Book: Old English Personal Names in Bede's History

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Title: Old English Personal Names in Bede's History

Subtitle: An etymological-phonological investigation

Author: Hilmer Ström
Publisher: C. W. K. Gleerup
Year: 1939
Language: English
Pages: 181
ISBN: -
Nordic Names shortcut: STR

Index of Contents

• Preface
• Bibliography
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
  • Introductory: Scope and plan of the present inquiry
  • I. Beda Venerabilis
  • II. The manuscripts of the Historia Ecclesiastica
  • III. A survey of Old English personal names
• Part I. Etymology
  • A. The compound names
    • Introductory
    • 1. Etymological survey of the elements of the compound names
    • 2. Classification of the name-elements with regard to meaning and function
  • B. The uncompounded names
    • 1. Etymological survey
    • 2. Classification of the names with regard to form
• Part II. Phonology
  • Introductory
  • (i) Vowels
    • A. Vowels of stressed syllables
      • 1. Short vowels (West Germanic a, e, i, o, u)
      • 2. Long vowels (West Germanic a, i, o, u)
      • 3. Diphthongs (West Germanic ai, au, eu)
      • 4. Survey and discussion of some special phonological characteristics (WG a + nasal, breaking and smoothing, influence of initial palatal consonants, l-mutilation, æ > a / geminate + back vowel, back-mutation)
    • B. Vowels of unstressed and socondarily stressed syllables
      • Vowels in the composition-joint
      • Vowels at the end of the 2. element
      • Vowels of case-endings
      • Vowels of dervatives
      • Svarabhakti vowels
  • (ii) Consonants
    • Primitive Germanic w
    • Primitive Germanic þ
    • Primitive Germanic h
    • Primitive Germanic ƀ
    • Primitive Germanic ʒ
    • Primitive Germanic k
    • Simplification of geminated consonants
    • Assimilation
    • "Sharpening" of consonants
    • Metathesis
    • Loss of consonant
  • (iii) Latinization. - Orthography. - Dialect
    • Latinization
    • Orthography
    • Dialect
• Part III. The Material:
  • Forms of names in the MSS M, N, C, B of Hist. Eccl; brief biographical notes on the bearers of the names
  • Appendix: Continental Germanic names in Hist. Eccl.