Dictionnaire du Béarnais et du Gascon modernes - Simin Palay (2 volumes)

Dictionnaire du Béarnais et du Gascon modernes - Simin Palay (2 volumes)

embracing the dialects of Bearn, Bigorre, Gers, Landes, and Gascony (maritime and Garonne).

The Dictionary of Modern Béarnais and Gascon, drawn up in the 1930s under the direction of Simin Palay, is a magnificent work of regional heritage nicknamed the Gascon Treasure by historian Charles Samaran. Witness of our past, our culture or even a very little-known civilization to this day, it contains more than 70,000 words with their meanings, adverbial phrases, proverbs and sayings, and beyond, describes ancestral traditions Béarnaise and Gascon.

Treasure of Gascon heritage, the Edicions Reclams and the Permanent Congress of Lenga Occitana are offering this new edition. It takes up all the content of the previous versions, supplemented by two prefaces, one linguistic by Éric Gonzales, the other historical by Sèrgi Javaloyès and Maurice Romieu. An edition revised and corrected by Éric Gonzalès, Serge Javaloyès, Jean-Luc Landi and Maurice Romieu, who will also make you discover the history of this dictionary and behind the scenes of their work.

The work includes two volumes for more than 70,000 words, 35 Gascon dialects with phrases, proverbs, quotes, explanations of certain traditions ...

Reissue in the Febusian script (local variant of the Mistralian script) of origin by the author Simin Palay. In the Occitan-French sense only.

Co-edition Edicions Reclams - Congrès Permanent de la Lenga Occitana (Permanent Congress of the Occitan language).

Proofreading and corrections :
> Eric Gonzalès, auteur et linguiste, spécialiste du Gascon
> Joan Breç Brana, responsable du pôle Lenga e Societat, Congrès permanent de la lenga occitana
> Sèrgi Javaloyès, auteur, rédacteur en chef de la revue Reclams
> Jean-Luc Landi, enseignant, auteur
> Maurice Romieu, Maître de conférence émérite, UPPA, linguiste et auteur, Président des éditions & revue Reclams