Gedeo Dictionary, Revision of 1978
Klaus Wedekind"This dictionary contains about 4000 words, including all Gedeo words of high frequency, a number of loan words, and some phrases. Lists of cultural items, proper names and grammatical suffixes have been added in the appendix. The most frequent Gedeo words were taken from a frequency list based on about 30000 words of stories, songs and everyday conversations. Large numbers of words have been contributed by Elias Banaata, Kebbede Gaammo, Werku Goolle, Bekele Nunu, Shunttu Lole, and Wakayyehu Biftu. Wakayyehu Biftu and Hailu Alaako have checked large parts of the word lists, and they made numerous improvements. We are grateful for encouragements given by friends from the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and the Institute of Language Studies of the Addis Abba University. We express our thanks to all who helped to improved this book ‐knowing that it is still is far from perfect‐ and we invite the users of this book to send us their suggestions for improvements."
Klaus Wedekind, Addis Abeba, 2008