Glosario. -- Norfolk. -- Pertenece a la colección Varia del Salamanca Corpus. -- Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. -- "On the dialect of Norfolk". -- 1684.[ES] Listado de palabras del dialecto de Norfolk.
[EN] List of Norfolk dialect words

Browne, Sir Thomas, (1605-1682)

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The Salamanca Corpus: “On the dialect of Norfolk” (1684)    CERTAIN MISCELLANY TRACTS.    Written by THOMAS BROWN, Kt, and Doctour of Physick; late of NORWICH.    LONDON, Printed for Charles Mearne, and are to be sold by Henry Bonwick, at the Red Lyon, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, MDCLXXXIV Author: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Text type: Varia Date of composition: 1684 Editions: 1684, 1686, 1927, 1964. Source text:  Browne, Sir Thomas. 1684. “On the dialect of Norfolk”. Certain Miscellany Tracts written by Thomas Brown, Kt., and Doctour of Physick, late of Norwich. London: Printed for Charles Mearne: 138-139; 146-147. e-text Access and transcription: October 2014 Number of words: 546 Dialect represented: Norfolk Produced by Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner Copyright © 2014- DING, The Salamanca Corpus, Universidad de Salamanca The Salamanca Corpus: “On the dialect of Norfolk” (1684)   [138]  The Saxons settling over all England maintained an uniform Language, onely diversified in Dialect, Idioms, and minor differences, according to their different Nations, which came in to the common Conquest, which may yet be a cause for the variation in the speech and words of several parts of England, where different Nations most abode or settled, and having expelled the Britanes, their Wars were chiefly among themleves, with little action with foreign Nations untill the union of the Heptarchy under Egbert; after which time although the Danes infested this Land and scarce left any part free, yet their incursions made more havock in Buildings, Churches and Cities than the Language of the Country, because their Language was in effect the same, and such as whereby they might easily understand one another. And if the Normans, which came into Neastria or Normandy with Rollo the Dane, had preserved their Language in their new acquists, the succeeding Conquest of England, by Duke William of his race, had not begot among us such notable alterations; but having lost their Language in their abode in Normandy before they adventured  [139]  upon England, they confounded the English with their French, and made the grand mutation, which was successively encreased by our possessions in Normany, Guien and Aquitain by our long Wars in France, by frequent resort of the French, who to the number of some thousands came over with Isabel Queen to Edward the Second, and the several Matches of England with the Daughters of France before and since that time. But this commixture, though sufficient to confuse, proved not of ability to abolish the Saxon words; for from the French we have borrowed many Substantives, Adjectives and some Verbs, but the great Body of Numerals, auxiliary Verbs, Articles, Pronouns, Adverbs, Conjunctions and Prepositions, which are the distinguishing and lasting part of a Language, remain with us from the Saxon, which, having suffered no great alteration for many hundred years, may probably still remain, though the English well with the inmates of Italian, French and Latin. ... The Salamanca Corpus: “On the dialect of Norfolk” (1684)   [146]  It were not impossible to make an origina reduction of many words of no general reception in England but of common use in Norfolk, or peculiar to the East Angle Countries: as Bawnd, Bunny, Thurck, Enemmis, Sammodithe, Mawther, Kedge, Seele, Strast, Clever, Matchly, Dere, Nicked, Stingy, Noneare, Fest, Thepes, Gosgood, Kamp, Sibrit, Fangast, Sap, Cothish, Thokish, Bide owe, Paxwax: of these and some others of no easie originals, when time will permit, the resolution may be attempted; which to effect, the Danish Language new and more ancient may prove of good advantage; which Nation remained here fifty years upon agreement, and have left many Families in it, and the Language of these parts had surely been more  [147]  commixed and perplex, if the Fleet of Hugo de Bones had not been cast away, wherein threescore thousand Souldiers out of Britany and Flanders were to be wasted over, and were by King John’s appointment to have a settled habitation in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.  

“On the dialect of Norfolk”

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