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Title page of"Vocabolari molt profitós per apendre lo catalan-alamany y lo alamany-catalan" of Joan Rosembach (died 1530).



It was published in the year 1502 and is therefor the first German-Catalan diccionary (the first diccionary for german in an iberian language). It is based upon an Italian Version and is translated by someone who must have been fluent with both languages.
Luckily there is Wikipedia and someone really put two pages online which are sooooo fucking interesting ;-)


My personal favorites:
cat.: el grif here: griffon germ.: der Greif here: Gryff
but completly the same
cat.: la merla and germ.: die Amsel

Allthough interesting that here the articles lo and los are used (lo ouçel / los ouçels = Bird/s). When I recall it right these Articles are now a days only used in the "Nord-occidental" dialects of catalunya for example in the region of Lleida. I'm really curious if the people there really use this article! 

Now I will do an hour of catalan at parla.com ... a free online learning page ... I'm diligent... or at least try to be diligent!