A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

1 A Concise anglo saxon DictionaryJohn R. Clark HallTable of ContentsA Concise anglo saxon R. Clark TO THE SECOND OF SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS WITH THEIR AND .. Concise anglo saxon DictionaryiA Concise anglo saxon Dictionary1 John R. Clark Hall This page formatted 2009 Blackmask Online. TO THE SECOND EDITION LIST OF SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS WITH THEIR EXPLANATION ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U W Y Produced by Louise Hope, Zoran Stefanovic, the GermanicLexicon Project, and the Online Distributed ProofreadingTeam.

2 [Transcriber's Note: This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the real (Unicode, UTF 8) version of thefile. Some compromises have been made, mainly in the spelling of Old English. Where possible, macrons ( long marks) are shown with circumflex accents: Long is split up as , while long y is approximated with . (The Dictionary rarely uses acute accents, and never for Old English.) The oe ligature (rare) is shown in brackets as [oe]. Greek words and letters (also rare) have been transliterated and are shown between +marks+.]

3 A Concise anglo saxon Dictionary2 The dagger and double dagger symbols have been replaced with and respectively; the + and symbols are as printed. Unless otherwise noted, words are spelled and alphabetized as in the original. The letter is alphabetized as ae . The letter (eth) is alphabetized separately after t . The letters j and v are not used; medial k occurs only once. When two words are otherwise identical, the one containing a macron is usually given second. Cross references are shown as printed.

4 When there is an error or ambiguity, corrections are given in[[double brackets]] at the end of the entry or as a separate paragraph. Where possible, these standard wordingswere used: under m s The referenced word is either a secondary entry or a parenthesized alternative spelling in the form m s ( ) . headword spelled m s Minor difference, generally an added or omitted macron or a predictable vowel variation such as for . form of m s The referenced word is an inflected form. A few very common patterns such as adverbs in l ce listed under adjectives in lic are not individually noted.

5 Redirected to m s The cross referenced form leads to further cross references. To avoid empty cross references, a few entries, clearly identified, were restored from the first edition. In the original book, shorter entries chiefly cross references were printed two or three to a line. Theyhave been separated for this e text. All [single brackets], asterisks* and question marks? are in the original. In the body of the Dictionary , italics are shown conventionally with lines, while small capitals are markedas text.

6 Boldface in headwords is unmarked; elsewhere it is shown as text. Superscript numerals ( smallsuperior figures") are shown with a caret; braces are used when necessary to avoid ambiguity. wr on^1,2 strong verb, class 1 or 2 b rnett (y^2) second syllable also spelled with y 234^1 page 234, line 1 Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e text. To avoid confusion with original brackets,anything added by the transcriber is shown in [[double brackets]]. The New English Dictionary (NED) is now known as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

7 ] * * * * * * * * * A Concise anglo saxon Dictionary CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, Manager London: FETTER LANE, Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET [Illustration: Publisher's Device] Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, Ltd. Tokyo: THE MARUZEN KABUSHIKI KAISHAA Concise anglo saxon Dictionary3 All rights reserved A Concise anglo saxon Dictionary FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS by JOHN R.

8 CLARK HALL, , Second Edition Revised And Enlarged New York: The Macmillan Company 1916 Cambridge: Printed by John Clay, at the University PressA Concise anglo saxon Dictionary4 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The first edition of this Dictionary having been exhausted, it has been extensively revised, and certain newfeatures and alterations have been introduced into it. 1. The principle of arranging all words according to their actual spelling has been to a considerable extentabandoned.

9 It was admittedly an unscientific one, and opened the door to a good many errors andinconsistencies. The head form in this edition may be either a normalised form or one which actually occurs. 2. Words beginning with ge have been distributed among the letters of the alphabet which follow thatprefix, and the sign + has been employed instead of ge in order to make the break in alphabetical continuityas little apparent to the eye as possible. The sign has been used where a word occurs both with and withoutthe prefix.

10 3. References to Cook's translation of Sievers' anglo saxon Grammar, and to the GrammaticalIntroduction to Sweet's Reader have been taken out, as Wright's or Wyatt's Old English Grammar will havetaken their place with most English students. 4. A new feature which, it is hoped, will prove widely useful, is the introduction of references to all, ornearly all, the headings in the New English Dictionary under which quotations from anglo saxon texts are tobe found. A vast mass of valuable information as to the etymology, meaning and occurrence of Old Englishwords is contained in that Dictionary , but is to a very large extent overlooked because it is to be found underthe head of words which are now obsolete, so that unless one happens to know what was the last form whichthey had in Middle English, one does not know how to get at it.