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Archaic letters. In the Middle Ages, the English language included two letters derived from Anglo-Saxon, that are no longer in use: ‘yogh’ (ȝ) looks a bit like a ‘z’, and was used for a guttural-sounding ‘g’, ‘gh’ or ‘zh’.
Grammatical terms: ... Languages and dialects: ... Texts (see Mitchell et al. 1975): ... Forms from the early glossaries are cited by the line numbers in Sweet 1885. Charters are cited as “Ct.” with the number in Sweet 1885 (since Sweet’s collection includes only the early charters, which are relevant here). Subject.
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
18 gru 2009 · List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; 1 The comparative approach; 2 Source study; 3 Language matters; 4 Historicist approaches; 5 Oral tradition; 6 The recovery of texts; 7 At a crossroads: Old English and feminist criticism; 8 Post-structuralist theories: the subject and the text; 9 Old English and computing: a guided tour ...
List of abbreviations and symbols xii A note on the Companion to A Historical Phonology of English xv 1 Periods in the history of English 1 1.1 Periods in the history of English 2 1.2 Old English (450–1066) 2 1.3 Middle English (1066–1476) 9 1.4 Early Modern English (1476–1776) 15 1.5 English after 1776 17
This is an online edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, or a dictionary of "Old English". The dictionary records the state of the English language as it was used between ca. 700-1100 AD by the Anglo-Saxon inhabitans of the British Isles.
This list contains the most common abbreviations used in the OED. Click on a letter to see the abbreviations beginning with that letter. Most of the words listed are only abbreviated in certain contexts, esp. when used as a subject label or in a work title.
