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| a. | ante, before. |
| ad. | adoption of, adaptation of. |
| adj. | adjective. |
| adv. | adverb. |
| AF. | Anglo-French. |
| Afrik. | Afrikaans. |
| AL. | Anglo-Latin. |
| attrib. | attributive, -ly. |
| c. | circa, about. |
| cf. | confer, compare. |
| comb. | combination |
| Da. | Danish. |
| dial. | dialectal. |
| Du. | Dutch. |
| e. | early. |
| E. | East(ern). |
| Eng. | English. |
| esp. | especially. |
| f. | feminine. |
| fig. | figurative, -ly. |
| Flem. | Flemish. |
| F. | French. |
| Fris. | Frisian. |
| G. | German. |
| Gmc. | Germanic. |
| HG. | High German. |
| Icel. | Icelandic. |
| It. | Italian. |
| l. | late. |
| L. | Latin. |
| LG. | Low German. |
| lit. | literal, -ly. |
| m. | masculine. |
| M. | Middle. |
| ME. | Middle English. |
| Midl. | midland (dialect). |
| mod. | modern. |
| n. | neuter. |
| N. | Northern. |
| naut. | in nautical language. |
| Norw. | Norwegian. |
| Nthn. | northern (dialect). |
| O. | Old. |
| obs. | obsolete. |
| OE. | Old English. |
| ON. | Old Norse. |
| orig. | original, -ly. |
| p. | page. |
| pa. | past. |
| Pg. | Portuguese. |
| plur. | plural. |
| pple. | participle. |
| pres. | present. |
| pret. | preterite. |
| S. | Saxon. |
| sb. | substantive. |
| Sc. | Scottish. |
| Scand. | Scandinavian. |
| sing. | singular. |
| Sp. | Spanish. |
| spec. | specially. |
| Sw. | Swedish. |
| Teut. | Teutonic. |
| trans. | translation of, translated by. |
| U.S. | United States. |
| var. | variant of. |
| vb. | verb. |
| W. | Western. |
| * | a theoretical form. |