The Philology of the English Tongue

wun, 166.

wolf, 119, 167, 315.
woman, 632.
women-singers, 384.
womb, 315
won= one, 166.
won (verb), 267.
wond, 267.
wonden, 267.
wonder, 32, 167, 316.
wonderfullest, 422.
wonderfully, 437
wonder great, 430.
wonnen, 267.
wont, 59.
wood, 8, 12, 20, 119,

worth (verb), 267,

273, 283, 291, 585. WUNDRUM, 437.
worthe (inf.), 283. wush, 267.
worthy, 218.

wuts =oats, 167.
wot, 288, 290.

Wykehamists, 363,
wother other, 166. 366.
would, 168, 236, 238, WYLEN, 383

239, 291, 587. WYRD, 565.
vound, 267.

wys=wise, 8o.
wove, 267.
woven, 267.
wr=r, 164.

X, the letter, 139, 142.
WRÆC, 267, 274.
wrapt = rapt, 164. -
wrat, 267, 273.

Y, the letter, 129, 130,
wrath, 164.

131.
Wrawlegh, 164.

y=i, 162.
wreak, 32, 164, 267. •y, 329, 364, 388, 395.
wreaked, 274.

-y (diminutive), 377.
wreath, 187.

315, 426, 617.
wooden, 391, 426.
woodhouse, 617.
wool, 119, 167.
woollen, 391.
woolward, 400.
word, 12, 32, 167, 315,

382.
word of command, 612.
words, 382.
wore, 267.
work, 288, 602.
workmanship, 327.
world, 315.
worm, 119, 315.
wormwood, 20.
Wormwood Scrubs,

331.
worn, 267.
worse, 422.
worser, 422.
worship, 327
worshiped, 187.
worst, 422.
wort, 20.
worth (adj.), 388.
worth (subs.), 119,

283.

у- = GE-, боб а.
wreathe, 187.

yable, 131.
WRECCEA, 147.

yachen, 131.
WRECE, 274.

yacre, 131.
WRECEN, 274.

yakker, 131.
wrediness readi-

yale, 131.
ness, 164.

yallow, 175.
wrest=rest, 164.

Yankee, 341.
wrestle, 164.

yarbs, 131.
wretch, 147, 164, 165. yard, 112, 130, 315,
wretched, 396.

329.
wretchlessness, 165. yare, 130, 388.
wright, 105, 152, 164. yarm, 131.
wriht (Ch.), 77.

yarn, 131.
wring, 267.

yarnest, 131.
wrist, 164.

yarrow, 20, 316.
writ, 267.

ychain'd, 606 a.
write, 152, 164, 267. yclept, 606 a.
write off, 524.

ye, 130, 467.
write slow, 430.

ye (=the), 97.
writing, 580 f.

yea, 181, 202, 503.
written, 267.

yean, 131.
wrong, 164.

year, 130, 315.
wrote, 267, 273.

yearn, 130.
wrote =root, 164. yeast, 317.
wrought, 288

yeaze, 131.
wrought = raught, yell, 260.
165.

yellow, 173, 388.
wrung, 267.

yellow-girted, 608.
WULFILA, 377.

yellow-ringleted, 607.
wultu, 254.

yelp, 130.

Yenton, 633
yeoman, 177.
yeomanry, 331.
-yer, 329, 339.
yes, I30, 202, 503.
yes, sure, 431.
yesterday, 435.
yet, 130, 187, 226.
yew, 20, 107, 131, 141.
yield, 130, 303.
yielded, 303.
p-lað, 288, 289.
-yn, or -yng (inf.),

580.
yoke, 315.
yoke-fellow, 601.
yon, yond, yonder, 492,

500.

York, 20, 603

ypointing, 606 a.
yote-ed (=pour), 274. yt (=that), 97.
you, 33, 226, 246, 467, ywis, 256.
470, 476.

ywroken, 267, 273.
young, 119, 130, 176,
187, 388.

Z (sound) =s, 346.
youngling, 377.

2, the letter, 130, 132,
youngster, 385.

134.
- your, 481.

zeal, 187.
your grace, 462.

zealous, 409,
your highness, 462. zeir (Scottish), 130.
your honour, 462.

zenith, 353
your lordship, 462, zephyr, 131.
470.

Zephyrus, 134.
your majesty, 462. zero, 353, 514.
yourn, 484.
yours, 484, 485, 575. zit (Scottish), 130.
yourselves, 469.

Zummerzet, 133.

zh, 191.

II.

INDEX OF

SUBJECTS AND AUTHORITIES.

[The numbers are those of the Paragraphs.]

ABLAUT, 123, 265, 286, 502.
Accent, 616, 621.
Accentuation, 156, 619,632.
Accidence, 66, 212.
Addison, 161, 540, 656.
Adjection, 425.

2

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2

triple, 426.
Adjective, ambidextral, 84.

office-bearing, 423.

morphology of, 425, 427.
Adverb, threefold, 428.

Flat, 430, 500, 514.
Flexional, 434, 515.

Phrasal, 445, 517.
Adverbiation, 451.
Æschylus, 608.
Agglutinate languages, 570.
Aldhelm, 27.
Alemannian dialect, 377.
Alexander, Romance of, 60.
Alexandrine metre, 60.
Alford, Dean, 238, 239, 404.
Alfred, his version of Gregory's

Cura Pastoralis, 27, 28, 29.
? Alfred Jewel,' the, 285.
Allingham, William, 597.
Alliteration, 626, 629.
Alliterative couplings, 628.
Allophylian languages, 570,
Alphabet, pictorial origin of, 90, 91,

Alphabet, Runic, 93.
Alt-Hoch-Deutsch, 7, 11.
Ambidextral adjective, 84.
American usage, 154, 359, 375, 380,
430, 612, 620, 632.

conservation of old forms,
276.
Analysis, 551, 553.
Analytic and Synthetic, 445,
Ancient languages, 245, 654.
Andrewes, Lancelot, 469.
Anglian dialect, 23, 26, 28, 86, 132.
Anglosaxon features, 14, 17, 30,

127, 421, 467, 469, 505, 575.
Anti-Jacobii, 650.
Arabic, numerals, 230.

words in English, 353.
Area of words, 32, 37.
Aristophanes, 608.
Arnold, Dr., 248.
Arnold, Matthew, 184.
Arthur, king, :47.
Article, definite, 491.

indefinite, 498, 511.

Danish and Swedish, 8.
Articulation, 615.
Aryan languages, 2, 252, 465, 570.
Ascham, R., 318.
Aspirate consonants, 4.
Augmentatives, 376.
Austen, Jane, 440, 484, 497, 521.
Auxiliary verbs, 291, 294, 298, 300,

587.

229, 614.

Phonetic, 187.
Roman, 92.

Browning, Robert, 608.
Brutes, language of, 247.
Bunyan, John, 153, 241.
Burns, 269, 377, 399.
Butler, Joseph, 362.

Samuel, 174.

Cædmon, poet, 24, 136, 509.
Campbell, Thomas, 215, 335.
Cardinal vowels, 109.
Carlyle, Thomas, 323, 396, 477,

499, 550, 601.

Bacon, Lord, 235, 542.
Badham, C. D., 417
Baeda, 23, 24, 132.
Baillie, Joanna, 198.
Ballads, 518, 521, 525, 529, 580 b,

586.
Barbauld, Mrs., 235.
Barbour, poet, 26.
Barnes, poet of Dorset, 380, 586.
Barrow, Isaac, 579.
Baxter, R., 422.
Beattie, poet, 198.
Being, the expression of, 279, 280.
Benedict Biscop, 26.
Ben Jonson. See Jonson.
Beowulf, epic poeni, 26, 136, 474.
Berkeley, Bp., 631.
Bible of Wiclif, 380, 505.

-of 1535 ; 393, 431, 449, 474,
491, 496, 498, 517.

of 1539; 335, 522, 543, 564.

Genevan, 270, 302, 335, 478,
617.

of 1611; 204, 220, 235, 238,
255, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275,
302, 318, 371, 405, 422, 433,
444, 455, 467, 468, 474, 485,

495.
Bible translations, 13, 145, 165, 201,

208, 449, 469, 475, 489, 498,
505, 524, 580 g, 602.
Bilingual period, 42, 63, 84.
Bilingualism of English, 77.
Blair, Dr., 423
Blank verse, 651.
Boethius tr. Chaucer, 398, 435.
Bopp, 459, 463.
Bosworth, Dr., 503.
Boyd-Kinnear, John, 536.
Brachet, Auguste, 338, 349, 632.
Bradley, Charles, 362.
Bréal, Michel, 459.
Bremen, 7.
Bret Harte, 612.
Bright, John, 580 e.
British language, 18, 19, 22.
Brogue, 649.
Brougham, Lord, 330.
Brown, John, 412.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 184, 501.

Case-endings, 378.
Castrén, Alexander, his Samoyedian

Grammar, 126.
Caxton, William, 294, 325, 496,

534, 580, 586, 588.
Chaldee, 3.
Chalmers, Thomas, 349, 358.
Chapman his Homer, 275, 395.
Chaucer, 67, 73, 93, 125, 144, 155,

169, 177, 179, 200, 201, 232,
254, 264, 269, 283, 292, 294,
323, 326, 328, 336, 338, 394,
409, 423, 483, 489, 493, 535,
577, 647.
Childish speech, 125.
Chinese language, 223.

writing, go.
accidence, 223.

syntax, 570.
•Chirt,' 147
Christian names, 373.
Christianity and languages, 13.
Church, R. W., 580 d.
Clarendon quoted, 327.

his style, 657.
Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 530.
Classics, influence of, 359.
Claudius Cæsar a phonetic reformer,

186.
Clough, Arthur H., 202, 310, 321.
Cochin-Chinese, 462.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 272, 281,
472, 660 a.

Sir J. T., 478.
Collier, Jeremy, 363.
Collocation, 553 ff, 530.
Common Prayer Book, 321,384,564.

Comparative Philology, 108, 458.
Comparison of adjectives, 421.
Composites, 397.
Compounds, 597.

First order, 600.
Second order, 607.
Third order, 611.

liable to vagueness, 610.
Conditional mood, 562.
Confusion, a cause of words dying

out, 165.
Congreve, quoted, 289.
Conington, John, 333.
Conjunctions, 532.
Conquest, fatal to Saxon literature,

40.
Consonantal transition, 2, 3.
Contingency, how expressed, 577.
Cotgrave, Randle, 331, 356, 400,

617.
Court English, 85, 89.
Court hand, 68.
Courts of Law, 65.
Coverdale, Myles, 165, 204, 449,

474, 524, 584.
Cowley, Abraham, 182, 254.
Cowper, poet, 183, 221, 260, 400,

409, 431, 478, 619, 628.
Crabbe, 398, 628.
Crowley, Robert, 398.
Cryptograph, 121.
Cumulate forms, 380, 381, 385, 484.

phraseology, 444, 448, 591.

syntax, 583.
Curt forms, 370.
Curtius, Georg, 262.
Cypher. See Cryptograph.

Declension of adjectives, 387, 420.
Deflectionization, 569.
Defoe, Daniel, 449.
Denison, Edward, 660.
Dentals, 4.
Derival, 257.
Derivatives, 397.
De Vere, Aubrey, 419, 610.
Dialect, Brad Scots, 26.

Cumberland, 325.

Devon, 104, 107, III, 116,
166, 237, 392, 455, 470, 578,
648.

Dorset, 58, 61, 87, 131, 166,
380, 586.

East Anglian, 107
Gloucestershire, 61, 271, 380.
Hampshire, 334.
Irish, 184, 648.
Lake District, 325, 474.
Lancashire, 254, 580 h.
Leicestershire, 503.
London, 166.
Norfolk, 380.
Northants, 289.

Northern, 45, 57, 87, 118,
152, 431.

Oxfordshire, 372.

Somersetshire, 166, 236, 271,
470, 525, 561, 593, 641.

Suffolk, 380.
Sussex, 334.
Welsh, 2, 3, 648.

West Country, 61, 133, 255,
334

Westmoreland, 325.
-, Yorkshire, 86, 167, 169, 580 h.
(For other examples see Provin-

Dacia, 7.
Dale, R. W., 418.
Danish, 8, 9, 59, 113, 167, 233,

cialisms.)
Dialects in general, 66, 221.

of German, 377.

local division of, 66.
Dickens, Charles, 172, 243, 373,

442, 448, 502, 503, 556, 580 f.
Diez, Friedrich, 337, 423, 639.
Diminutives, 376.
• Dim Saesoneg,' 42.
Diphthongs, 175.
Discord in Language, 594.
Disraeli, Isaac, 207.

238, 259, 261, 278, 316, 393,

422, 455, 486, 562, 592.
Davies, J. Llewelyn, 374, 541.
Dawkins, W. Boyd, 598.
Decimal arithmetic, 230.
Declension of substantives,

strong, 378.

weak, 379.

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