Re: [OT] OED OL C/P [was: Re: -ward]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:53:18 +0100, "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote...

And from the OED (take a deep breath):

suffix, OE. -weard, primarily forming adjs., with the sense
'having a specified direction', corresponds to OFris. -ward,
OS. -ward, -werd, OHG., MHG. -wart (as in heimwart adj.,
homeward):{em}OTeut. *-war{dbar}o-, f. *war{dbar}- abl.-var. of
*wer{th}-:{em}pre-Teut. *wert- to turn (= L. vert{ebreve}re); in
the suffix the primary sense of the root is preserved, though the
strong verb *wer{th}an has only the derived sense 'to become' (see
WORTH v.); cf. the L. -versus (a ppl. formation from the same
root), which in sense coincides with OTeut. *-war{dbar}o-. Two
other suffixes precisely identical in function with *-war{dbar}o-,
but representing different grades of the root, are: OTeut.
*-wer{th}o-, in Goth. -wair{th}-s, ON. -ver{edh}-r, OHG. -wert
(MHG. and mod.G. only in the adverbial -wärts: cf. -WARDS),
OFris. -wirth; and OTeut. *-ur{dbar}o- in ON. -ur{edh}-r,
OHG. -ort; neither of these types is found in OE.

Forgive me for sidetracking a moment to ask where you get this from.
Is it the CD? When I view OED online in IE, I see lots of weedy
little GIFs where you have things like {dbar} and {eth}, and these
defy all efforts to copy them in any sensible form. A {dbar}, for
example, is <IMG SRC="/graphics/parser/gifs/mbi/dbar.gif"
ALT="{dbar}" WIDTH=9 HEIGHT=15 ALIGN="absbottom" BORDER=0>. I
/could/ put this through Word and filter out the tags, but I don't
suppose you went to all that trouble. Share your secret?

There is no secret, or if there is I've not been let in on it. I simply
copy and paste into Agent from OED online viewed using Firefox.

I discovered that it worked for me and have not thought about it since.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
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