German dictionaries from late 1800s and early 1900s

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edmont
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German dictionaries from late 1800s and early 1900s

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Hi,
I sometimes try to translate German from the first couple of decades of the 1900s and last couple of decades of the 1800s.  I imagine that today's German words sometimes have somewhat different meanings than they had back then, so, I wonder if anyone can refer me to free online German dictionaries published between, say, 1875 and 1920?
Thank you for any comments and assistance.




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Re: German dictionaries from late 1800s and early 1900s

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A modern German speaker can generally understand any text from the 1800s without a dictionary and modern dictionaries still list all meanings that a word had at that time, sometimes marked as archaic.
It gets a bit more difficult with dialect though, but I don't know of any dictionary that would cover the whole range of dialects.
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Re: German dictionaries from late 1800s and early 1900s

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Tiorthan, thank you.

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