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Old German Dictionary?
Thread poster: Barbara L Pavlik
Barbara L Pavlik
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Aug 2, 2021

Hello! Does anyone know of an online dictionary of Old German? Much to my simultaneous delight and dismay, I have discovered several sentences in old German buried in a text I'm translating, and I'm not having much luck finding helpful resources. I'm not even sure if it's Althochdeutsch or some other vernacular, because it's a series of quotes from old lumberjacks!
 
Adieu
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How incomprehensible is it? Aug 2, 2021

Does it read like Chaucer to the modern English speaker? Or worse?
 
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
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Maybe this one helps Aug 2, 2021

http://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahdwbhin.html
 
Kevin Fulton
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German to English
Possibly dialect? Aug 2, 2021

You might try posting a phrase in the German section. You might be barking up the wrong tree by trying to track down the words/phrases in OHG/MHG.
 
Barbara L Pavlik
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Schwarzwald Aug 2, 2021

I've since found out that this is not Old German but a heavy Schwarzwald dialect from deep in the woods. I've got some help on a FB forum, but it's rough going. Just three or four sentences, and the meaning is "almost" clear on most of them, but I@m still far from confident.
 
Steffen Kern
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Grimm Aug 3, 2021

I recommend checking the German Dictionary by the Brothers Grimm (yes, the ones from the fairy tales). They put together a quite extensive dictionary that includes many obsolete and dialect words from the olden times.

Digital version here: https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB
 
Barbara L Pavlik
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Thanks Aug 3, 2021

Thanks to everyone who weighed in here. I think I've got it sorted now. Found some people from the region. I'm grateful for all the resources though, as I'm sure they will come in handy in the future!
 


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