Bedros Keresteciyan

Bedros Keresteciyan (, 1840 – 27 February 1909) was an Ottoman Armenian linguist, journalist, translator and writer of the first etymology dictionary of the Turkish language.

Life Bedros Keresteciyan, of Armenian descent, was born in Constantinople to a family from Kayseri. His father, Krikor, was a lumberjack, thus giving him the last name "Keresteciyan," meaning lumberjack.

Work In London in 1891, Bedros Keresteciyan's Glanures étymologiques des mots francais: d'origine inconnue ou douteuse, a book on French word origins, was published. In 1900, Keresteciyan published a Turkish-French dictionary. With the help of his nephew Haig, his Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire etymologique de la langue Turque was published posthumously in 1912 in London and is considered the first etymology dictionary of the Turkish language. Also published posthumously in 1945 was his Philological and lexicographical study of 6000 words and names Armenian comparisons with 100,000 words, 900 languages, and historical and geographical data, which examined the word origins of the Armenian language.