I was curious about "thesaurus" given that is not a dictionary but still a "word book".
According to Google Translate, apparently Wörterbuch also means thesaurus so OP is correct, it is more ambiguous than dictionary.
The first suggested translation for thesaurus is... thesaurus... so much for compound words eh?
Synoniemenbüch, probably?
Synonymwörterbuch, apparently:
https://shop.duden.de/collections/worterbucher-und-sprache/p...
Synonym, of course, being latin.
Lazy just like us. Thesaurus in Romanian is "dicționar de sinonime". I won't bother translating it back to English, you can figure it out :-D
A thesaurus is a type of dictionary.
Re:What Is Anglish?
by lifthrasiir on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:57AM
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I specifically said "lexicalized" because the word "wordbook" would be somehow related to "word" and "book" but can mean something else so these words can't no longer stand as a standalone word. Whether the word "thesaurus" can be said to be a "word book" or not is pretty much irrelevant here. If a "wordbook" meant a thesaurus then a plain dictionary would naturally use a different word (or phrase) to avoid confusion. Or more likely, "thesaurus" may not exist as a single word but would be just called a synonym dictionary.
Re:What Is Anglish?
by NoGravitas on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:27PM
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Likewordbook, surely.
Yes, Compound words in any language are ambiguous based on their components and need to be learned as concepts into themselves. In English we have "houseboat", which means a boat that has living quarters in it that someone uses as a home. But based on the words, it could mean a boat that you keep in your house instead.
Your description only applies to a word phrase "word book". The lexicalized word "wordbook" would have its own meaning (presumably one of your suggestions), just like "dictionary" does, but without requiring additional foreign morphemes.