Catalan-Ukrainian cognates and false friends

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• Wiktionary

  Translations, definitions (shown as the English meaning of a pair), pronunciation (IPA), part of speech, lemma and inflected-form sets, etymology. Obtained via kaikki.org / wiktextract — https://kaikki.org/.

  Tatu Ylonen (2022). Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data. LREC 2022, pp. 1317-1325.

• CogNet v2.0

  Cognate relations, and an independent check on translation pairs.

  K. Batsuren, G. Bella & F. Giunchiglia (2019). CogNet: A Large-Scale Cognate Database. ACL 2019; and (2022) A large and evolving cognate database. Language Resources and Evaluation 56, 165-189.

• Apertium bilingual dictionaries

  Independent bilingual lexicons (translation corroboration).

  M. L. Forcada et al. (2011). Apertium: a free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation. Machine Translation 25, 127-144.

• Lexique 3.83

  French lemma frequency with part of speech, film and book registers.

  B. New, C. Pallier, G. Schalchli, J. Bourgin & M. Gimenes (2026). Lexique 4: A major upgrade of the "Lexique" French lexical database. Behavior Research Methods 58(5), 140.

• Russian National Corpus frequency dictionary

  Russian lemma frequency with part of speech.

  О. Н. Ляшевская, С. А. Шаров (2009). Частотный словарь современного русского языка. Москва: Азбуковник.

• DeReWo

  German lemma frequency with part of speech.

  Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Programmbereich Korpuslinguistik, Mannheim, 2013.

• SUBTLEX-US

  English frequency and contextual diversity.

  M. Brysbaert & B. New (2009). Moving beyond Kucera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms. Behavior Research Methods 41(4), 977-990.

• wordfreq 3.1.1

  Cross-language comparable frequency (Zipf scale), all fourteen languages.

  R. Speer (2022). wordfreq: v3.0. Zenodo. Zipf scale after W. van Heuven, P. Mandera, E. Keuleers & M. Brysbaert (2014), SUBTLEX-UK, QJEP 67(6), 1176-1190.

• Wiktionary false-friend appendices

  Evaluation set for false friends.

• BGN/PCGN romanisation

  Russian and Ukrainian romanisation.

• Simplified respelling

  The optional "Simplified" transcription shown under a word.

  Not a standard notation and not published anywhere: an approximation for English readers, offered beside the IPA it is computed from.