About some basic lexicographic terms

Tsvetelina Georgieva
Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The study is the first attempt in Bulgarian linguistics to purposefully present and define basic lexicographic terms such as dictionary entry, headword, etc. with a view to an explanatory dictionary. It answers the question of how many headwords there are in the
headwords area in the unconventional cases where the „input“ of the entry are several words of the same type that are interpreted together. One of the stated recommendations is to follow the theoretical postulate: one headword (simple or combined) unlocks one dictionary entry.

Keywords: lexicographic term, dictionary entry, headword, simple headword, combined headword