caa a22 4500 386310491 CHVBK 20180307111543.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100003987 doi S0263675100003987 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100003987 Bremmer Rolf H. The University of Leiden The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Elektronische Daten] [Rolf H. Bremmer] The publication of the first fascicule of the Toronto Dictionary of Old English bears witness to the fulfilment of many vows made at symposia in the past. One of these was to abandon the practice of Bosworth—Toller of providing entries with etymological information. To meet trie objections raised against this policy at the second DOE conference in 1970, Christopher Ball assured the audience that entries would contain etymological information only if it would be impossible to establish the meaning of a word otherwise. ‘Frivolous' etymology, as Ball termed it, such as linking OE fōt to Latin pedem, would be omitted. The editors of DOE will have been confirmed in their attitude by the fact that in those years Dr Alfred Bammesberger announced a plan for a new etymological dictionary for Old English. Since then, besides numerous articles, he has published a volume of Beiträge Zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Altenglischen. In the preface to this book, Bammesberger stresses that the preparation of such a new dictionary is a project which will not be completed in the immediate future. So, for the time being, the comparist will have to make do with BT and Ferdinand Holthausen's etymological dictionary of Old English. This seems an appropriate time, therefore, to focus our attention on that component of Holthausen's dictionary which concerns the closest relative of English, (Old) Frisian: not least because Holthausen himself devoted so much attention to it. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 5-13 0263-6751 17<5 1988 17 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100003987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100003987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bremmer Rolf H. The University of Leiden NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 5-13 0263-6751 17<5 1988 17 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge