An English-Anglo-Saxon vocabulary

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Henry Sweet , Pims - University Of Toronto , Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

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LIBRARY
CAMPBELL
COLLECTIONAN
ENGLISH-ANGLO-SAXON
VOCABULARY.
COMPILED BY
THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A.,
ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON.
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION ONLY.
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AT THE PRESS.UNIVERSITY
1879:Cnmbrifip
PRINTED BY C. M.A.J. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.INTRODUCTION.
Reader inON the of Mr Sweet's 1876,appearance Anglo-Saxon
toit occurred to me that an index I so callEnglish (if may it)
to itthe words contained in the admirable Glossary appended
In the course of Iwould be at rate touseful, 1878any myself.
made such an index. it I at once observed thatOn looking over,
some common and characteristic words were in it,very wanting
on account of nature of the selections. Itthe limitednecessarily
then occurred to me that of these could bemany readily supplied
of of Sounds. Ithe index to Mr Sweet'sby help EnglishHistory
went that and so filled some of theaccordingly through index, up
In a words thusfew cases I over thegaps. indicated,very passed
because the word was or the form a little doubtful.unimportant
Hence the list contains such words aspresent only English
occur in the of words in Sweet'sexplanations Anglo-Saxon(i)
to the Reader and all the wordsGlossary (first edition) ; (2) nearly
in his of Sounds. result is aThegiven History vocabularyEnglish
which some account of most of the more words ofgives important
the and on the one what words are stilllanguage; shews, hand,
in use and on the what ideas ...

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