THE RIMES IN THE AUTHENTIC POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. 665 



LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. 



OE. 



= Old English (Anglo 



-Saxon). 



AF. 



= Anglo-French. 



OF. 



= Old French. 





NED. 



= New English Dictionary. 



Lot. 



= Latin. 





WS. 



= West Saxon. 



PG. 



= Paul's Grundriss. 





Angl. 



= Anglian. 



NE. 



= New English. 





Northmb. 



= Northumbrian. 



OFris. 



= Old Frisian. 





Gen. 



= General. 



MSc. 



= Middle Scottish. 





Gk. 



= Greek. 



ON. 



= Old Norse. 





Gr. 



= Grammar. 



ME. 



= Middle English. 





Prt. 



= Preterite. 



Du. 



= Dutch. 





Prn. 



= Pronoun. 



NSc. 



= New Scottish. 





S. or 56. 



= Substantive. 



Fr. 



= French. 





V. or Vb. 



= Verb. 



Icel. 



= Icelandic. 





Adj. 



= Adjective. 



Dan. 



= Danish. 





Adv. 



= Adverb. 



Gen. 



= Genitive. 





EEP. 



= Early English Pronunciation, Ellis 



Ger. 



= Modern German. 





Cons. 



= Consonant. 



HES. 



= History of English Sounds (Sweet). 



Gutt. 



= Guttural. 



Swed. 



= Swedish. 





Palat. 



= Palatal. 



Grmc. 



= Germanic. 





Mut 



= Mutation. 



The sign > signifies that the sound preceding it is changed into the one following it, as ai > a = the 

 diphthong ai passes into an a sound. An accent over a capital letter means the vowel is long, thus : A means 

 a. A stroke - after the letter = in open syllables; a colon (:) = in closed syllables. A colon between words 

 in the lists means they rime together. In the figures the first number gives the page and the second the line 

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