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Rh II. TERMS

III. LANGUAGES Abbreviations denoting languages are obvious contractions of the names of languages given on p. 1.

Mn. ‘Modern'. Ml. ‘Medieval’ or ‘Middle'. O. ‘Old'. Pr. ‘Primitive'.

Note that Ir. means ‘Old Irish’ as in Thurneysen Gr., Vendryes Gr., and Windisch, Irische Texte. Ml. and Mn. Ir. are so named.

O.E. ‘Old English’ = Anglo-Saxon. O.H.G. ‘Old High German’. Gathav. ‘Gathic Avestic’, Oldest Avestic.

Hes(ych). designates forms and meanings from the Lexicon of Hesychius.