The ''Interlingua–English Dictionary'' (''IED''), developed by the
International Auxiliary Language Association
The International Auxiliary Language Association, Inc. (IALA) was an American organisation founded in 1924 to "promote widespread study, discussion and publicity of all questions involved in the establishment of an auxiliary language, together wi ...
(IALA) under the direction of
Alexander Gode and published by Storm Publishers in 1951, is the world's first
Interlingua
Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, ...
dictionary. Its full title is ''Interlingua: A Dictionary of the International Language.''
The IED includes about 27,000 words drawn from about 10,000
roots
A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.
Root or roots may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
* ''The Root'' (magazine), an online magazine focusin ...
, but the bulk is given by about 600 classical
Latin roots, being an
Anglo-Latin dictionary with English as the primary control language of the biggest
Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...
(
Italian,
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
,
French,
Spanish, excluding
Portuguese and
Romanian).
For each
etymological family the dictionary highlights the
primitive word followed by very many
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
words. This method of condensing in a framework the
etymological derivation has been taken up by the best multilingual and etymological modern dictionaries.
The IED also presents 125 affixes that facilitate to understand the
neolatin linguistic
word-formation.
The foreword, written by Mary Connell Bray, briefly recounts the history of
interlinguistics
Interlinguistics, also known as cosmoglottics,
is the science of planned languages that has existed for more than a century. Formalised by Otto Jespersen in 1931 as the science of interlanguages, in more recent times, the field has been more fo ...
and IALA. The Introduction, written by Gode, explains the theory and principles of Interlingua and explores in depth the derivation procedures used to obtain a widely
international vocabulary.
Dictionary
entries bring out the connections among words in the same
word family
A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as be ...
, showing the Anglo-Latin
prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed.
Prefixes, like other affixes, can b ...
ed words, making the IED a useful resource for
linguists,
interlinguists, and others interested in language and linguistics.
References
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External links
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