old english core vocabulary

theme : vocabulary of the historical period of the studied language the list below presents some 500 old english words which could be regarded as literary core vocabulary. some of the words are among the most frequent in old english literature; some are of particular importance on account of their literary or linguistic usage. the reference ‘poet.’ signals predominant usage of a word in poetry. the cognates in a number of related languages are intended to make memorisation of the words easier. a word signalled as ‘hapax legomenon’ is found only once in the entire old english corpus, and was possibly coined for the passage in question. this list of old english core vocabulary is intended as a teaching aid: …

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