The IEED project is supervised by
Alexander Lubotsky. It aims to accomplish the following goals: • to compile
etymological databases for the individual branches of
Indo-European, containing all the words that can be traced back to
Proto-Indo-European, and print them in
Brill's
Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series, • to publish those databases free of charge electronically on the
Internet, by utilizing
Sergei Starostin's STARLING software technology, • finally, once the
etymological dictionaries of the individual branches have been compiled, to create a new large Indo-European etymological dictionary that will serve as a replacement of
Julius Pokorny's outdated but still valuable
Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. ==Contributors by branch==