Old English prepositions

Old English prepositions

This is a list of prepositions in the Old English language. Many of them, particularlythose marked "etc.", are found in other variant spellings. Prepositions may govern the
accusative, genitive, dative or instrumental
cases - the question of which is beyond the scope of this short article.

External links

* [http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html J. Bosworth & T.N. Toller, An Anglo-Saxon dictionary: Germanic Lexicon Project]


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