D. Grammatical and linguistic abbreviations
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Abbreviations are to be used in all parts of the edition, except at the beginning of sentences.
Plurals of abbreviated words are to be written in full, e.g. 'infinitives', 'adverbs', unless plural forms are listed below, e.g. 'll.', 'vv.'.
# Note that there is a space between two-word abbreviations, e.g. def. art., p. p. (e.g. and i.e. are the only exceptions to this).
# 1st pers. first person
# 2nd pers. second person
# 3rd pers. third person
acc. accusative
adj. adjective
adv. adverb
† cl. clause
comp. comparative
conj. conjunction
† cpd compound
dat. dative
def. art. definite article
# e-m einhverjum
# e-n einhvern
# e-r einnhverr
# e-rar einhverrar
# e-ri einhverri
# e-s einhvers
# e-t eitthvat
# e-u einhverju
f. feminine
gen. genitive
imp. imperative
indef. indefinite
indic. indicative
inf. infinitive
instr. instrumental
interrog. interrogative
m. masculine
† m. v. middle voice
n. neuter
nom. nominative
noun noun
‡ perf. perfect
† pers. n. personal name
pl. plural
† p. n. place name
poss. possessive
p. p. past participle
prep. preposition
‡ pres. present
pres. part. present participle
† pret. preterite
pron. pronoun
refl. reflexive
† rel. relative (clause, pronoun)
sg. singular
subj. subjunctive
sup. superlative
verb verb
* Reconstructed form, ‡ e.g. a hypothetical etymon
† 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.
(Note that the format of grammatical descriptions is: e.g. m. nom. sg., f. acc. pl., etc.)