Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations
Wherever possible the grammatical abbreviations in this work follow the Leipzig Glossing Rules (
| acc |
accusative |
| abl |
ablative |
| act |
active |
| adj |
adjective |
| adv |
adverb |
| Alb. |
Albanian |
| aor |
aorist |
| Arc. |
Arcadian |
| Arc.-Cyp. |
Arcado-Cypriot |
| Arg. |
Argolic |
| Arm. |
Armenian |
| Att. |
Attic |
| Boeot. |
Boeotian |
| Av. |
Avestan |
| Cret. |
Cretan |
| Cyp. |
Cypriot |
| dat |
dative |
| du |
dual |
| e.g. |
exempli gratia |
| EGk. |
East Greek |
| El. |
Elean |
| f |
feminine |
| Engl. |
English |
| Gaul. |
Gaulish |
| gen |
genitive |
| Gk. |
Greek |
| Go. |
Gothic |
| Hitt. |
Hittite |
| impf |
imperfect |
| inf |
infinitive |
| ins |
instrumental |
| IE |
Indo-European |
| Ion. |
Ionic |
| loc |
locative |
| Lat. |
Latin |
| Lesb. |
Lesbian |
| Lith. |
Lithuanian |
| m |
masculine |
| Meg. |
Megarian |
| Myc. |
Mycenaean |
| mid |
middle |
| nom |
nominative |
| n |
neuter |
| NWGk. |
North West Greek |
| OAv. |
Old Avestan |
| OCS |
Old Church Slavonic |
| OIr. |
Old Irish |
| ONor. |
Old Norse |
| OPers. |
Old Persian |
| Phoc. |
Phocian |
| PIE |
Proto-Indo-European |
| Pkt. |
Prakrit |
| pl |
plural |
| PN |
Personal Name |
| prs |
present |
| ptcp |
participle |
| sbjv |
subjunctive |
| sg |
singular |
| Skt. |
Sanskrit |
| Sl. |
Slavic |
| s.v. |
sub verbo |
| Thess. |
Thessalian |
| TochA |
Tocharian A |
| TochB |
Tocharian B |
| voc |
vocative |
| Ved. |
Vedic |
| WGk. |
West Greek |
| YAv. |
Young Avestan |
| * |
unattested or reconstructed form |
| † |
unattested form expected from reconstruction |
| a > b |
a develops to b |
| b < a |
b develops from a |
| a → b |
b is created/replaced by analogy to a |