Neues vollständiges Wörterbuch der englischen und der deutschen Sprache (gótbetűs)/A new and complete Dictionary of the English and German languages I-II. [antikvár]

P r e f a c e. In ordcr to keep pace with the slow but perpetual transformation of tlie written language, tlie dictionaries aro from tirae to timo to be clearcd of obsolete words and phrases and to be supplíed with those words that have been accepíed in consequence of h«w discoveries, invcptions and irtstitu-tions; and such works aro likewise to be better and more elegantly printcd, as typography itself advances to per-fcction. Guided by this persuasion, and indiiced by the want of á com-plete english and germán dictionary of such a size and print and ofthese con-tents, the author and the publisher re-solved to undertake-this.work, wliich is destined to furnish the public with what is now particularly requireíí. Both these rolumes have been com-piled áfter a new plán. The íirst, containing the english part, has been completed ufler the best dic-tionariés of both these languages now extant, with respect to the particular wants of beginners, of men of business and of the friends of english li-terature in generál. The signiíieations proper and figurative of every word are explained, their syntactical rec-tion is exposed by examplcs (frawn from auíhors and by usual phrases, and their peculiar forms are marked by grammatical notes. The orthoepy or pronunciation and acccntuation of the words is added after the mcthodof Walker. The orthography has becu carefully revised; the termination ie An extract of the germán grammar. §. 1. Of the pronunciation. The germán letters are called thus: n, 6, c, b, e, f, g, Í),A, l, t, m, n, o, p, q, r, S,f, t, u, t>, fi, bl, tzé, d8, 8, ti, g8, ha, í, jot, ka, 81, 8m, In, 6, P8, k63, 8r, h, ti, 88, főá, », h ; 8* ve, íks, ip'silon, tzed. (5 single, not being properly a germán letter, is pronounced, when it occurs in * - latin or french words, like k before a, o, u, f. i. Gabawt, daíenber, Qcmué, Sutfué; üke ts before e, t, X), f. i. @eber, Csibéi:, G>pclu$. @f) before a, 0, U sounds but little softer than k, f. i. dfjarnftec, C5f)otv @f)UtfLtt:fi; but it is very soft, softer than 9, before e, X), f. i. Gjfjetub, Gf)irutg, (%[ug. It sounds like sh in the french word (5f)icane. ($í)3 at the end of a syllable is pronounced like x, f. i. fed)3 (sex), L)cf)3 (ox), ¦ Lad)ő (d?ix), (lox). © always sounds hard like g in give, f. i. @attg (gang), gem (guern), gicb (geeb), ©otb (gold), gut (g§8t). 4? is always aspirated, except when it follows a vowel in the same syllabe', where it only serves to signify the protractiou of the vowel, f. i. <2af)ne, befynen, Sofm, $uf)n. 2 is never niute. L} is always joined to u, sounding kw, like qu in queen, f. i. Lluáí (kwfiwl). <3 before a vowel in the beginning of a syllable is always soft, f. i. ft'ebett (zéé'- ben), fefjen (ze-hen). 0C (fore), SSatcr (fa'-ter), ttiel (féél); in latin or french words it is soft like v, f. i. GÍOlWettt (cón-vent'), except the word Dittat, wherein it is hard (fé'-ffit) 5B sounds like the english v, f. i. SOBolíe (vol'-l8). 3 is hard like ts, f. i. jJucíet (tsuk'-kér). ' _ The vowels always have thé same sound, a is a, e is 8, i is !, 0 is o, U is but it is to be observed that every vowel is long when it stands at the end Of a syllabe, f. i. -ga=fec, S3c-fen, tt>t*ber, SSosget/ S3u=be; short, when it has a con-sonantbehind itself in the same syllabe, f. i. fapfen, bcfsfev, 2Bib=ber, for=bevn, \