This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Sweet, Stud. A.-S. Dict.), which, however, does not occur early enough to exclude the possibility of Scand. origin.1) But if there was a native 0. E. scalu, M. E. shale 'scale of a balance', it is very tempting to explain M. E. scale,2) N. E.. scale as being from the native word, sc instead of sh depending on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Sweet, Stud. A.-S. Dict.), which, however, does not occur early enough to exclude the possibility of Scand. origin.1) But if there was a native 0. E. scalu, M. E. shale 'scale of a balance', it is very tempting to explain M. E. scale,2) N. E.. scale as being from the native word, sc instead of sh depending on the influence of the Scand. skal, M. E. scgle; cf. Sweet, H. E. S.2 p. 282 who seems to be of a similar opinion (cf. also Erdmann, Sprakvetenskapliga Sallskapets ForhandliDgar 1882--85 p. 146). It may be mentioned, by way of comparison, that the native 0. E. scalu 'shell, husk' has in M. E. become scale (scale of a fish, Gow., scale of a walnut, P. Pl., scale 'squama' Pr. P., cf. scalin 'exquamo' ib.) through the influence of French escale 'a shell' (Skeat, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1891--94 p. 145, Sweet, H. E. S.2 p. 282) or perhaps, to some extent, through the influence of 0. E. Scand. skal 'shell, husk' (see consonants). M. E. scale sb. 'shanty' C. M. 8592, N. E. dial. (Cumb.) scale, sb., 'a hut' (Wall, Anglia XX p. 116): 0. W. Scand. skdli 'sedes' (not found in E. Scand.) As for the reading schale in C. M., probably an error, see further on under Scand. sh M. E. spa sb. 'prophecy' C. M. 14526, spa vb. 'to prophesy' C.M. 18988, N. E. dial. spae 'to prophesy' (see Wall p. 121): 0. W. Scand. spa sb. and vb., 0. Swed. spa vb. (cf. 0. H. G. spahi 'wise, skilful'). The original h was probably dropped before the word was introduced into English (Noreen, Aisl. Gr.2 234), see consonants. M. E. wppen 'weapon' Gen. and Ex. 469, wppenen 'to provide with weapons, arm' Gen. and Ex. 3373: 0. W. Scand. vdpn, 0. Swed. vitpn. Also M. E. wapen, wapnen may be, for some part, from Scand., cf. above p. 84, Morsbach, Mittelengl. Gramm. 60, Anm. 1, 96, Anm. ...
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