Ideas for database structure / Dictionary

[eluser]trice22[/eluser]
[quote author="Crafter" date="1192150241"]
Perosnally, i don't think using a database for lexicon applications is the right way. I'd program this in a language like C, where I'd probably have to build the database structures in the heap (using pointers).[/quote]

I was really afraid, someone would say something like this. Unfortunately that's way out of my league. I think the single table idea looks interesting–thanks for that–but I consider the performance a quite important factor, since I don't know how many languages the DB will hold in the end.
I don't know–maybe I'll just give it a try and see what happens, if I let the app dynamically create the join-tables. It can't be that bad as long as I don't have to maintain it by hand/phpMyAdmin, can it? And I guess it's still the fastest solution.

Well, still—if someone has some more ideas,... I'm open for an some genius input.
-trice