Sol Steinmetz | |
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| Born | July 29, 1930 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | October 13, 2010 (aged 80) Manhattan, New York, USA |
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| Alma mater | Yeshiva University (BA) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary(semikhah) |
Sol Steinmetz (July 29, 1930 – October 13, 2010) was a Hungarian American linguistics and lexicography expert who wrote extensively about etymologies, definitions and uncovered earliest recorded usages of words in English and Yiddish. A widely sought source on all things lexical, he earned recognition from William Safire in his On Language column in The New York Times Magazine in 2006 as a "lexical supermaven".[1]