William Sewel, A New Dictionary English and Dutch (1691)

Date

1691

Lexicographer

William Sewel Note: 13/10/2005 nationality: Dutch

Book title

A new dictionary English and Dutch wherein the words are rightly interpreted, and their various significations exactly noted. Enriched with many elegant phrases and select proverbs: and for help to the English, the particles de and het placed before the Dutch nouns. Whereunto is added a small treatise concerning the Dutch pronunciation; and the right use of the Dutch particles de, die, deeze, and het, dat, di

Publication place

Amsterdam

Publisher

widow of Steven Swart

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Dutch

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Alston

XIII.95

Wing

S 2825

Catalog

Kennedy 6192

Criticisms

Osselton, N. E. "Early Bi-lingual Dictionaries as Evidence for the Status of Words in English." English Studies Presented to R. W. Zandvoort on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. English Studies 45. Amsterdam: Swets and Zeittinger, 1964. English Studies (1964): 14-20. view record
Hull, W. I. William Sewel of Amsterdam 1653-1720. Swarthmore: Swarthmore College, 1933. view record