II. Terms
abl. ‘ablative’
acc. ‘accusative’
adj. ‘adjective’
adv. ‘adverb’
aff. ‘affixed’ (in Index ‘affirmative’)
anal. ‘analog-y, -ical’
aor. ‘aorist’
auto. ‘autograph’
cf. ‘compare’
conj. ‘conjunctive’ or ‘conjugation’
cpv. ‘comparative’
dat. ‘dative’
def. ‘definite’
denom. ‘denominative’
do. ‘same book (or author)’
e.g. ‘for example’
eqtv. ‘equative’
f., fem. ‘feminine’
gen. ‘genitive’
gl. ‘gloss on’
ib. ‘same book and page’
id. ‘same meaning’
i.e. ‘that is’
impers., imps. ‘impersonal’
impf. ‘imperfect’
impv. ‘imperative’
ind. ‘indicative’
indef. ‘indefinite’
inf. ‘infixed’
inj. ‘injunctive’
instr. ‘instrumental’
interr. ‘interrogative’
intj. ‘interjection’
l.c. ‘in place cited’
lit. ‘liter-ary, -ally’
loc. ‘locative’
m., mas., ‘masculine’
nom. ‘nominative’
obj. ‘object(ive)’
obl. ‘oblique’
orig. ‘original(ly)’
perf. ‘perfect’
pers. ‘person(al)’
pl. ‘plural’
plup. ‘pluperfect’
pos. ‘positive’
pref. ‘prefix(ed)’
prep. ‘preposition’
pres. ‘present’
prob. ‘probably’
pron. ‘pronoun’ or ‘pronounced’ according to context.
prov. ‘proverb’
q.v. ‘which see’
redupl. ‘reduplicated’
rh. ‘rhyming’
sc. ‘scribal’
sg. ‘singular’
spv. ‘superlative’
subj. ‘subjunctive’, rarely ‘subject’
suff. ‘suffix’
s.v. ‘under the word’
unacc. ‘unaccented’
v.a., v.adj. ‘verbal adj.’
vb. ‘verb’
v.n. ‘verbal noun’
voc. ‘vocative’
III. Languages
Abbreviations denoting languages are obvious contractions of the names of languages given on p. 1.
Mn. ‘Modern'. Ml. ‘Medieval’ or ‘Middle'. O. ‘Old'. Pr. ‘Primitive'.
Note that Ir. means ‘Old Irish’ as in Thurneysen Gr., Vendryes Gr., and Windisch, Irische Texte. Ml. and Mn. Ir. are so named.
O.E. ‘Old English’ = Anglo-Saxon. O.H.G. ‘Old High German’. Gathav. ‘Gathic Avestic’, Oldest Avestic.
Hes(ych). designates forms and meanings from the Lexicon of Hesychius.