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Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands

At the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and in cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt, a digital dictionary of surnames is being developed. For the first time, this dictionary records all currently existing family names Germany (also foreign names) lexicographically, maps them and etymologizes them with the help of maps.

Previous dictionaries of surnames record only a…

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Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch

The “Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbuch (MWB)” was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1994 until 1999. In 2000 the project was taken over by the Academies of Mainz and Göttingen. The research is carried out in three office sites: in Göttingen (since 1994), Trier (since 1994), and Mainz (since 2011). The project's aim is to cover Middle High German vocabulary from the period of 1050 to…

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Wörterbuch der deutschen Winzersprache

The Mainz Academy project "Dictionary of the German Winegrowing Language (WDW)" is a European technical dictionary on the older terminology of winegrowing and wine culture in all German and (formerly) German-speaking winegrowing regions of Western, Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe. In addition to the oral vocabulary of the winegrowers, which is predominantly dialectal, the focus of the…

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