form of ancient Indo-Aryan. Then we describe the C-SALT APIs for Dictionaries (https://api.c-salt.uni-koeln.de/). These APIs make several large Pāli and Sanskrit dictionaries available. Building on that, we present the architecture behind these APIs and finally we summarize by analyzing the potential role of APIs in Digital Humanities projects.