English-Jersey Language Vocabulary

The present Vocabulary is intended to serve a double purpose. As it is based entirely on the "Dictionnaire Jersiais-Francais" by Frank Le Maistre, it can serve as an English Index to that major work. It will also be very useful to those who wish to translate directly from English into the Jersey Language.

This Vocabulary contains over 15,000 English words : in most cases, several Jersey words are given for the one English word, and more could often have been found. On the other hand, it has occasionally been impossible to find Jersey words for English terms, e.g. "lorry" (Fr, camion), "shutter" (Fr. volet), "sprayer" (Fr. pulvérisateur), because of the relatively recent introduction of such terms. The same, of course, applies to all other languages.