Pomeranian Dictionary

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The Pomeranian Dictionary (PWB) is a large-scale dialect dictionary that documents the Low German vocabulary of the former Prussian province of Pomerania (within the boundaries of 1936).

Characteristic

The PWB is a scientific, semasiological dictionary that is now in two volumes. Compared to the original intention, the scope had to be reduced to about half. Therefore, the general dialect vocabulary of the 20th century is the focus of interest, and the dictionary was redesigned as a »supplementary dictionary « to the seven-volume Mecklenburg dictionary .

history

In 1925, Wolfgang Stammler founded the PWB at the University of Greifswald with the aim of developing a multi-volume, large-scale dialect dictionary for the province of Pomerania.

After that, intensive collecting began. Several local monographs were published between 1928 and 1937 as preliminary work. In 1934 Kurt Mischke published the first phonographic map of Pomerania. Almost the entire word archive was lost in the confusion after the war.

Immediately afterwards, new surveys began under the direction of Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld . For the former Western Pomerania there was only the possibility of interviewing displaced persons. In 1948 the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin took over the PWB, which was discontinued in 1969 for political reasons.

It was not until 1992 that a new job was set up at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . The PWB has belonged to the University of Greifswald since 1999 . The editor has been Renate Herrmann-Winter since 1992 , since 2007 together with Matthias Vollmer , who also took over the management of the dictionary in April 2014 and since 2015 the sole editor.

Sources and material base

The word archive of the PWB comprises approx. 1,100,000 alphabetically arranged vouchers, which are mainly based on extensive questionnaires and literature excerpts.

Publication status

The first volume (A – K) was compiled from 1997 to 2008 and is now complete. Ten deliveries of the second volume (as of 2019) have appeared (L - Treck).

literature

  • Pomeranian Dictionary . Published at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald by Renate Herrmann-Winter and Matthias Vollmer. Volume 1, A – K, Berlin 2008. Second volume to be published in deliveries.
  • R. Winter: The Pomeranian Dictionary in Greifswald. Its history and its present tasks. In: Sprawozdanie Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 11 (1964), p. 194ff.
  • H. Schönfeld: The Pomeranian Dictionary . In: Reports on dialectological research in the GDR , Berlin 1965, pp. 5ff.
  • R. Herrmann-Winter: History, fortunes and reputation of Pomeranian dialect dictionaries. In: Bull and Griffin . Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . 1993, p. 27ff.
  • R. Herrmann-Winter: The Pomeranian Dictionary. Precursors - Approaches - Concepts. In: A thousand years of Pomeranian history , R. Schmidt (Ed.), Cologne-Weimar-Wien 1999, pp. 281–306.
  • R. Herrmann-Winter: Pomeranian Dictionary . In: Scientific lexicography in German-speaking countries , Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Thomas Städtler (Ed.), Heidelberg 2003, pp. 309–317.
  • M. Vollmer: On dialect lexicography in Pomerania. Kosegarten's dictionary of the Low German language, older and more recent. In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 131 (2008), pp. 113–132.
  • M. Vollmer: Low German vocabulary collections in Western Pomerania at the end of the 19th century. In: Baltic Studies . New episode. Volume 102, pp. 199-208.
  • M. Vollmer: The Pomeranian dictionary by Georg Gotthilf Jacob Homann (1774-1851). A collection of Pomeranian-German words and phrases. Berlin 2018.

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