Glossaries. I will first provide an updated version of M. Walcott’s 1870 abridgement of the 1677 Glossarium Brigantinum. I will provide the original spellings, alongside a broad IPA transcription of how the word is likely to have been pronounced in 1677 (bearing in mind the pronunciation may have changed by the later Cumbrian period), as well as a definition and an updated etymological examination for each word.
Glossarium Brigantium Abridgement Aamery /ˈɐːməˌriː/ n. - A cupboard, a safe for meat. The initial part, aam, is the regular development from OE ælm-; ‘alms, food given to the poor.’ This later develops to aumry /ɔːmriː/. Acram /ˈɐkrəm/ n. - A situation possibly relating to the AngloScottish wars which lasted into the late 1500s, in which a local clergyman was bound and left to watch a duel between a champion fighting on his behalf and an enemy. The author (either of the abridgement or the original Glossarium) is vague about what the outcome of this duel determined. The etymology is difficult to parse; it looks as though it is related to acre, which would make sense if the duels were related to land disputes, but this ought to be *yakker in mainstream45 Cumbrian at this point. It could be from a non-mainstream variety where the initial /j/ has been deleted, but I can make no confident assertions here. Addle /ˈadəl/ v. - To earn through work. From ON ǫðlask ‘to come into possession of property.’ Amell /əˈmel/ prep. - Between. From the ON prepositional phrase á milli, ‘between.’ Anenst /əˈnenst/ prep. - Over, against. This can be anent in later
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By ‘mainstream Cumbrian,’ I mean that variety of Cumbrian that has formed the base for the phonological developments leading to the varieties of later Cumbrian. 222
