Matthias Moth's Dictionary
About Matthias Moth's Dictionary
Matthias Moth's Dictionary is a historical dictionary of Danish c. 1700, involving both the spoken and the written language. Danish is the core of the dictionary but Danish words are accompanied by Latin equivalents. The dictionary contains 105,286 searchable headwords. It falls into two sections, a dictionary of ordinary words, and an encyclopedia.
- More about Moth's Dictionary
- Moth's spelling (in Danish only)
What can be found in Moth's Dictionary?
The modern Danish expression 'at være i kridthuset' (to be in somebody’s good books) is known to every Dane. But what does kridthus actually mean? The answer is given in Moth's Dictionary.
The manuscript
Moth's Dictionary consists of 62 handwritten volumes in folio which are stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
Moth's original. GkS 774 fol.
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