LL-L: "Online resources" LOWLANDS-L, 18.JAN.2001 (05) [E]

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 L O W L A N D S - L * 18.JAN.2001 (05) * ISSN 189-5582 * LCSN 96-4226
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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Online resources

Dear Lowlanders,

Contents:
(1) Etymological dictionary
(2) Lowlands-L welcome in Twente Low Saxon

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(1)

Yesterday I announced:

==begin quote==
Some of you may be interested to know about the _Svenska Akademiens ordbok_
(Dictionary of the Swedish Academy): http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/

Not only can you look up Swedish words there, but there is also an
etymological dictionary in the making.  (Click on "Etymologi".)  Furthermore,
you can look up words in/from various other language varieties, including
Lowlandic ones: American English, non-American English, English dialects,
Middle English, Old English, Frisian, Low German (Low Saxon), Middle Low
German (Middle Low Saxon), Middle Low German (Middle Low Saxon) dialects, Old
Low German (i.e., Old Saxon), Dutch, Dutch dialects, Middle Dutch, Shetlandic.

I am not totally sure about this last thing.  Can you look up any word in
those languages, or are these only loanwords in Swedish?  If the latter, then
the Old varieties should not be there.  Or are they added to show pre-loan
forms?

At any rate, it's a great resource in the making.
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I had BCCed the Svenska Akademi, and received the following clarification from
Susanne Mankner of the Akademi:

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Dear R. F. Hahn,
SAOB is the historical dictionnary of Swedish.
To answer your question, you can only look up the loanwords where the
swedish word came to the Swedish language between 1521-2000. You can not
search for every word from every country. A lot of the words in the
dictionnary are not in use today, but the SAOB describes the Swedish
language between 1521-2000. SAOB will be finished in 2017. The SAOB
project started around 1890.
Best wishes,
Susanne - the OSA project
==end quote==

I wish the Akademi luck with this monumental undertaking.

(2)

Kudos to our own Henry Pijffers (<henry-p at dataaccess.nl>) for providing a
translation of our welcoming page in Twente Low Saxon (using a type of
orthography of his own making).  Thanks, Henry!  Here is the URL:
<http://www.geocities.com/sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/lltwentsch.html>.  You can
also reach it by clicking on the appropriate link on the index page:
<http://www.geocities.com/sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/>.  (Don't forget to refresh
the index page in case you visited it recently.)

Thanks and best regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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