Scandinavian Influence

About this eBook

Author

Flom, George T. (George Tobias), 1871-1960

Title

Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

Scots language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Scandinavian

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14604

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14604

Release Date

January 5, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ERRATA. — PREFACE.
3. 3.Abbreviations Referring to Texts Included in this Investigation. .1.
4. 4.Abbreviations Referring to Grammars, Glossaries, Dictionaries, and the Like
5. 5.Abbreviations Referring to Languages, Grammatical Terms, Etc. — CONTENTS.
6. 6.PART I. INTRODUCTION.
7. 7.PART II.
8. 8.PART III. — PART I.
9. 9.INTRODUCTION. — 1. General Remarks. — 2. Place-Names and Settlements in Northwestern England. — 3. Scandinavian Settlements in Southern Scotland. — 4. Settlements in England, Norse or Danish? The Place-Name Test. — 5. By in Place-Names. Conclusions as to this Test. — 6. Characteristics of Old Northern, or Old Scandinavian. Early Dialectal Differentiations. — 7. Old Norse and Old Danish. — 8. Remarks. — 9. Characteristics of Old Northumbrian. — 10. Remarks. Metathesis of r . — 11. The Question of Palatalization in O. Nhb. — 12. Sk as a Scandinavian Sign. Certain Words in sk . Palatalization in Norse. — 13. Conclusion as to the Test of Non-palatalization. — 14. Old and Middle Scotch. — 15. Some Characteristics of Scotch. O. E. ă , ā . — 16. Curtis's Table. — 17. O. E. ō .—A List of Illustrative Words from the Aberdeen Dialect. — 18. Inorganic y in Scotch. — 19. D for the Spirant th . — 20. O. E. ā and O. N. æi . How far we can Determine such Words to be of Native or of Norse Origin. — 21. A List of Some Words that are Norse. Further Remarks. — 22. Celtic, Lowland Scotch, and Norse . — 23. Some Words that are not Scandinavian Loanwords. — 24. Loanword Tests. — 25. Remarks on the Texts. — PART II.
10. 10.LOANWORDS. — PART III.
11. 11.1. The Dialectal Provenience of Loanwords.
12. 12.2. ( a ) The Old Northern Vowels in the Loanwords. — Short Vowels. — a. — e. — i. — o. — u. — y. — æ. — ö — ja ( ia ). — jö ( iö ). — Long Vowels. — ā . — ē . — ī . — ō . — ū . — ȳ . — ǣ . — Diphthongs. — ai . — öy . — ou , au . — jo . — ju .
13. 13.( b ) The Old Northern Consonants. — b . — d . — g . — p . — t . — k . — v . — ð , þ — f. — s. — sk. — h . — hv . — m , n , l , r .
14. 14.Footnotes

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