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Anglist
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anglist
English
Etymology
From en de Anglist.
Noun
en Anglicist.
en The Journal of Education, a Monthly Record and Review X London Published by William Rice,at the Office of the Journal, 86 Fleet Street, E.C. 1 January 1888 32 2 Most Anglists, it appears, in Germany conceive that they have done their duty if they have studied thoroughly Gothic, German, and English; but they are warned that no one can pretend to be a serious student of English who has not mastered the Old Norse and made himself acquainted generally with the Scandinavian languages, besides possessing a competent knowledge of comparative grammar and of Sanskrit.
en w:The Slavonic and East European Review 18 1939 72 Dyboski, the most eminent of Polish Anglists, who was twice lent to us for long periods, was from the first a heart-to-heart colleague.
en American Notes Queries 1990 46 While structuralists verge on re-writing the records, Anglists sometimes retreat behind the texts into a determined profession of linguistic agnosticism.
en Flor Aarts; w:Theo van Els Contemporary Dutch Linguistics w:Georgetown University Press 1990 27 9780878402755 All we can say is that the leading role that Dutch Anglists used to play in the description of English grammar has been taken over by native grammarians and this is as it should be.
Related terms
en Anglistics
Anagrams
en agilnst slating staling lasting salting Gatlins
German
Etymology
de :af la-med:Anglia<t:England> -ist
From de la-med Anglia England -ist.
Pronunciation
de /aŋˈɡlɪst/
de De-Anglist.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m.weak in
anglicist
Declension
m.weak
Further reading
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