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Contents
Publisher's Preface ..........................................................................................4
I. Introductory Sections .................................................................7
1. Foreword ...................................................................................................8
2. Preface .....................................................................................................11
3. Introduction: Yiddish Botanical Terminology ................................................14
a. The Name of a Plant ...........................................................................14
b. The Appurtenance of a Plant ...............................................................15
c. Old and New in Yiddish Botanical Nomenclature ..................................16
d. Popular Nomenclature and Systematic Terminology .............................25
II. Instructions for the User .............................................................29
1. How to Use Plant Names in Yiddish ...........................................................30
2. On the Trilingual Latin-English-Yiddish Dictionary ........................................32
3. The Key to Proper Names ..........................................................................34
4. The Geographic-Ethnic Index .....................................................................36
5. On the Source Index ..................................................................................44
a. Essence .............................................................................................44
b. Ordering ............................................................................................45
c. How Sources are Cited .......................................................................46
d. Cross-References ..............................................................................47
e. Abbreviations and Symbols .................................................................48
III. Linguistic Instructions ................................................................49
1. Gender ......................................................................................................50
2. Plural ........................................................................................................52
3. Pronunciation ............................................................................................54
4. Orthography: Orthographical and Morphological Variants ...........................55
IV. Editor's Accounting ...................................................................57
1. Sources Used ...........................................................................................58
a. Spoken Yiddish ..................................................................................58
b. Written Yiddish ...................................................................................59
2. Problems of Identification ...........................................................................62
a. Ethnobotanical Terms .........................................................................62
b. English Terms ....................................................................................64
c. International Terms .............................................................................64