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Apherdianus, 16th-century Dutch proverbs and the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (WNT)

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Presented at Germanic Lexicography 1 session
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In the year 1552 Petrus Apherdianus published his Tyrocinium linguæ Latinæ, a textbook for students to practice Latin. The Dutch translations of the Latin examples in this book contain a number of idomatic expressions. In the same year 1552 the Amsterdam copyist Reyer Gheurtz wrote his collection of Dutch proverbs, _Adagia. His manuscript is only one of the large number of 16th-century proverb collections compiled in the Low Countries.

This paper sketches the relationship b...

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Institute for Dutch Lexicology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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2011-02-16

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