H-HRE Dictionaries and Languages

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This page contains links to online dictionaries, paleography sites, and other language tools useful for students and scholars of the Holy Roman Empire. Please let us know if there is another link you would like to see listed here. For links to primary sources, please see the Teaching Resources page. matthew-writing.jpg

Online Dictionaries-German

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Online Dictionaries-Latin Online Dictionaries-Other Online Translation Resources German Language and Paleography Resources Latin Language and Paleography Resources General Language and Paleography Resources

Online Dictionaries-German:

Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch Altsächsisches Wörterbuch Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Includes useful historical terms) Das Deutsche Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm (The most useful and thorough historical dictionary. Try this one first!) Digitaler Verbund von Dialektwörterbüchern Goethe Woerterbuch Gotisches Wörterbuch Leo Deutsch-Englisch Woerterbuch Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (Benecke's) Pfälzisches Wörterbuch Rheinisches Wörterbuch Student-Online German dictionary Wörterbuch der deutsch-lothringischen Mundarten Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten top

Online Dictionaries-Latin:

Medieval Latin Words by William Whitaker (Latin dictionary and simple translations. Gives all possible declensions and conjugations for each word entered.) top

Online Dictionaries-Other:

Bab.la (Dictionaries for multiple languages, language quizzes, forum) Dictionnaires d'autrefois (French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries) Dictionaries of various types

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Lexique d'ancien français Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (De historische woordenboeken van het INL online) top

Online Translation Resources:

Google Language Tools (Reasonable, though not great, translation tool) Lost in Translation (Just for fun) top

German Language and Paleography Resources:

Excellent chart comparing Sutterlin and numerous 17th-19th C hands (Great for first time archive-visitors!) Findebuch zum mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) German for Beginners (About.com's free online course) German Grammar Goethe Institut (Learning and teaching German) Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mediaevistic: Tools for Students of Medieval German Literature and Language Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank/Middle-High German Conceptual Database Multimediale Lehr- und Lernmaterialien zur Einführung in die historische Sprachwissenschaft Palaeography (Online tutorial to reading old handwriting 1500-1800) Paläographie und Kodikologie SLP 2000 (An online Sutterlin tutorial) Stiftung Deutsche Schrift (Click on "Schrift" for a useful chart) Suetterlin, Blackletter, and Historical scripts (Useful especially for learning Sutterlin) True type font to edit medieval German texts top

Latin Language and Paleography Resources:

Beginner's Latin (A practical online tutorial for beginners) Latin Place Names Multimediale Lehr- und Lernmaterialien zur Einführung in die historische Sprachwissenschaft

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Orbis Latinus Online (Latin placenames. Very useful!) Palaeography (Online tutorial to reading old handwriting 1500-1800) Paläographie und Kodikologie Words by William Whitaker (Latin dictionary and simple translations. Very good resource. One can also get a downloadable version for offline use.) top

General Language and Paleography Resources:

French Verb Conjugator Manuscripts Studies (An online course at U Alberta) Manuscripts, Paleology, Codicology Multimediale Lehr- und Lernmaterialien zur Einführung in die historische Sprachwissenschaft Palaeography (Online tutorial to reading old handwriting 1500-1800) Paläographie und Kodikologie top

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