Bilingual list
In some instances it is quite difficult if not impossible to trace unfamiliar words and their meaning in present-day Dutch sources. For those non-speakers of Dutch who are interested in the contents of the inventories, it is an almost impossible task to know the English name of each Dutch-written item, not to mention the meaning concerned.
In order to limit the problem a bilingual list containing unknown or hard-to-find words was compiled and is presented at this site. It consists of a list of both the words and their meaning in Dutch, followed by the translations and their meaning in English.
A number of bilingual dictionaries, mainly old versions, as well as the “Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal” (Dictionary of the Dutch Language) were consulted. For the digital presentation the preliminary terminology list [Bilingual list] was compiled to be used as a reading aid.
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