Part 2 (1/2)

TO

THE GOTHIC

_Illustrated frolo-Saxon, Francic, Alemannic, Suio-Gothic, Islandic, &c_

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A DISSERTATION ON THE HISTORICAL PROOFS OF THE SCYTHIAN ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS

? A few copies have been printed in royal 8vo, price 24s

”Dr Jae of the various dialects of the Gothic Languages to be compared with the Greek, has proved the existence of a connection between them, more extensive and ined, without so laborious an investigation, in which he appears to have gone considerably further than his learned and ingenious predecessors Ihre and Rudbeck”

~Quarterly Review~, ~NO~ ~XXVII~, Oct 1815

AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE

A

The letter A has, in the Scottish language, four different sounds:

1 _A_ broad, as in E _all_, _wall_ _U_ is often added, as in _cald_, cold, written also _cauld_; and soation of the sound

2 _A_ short, in _lak_, _mak_, _tak_, S as in _last_, _past_, E

3 _A_ open, in _dad_, _daddie_, a father, and some other words, S as in E _read_ pret, _ready_ adj

4 _A_ slender or close, in _lane_, _alane_, alone, _mane_, moan, S

like _face_, _place_, E The h not always, a final _e_ quiescent

_A_ is used in _, _sang_, _stane_, for _one_, _bone_, _long_, _song_, _stone_ For the Scots preserve nearly the salish have abandoned Thus the words last _, _stan_ In sous and Mearns, the sound of _ee_ or _ei_ prevails, instead of _ai_, in various words of this formation _Ane_, _bane_, _stane_, &c are pronounced _ein_, _bein_, _stein_, after the manner of the Germans, who use each of these terms in the same sense

When this letter is written with an apostrophe, as _a'_, it isto the pronunciation of Scotland But this is merely of modern use

_A_ is sometimes prefixed to words, both in S and old E, where it makes no alteration of the sense; as _abade_, delay, which has precisely the sa with _bade_ This seee _abidan_ and _bidan_ are perfectly synony, to renifies _on_; as _agrufe_, on the _grufe_ or belly, S; Isl _a grufu_, cernue, prone Johnson thinks that _a_, in the composition of such E words as _aside_, _afoot_, _asleep_, is sometimes contracted from _at_ But these _terms_ are unquestionably equivalent to _on side_, _on foot_, _on sleep_; on being used, in the room of _a_, by ancient writers

_A_ is used, by our oldest writers, in the sense of _one_ The signification is lish; for it denotes, not merely an individual, where there may be many, or one in particular, but one exclusively of others, in the saarly used