Ordbildningsmönster och ordrepresentation i svenska ordböcker från 1500- och 1600-talen

Resumé

No dictionary has collected or will ever be able to collect all words used in the
sixteenth and seventeenth century. Yet there are four Swedish dictionaries which
show parts of the vocabulary used in that time or words that may be created for
example by translation. Three of these dictionaries are based on the European Latin
dictionary tradition, while the fourth seems to be a vernacular product. The dictionaries
with Latin as source language are often more or less copies of a Latin dictionary
but with Swedish as target language. In three of the dictionaries from this
time, compound words, derivations and phrases are very frequent as target words as
well as source words. But in the fourth dictionary by Ericus Schroderus most of the
Swedish words are stemwords, probably collected in Swedish language in use.