Louise Odin

Louise Odin-Pilliod (born March 14, 1836 in Tercier, Blonay , Canton of Vaud , † January 19, 1909 in Blonay) was a Swiss teacher and lexicographer.

Life

Louise Odin was the daughter of Jean François Pilliod and Marie Antoinette nee. Bonjour. She worked as a teacher in Germany and Russia and married the German André-Martin Odin. Widowed at an early age, she returned to Vaud with her two children. Her older son Alfred Odin became a well-known philologist and in 1886 published the Phonologie des patois du canton de Vaud , the younger, Auguste Odin, was a mathematician in Lausanne .

In years of work, Louise Odin collected the sources of the then still lively local dialect of Blonay, a regional variant of the Franco-Provencal language . She recorded the words and expressions of the patois of the foothills of the Alps east of Lake Geneva and wrote down stories, sayings, sayings and nursery rhymes in the dialect.

The language collection of the Vaudois dialectologist served the French-speaking Swiss dialect dictionary Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande as a rare evidence of the Vaudois patois, which was hardly spoken in the early 20th century. Ernest Muret oversaw the linguistic editing of the material collected by Louise Odin and the posthumous printing of her lexicon. The linguist Ernest Tappolet praised Odin's collection as one of the most important basic works on dialectology in western Switzerland.

plant

• Glossaire du patois de Blonay. Lausanne 1910.

literature

• Gilbert Coutaz: Louise Odin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Le Patois de Blonay. In: Conteur vaudois , 49, 1911.