Principles of English Etymology: The native element

Walter William Skeat

Clarendon Press, 1887 - English language

Contents

• a o u á ó ú ea eo éa éo Mutated vowels e: 1
• INTRODUCTORY 1 A passage from Shakespeare: 3
• THE NATIVE ELEMENT DIALECTS OF MIDDLE: 19
• THE OLDEST DIALECTS: 31
• TEUTONIC LANGUAGES COGNATE WITH ENGLISH: 52
• Goth and general Teutonic: 72
• The Lettic Slavonic Hellenic Italic Keltic and Teutonic: 86
• CLASSICAL LANGUAGES COGNATE WITH ENGLISH: 97
• High German forms In the series DH D T TH each classical: 105
• gh h Gk X 4 0 Lat g h fƒ gu v Lith g Teut Gw: 106
• Teut K final E eke Lat augere and other examples: 112
• SIMPLIFIED FORM OF GRIMMS: 115
• Consonantal SHIFTING VERNÉRs Law: 123
• tion of it 129 Examples Gk Kλvтós does not answer: 142
• VOWELMUTATION 179 A man said to Gold: 190
• to1 to 2 twi un 1 un 2 un 3 under up wan: 213
• bale cud meal tar glee knee tree straw lee also: 214
• heel nettle throstle: 220
• SUBSTANTIVAL SUFFIXES continued 204: 225
• Teut suffix NAN Exx haven sun teen 223 Aryan suffix: 229
• ADJECTIVAL ADVERBIAL AND VERBAL: 248
• DERIVATIONS FROM Roots 246 Definition: 269
• shed shide sheath skid casura circumcise c chisel: 280
• netics 284 Account of the symbols employed in English: 285
• Value of the A S symbols especially of c g ge f r s Double: 292
• MODERN ENGLISH SPELLING 282 Arch: 294
• Use of a double consonant to indicate that the preceding vowel: 298
• idle final e in impossible places 299 Caxtons use of vowels: 321
• amples of this 322 Principal methods by which conso: 325
• Substitution k t ast apricot bat mate milt k p: 331
• PHONETIC SPELLING 307 Unsatisfactory: 334
• Κω cw qu Kn gn or n knave knead c gnarled: 338
• VARIOUS CHANGES IN THE FORMS OF WORDS: 384
• DOUBLETS AND COMPOUNDS 389 Dimor: 414
• EARLY WORDS OF LATIN ORIGIN: 432
• THE CELTIC ELEMENT 404 Difficulty: 444
• THE SCANDINAVIAN OR SCANDIAN ELEMENT: 453
• THE OLD FRIESIC AND OLD DUTCH Ele: 481
• EFFECTS OF THE ENGLISH ACCENT 453: 491
• NOTES: 501
• APPENDIX B Specimens of Spelling: 509
• 414: 514
• GENERAL INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS DISCUSSED: 539
• VOWELGRADATION 134 Meaning of gradation: 3

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• Title: Principles of English Etymology: The native element; Clarendon Press series; Volume 1 of Principles of English Etymology, Walter William Skeat
• Author: Walter William Skeat
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1887