| 单词 | ab language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAB language AB n. [ < A n. + B n., the sigla used to identify two different manuscripts of the early 13th cent., MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi 402 and MS Oxford, Bodley 34, which have a high degree of similarity both orthographically and linguistically, though they were produced by different scribes] the early Middle English dialect of the west midlands used in two manuscripts of the early 13th cent., MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi 402 and MS Oxford, Bodley 34; frequently attributive in AB language. ΚΠ 1929 J. R. R. Tolkien in Ess. & Stud. by Members of Eng. Assoc. XIV. vi. 108 I will even suggest here that the unity of (A) and (B) will bear minute analysis, and leave a residuum of discrepancy which, in view of the quite different textual history and value of B, is negligible. The two manuscripts are in fact in one language and spelling (AB). 1967 Speculum 42 415 In the discussions attached to each section of the book and in tables which dramatize the results of the discussions, the phonological history of AB is traced. 1977 Rev. Eng. Stud. 28 316 He remarks on the dialectal location of the AB language made by Tolkien..and argues..for an even closer association with the NW. Herefordshire-SW. Shropshire area. 1996 J. Smith Hist. Stud. Eng. vii. 147 A form such as wrecche ‘wretch’..is assigned to the strong declension in AB-language. 2003 R. Dance in Y. Wada Compan. Ancrene Wisse iv. 78 We should not allow the understandable, comfortable impression of authorial voice that permeates the AB texts to divert us from the plain fact that they are written documents. < as lemmas |
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