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318 ACTA WASAENSIA
The lexicographical material has been transferred at various stages from one dictionary to its
successor in more or less the same form. The tendency has been to increase the number of
equivalents, example sentences and the like and there has been less readiness to remove more
dated lexicographical material.
In order to give a general idea of how lexicographical material and structure have been
transferred from the multilingual dictionaries, via the bilingual to the monolingual Finnish
dictionaries, in Table 59 I have summarised the development of the Finnish-Swedish and the
Finnish lexicographical tradition. I touch on Finnish as a target language only marginally.
The arrows in the table show how some elements of the lexicographical material have been
handed down to subsequent dictionaries and editions and the lineage of their lexicographical
structure. In the table the dictionaries are referred to by the names of their authors and the
year of publication and not by their titles. Parentheses indicate small dictionaries. Only the
first editions, or radically expanded editions, are cited, and for works published in several
volumes the date given is that of the final volume.
For the period before 1745, there are multilingual word lists and phrase books with Latin as
their source language (apart from a small phrase book from 1730) and in which Swedish,
Finnish and in some cases a third language, are equivalent and parallel target languages. The
most important works are Schroderus’ Lexicon latino-scondicum (1637), Formulae
Puerilium Colloquiorvm (1644), Florinus’ Nomenclatura Rerum brevissima Latino-Sveco-
Finnoca (1678) and Vocabularium Latino-Sveco-Germanica-Fennicum / En kort Orda-
Book på Latin/Swenska/Tyska och Finska / Yxi Lyhykäinen Sana-Kirja (1708).
From a historical perspective, in analysing the lexicographical structure of the Finnish-
Swedish dictionaries we can discern two traditions. There is one that can be characterised as
having a descriptive approach to Finnish that leades from Juslenius’ Suomalaisen Sana-
Lugun Coetus / Finsk Orda-Boks Försök (1745) through Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon
(1786–1787), Lönnrot’s Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja / Finskt-svenskt Lexikon
(1874–1880) and Cannelin’s Finsk-svensk ordbok (1903) up to NS (1951–1961) and PS
(1990–1994). The other tradition is typical of production dictionaries from Cannelin’s
Finskt-svenskt lexikon / Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja (1908) to Su-ru (1997). Here we
are confronted by a six-stage historical development from target language to source language
from 1637 to 1998. I have identified the stages in this development with the number in the
table.