North Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary

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The North Transylvanian -Saxon Dictionary records the dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in and from northern Transylvania . The sub-area of ​​the Transylvanian-Saxon language island comprises 48 localities with the cities of Bistritz and Sächsisch-Reen .

Characteristic

The lemmas are arranged alphabetically, the headwords are divided into three sections: Point I contains the sound head with all the sound forms used, in Point II the individual sentence examples are listed according to their meanings, and in Point III the compositions are listed. Synonym references attach to the respective meanings. For words from other languages, mostly Romanian and Hungarian, the word article ends with a reference to the etymology. The dictionary, which documents a dialect in decline, is not only of interest in terms of linguistic history. All aspects of community life are reflected in his records. Customs, beliefs and superstitions are represented. Agricultural work takes up a lot of space, numerous work processes can be precisely reconstructed on the basis of the notes. Names of persons, places and fields are included in the material.

The North Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary was a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn. It was supported by the working group for Transylvanian cultural studies, Gundelsheim. The note archive is the property of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland of the University of Bonn , Department for Linguistic Research.

history

Friedrich Krauss (1892–1978) began drafting the dictionary manuscript in 1957; when he died, the letters A, B, C and a few pages of D were available. In January 1980 Gisela Richter became the editor of the dictionary. The project was completed in 2003. The last volume was published in 2006.

Material base

The archive compiled by Friedrich Krauss in Transylvania contains around 850,000 handwritten notes; it was continuously supplemented by queries and excerpts from dialect texts that were provided to the dictionary by sources.

Publication status

  • Volume 1 (A-C) 1986
  • Volume 2 (D-G) 1990
  • Volume 3 (H-M) 1993
  • Volume 4 (N-Sch) 1995
  • Volume 5 (Se-Z) 2006

literature

  • H. Feßler: Friedrich Krauss to the memory, in: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde 15 (1992), issue 2, pp. 243–245.
  • G. Richter: Dialect in the Mirror of Dictionaries, in: Epoch of Decisions. The Transylvanian Saxons in the 20th century. Ed. V. O. Schuster, Cologne - Vienna 1983, pp. 205–215.
  • G. Richter: Introduction, in: North Transylvania-Saxon Dictionary, Volume I. Cologne - Vienna 1986, pp. VII – XX.
  • G. Richter: On the structure and concerns of the North Transylvanian-Saxon dictionary. in: German language and literature in Southeast Europe. Archiving and editing. Contributions from the Tübingen symposium from 25. – 27. June 1992. Ed. H. Fassel and A. Schwob [in press].

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