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Author: Willliam
Date: 2007-09-07 06:23:46
Subject: Bosworth/Toller, page b0535, entry 29
This is a margin comment on: Bosworth/Toller, page b0535, entry 29
In this short entry:
"hierstan. v. hyrstan"
v. stands for "variant" or possibly "variation of."
Does this hold true throughout the dictionary? How is "variant" defined with regard to Old English? Its common meaning with regard to modern dictionary entries--a non-standard or less common spelling of a word--seems much narrower that many of the examples given in Bosworth-Toller, which include compound words, and words altered with prefixes as variants.
Thanks.
Bosworth/Toller, page b0535, entry 29