Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- resources:dictionaries [2020/06/23 22:52] – [German] kmiddeke
+++ resources:dictionaries [2024/06/20 13:53] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+====== Dictionaries and Thesauri ======
+===== Dictionaries =====
+==== English ====
+=== Present-Day English ===
+== The Oxford English Dictionary (Online) ==
+A large dictionary of Present-Day English on historical principles, based on citations from a large range of written published English. Includes the first known use of every word sense.
+Access: Free access from the campus wifi (or via [[https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/VPN|VPN]] connection)
+Link: http://www.oed.com/
+For historical/diachronic linguistics, the timelines and advanced search functions are especially helpful. It allows you to filter the entire OED for words first attested in a given span of time, borrowed from a specific language or family of languages and/or belonging to specific semantic fields.
+{{:resources:oedtimelines.png?400|}}
+== Merriam Webster's ==
+The oldest dictionary of American English, based on citations from a large range of published written English. Includes information about etymology, but is not built on historical principles.
+Access: Free
+Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
+=== Earlier Stages of English ===
+== Bosworth-Toller ==
+Online version "created by the labour and valour of many, maintained by Ondrej Tichý at Charles University in Prague"
+http://www.bosworthtoller.com/
+== Clark Hall and the Germanic Lexicon Project ==
+Clark Hall is another dictionary of Old English, hosted by the Germanic Lexicon Project.
+[[http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_clarkhall_about.html|CH]]
+[[http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/|Germanic Lexicon Project]]
+The Germanic Lexicon Project by Sean Crist also hosts a range of other resources for the study of Germanic languages whose copyright has expired, e.g. **Cleasby & Vigfusson's Dictionary of Old Norse Icelandic**.
+== Pokorny's master etyma (if for some reason you need to know the PIE root) ==
+{{::nebula.png?100|}}
+[[https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex/master|Pokorny's PIE master etyma]]
+==== German ====
+== Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ==
+Access: Free
+Link: https://www.dwds.de/
+== Duden ==
+Access: Free
+Link: https://www.duden.de/
+== Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm ==
+Access: Free
+Link: http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB
+The Wörterbuchnetz (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Universität Trier 2008) also contains, among other dictionaries, the **digital Lexer** (//Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch//), a dictionary of vulgar Latin and several German dialectal dictionaries. The full list is here: [[http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/setupStartSeite.tcl|WBNetz]]
+===== Thesauri =====
+==== English ====
+== HTE, the Historical Thesaurus of English ==
+Especially useful for (historical) synonym studies. Allows you to create wonderful timeline visualizations like this one:
+{{::explainandsynonyms.png?400|}}
+With links to the OED.
+[[https://ht.ac.uk/|HTE]]
+==== German ====