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Article: Fascicle AE, BEON: Abbreviations for Latin Sources and Bibliography of Editions.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a magnificent contribution to Old English scholarship, and continues to be produced on a truly monumental scale. These fascicles include some z820 headwords, which are treated lavishly and comprehensively in over 3 5 00 pages. New problems have been encountered (words of high frequency traditionally regarded as both adverbs and prepositions; indefinite pronouns; nouns and adjectives formed with a stressed prefix whose corresponding verb, with an unstressed prefix, is found in another letter of the alphabet) and addressed in enormous detail.
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