单词 | the orkney norn |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Orkney (also Shetland) Norn The Norn language. Also the Orkney (also Shetland) Norn.In quot. 1485: †the Norwegian language (obsolete).Norn became extinct in the latter half of the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian > Norwegian > Orkney or Shetland Norn1485 Nornsa1688 1485 in Orkney & Shetland Rec. (1907) I. 55 This letter in Nornn. a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 92 Norn, the Language spoken by the ancient Inhabitants of Orkney and Zetland. 1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 4 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland Many of them, are descended from the Norvegians, and speak a Norse Tongue, corrupted, (they call Norn) amongst themselves. a1760 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) iv. 31 The antient language spoken by the inhabitants of Zetland was that of the Norvegians called Norn, and continued to be that only spoken by the natives till of late, and many of them speak it to this day amongst themselves. 1774 G. Low Tour Orkney & Shetl. (1879) 107 He spoke of three kinds of poetry used in Norn. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II Norn, Norn language, in later times especially a designation for the earlier dialects of Old Norwegian origin in Shetland and Orkney, as well as in Caithness. 1966–9 Saga Bk. 17 11 In Appendix II he printed specimens of the Orkney Norn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 1987 Eng. Today Apr.–June 24/1 The influence of Scots upon Norn had begun even before the Dano-Norwegian earldom changed hands. 1993 J. Purser in J. M. Fladmark Heritage xxiv. 305 The last scraps of true Norn were collected from the mouths of singers in a rowing song and a ballad of King Orfeo in Scotland. < as lemmas |
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