A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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  • Author: John R. Clark Hall
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 686


A Concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students

A Concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students

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  • Author: J. R. Clark Hall
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0


A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students

A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students

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  • Author: John R. Clark Hall
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398


A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students

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  • Author: Hall
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 394


Introduction to Old English

Introduction to Old English

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  • Author: Peter S. Baker
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 047065984X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 421

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care


Chamber Concise Dictionary

Chamber Concise Dictionary

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  • ISBN: 9788186062364
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1476


The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

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  • Author: Walter W. Skeat
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
  • ISBN: 9781853263118
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 660

Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English Literature. His astonishing detective work into the origins and development of the world's most widely used language provides an unsurpassed guide to its flexibility and richness.


A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

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  • Author: Walter W. Skeat
  • Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1596050926
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 685

This 1901 volume of A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language completely updates the classic reference work first published in 1882. Skeat provides a staggering number of words, including those most frequently used in everyday speech and those most prominent in literature. They appear along with their definitions, their language of origin, their roots, and their derivatives. Those who are fascinated with the English language will find much to explore here and many overlooked but interesting tidbits and treasures of an ever-evolving language. Walter W. Skeat was a scholar of Old English, mathematics, English place names, and Anglo-Saxon. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873 and was a professor at Cambridge University. Skeat edited many classic works, including Lancelot of the Laik, Piers Plowman, The Bruce, Lives of Saints, and a seven-volume edition of Chaucer.


The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names

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  • Author: Eilert Ekwall
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 546


The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon

The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon

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  • Author: Henry Sweet
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • ISBN: 9781523940653
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

The student who entered the border-lands of Old English by the way of an early edition of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader learned through a painful experience that the path was not smooth or easy. To the inevitable difficulties of what then seemed to him arbitrary variations of vowels and consonants, there was added the inconvenience of a partially non-alphabetic arrangement of vocabulary. He was not yet able to refer words to normal types, and he had sometimes much difficulty in knowing where even a normal type was to be found. Consulting the vocabulary seemed almost like playing a game of chance, where success might depend upon scanning the whole list of words beginning with one initial letter, with even then a chance of failure through some unaccountable inadvertence. Later editions of Sweet's Reader have recognized some of the defects of former ones, and have made the student's task easier, by arranging the words for the most part alphabetically, so that now, when Dr. Sweet has issued The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon, we are prepared not only to find the book critical and scholarly, but also to hope that it is simple in its plan, and helpful even to the beginner. The need of an Old English dictionary to replace the inadequate Bosworth, had previously been supplied by the Bosworth-Toller Dictionary (completed since Sweet's), and by that of Dr. Hall, published in 1894, under the title A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students. Dr. Sweet states in his preface that he undertook this work at the request of the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, who felt 'the want of an abridgement of the large Anglo-Saxon dictionary still in progress.' What place does this latest dictionary fill? Confessedly it does not undertake to replace the Bosworth-Toller, of which it is an abridgment, though with such modifications and emendations of matter as Dr. Sweet's investigations enable him to make. Whose needs is it meant to supply? The title would seem to indicate that it is to be used by the college student, and by the reader who does not require the fuller information, the references and examples, which a large dictionary gives; that it is especially designed for him who asks help for the ordinary reading of Old English, where the object sought is the immediate understanding of a text. At the same time, we are led to believe that the purpose was to give it such critical exactness, and such carefully-chosen content, as to make it a necessity to all Old English scholars. -JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 2