A specimen of Chaucer's language with explanatory notes: a philological essay

adjective adverb afterwards Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon verb aspirate Ausg baculus Blanch of Lancaster Bopp Bopp's Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer compare note consequently consonant contracted coude denotes derived dialects Diez dissyllable dropped Dryden duke of Lancaster Dutch Engl Etym etymologists Examples flute foll Geoffrey Chaucer gipon Goth Gothic Gothic language Gramm Greek Grimm guttural Hebrew hence High Germ Hochdeutschen Icel idioms inst instance interchange Italian Knightes Tale language latter Low Latin Masc mentioned metre modern English modern German obsolete occurs old English old HG old High German origin particle Piers Ploughman plural poet poetry prefix preposition preterite tense Prologue pronounced pronunciation Provencial racters radical consonant remains Sanscrit root Sanser Saxon seems signification softened sometimes Spiritus Asper Sprache Sscr substantive sunno supposes Swed Swedish syllable terminal ther vaihts verb Vergl verse vowel vowel sound Welsh Whan wiht word writing written