The Schleswig-Holsteinische Wörterbuch ("Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary") is a
regional dictionary of the
Low German
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, familycolor = Indo-European
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, fam4 = North Sea Germanic
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language in the dialects used in the state of
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...
i.e.
Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...
,
Holsteinish and
Hamburger Platt and their sub-dialects. The publisher and co-editor was the Germanist, Otto Mensing.
History
With a newspaper appeal by Otto Mensing and his co-initiators in Schleswig-Holstein newspapers in 1902, in which the population of the state was asked to collect source material about Low German (''Plattdeutsch'') in Schleswig-Holstein and to send it to the initiators, preparatory work for the production of the Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary began. Mensing attached particular importance to working out the linguistic peculiarities in the individual regions of the country; at that time he headed the so-called ''Niederdeutsche Sozietät'' at the
University of Kiel
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
, was appointed professor there in 1917, but only in 1928 for his extensive research of the ''Plattdeutsch'' language freed from teaching.
By 1906 the first book with the title ''Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wörterbuch'' was published by C. Donath, which only contained instructions for gathering information. Between 1925 and 1935 the comprehensive People's Edition (''Volksausgabe'') of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wörterbuch in five volumes was published by Wachholtz Verlag. Among Mensing's employees were Gustav Friedrich Meyer and Peter Willers Jessen. In the years 1973 and 1985 the same publishers issued reprints.
Structure
Vol. 1 (1st–9th issue), 1927, letters A–E 1074 columns
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Vol. 2 (10th–17th issue), 1929, letters F–J 1070 columns
Vol. 3 (18th–26th issue), 1931, letters K–P 1172 columns
Vol. 4 (27th–34th issue), 1933, letters Q–S 1024 columns
Vol. 5 (35th–40th issue), 1935, letters T–Z and addenda 906 columns
Current edition
* Otto Mensing: ''Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wörterbuch''. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 1985 reprint, .
References and footnotes
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German dictionaries
Low German
Culture of Schleswig-Holstein