03-01-2025, 05:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2025, 05:47 PM by Paul Ferguson.)
From the book Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
"Paracelsus wrote in his own language. He not only peppered his early-new-high-German prose with Latin Frühneuhochdeutsch terms and tags but salted them with neologisms that drew from many languages—Greek and Latin for the medical and scientific terminology, Greek and Hebrew for classical and biblical references, and the vernacular tongues for elements of folklore and popular culture...This paper discusses the first dictionaries and offers readings of a sample text which, as readers and translators have long agreed, makes little sense until the code is broken and the words’ etymological meanings are at least conjectured."
https://www.academia.edu/35827893/Hard_P...ern_Guides
"Paracelsus wrote in his own language. He not only peppered his early-new-high-German prose with Latin Frühneuhochdeutsch terms and tags but salted them with neologisms that drew from many languages—Greek and Latin for the medical and scientific terminology, Greek and Hebrew for classical and biblical references, and the vernacular tongues for elements of folklore and popular culture...This paper discusses the first dictionaries and offers readings of a sample text which, as readers and translators have long agreed, makes little sense until the code is broken and the words’ etymological meanings are at least conjectured."
https://www.academia.edu/35827893/Hard_P...ern_Guides