Glossarissimo!

"Este artículo trata de las abundantes y curiosas denominaciones populares que recibe la nieve en lengua vasca. Está basado en la tesis que está realizando el autor referente al léxico popular en euskera, en la cual se lleva a cabo un “Estudio cultural del léxico etno-meteorológico vasco”. El punto de partida de este artículo es la creencia generalizada que se observa alrededor del léxico de la nieve utilizado por los esquimales. Durante mucho tiempo se pensaba que éstos poseían una gran variedad y cantidad de términos nivosos.  El propósito del artículo es mostrar como una lengua occidental situada en una zona templada posee una riquísima terminología relacionada con la nieve que nos retrotrae a tiempos ulteriores y que nos da idea de un estadio del clima que, según algunos datos recogidos, nos dan indicios de que éste va cambiando más aceleradamente de lo que se sospechaba. La realidad cultural circundante ha quedado impresa en las palabras. Son monumentos lingüísticos comunicativos que hay que conservar."

"The Automotive Dictionary is a specialised dictionary for the automotive sector. New terms are being coined in this sector all the time, and we are convinced of the need to compile and analyse them. That is why we brought together various companies in the sector (Batz, Cikautxo, Ekin, Elay, GKN and Maier) and with the help of the advisory service provided by terminology experts in the Elhuyar Language & Technology Unit we have produced this dictionary, in which we have gathered the terms we use in our everyday work, and which we are making available to the general public.

It is clear that globalisation is leading us to another business reality and that from one year to the next the number of companies immersed in internationalisation processes is on the increase. In this new reality, we companies find ourselves having to manage various languages, be it in work processes, in relations with clients and suppliers, in relations among workers or in resources and computing applications.

So, properly managing languages and setting up a language strategy at work is a key aspect for competitiveness, as it allows us to display greater proximity to the client. Bearing this aim in mind, there is no doubt that managing the terminology of our sector and our companies has been a very important step.

This dictionary seeks to gather the multilingual terminology of the automotive sector and thus meet the terminology needs of companies, professionals and experts in this field.

We have produced the Automotive Dictionary to be able to effectively meet the communication needs of automotive sector users. The dictionary has started off with 2,650 items used in the automotive sector in 6 languages (English, Basque, Spanish, French, German and Chinese). The items have been classified into the different areas of automotive engineering, in line with the classification proposed by the ACICAE (Automotive Cluster of the Basque Autonomous Community)."