_Note_ 1. Where references are in _italic type_, quotations from the
texts indicated will be found in the _New English Dictionary_, under the
head of the English word which is distinguished in the article by
quotation marks (see Preface). In references to special passages volumes
have been marked off from pages by an inverted full stop, and lines or
verses have been shown, _where they follow other numerals_, by small
superior figures. Occasionally where lines have not been given, the mark
´ has been inserted to show that the quotation is in the lower half of a
page.
_Note_ 2. In the following list the number (1) after an edition of a
text indicates that the edition is supplied with a complete referenced
glossary or word-index, (2) that it has a complete glossary, but without
references and (3) that it has a partial glossary or word-index.
_Note_ 3. Some of the abbreviations given below are used in combination.
Examples: MtLR = the Lindisfarne and Rushworth MSS of St Matthew; BJPs =
the Bosworth and the Junius Psalters; asf. = accusative singular
feminine. EK = Early Kentish.
‘ ’ Quotation marks are used to enclose the English words which should
be looked up in the _NED_ in order to find etymological
information as to, and examples of the use of, the Anglo-Saxon
words to which the articles in this Dictionary relate, see Note 1
above. If they enclose Latin words, they indicate the lemmata of
Anglo-Saxon words in glosses or glossaries etc., or the Latin
equivalent of such words in the Latin texts from which they are
translated. The Latin is especially so given when the Ags. word
seems to be merely a blindly mechanical and literal equivalent.
* is prefixed or affixed to hypothetical forms. Normalised forms of
Ags. words which actually exist are not usually so marked.
´ See Note 1 above.
+ = ge-.
± indicates that the Ags. word to which it is prefixed is found both
with and without the prefix ge-.
† = occurs in poetical texts only.
‡ = occurs in a poetical text, and once only.
== This sign is used to indicate that the words which it follows,
_and its compounds_, are to be found in the Dictionary under the
heading given after it, thus meht==miht is equivalent to
meht = miht _and_ meht- = miht-.
a. = accusative.
A = Anglian, or, if followed by numerals, Anglia, Zeitschrift für
Englische Philologie, Halle, 1877 etc. AB = Anglia Beiblatt.
Æ = Ælfric. (References followed by numerals in parentheses refer to
certain Homilies attributed to Ælfric in HL.) If followed by a book of
the Bible the reference is to that book in _Ælfric de vetere et novo
Testamento_ (Bibl. der Ags. Prosa, vol. 1).
#ÆGr# = Ælfric’s Grammatik und Glossar, ed. J. Zupitza, Berlin, 1880.
ÆH = Ælfric’s Homilies, ed. by B. Thorpe, London, 1844-6. (Quoted by
vol., page and line.)
ÆL = Ælfric’s Metrical Lives of Saints, ed. W. W. Skeat (EETS),
1881-1900 (3).
ÆP = Ælfric’s Hirtenbriefe (Ælfric’s Pastoral Letters), ed. B. Fehr,
Hamburg, 1914 (Bibl. der Ags. Prosa, vol. 9).
AF = Anglistische Forschungen, ed. J. Hoops, Heidelberg.
#Alm# = the poem on Alms, in #Gr#.
#An# = the poem of Andreas, in #Gr#; or ed. G. P. Krapp, Boston, U.S.A.,
1905 (1).
#Andr# = the prose legend of St Andrew, in J. W. Bright’s Anglo-Saxon
Reader, London, 1892 (1).
ANS = Herrig’s Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, Brunswick,
1846-1914.
#AnT# = Analecta Anglo-saxonica by B. Thorpe, London, 1846 (2).
anv. = anomalous verb.
AO = Alfred’s translation of Orosius, ed. H. Sweet (EETS), 1883.
(v. also Wfg.)
#Ap# = the poem of the Fate of the Apostles, in #Gr#; or included with
Andreas in Krapp’s edition (v. #An#).
#APs# = the Arundel Psalter, ed. G. Oess (AF vol. 30), Heidelberg, 1910.
#ApT# = Anglo-Saxon version of Apollonius of Tyre, ed. B. Thorpe,
London, 1834.
AS = King Alfred’s version of Augustine’s Soliloquies, ed. H. L.
Hargrove (Yale Studies in Old English), Boston, U.S.A., 1912 (1). See
also #Shr#.
#Az# = the poem of Azarias, in #Gr#.
B = the poem of Beowulf, in #Gr#; also ed. A. J. Wyatt and R. W.
Chambers, Cambridge, 1914 (1); or ed. W. J. Sedgefield, Manchester, 1912
(1); or ed. Harrison and Sharp, Boston, U.S.A., 1888 (1).
#Bas# = The Admonition of St Basil, ed. H. W. Norman, London, 1840.
BB = Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, ed. M. Trautmann.
BC = Cartularium Saxonicum, ed. W. de Gray Birch, London, 1883 etc., 3
vols.
Bd = Bede.
BDS = Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, ed. E. Sievers,
Leipzig, 1874-1914.
BH = the Anglo-Saxon version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, 2 vols.,
ed. T. Miller (EETS), 1891-6. (Reference is usually made to the pages in
vol. 1 as regards the various readings recorded in vol. 2--not to the
pages in the latter vol.)
#Bk# = Texte und Untersuchungen zur AE Literatur, etc., by R. Brotanek,
Halle, 1913.
#Bl# = The Blickling Homilies, ed. R. Morris (EETS), 1874-80 (1).
#BlPs# = Blickling Glosses to the Psalms, at the end of #Bl#.
#Bo# = King Alfred’s translation of Boethius, with the Metres of
Boethius, ed. W. J. Sedgefield, Oxford, 1899 (1).
#BPs# = die AE Glossen im Bosworth-Psalter, ed. U. Lindelöf (Mémoires de
la Soc. néo-philologique à Helsingfors, tom. 5), 1909 (3).
BR = An Anglo-Saxon Reader, ed. J. W. Bright, New York, 1913 or London,
1910 (1).
#Br# = the poem of Brunanburh, in #Gr# or †#Chr#.
BT = An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, by J. Bosworth and T. N. Toller, Oxford,
1882-98. BTSup. = the Supplement to the above, Part #I# (A-EORÐ), 1908.
CC = The Crawford Charters, ed. by A. S. Napier and W. H. Stevenson
(Anecdota Oxoniensia), Oxford, 1895.