Author: Henry Otto Schwabe

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781493798803

An excerpt from the PREFACE: The aim of this paper is to trace the development in meaning of the idea "consume by eating and drinking", as represented in the Germanic dialects. "Where this could be done without giving connections outside the Germanic, no reference is made to the possible relations to the words under discussion. In citing dialect forms an attempt has been made to choose such forms as seemed representative, and hereby avoid a heaping up of the dialect variations which are often very numerous. Abbreviations for the less well-known works will be found along with the List of Sources — otherwise those in ordinary use are employed. The references to the Norwegian dialect are to the dictionary of Aasen and the supplements by Ross. Likewise, no distinction is made in the citations from the Old Norse dictionaries of Haldorsen and Fritzner.