Silesian dictionary

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The Silesian Dictionary by Walther Mitzka is a large-scale alphabetical dictionary of the Silesian dialects in Silesia today and in the past. The three-volume dictionary was developed from 1956.

The dictionary documents the “vernacular” vocabulary; Written testimonies from the past and the present, as well as special language material, were not included. In contrast to other large-scale dictionaries, Mitzka also refrained from including folklore and naming aspects.

The lemmas were used in the standard German sound or in one of these approximated forms. The basis of the collection was formed by the printed literature, 71 word lists sent to dialect speakers of 60 key words each and personal interviews. In total, more than 1250 dialect speakers took part, who at the time of the survey, however, lived outside of Silesia. Numerous maps illustrate the geography of words and sounds, with the large maps being taken from the German Word Atlas, while the small maps are mostly results of the word lists.

The contributions to a Silesian dictionary by Karl Weinhold , which were created between 1855 and 1865, are regarded as a forerunner .

literature

  • Walther Mitzka: Silesian dictionary. 3 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin 1963-1965. - Review in: Phonetica 18, 1968, pp. 55-64 (partial view) ( doi: 10.1159 / 000258599 ).
  • Walther Mitzka: Silesian dictionary. In: Dialektlexikographie (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics. Supplement N. F. 17). Edited by Hans Friebertshäuser. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, pp. 143-155.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Walther Mitzka: Silesian dictionary. Volume I. De Gruyter, Berlin 1963, p. 1.
  2. ^ Karl Weinhold: Contributions to a Silesian dictionary. Appendix to Volume XIV of the Session Reports of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Vienna 1855.