Six Scots etymologies: glamour, glower, ‘not see a styme’, gawsy, lawsy, and the modal verb boost ‘must’
The vocabulary of Scots is basically akin to that northern Middle English, although additional loans from Old Norse are met as well as loans from Scots Gaelic, itself based on Old Irish. A gathering consisting of nouns, popular adjectives, and a...
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Jagiellonian University Press
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Studia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis |
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