| A Supplement to the Dictionary of Scandinavian Words in the Languages of Britain and Ireland Contributor(s): Muirithe, Diarmaid O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846823803 ISBN-13: 9781846823800 Publisher: Four Courts Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary - Reference | Dictionaries |
| Dewey: 429 |
| LCCN: 2013431450 |
| Physical Information: 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |