Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic : a study in the history and dynamics of the Icelandic medieval lexicon, from the twelfth century to 1550 /
Anyone familiar with the Modern Icelandic language will know that the country's policy is to avoid borrowing lexemes from other languages, and instead to draw on their own vocabulary. This often results in the formation of a word pair, consisting of a loanword and its respective native equivale...
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Language: | English |
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Turnhout :
Brepols,
[2022]
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2022 |
Series: | Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
Studies in Viking and medieval Scandinavia ; v. 4 |
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