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Inventories of the Orphan Chamber
of the Cape of Good Hope


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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