Anglo-bŭlgarski rechnik (s proiznosheni︠︡iata) = English-Bulgarian dictionary : pronouncing and explanatory / ot Konstantinʹ Stefanovʹ.

  • Stefanov, Konstantin, 1876-
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[1908]
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    ’ ly - proper signification of each word, then its secondary and de- rivative meaning,and finally the metaphorical meaning. I have also thought it well to add a few examples of the use of each word, so that its meaning may be easily understood even by beginners, and thus the use of inappropriate words may be obviated. In the preparation of this second edition I have consulted various dictionaries, to the authors of which I beg to express my sincerest thanks, for the valuable assistance, which I have derived from them: namely, Messrs S. C. Clifton and A. Gri- maux, N. Hamilton and E. Legros for their respective French- English dictionaries, and to the editors of Liddell and Scott’s monumental Greek-English dictionary of ancient Greek, and last and not least to A. Vlachos Esq. for his excellent Greek- _ French dictionary, which I have taken as the basis and model of my own. In presenting to the public, for a second tipe, my Greek-En- glish dictionary in this revised edition I venture to hope I am giving thereby an important help to those of my compatriots who wish to learn the English language, and a valuable assis- tance to those of the English-speaking people who wish to dive into the study of Modern Greek, and I hope I am thus con- tributing as far as possible to the strengthening of the bonds between the two nations, which are already connected by many ties of sympathy, and I shall consider the realization of this hope, even in part, as the sole and best reward of my la- bours. Finally, besides thanking the authors and editors of cere thanks to the following gentlemen for their valuable as- sistance: namely,to P.Gennadius Esq., late Director of Agricul- ture, in enriching the Cypriote Vocabulary by some hundreds of words of plants, trees and insects ; and toS. CG. Atchley Esq., Secretary to the Athens Office of the Ionian Bank, and to Captain Butler, correspondent of the Daily Mail, etc., and Professor of English at the Commercial Academy at Athens ; who have very kindly not only gone through the proofs of Ri