Old Norse Signý . Name of heroines in Norse mythology.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Signe
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From Swedish and Danish Signe .
From Swedish Signe .
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1925. From Swedish and Danish Signe .
From Old Norse Signý .
First recorded in Sweden in 1382. From Old Norse Signý . In Norse mythology the name of a princess who killed herself after her lover's death.
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Old Dutch masculine noundossier summary
fīunt
Old Dutch fīunt is the normalized headword behind a twenty-six-occurrence historical-dictionary record for enemy or opponent. ONW classifies the noun as synchronically unsegmented but says it was originally the present participle of the verb corresponding to Old High German fīēn and Gothic fijan, a verb no longer known in Dutch. Its frequency table preserves six case-number cells: nominative and genitive singular plus nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative plural. Those are not a complete paradigm. The article displays twenty representative location blocks after warning that locations in the semantic profile have been reduced. Most early Wachtendonck Psalms material is linguistically dated 901–1000 but survives in copies dated 1595–1605, circa 1598, or 1701–1800; no tenth-century manuscript object was inspected. One dfiunt or fiunt gloss aligned with Latin diabolus is textually disputed, and one Groningen psalm gloss is explicitly assigned to Old Frisian by the dictionary. This dossier therefore treats fīunt as a nominal fossil with a partially preserved inflectional record, not as a productive Old Dutch participle or a complete transparent paradigm.
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Can Turkish çay be assigned one exact borrowing date?
Not from the reviewed evidence. The route can be argued more securely than a single adoption year.
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Is the infinitive hatan written in the surviving corpus?
No. The two surviving forms are hatandane and hatandans, both present participles. Hatan is the normalized dictionary citation form assigned by Project Wulfila and the historical grammars.
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Does Gothic preserve exactly two historical uses of hatan?
Project Wulfila currently reports exactly two surviving corpus tokens assigned to the lemma. That count does not include lost manuscripts, spoken Gothic, unrecognized variants, or every use in history.
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Does the corpus contain exactly fifteen historical uses of hatis?
Project Wulfila currently reports exactly fifteen surviving corpus tokens assigned to the lemma. That is an inventory claim, not a total for spoken Gothic, lost manuscripts, spelling variants outside the corpus, or every historical use.
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Does one surviving token prove the verb was rare in spoken Gothic?
No. It proves only that the current surviving and verified corpus contains one assigned token. The fragmentary manuscript record cannot measure ordinary speech.
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Is the infinitive hatjan itself written in the surviving manuscript?
No. The directly inspected form is hatjandam, a weak masculine dative-plural present participle. Hatjan is the normalized lexical citation form assigned by Project Wulfila and the historical grammars.
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Does one surviving hatjan token prove the verb was rare in spoken Gothic?
No. It proves only that the surviving and currently verified corpus contains one token assigned to this lemma. The fragmentary manuscript record cannot measure ordinary spoken frequency.
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