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A lexicographic method is a principled and systematic procedure for selecting, analyzing, describing, organizing, and presenting lexical information in a dictionary or comparable lexicographic resource ^[1][2]. It comprises decisions about the resource’s scope and intended user group; the selection and lemmatization of lexical units; the evidential basis for description; the delineation and ordering of senses; and the representation of orthographic, grammatical, semantic, collocational, usage-related, and, where applicable, translational information within entries ^[1][3]. The method also determines the resource’s macrostructure—the overall arrangement and access to entries—and microstructure—the internal structure and information categories of individual entries ^[2][3]. It is distinct from lexicology, which investigates the lexicon as an object of linguistic study, because a lexicographic method specifies the descriptive and editorial procedures through which lexical knowledge is transformed into an organized reference work ^[1][2].