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Part XIV of the WAT. Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language), generally known as the WAT, is the largest descriptive Afrikaans dictionary.As comprehensive descriptive dictionary, it strives to reflect the Afrikaans language in its entirety.
Hereafter the goal was no longer to compile a desk dictionary, but a comprehensive work that would record and explain the “complete” Afrikaans vocabulary, such as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for English and the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (WNT) for Dutch. Such a work could certainly not be completed in five years’ time.
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary.
The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (WNT; lit. ' Dictionary of the Dutch language ') is a dictionary of the Dutch language. It contains between 350,000 and 400,000 entries describing Dutch words from 1500 to 1976. The paper edition consists of 43 volumes (including three supplements) on 49,255 pages. [1]
Woordenboek Interlingua–Nederlands, an Interlingua–Dutch dictionary by Piet Cleij with 50,000 entries, in paper and in electronic format at Softbear Woordenboek Nederlands–Interlingua, a Dutch–Interlingua dictionary by Piet Cleij with more than 140,000 entries; Many Interlingua dictionaries are available online at the Babylon lingual ...
The Roman Emperor Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE) is known to have compiled an Etruscan-Latin dictionary, now lost.. One substantial bilingual dictionary was the MahÄvyutpatti.
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers (24 December 1900 – 1 November 1979) was an Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator from South Africa. [1] She is best known for her contributions to Die Afrikaanse woordeboek and Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. [1]
Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, the comprehensive academic dictionary of Dutch begun in 1863 and finished in 1998, listing all words in Dutch used since 1500. Van Dale Groot Woordenboek hedendaags Nederlands, 4th edition, Utrecht: Van Dale, 2008, is a dictionary about the contemporary Dutch language.