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My German is very much British schoolboy- we did O level (that dates me more than any radio carbon dating) using "Sprich Mal Deutsch", which we generally translated as "Speak Bad German". This has allowed me to order Spiegelei for Fruhstuck, but not much else.
And strangely, it didn't include useful words such as sword pommel, tang, shield boss or saddle horn. This makes reading Miks and soon the Romische Schilde book by Nabbefeld a very slow process.
Could someone help by either pointing me towards a German dictionary that would help me, or by posting a glossary (for example, taking words used by Miks in a typical entry and giving the Englisg equivalent)?
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just post the words you need here or write me an email...
or try
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Thanks Siggi! But one word I once came across (from Böhme, can't fathom why I even remembered it, LOL) I did not find a translation of: "astralagiert", or I think that's how it was spelled. Something to do with decoration, a never-ending source of difficult Böhme-German words!
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Thanks all - incredibly helpful, as ever.
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You can also use EUdict
Its an online dictionary and very good.
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Hi Robert!
You put a little typo: it is "astragaliert", i.e. means an ornamentic "bead and reel" structure (mainly in architecture), H.W. Böhme uses the word "Astragalröhrchen" for the little tubes that are often seen at late roman belt fittings. "Astragaliert" meaning "having these tubes at the end of a fitting".
I'm sure it comes from astragalos, i.e. either the well known knucklebones to play dice with, or acc. to my greek dictionary "vertebrae", so it's just "knucklebone-rod" or "spine-shaped"
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Thanks guys! If I ever find the time to finish that translation, I know where to look.
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I think the English translation of this would be Astragal or Astragalen that comes from the Greek Asrogalus a leguminous-plant of the genus astrogalus eg the milk-vetch, it does have the connection with Architecture also as a boarder decoration such as the boarder decoration on the rosettes of the Gallic D helmet that I made.
It is simply a continuation of a little ball and tube decoration, that may be straight in architecture but can also curve as in rosettes.
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