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| –371.05+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Iceland', 236a: 'Hord's Saga (980) is the life of a band of outlaws on Whalesfirth, and especially of their leader Hord' |
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| –405.33+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Innocents' Day', 583b: 'Innocents' Day, or Childermas, a festival celebrated in the Latin church on the 28th of December... in memory of the massacre of the children by Herod... The Irish call the day... Diar dasin darg, "blood Thursday"' |
| –481.18+ | Apabhramsa: a stage in the development of Prakrit (Indian vernacular) languages, viewed by grammarians as "corrupt language" (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Indo-Aryan Languages', 488c: 'The next, and final, stage of the Secondary Prakrits was that of the Apabhramsas. The word Apabhramsa means "corrupt" or "decayed" and was applied to the vernacular in contrast to the Prakrit par excellence, which had in its turn (like Sanskrit and Pali) become stereotyped by being employed by literature') |
| –481.25+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Indo-Aryan languages', 490a: 'The past and future participles are passive in their origin, and hence tenses formed with these participles must be construed passively... for an intransitive verb we have, either "I am gone", or 'it is gone by me"' |
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