An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Translator's Preface
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
In preparing an English edition of Professor Kluge's famous work, the Translator has aimed at making the book as easily comprehensible to English students as the original work is to Germans. To this end he has given the chief meanings of all the German words, some of which are rather obscure, and are not to be found in any German-English Dictionaries hitherto published. In assigning the equivalents to the words quoted from foreign languages, great care has been taken to give as closely as possible the corresponding English meaning to the words. In all cases of doubt, the Translator has consulted English, French, and German Dictionaries of foreign languages, such as —
Sanscrit (Monier Williams).
Greek (Liddell and Scott; Pape).
Latin (White and Riddell; Lewis and Short; Smith; Georges).
Gothic (Skeat).
Anglo-Saxon (Toller; Bosworth; Leo).
Middle English (Stratmann).
Icelandic (Cleasby).
Old High German (Graff; Schade).
Middle High German (Müller; Lexer).
Lithuanian (Schleicher's Handbook).
Dutch (Calisch).
Swedish (Helms).
French (Sachs; Clifton and Grimaud; Littré; Brachet; Fleming and Tibbins).
Italian (Ferrari; Baretti).
Spanish (Neumann and Baretti; Lopes and Bensley).
Welsh (Pugh).
A few misprints and errors in the order of words of the German edition have been corrected, but they are not of sufficient importance to be specially mentioned.