D. Grammatical and linguistic abbreviations
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| noun | noun |
| adj. | adjective |
| pron. | pronoun |
| def. art | definite article |
| verb | verb |
| adv. | adverb |
| prep. | preposition |
| conj. | conjunction |
| nom. | nominative |
| acc. | accusative |
| gen. | genitive |
| dat. | dative |
| instr. | instrumental |
| m. | masculine |
| f. | feminine |
| n. | neuter |
| sg. | singular |
| pl. | plural |
| (Hence, e.g: m. nom. sg., f. acc. pl., etc. as the format of grammatical descriptions) | |
| 1st pers., 2nd pers., 3rd pers. | |
| comp. | comparative |
| sup. | superlative |
| interrog. | interrogative |
| refl. | reflexive |
| poss. | possessive |
| indef. | indefinite |
| inf. | infinitive |
| indic. | indicative |
| subj. | subjunctive |
| imp. | imperative |
| pres.part. | present participle |
| p.p. | past participle |
| pers. n. | personal name |
| p. n. | place name |
| rel. | relative (clause, pronoun) |
| cl. | clause |
| cpd | compound |
| pres. | present |
| pret. | preterite |
| perf. | perfect |
| m.v. | middle voice |
| MIcel. | Modern Icelandic |
| ON | Old Norse (to be used where differentiation between individual early Nordic (norræn) languages is not necessary or possible) |
| OEN | Old East Norse |
| OWN | Old West Norse |
| (O)Icel. | (Old) Icelandic |
| (O)Norw. | (Old) Norwegian |
| (O)Dan. | (Old) Danish |
| (O)Swed. | (Old) Swedish |
| OE | Old English |
| OHG | Old High German |
| OS | Old Saxon |
| OFris. | Old Frisian |
| OFr. | Old French |
| OIr. | Old Irish |
| Lat. | Latin |
| * | Reconstructed form, e.g. a hypothetical etymon |
| † | use obelos symbol for textual material that is impossibly corrupt/ cannot be made sense of, in your view. One should be placed immediately before the beginning of the piece of corrupt text and another immediately after it. |