A history of the English Language

New English Dictionary,
343 
New Hampshire, 253, 356 
New Jersey, 353, 356, 388 
New York, 353, 356 
New York City dialect, 379 
New Zealand, English language in, 319 
Newburgh, William of, 113 
Newcastle guttural, 357 
Newman, Cardinal, 293 
Newmeyer, Frederick J., 16, 408 
Newspaper, 296 
Nichols, J., 153 
Nichols, P.H., 186 
Nickel, Gerhard, 292 
Nida, E.A., 402 
Nigeria, English language in, 322–24, 330 
Niles, John D., 107 
Nonant, Hugh of, 122 
Norfolk, 387; 
dialect, 122 
Norgate, Kate, 129 
Norman, Conquest, 108ff.; 
dialect, 28, 140; 
scribes, influence of, 208 
Normandy, 92; 
loss of, 128; 
origin of, 108 
North Midland dialect in American dialectology, 378 
North, Sir Thomas, 205, 209 
North Carolina, 354–55 
North Germanic, 33 
Northern dialect, 189, 409–11 
Northern dialect in America, 376ff. 
Northmen, 
see
Scandinavian influence 
Northumbria, 50, 70, 87 
Northumbrian, 53, 103 
Northwest Greek, 27 
Northwest Territory, Old, 351, 354–55 
Norwegian, 33; 
settlements in England, 95 
Norwegians, 92 
Norwich, 114, 387 
Nostratic, 23 
Nottingham, 114 
Noun, 57, 159, 240 
Noyes, Gertrude E., 252 
Index 432

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Nunnally, Thomas, 407 
Nynorsk, 33 
Nyrop, K., 135 
Oberdörffer, W., 198 
O’Casey, Sean, 318 
Odyssey,
26 
Oettinger, Norbert, 42 
Offe, J., 198 
Ogle, Octavus, 137 
Oily Robert d’, 119 
Old Bulgarian, 31 
Old Church Slavonic, 31 
Old English, 20, 33, 43ff.; 
characteristics of, 53; 
foreign influences on, 74ff.; 
grammar, 56–61; 
literature, 69; 
study of, 286; 
syntax, 67; 
vocabulary, 53ff., 64–67 
Old Frisian, 33 
Old High German, 34, 78 
Old Icelandic, 33 
Old Low Franconian, 33
Oldmixon, John, 268 
Old Norse, 33 
Old Persian, 24–25 
Old Saxon, 33 
Onions, Charles T., 343 
Orderic Vitalis, 113, 117, 120, 123 
Oregon, 355 
Oriel College, Oxford, 139 
Ormulum,
155, 422 
Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L., 385 
Orosius, 72 
Orsman, Harry W., 349 
Orthography, problem of, 208 
Orton, Harold, 317, 348 
Oscan, 28 
Ostrogoths, 32 
Oswald, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York, 88 
Oswald, King, 84 
Oversea language, 227 
Ovid, 206 
Owl and the Nightingale, The,
155, 415 
Oxford, earl of, 267; 
statute of, 139; 
University of, 193 
Oxford English Dictionary,
339, 342; 
second edition, 343–44 
Index 433

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Pacific creoles, 332 
Pacific Northwest, 355, 356 
PADS,
398 
Page, R.I, 96 
Pahlavi, 25 
Pakistan, 5, 24; 
English language in, 325 
Palander-Collin, M., 17 
Palatal diphthongization, 79 
Palatinate, 353 
Paleolithic Age, 44 
Pali, 24 
Palmer, Elizabeth, 41 
Panini, 23 
Parataxis, 68, 244 
Paris, Matthew, 130–33, 137, 
et passim
Paris, University of, 135 
Parker, Archbishop, 264 
Parliament, records of, 154; 
of 1295, 134; 
of 1337, 148; 
of 1362, 148, 149 
Parry, David, 348