Rhyming dictionary
A rhyming lexicon (also rhyming dictionary ) is a reference work for rhyming words .
It contains a compilation of rhyming endings , the so-called rhyme syllables . The rhyming syllables are sorted alphabetically, usually according to the last stressed vowel or diphthong . The appropriate rhyming words are listed under the endings, i.e. all words that rhyme with the ending in question. The compilation is not based on the spelling, but on the pronunciation. For example, the ending “-itte” includes the words “please”, “Brigitte”, “middle”, “please” and “third”.
In the rhyming lexicons you can find nouns and adjectives with all common compounds , so that a wealth of rhyming possibilities opens up. The plural formations of the nouns and the tenses of the verbs as well as all forms of the adjectives are taken into account in rhyming dictionaries. Many modern rhyming dictionaries also contain crude and derogatory terms. In the example above, the ending “-itte” would also include “Titte”.
history
Already in the 16th century, since the Renaissance , rhyming lexicons were available, especially in the Italian-speaking area, which were supposed to put an end to the problem of "rhyme trouble". A rhyming dictionary was first mentioned in 1528. It was written by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato under the title Rimario de tutte le cadentie di Dante e Petrarca . In 1540 Erasmus Alberus wrote a German dictionary of rhymes with the title Novum dictionarii genus .
Under the title Deutscher Helikon , Philipp von Zesen designed what was probably the first German rhyming dictionary in 1640. This was followed in 1691 by Martin Grünwald's rich and decent supply of male and female rhymes . In the same year the well-known Poetic Handbook by Johann Hübner was published .
Exactly a hundred years later (1791) Gottfried August Bürger wrote the book Hübnerus redivivus . In 1826 Ferdinand Hempel published the Allgemeine Deutsche Reimlexikon under the pseudonym Peregrinus Syntax ; it contains more than 300,000 entries.
Well-known modern rhyming lexicons are The large rhyming lexicon by Günter Pössiger and the rhyming lexicon by Willy Steputat, newly edited and edited by Angelika Fabig .
Electronic rhyming lexicons have also existed for a long time - for example, a so-called poem software from Stuttgart published in 1999 that contains 50,000 rhyming words. There are also various online rhyming dictionaries, but they often only compare spelling similarities. The dictionary project Wiktionary also contains links to corresponding rhymes in its word entries.
literature
- Ferdinand Hempel : General German Reimlexikon. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1826 (digital copies: Volume 1 (a – e) , Volume 2 (i – u) ). New edition: Edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
- Duk Ho Lee: Declining dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018197-5 .
- Karl Peltzer: The apt rhyme: A dictionary of the end rhymes with an appendix on German metrics. Ott, Munich 1966. 7th edition 1993, ISBN 3-7225-6123-X .
- Günter Pössiger: The great rhyme lexicon: If you want to write poetry, you have to find rhymes: Instructions for hobby and occasional poets. Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02739-6 . New edition: The great rhyming dictionary. Nikol-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-63-6 .
- Wilhelm Steputat (greeting), Angelika Fabig (editing): Reimlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-018622-0 (EA Leipzig 1891).
- Philipp von Zesen : German Helicon. 4 volumes. 1640, 1656.
Web links
- Real rhyme , online rhyme database (results separated into pure rhymes , assonances and identical rhymes )
Individual evidence
- ↑ A comparison of rhyme databases (PDF, accessed April 28, 2019).