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The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England - The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon (Hardcover)
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The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England - The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon (Hardcover)
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This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or
nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It
discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour,
and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and
culture. From that culture survive thousands of names on coins, in
manuscripts, on stone and other inscriptions. Names are important
and their absence a stigma (Grendel's parents have no names); they
may have particular functions in ritual and magic; they mark
individuals, generally people but also beings with close human
contact such as dogs, cats, birds, and horses; and they may provide
indications of rank and gender. Dr Colman explores the place of
names within the structure of Old English, their derivation,
formation, and other linguistic behaviour, and compares them with
the products of other Germanic (e.g., Present-day German) and
non-Germanic (e.g., Ancient and Present-day Greek) naming systems.
Old English personal names typically followed the Germanic system
of elements based on common words like leof (adjective 'beloved')
and wulf (noun 'wolf'), which give Leofa and Wulf, and often
combined as in Wulfraed, (raed noun, 'advice, counsel') or as in
Leofing (with the diminutive suffix -ing). The author looks at the
combinatorial and sequencing possibilities of these elements in
name formation, and assesses the extent to which, in origin, names
may be selected to express qualities manifested by, or expected in,
an individual. She examines their different modes of inflection and
the variable behaviour of names classified as masculine or
feminine. The results of her wide-ranging investigation are
provocative and stimulating.
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