Jean Le Dû
Jean Le Dû was a French linguist of the Breton language.
Biography
For fifty years, Le Dû collected documents on the Breton language in Plougrescant. In 2012, he published a dictionary for Breton and French translations, titled Le trégorrois à Plougrescant. His discovery of the language came during his childhood in Dieppe.Le Dû held a doctoral degree in phonetic English. He worked at the University of Rennes and taught courses in Breton, Irish, and other Celtic languages. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Western Brittany. Le Dû was the Director of Research Group 9 of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1988 to 1996.
Le Dû was a member of the French Communist Party. He was married to a professor of physics and chemistry, and had two daughters named Mai and Donaig. He died on 6 May 2020 at the age of 82 in Saint-Quay-Portrieux.
Works
- Dictionnaire pratique français-breton
- Ar brezoneg dre zelled, kleved, komz ha lenn
- Nouvel atlas linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne
- Proverbes et Dictions de Basse-Bretagne
- Anthologie des expressions de Basse-Bretagne
- Du café vous aurez?
- Une vie irlandaise du Connemara à Ráth Chairn, histoire de la vie de Micil Chonraí
- Le trégorrois à Plougrescant. Dictionnaire breton français
- ''Le trégorrois à Plougrescant. Dictionnaire français breton''