The Mecklenburg Dictionary (MeckWb) represents the most important access to the vocabulary of the Mecklenburg dialect and is one of the most comprehensive scientific dialect dictionaries. With the help of a new approach to digital lexicography, the linking of a dictionary with its folkloristic, agrarian and socio-historical source material from the Wossidlo Archive (WossiDiA) is to be realised digitally. This will make a central dialect dictionary digitally accessible for the Low German language area and, through subsequent integration into the dictionary network, enable comprehensive research for specialised scholars and the general public.

The MeckWb was integrated into the infrastructure of the Trier dictionary network and thus its networking with the dictionaries created there. In this way, nd. (and hd.) headwords of the MeckWb can also be found and compared within the framework of superordinate searches across several dictionaries and lexicological, dialectological, linguistic-historical, comparative, but also ethnological questions can be pursued. At the same time, the future network would be the first time in German-language dialect lexicography that one of the three major dialectal associations (Low German, Middle German, Upper German) would be documented lexically in its entirety.

The Mecklenburg Dictionary went online on 7 April 2025 and can be accessed at

www.wossidlo-teuchert.online

www.wossidlo-teuchert.de

www.woerterbuchnetz.de/MeckWB