A Supplement to a Dictionary of Scandinavian Words in the Languages of Britain and Ireland - Rilegato

O Muirithe, Diarmaid

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ISBN 10: 1846823803 ISBN 13: 9781846823800

Casa editrice: Four Courts Pr Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised volume From the Viking Word Hoard: A Dictionary of Scandinavian Words in the Languages of Britain and Ireland, author Diarmaid O Muirithe wrote that what he recorded was but a sampling from the Norse word-hoard. A visit to northern Scotland has now prompted him to publish words from the Islands and the counties in the far north colonized by the Norse for many centuries - words generally neglected by lexicographers. A conversation on the Isle of Skye was the prompt O Muirithe needed. A shop assistant, native to Shetland, offered him what might have been a Tibetan cow, but in fact was a fashionable and serviceable item of tweed clothing and spelled yack, a word that came from the Danish jakke, a jacket. There are many other words in this volume that he found far from the highlands and islands of Scotland. It is a further fascinating collection of words that have survived the centuries all over Britain and Ireland - wonderful, expressive words that O Muirithe records as a mark of respect for Scandinavia and what its peoples did to enrich the languages we speak.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Four Courts Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846823803
• ISBN 13: 9781846823800
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128