Author: IHRE, Johannes.
Title: Glossarium Suiogothicum, in quo tam hodierno usu frequentata vocabula, quam in legum patriarum tabulis aliisque aevi medii scriptis obvia explicantur, et ex dialectis cognatis, Moesogothica, Anglo-saxonica, Alemannica, Islandica ceterisque Gothicae et Celticae originis illustrantur.
Description: Upsala, Edmann, 1769. Folio. 2 vol.in 1. (2), xlviii pp, 1186 columns + 2 pp., 1140 columns. With mounted title vignette and 2 vignettes in the text, by J.Gillberg. Full calf, spine gilt with raised bands and morocco title-piece. (a few underlinings in ink, first and last pages slightly browned in margin, spine expertly restaured; good copy) ¶Brunet V/405: "ouvrage très-estimé". Hist.of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries, p.119: "It is the major contribution to Swedish etymological research in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was later influential in the development of historical-comparative linguistics in the early nineteenth century." K.Östlund, Johan Ihre on the origins and history of runes (2000), p.22: "the great etymological dictionary of the Swedish language (...) He held that the derivation of a Swedish word should be established first by studying old Swedish, then old Icelandic, then other old Germanic languages and finally more distant languages such as Greek and Latin. Each etymology was supported by examples from medieval provincial laws, from Snorri and many other sources."

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