Favorite pictorial dictionaries?

[AldenG]

Any other fans of pictorial dictionaries?

You know the kind I mean: the ones for adults with exploded pictures of bicycles and washing machines and unicorns with labels for all the parts you probably couldn't name in English, much less Finnish.

I have only a modest one in English, though over the years I've seen several other ones that were tempting.

For Finnish I have Tammen Suuri Kuvasanakirja (englanti / suomi), which is translated from the French original by Corbeil and Archambault. (724 pages before the index.) Sometimes that doesn't matter but for instance the French seem to have different categories for relatives. (Well, probably everybody has different categories for relatives.) Also the picture of a mother-in-law didn't really look like my mother-in-law -- which made the English translation quite useful. Of course any such book is going to be a translation of something but it doesn't hurt to have multiple sources.

I believe that at in 2001 or 2009 I saw a different one I liked very much in Akateeminen but I can't remember any details and I'm not immediately recognizing anything in Google. (There's a lot of noise with children's books etc.) I'd like to figure out what other options there may be and whether anyone has taken a good look at any of them.

In English, DK Publishing has one that is probably good (based on their other books) and I believe I once saw one from Merriam-Webster that seemed excellent on cursory inspection. I've got a thinner one called "What's What?" by Bragonier and Fisher, published by Ballantine.

[inkku]

One fan here as well.

I have been using Colling English French and English Portuguese pictionaries. Very useful, there are so many things i dont' know the names in any language: flowers, specific tools,

[Vellamo]

I hadn't even realized that there are pictorial dictionaries, nevermind for adults! It's good to know about them, I think I'd quite like to get one for learning English. My vocabulary is decent, but I couldn't name parts of a unicorn, I must admit... I'll check Suomalainen Kirjakauppa when I remember, they'll probably have something.

[Rob A.]

I remember, a few years ago, looking at a diagram of a bicycle with all the parts labeled in Finnish, but search as I might, I can't find this diagram again.... Maybe someone else can find it....??

[Vellamo]

Here! Is that anything like what you were after? They've got the same thing in English, it seems. I haven't heard some of the words before, even in Finnish. But then, I can't fix bikes...

[AldenG]

Here! Is that anything like what you were after?

I always wonder about these translations. For instance, I felt compelled to check that there actually are twice as many Google results for istuinkannatin as for satulatolppa. I would almost have put money on the latter, on stylistic grounds alone, to be more prevalent among Finnish cycling enthusiasts.

And then one time I think I quoted a few automotive terms from the translated French work I mentioned above and got skeptical responses.

It's an awful destiny to crave such books and then to doubt them once you find them. Like a Dickens or Eliot character who spends a lifetime looking for love and then mistrusts the beloved. Perhaps with reason, it might turn out. Or probably a self-fulfilling mistrust.

[kalmisto]

Any other fans of pictorial dictionaries?
You know the kind I mean: the ones for adults with exploded pictures of bicycles and washing machines and unicorns with labels for all the parts you probably couldn't name in English, much less Finnish.

This is not exactly what you asked for but might still be of interest to you : http://papunet.net/kuva/

[AldenG]

This is not exactly what you asked for but might still be of interest to you : http://papunet.net/kuva/

Looks like it has promise.