Abbreviations used in the Dictionary
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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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 page and column (e.g. Frisch (Berlin 1741) 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.
| L
| Lexer (1872-78):
| Three-volume dictionary of Middle High German.
| LN
| Location Name
| Cf. PN (Personal Name)
| LexerN
| Supplement to Lexer (1872-78)
| This appears in volume 3.
| 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.
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| 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.
| PN
| Personal Name
| See introduction.
| Serranus (Nuremberg 1539)
| XXX
| XXX
| sv.
| strong verb
| Strong verbs do not mark their preterite with a dental suffix. For more information on verbs, click here.
| VO
| Bremer (1990)
| An edition of the Vocabularius optimus, a 14th-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. Some forms have been re-lemmatized.
| 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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