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• 750 Magyar Közmondás - 750 Hungarian Proverbs

  http://mek.oszk.hu/00200/00242/
  Book by Paczolay Gyula, presenting Hungarian proverbs with their English translations.

• Best of Sicily - Sicilian Proverbs

  http://www.bestofsicily.com/proverbs.htm
  Small collection of Sicilian proverbs in English translation.

• British Proverbs

  http://oaks.nvg.org/britord.html
  A collection of about 500 English proverbs, in Norwegian and English.

• Buber's Basque Page: Esaera Zaharrak

  http://www.buber.net/Basque/Euskara/proverb.html
  Almost 300 Basque proverbs, with English translations and comments by Jon Aske.

• English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs

  http://www.deproverbio.com/DPbooks/EROM/dictionary.html
  Features more than 1400 English proverbs and their Romanian equivalents.

• Finnish Proverbs and Poems

  http://jdmoncada.tripod.com/finn/runot.html
  Small collection of Finnish proverbs, with a poem by Tommy Tabermann (in Finnish and English).

• Greek Proverbs

  http://www.appletree.ie/projects/grkprov/grkprov.htm
  Book presentation with three sample pages of ancient Greek proverbs and phrases.

• Greek Spider: Greek Proverbs

  http://www.greekspider.com/greek_sayings/
  Fifteen Greek proverbs with explanations (in English).

• Irish Proverbs

  http://www.irishabroad.com/Culture/proverbs/
  Wit and wisdom of the Irish, listed alphabetically.

• János Baranyai Decsi and his Adagia

  http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/tarsad/nyelvtud/adagia/adagia.htm
  Article by Gyula Paczolay, University of Veszprém, on the first Hungarian proverb collection (1598).

• Lituanus: Folk Wit in Proverbs and Riddles

  http://www.lituanus.org/1999/99_1_04.htm
  Small selection of Lithuanian proverbs and riddles with explanations.

• Portuguese Idioms Literally Translated

  http://www.tagide.com/pt-idioms.html
  Compiled, translated, and explained in English by Tágide Crista.

• Russian Proverbs and Sayings

  http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/culture/literature/russian-proverbs.html
  Supplied from "A Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings" by M. Dubrovin (in English, with explanations).

• Sicilan Proverbs

  http://dieli.net/SicilyPage/Proverbs/proverbs.html
  More than a 1000 Sicilian proverbs with English translations, extracted from Giuseppe Pitrè's collection.

• Swedish Proverbs and Sayings

  http://oaks.nvg.org/swedish-proverbs.html
  From a variety of written sources in English and Swedish.

 

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