Description: (Linguist)
Kazimieras Būga was a renowned Lithuanian linguist and philologist known for his dedicated research on the Lithuanian language. As a professor of linguistics, he conducted extensive studies on various linguistic subjects, such as Lithuanian personal and place names, Indo-European languages, and Slavic loanwords in Baltic languages. Būga's work in linguistic reconstruction and his contributions to the Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian greatly enhanced the understanding of the language and its historical roots, leaving a lasting impact on the field of linguistics.