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A History of English Language

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Index 433<br />

Nunnally, Thomas, 407<br />

Nynorsk, 33<br />

Nyrop, K., 135<br />

Oberdörffer, W., 198<br />

O’Casey, Sean, 318<br />

Odyssey, 26<br />

Oettinger, Norbert, 42<br />

Offe, J., 198<br />

Ogle, Octavus, 137<br />

Oily Robert d’, 119<br />

Old Bulgarian, 31<br />

Old Church Slavonic, 31<br />

Old <strong>English</strong>, 20, 33, 43ff.;<br />

characteristics <strong>of</strong>, 53;<br />

foreign influences on, 74ff.;<br />

grammar, 56–61;<br />

literature, 69;<br />

study <strong>of</strong>, 286;<br />

syntax, 67;<br />

vocabulary, 53ff., 64–67<br />

Old Frisian, 33<br />

Old High German, 34, 78<br />

Old Icelandic, 33<br />

Old Low Franconian, 33<br />

Oldmixon, John, 268<br />

Old Norse, 33<br />

Old Persian, 24–25<br />

Old Saxon, 33<br />

Onions, Charles T., 343<br />

Orderic Vitalis, 113, 117, 120, 123<br />

Oregon, 355<br />

Oriel College, Oxford, 139<br />

Ormulum, 155, 422<br />

Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L., 385<br />

Orosius, 72<br />

Orsman, Harry W., 349<br />

Orthography, problem <strong>of</strong>, 208<br />

Orton, Harold, 317, 348<br />

Oscan, 28<br />

Ostrogoths, 32<br />

Oswald, bishop <strong>of</strong> Worcester and archbishop <strong>of</strong> York, 88<br />

Oswald, King, 84<br />

Oversea language, 227<br />

Ovid, 206<br />

Owl and the Nightingale, The, 155, 415<br />

Oxford, earl <strong>of</strong>, 267;<br />

statute <strong>of</strong>, 139;<br />

University <strong>of</strong>, 193<br />

Oxford <strong>English</strong> Dictionary, 339, 342;<br />

second edition, 343–44

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