单词 | paving letter |
释义 | > as lemmaspaving letter paving letter n. Palaeography rare (in medieval manuscripts) a letter of the alphabet used as a gloss (in sequence with others) in order to show how the Latin word order should be rearranged to reflect that of a vernacular language, esp. Old English (cf. sense 4). [The term was introduced by the Dutch philologist Henri Logeman (see quot. 1888).] ΚΠ 1888 H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet p. xxxvi ‘In order to get an Anglo-Saxon translation, not glosses’—thus my friend writes—‘some one put in those “paving” letters to indicate the word-order of the vernacular text.’ 1996 I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church ii. 33 A fourth hand..has..added syntactical glosses, sometimes called ‘paving letters’. < as lemmas |
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