Sökning: "Irish loanwords"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Irish loanwords.

  1. 1. Irish loanwords in English varieties

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Emma Fristedt; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Irish loanwords; English varieties; Collocations; Word use; Language contact;

    Sammanfattning : This essay will discuss and research the width and frequency of Irish loanwords in contemporary English varieties. The meanings, uses, differences, similarities and collocations of selected words will be discussed and analyzed in order to find answers to the research questions asked. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Robert Farren; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Irish; Middle Irish; Old Norse; loanwords; semantic domains; lexical borrowing; Vikings; prototypicality; radial networks; semantic change.; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related. The eventual goal is a complete survey of all Old Norse loanwords still “in common use in modern Irish” (Greene 1976: 80), since nothing of the sort has been found in the literature. LÄS MER