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978-3423590457. The Deutsches Wörterbuch ( German: [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈvœʁtɐbuːx]; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated DWB, is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence. [1] [2] Encompassing modern High German vocabulary in use since 1450, it also includes loanwords adopted from other languages into ...
The precursor German dictionaries were glossaries, of which the Abrogans from the 8th century is the oldest known. Petrus Dasypodius, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum, 1535. Frisius ( Johannes Fries, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum, 1541, 1556) Pictorius ( Josua Maaler, Die Teütsch spraach, 1556) Adelung ( Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der ...
Duden. The Duden ( German pronunciation: [ˈduːdn̩] ⓘ) [ 1][ 2] is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022 and thus ceased to exist. [ 3]
German ( Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ) [ 10] is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language. The Etymological Dictionary of the German Language [1] ( German: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache) is a reference book for the history of the German language, [2] and was one of the first books of its kind ever written. Originally written in 1883 by Friedrich Kluge, it is still ...
List of German abbreviations. This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u."
Users. 254,694 (November 2018)[ 1] Launched. 2002. Current status. active. dict.cc is a free, multilingual online dictionary. For offline use the dictionaries can be downloaded as text files and used in various programs on Windows, iOS, Android [ 2][ 3] and Palm OS. Dict.cc GmbH have their main office in the Austrian capital city of Vienna .
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [ nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.