Henry Offelen, A Double Grammar for Germans to Learn English and for Englishmen to Learn the German Tongue (1687)

Date

1687

Author

Henry Offelen

Lexicon title

Namen-Buch. A Vocabulary

Book title

A Double Grammar For Germans To Learn English; And For English-Men To Learn the German-Tongue: Wherein all Latine Words, belonging to the Grammar, are Translated both into the German and English Tongue. Treating besides of the Derivation of the English Tongue, with all Grammatical Rules, and Dialogues, Treating of all necessary Matters that daily may be spoken of. And, Especially what is to be seen for a Stranger, at Versailles in France and England; with a Compendium of the Estate of the German Empire

Publication place

London

Printer

for the Author

Publisher

Nathaniel Thompson

Transcription source

EEBO

Text type

printed book

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

• German
• grammar

Language

headwords: English
explanations: German
explanations: German

Extent

159-88

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 4800
sample: Knife Knives Messer
Calf Calves Kalb
Wife Wives Weib (p. 37)

Alston

II.348

Wing

O145

Other editions

1686? (Alston II.347; Proposals for printing a double grammar for English-men to learn German or High-Ducth. And Germans to learn the English tongue)

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