Authority Cited: Somner
Author name and dates: William Somner (1596-1669)
BKG Bio-tweet: Antiquarian; scholar; high reputation; first Anglo-Saxon dictionary; Royalist; prison under Cromwell; SJ cites in etym
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two etymologies (for aspen, cloud) refer to Somner in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Somner citations were identified in the 1773 Dict. SJ does not list a Somner title, but mentions a Saxon root under aspen. The edition used by SJ is unknown. There was a a second edition in 1701 by Thomas Benson titled Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum. In Johnson the Philologist, 1988, Diasuke Nagashima suggests (pp.166-169) that the views of Minsheu, Casaubon, Somner, and Verstegan for some headwords were adduced and discussed via their entries in Skinner rather than in source volumes.]
Author name and dates: William Somner (1596-1669)
BKG Bio-tweet: Antiquarian; scholar; high reputation; first Anglo-Saxon dictionary; Royalist; prison under Cromwell; SJ cites in etym
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two etymologies (for aspen, cloud) refer to Somner in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Somner citations were identified in the 1773 Dict. SJ does not list a Somner title, but mentions a Saxon root under aspen. The edition used by SJ is unknown. There was a a second edition in 1701 by Thomas Benson titled Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum. In Johnson the Philologist, 1988, Diasuke Nagashima suggests (pp.166-169) that the views of Minsheu, Casaubon, Somner, and Verstegan for some headwords were adduced and discussed via their entries in Skinner rather than in source volumes.]
- Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum voces, phrasesque præcipuas Anglo-Saxonicas, e libris, sive manuscriptis, sive typis excusis, aliisque monumentis tum publicis tum privatis, magna diligentia collectas, cum Latina et opera & studio Guliel. Somneri Cantuariensis. accesserunt Ælfrici abbatis Grammatica Latino-Saxonica, cum Glossario suo ejusdem generis, 1659, Oxonii: Excudebat Guliel. Hall, pro authore, prostant Londini, apud Danielem White, ad insigne septem ad stellarum ex Aquilone Templi S.Pauli; aspen; cloud