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Gwennole Le Menn (1938–2009) was a
Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gale ...
writer, editor and lexicographer. He edited various Old and
Middle Breton Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of ...
works. Le Menn edited the Catholicon, a trilingual Breton-French-Latin dictionary of 1499, and he compiled a bibliography of Breton literature printed before 1700.


Bibliography

*''La femme au sein d'or. Des chants populaires Bretons… aux légendes celtiques''; Saint-Brieuc, Skol, 1985. (Breton folk songs and mythology) *''Grand choix de prénoms Bretons''; Coop Breizh. (Breton given names) *''Les noms de famille les plus portés en Bretagne''; Coop Breizh. (Breton surnames) *''Le vocabulaire Breton du Catholicon (1499), le premier dictionnaire Breton imprimé Breton-français-Latin de Jehan Lagadeuc''; Saint-Brieuc, Skol, 2001 *"Le breton et son enseignement", ''Langue française'', Armand Colin, no 25 « L'enseignement des "langues régionales" », 1975, p. 71-


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Menn, Gwennole French lexicographers Breton-language writers 1938 births 2009 deaths Rennes 2 University alumni Writers from Paris 20th-century lexicographers