Mecklenburg dictionary
The Mecklenburg Dictionary is a large-scale dictionary of German that covers both the dialects and the historical language in the area of the former Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz .
Characteristic
The seven-volume Mecklenburg Dictionary, created by Richard Wossidlo and Hermann Teuchert , is a strictly alphabetical bilingual dictionary of meanings from the Low German Mecklenburg vernacular. The vocabulary is not dealt with solely for the present, but from the time the country was settled, i.e. including the Middle Low German period. The description language is standard German .
In addition to the documentation of the language, the work also includes folklore , as it is stored in the large collective work Wossidlos, as well as the agricultural, economic and cultural history. The presentation of these facts is also traced back as far as possible into the past.
Since the Pomeranian dictionary was conceptually limited to the dialect of the 20th century, the Mecklenburg dictionary has also served as an indirect reference work for Pomerania in the area of historical language.
History of origin
In 1926 Hermann Teuchert founded the Mecklenburg Dictionary Archive (MWB) in loose connection with the Chair for Low German and Dutch at the University of Rostock . In this he took over the material from Richard Wossidlo, which the latter had been collecting since 1884 and later selected and prepared specifically for the archive, and added his own collections and those he had additionally arranged. The total number of receipts is around one million. In contrast to other large-scale dialect dictionaries, the number of evidence obtained from questionnaires lags behind those that were particularly intercepted from spoken speech, but also that of those excerpted from literature.
The first delivery of the dictionary appeared in 1937. However, Wossidlo did not participate in the drafting of the manuscript. After his death, Teuchert was the sole publisher and authoritative author until 1970. The Mecklenburg Dictionary became an “academy dictionary” in 1954, when Teuchert was able to bring the position to the Institute for German Language and Literature at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , headed by Theodor Frings .
In 1970, after the archive was also spun off from the Berlin Academy, which has since been called the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig became the publisher of the Mecklenburg dictionary and the Warnemünder Arbeitsstelle became a department of the linguistic commission of the Saxon Academy.
With the 70th delivery in 1991, the Low German-High German main part of the work in the manuscript was completed. It was delivered at the beginning of 1993 under the number 1992, the workplace closed on March 31, 1993. The archive is now attached to the Institute for German Studies at the University of Rostock and entrusted to the Low German professorship.
In 1996 the Wachholtz Verlag Neumünster published an unchanged, slightly reduced reprint of the first edition from 1937-1992. An additional volume was published in 1998 containing the supplements and a High German-Low German index.
Digitization of the document collections
In the course of the digitization of the Wossidlo archive, the collections of documents in the Mecklenburg dictionary will be digitized and later made available to the public. The specimen collections are divided into two stocks, the MWW ( M ecklenburgisches W örterbuch, inventory W ossidlo) and the MWT ( M ecklenburgisches W örterbuch, inventory T euchert). Both collections have a volume of approx. 500,000 pages each.
literature
- Hermann Teuchert: The Mecklenburg Dictionary. In: Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 5, 1959, pp. 133-136.
- Jürgen Gundlach: The Mecklenburg Dictionary by Richard Wossidlo and Hermann Teuchert. Its story and its message. In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 115, 1992, pp. 145–158.
- Jürgen Gundlach: The Mecklenburg Dictionary. Completion of a large-scale dialect dictionary. In: Stier und Greif, Blätter zur Kultur- und Landesgeschichte, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5, 1995, pp. 6-42.