The English Language

PART I. GENERAL ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CHAPTER I. GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE-DATE. SECTION PAGE 1. English not originally British 1 2. Germanic in origin 2 3-10. Accredited details of the different immigrations from Germany
into Britain 2-4 10-12. Accredited relations of the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons to each
other as Germans 4 13. Criticism of evidence 5 Extract from Mr. Kemble 6 14. Inference 9 CHAPTER II. GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE-THE IMMIGRANT TRIBES
AND THEIR RELATION TO EACH OTHER. 15-20. The Jute immigration doubtful 10-12 22. Difficulties in identifying the Saxons 13 23. Difficulties in identifying the Angles 13 25-29. Populations with the greatest à priori likelihood of having
immigrated 14, 15 26. Menapians 15 27. Batavians 15 28. Frisians 15 29. Chauci 15 30. Inference 16 31-34. Saxons and Nordalbingians 16, 17 35-50. Populations, whereof the continental relation help us in fixing
the original country of the Angles and Saxons 17-21 36. Germans of the Middle Rhine 17 Franks 18 Salians 18 Chamavi 18 37. Thuringians 18 38. Catti 18 39. Geographical conditions of the Saxon Area 18 40. Its Eastern limit 19 41-50. Slavonian frontier 20, 21 41. ,, Polabi 20 42. ,, Wagrians 20 43. ,, Obotriti 20 44. ,, Lini 20 45. ,, Warnabi 21 46. ,, Morizani 21 47. ,, Doxani 21 48. ,, Hevelli 21 49. ,, Slavonians of Altmark 21 50. ,, Sorabians 21 51. Saxon area 21 CHAPTER III. OF THE DIALECTS OF THE SAXON AREA AND OF THE SO-CALLED OLD SAXON. 52, 53. Extent and frontier 23 54-62. Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon 23-25 63. Old-Saxon data 25 64. Specimen 26 CHAPTER IV. AFFINITIES OF THE ENGLISH WITH THE LANGUAGES OF GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA. 65. General affinities of the English language 28 67. The term Gothic 28 69. Scandinavian branch 28 70. Teutonic branch 31 71. Moso-Gothic 31 73. Origin of the Moso-Goths 32 76. Name not Germanic 33 77. Old High German 35 78. Low Germanic division 36 79. Frisian 36 81. Old Frisian 37 82. Platt-Deutsch 38 83. Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic compound 38 84. Scandinavian article 40 88. Scandinavian verb 44 91. Declension in -n 45 92. Difference between languages of the same division 46 93. Weak and strong nouns 46 Moso-Gothic inflections 47 94. Old Frisian and Anglo-Saxon 50 98. The term German 56 99. The term Dutch 57 100. The term Teutonic 58 101. The term Anglo-Saxon 59 102. Icelandic, Old Norse 59 CHAPTER V. ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE-GERMANIC ELEMENTS. 106. The Angles 62 109. Extract from Tacitus 63 ,, Ptolemy 63 110. Extracts connecting them with the inhabitants of the Cimbric Chersonesus 64 111. The district called Angle 65 113. Inferences and remarks 65 114. What were the Langobardi with whom the Angles were connected
by Tacitus? 66 115. What were the Suevi, &c. 66 116. What were the Werini, &c. 67 117. What were the Thuringians, &c. 67 121. Difficulties respecting the Angles 68 123-128. Patronymic forms, and the criticism based on them 68-72 129-131. Probably German immigrants not Anglo-Saxon 72, 73 CHAPTER VI. THE CELTIC STOCK OF LANGUAGES, AND THEIR RELATIONS TO THE ENGLISH. 132. Cambrian Celtic 74 133. Gaelic Celtic 77 136. Structure of Celtic tongues 79-83 138. The Celtic of Gaul 84 139. The Pictish 84 CHAPTER VII. THE ANGLO-NORMAN AND THE LANGUAGES OF THE CLASSICAL STOCK. 140. The Classical languages 86 141. Extension of the Roman language 86 142. The divisions 87 Specimen of the Romanese 88 Specimen of the Wallachian 88 143. French dialects 89 Oath of Ludwig 90 144. Norman-French 91 CHAPTER VIII. THE POSITION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS INDO-EUROPEAN. 147. The term...