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| Adelung | Adelung, Johann Christoph, Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart : mit beständiger Vergleichung der übrigen Mundarten, besonders aber. Rev. und berichtiget von Franz Xaver Schönberger. Vienna: Pichler. | The 1808 text is available at the University of Bielefeld website. |
| ADR | Allgemeines Deutsches Reimlexikon. In zwei Bänden. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1826. Reprints. | Link (Volltext kostenfrei) http://books.google.de/books?id=QGoSAAAAIAAJ |
| Bailey 1997 | Bailey, Christopher Gordon, 1997. "The Etymology of the Old High German Weak Verb" (PhD, Newcastle upon Tyne). | - |
| BC | Bonn Corpus | An electronic corpus of ENHG texts used as data for those volumes of the Grammatik des Frühneuhochdeutschen compiled in Bonn. Click here. |
| Besch 1967 | Besch, Werner, 1967. Sprachlandschaften und Sprachausgleich. Munich: Francke. | Ground-breaking study of 15th-century scribal dialects using the manuscripts of Otto von Passau's Vierungzwanzig Alten. |
| Dasypodius (Strasbourg 1535, 1536) | West (2007) for the 1535 data; de Smet (1974) for the 1536 citations. | An electronic edition of Dasypodius' Dictionarium latinogermanicum, first published in Strasbourg in 1535. Reference is to leaves recto and verso and columns (e.g. 13v2). The electronic edition reproduces the text of 1535 alongside digitized photographs of the Wolfenbüttel copy. For the rest of the dictionary, reference is to pages of the facsimile edition (e.g. 287r1). |
| DB | Kurrelmeyer (1904-1915) | An edition of the first printed German Bible, published by Johann Mentelin (Strasbourg 1466). |
| Dief. | Diefenbach (1857) | A Latin word list with ENHG equivalents based on glossaries and printed dictionaries, mostly prior to the 16th century. |
| DiefW. | Diefenbach and Wülcker (1885) | The reverse of Dief. It was intended to provide and extension and a corrective to DWB. |
| Duden Rechtschreibung21 | Der Duden in 12 Bänden; das Standardwerk zur deutschen Sprache. Hrsg. vom Wissenschaftlichen Rat der Dudenredaktion: Günther Drosdowski et al. Bd. 1. Duden, Rechtschreibung der deutschen Sprache. 21. Auflage. Mannheim, Leipzig, Wien, Zürich: Dudenverlag, 1996. | |
| DWB | Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Vols. Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1854-1960. -- Quellenverzeichnis 1971. | The great national dictionary of the German language, comparable in scope to the Oxford English Dictionary. Click here. The volume and the page number is usually given. |
| DWBN | The revised edition of the Deutsches Wörterbuch | DWB is now undergoing revision. Click here. |
| Findeb. | Gärtner, Kurt, et al., 1992. Findebuch zum Mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz. Mit einem rückläufigen Index. Stuttgart: Hirzel. | An annotated index to Lexer's (q.v.) material which includes references to sources edited since 1878, but is generally restricted to those sources datable to the period 1050 to 1350. |
| Fleischer and Barz 1992 | Wolfgang Fleischer and Irmhild Barz, 1992. Wortbildung der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Tübingen: Niemeyer. | A revised edition of Fleischer's standard work on NHG word formation (1974). |
| FnhdGr | Frühneuhochdeutsche Grammatik | Ebert et al. (1993) - the most up-to-date grammar of ENHG, based on the Grammatik des Frühneuhochdeutschen, with a section on syntax. It is organized in subsections (L = Lautlehre "phonology"; M = Morphologie; S = Syntax) and then into paragraphs. §L65 is therefore paragraph 65 in the phonology section. |
| Frisch (Berlin 1741) | XXX | XXX Reference is made to part, page and column (e.g. Frisch (Berlin 1741) 1,3,3) |
| FWB | Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch | The standard scholarly dictionary of Early New High German. |
| Golius (Strasbourg 1579) | Golius, Theophilus, 1579. Onomasticon Latinogermanicum, in usum scholæ Argentoratensis collactum à Theophilo Golio. Cum præfatione Ioan. Sturmii. Strasbourg: Rihelius. [de Smet, Gilbert, ed., 1972. Onomasticon Latinogermanicum. Cum praefatione Johannis Sturmii. Mit einem Vorwort von Gilbert de Smet. Hildesheim, New York: Olms, 1972.] | Reference is made to column (e.g. 135). See the preface of the electronic edition for details of printer's errors in column numbering. |
| Kluge | Kluge, Friedrich, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. 24. Auflage bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (= Kluge24; earlier editions are similarly marked). | The standard etymological dictionary of Modern German begun by Friedrich Kluge and revised most recently by Elmar Seebold. |
| L, Lexer | Lexer (1872-78) | Three-volume dictionary of Middle High German. |
| Lehmann 1986 | Lehmann, Winfried P., 1986. A Gothic Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. | Based on the third edition of Feist's Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Gotischen Sprache. |
| LexerN | Supplement to Lexer (1872-78) | This appears in volume 3. |
| LN | Location Name | Cf. PN (Personal Name) |
| LOR | Schmitt (1983) | An edition of the Liber ordinis rerum, a Latin-German glossary organized first according to grammatical criteria and then, within each section, according to thematic groups. It was compiled shortly after 1400 in the Low German area and then spread to Upper Germany. There are over 9000 Latin lemmata and 73 sources. Date and place references are given where the data refers to one or two mss. only. |
| LT | Lexer (1980) | Lexer's Taschenwörterbuch with a supplement by U. Pretzel. |
| L&S -- Lewis and Short | Electronic version here. | |
| M | Malherbe (1906) | The seminal work on loan words in the 16th century. |
| Maaler (Zurich 1561) | G. de Smet (ed.), XXX | XXX |
| M and S | Morgan and Strothmann (1950) | An edition of the MHG translation of Aquinas. |
| Marzell | Marzell (1943ff.) | The standard work on plant names. |
| OFrED | Boutkan, Dirk, and Skoerd Michiel Siebinga, 2005. Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden, Boston: Brill. (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, edited by Alexander Lubotzky, Volume 1.) | The new standard Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary. |
| Palmer 1961 | Palmer, L. R., 1961. The Latin Language. London: Faber and Faber. (Third impression (with crrections). First published 1954.) | One of "The Great Languages" series (Palmer was also the general editor). |
| Pfeifer 1995 | Pfeifer, Wolfgang, ed., 1995. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. (First published in three volumes Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1989; 2nd ed. 1993; first paperback edition 1995.) | . |
| PN | Personal Name | See introduction. |
| Serranus (Nuremberg 1539) | XXX | XXX |
| Skeat 1909 | Skeat, Walter W., 19094. Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [First edition 1879-1882; second edition 1883; third edition 1897; fourth revised edition 1909.] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_William_Skeat |
| sv. | strong verb | Strong verbs do not mark their preterite with a dental suffix. For more information on verbs, click here. |
| SwId | Schweizerisches Idiotikon | http://www.idiotikon.ch |
| VO | Ernst Bremer unter Mitwirkung von Klaus Ridder, Vocabularius optimus, Bd. I: Werkentstehung und Textüberlieferung, Register (Texte und Textgeschichte 28). Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990 | An edition of the Vocabularius optimus, a 14t.h-15th c. glossary, attested in a number of manuscripts and printed editions. As with all early glossaries, it is important to refer to the context, so the exact references to the edition are given. Note that some forms have been re-lemmatized, and not all the citations are mentioned (usually just the earliest). The texts are as follows: 1 (Ba1) = Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, Cod. F III 21 (Luzern, 1328-30, s. Bremer 1990:7); 10 (M3) = München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 687 (Schwaben, Anfang 15. Jh. s. Schneider 1978:411, http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/katalogseiten/HSK0045_a411_jpg.htm.); 11 (M4) = Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 655 (Ostschwaben 1427, s. Schneider 1978:334-5, http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/katalogseiten/HSK0045_a334_JPG.htm); 12 (M5) = München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 653 320r-434vb (westmittelbairisch, der 2. Text (ab 320r) stärker schwäbisch gefärbt, 2. V. 15. Jh., s. Schneider 1971:331-2), http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/katalogseiten/HSK0045_a331_JPG.htm); 13 (R) = Rom, Bibliotheca Vaticana, Cod. Pal. lat. 1784 (Schwaben, M. 15. Jh., s. Bremer 1990:24); 19 (W1) = Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 3591 (mittelbairisch, Mehrere Hände des 15. und 16. Jhs, s. Bremer 1990:31) |
| W | Wetekamp, Sylva, 1980: Petrus Dasypodius, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum et vice versa (1535). Untersuchungen zum Wortschatz. Göppingen: Kümmerle. (Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 282.) | An investigation of the vocabulary in Dasypodius' Dictionary. |
| WH | Weigand-Hirt (1968) | A dictionary of NHG, which, although limited in coverage, is usually a good guide to the dating of early examples. |
| wv. | weak verb | Weak verbs mark their preterite with a dental suffix. For more information on verbs, click here. |
| Zedler | Johann Heinrich Zedler, Grosses Vollstaͤndiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschaften und Kuͤnste. 1732-1754. | Click here for access to the on-line text. |
| < ... > | a spelling OR a shorthand description of the valency of a noun, adjective or verb | e.g. the word Kälte may be spelled <kelte> in ENHG or: bringen <sub, acc, dat> |
| # | a word boundary | e.g. the prefix <#be-> to indicate that this occurs at the beginning of a word. |
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