02-01-2020, 06:12 PM
But if "res" and "yte" can be dropped without indication of where and whether anything is dropped, then it could be so much. Is such an abbreviation really viable without context?
I mean, if you're writing a manuscript where you have to write a form of "presbyter" twenty times, then it's natural to abbreviate it, especially since it will generally be used in sentences where the full word is suggested by the context.
Now perhaps the preceding word is context enough, if for example it is to be read as "valsen". In Middle Dutch and German, "vals(ch)" means false, fake, mean, treacherous...
In that case, it would mean something like "the false presbyter". This word combination alone might be enough in the given context for the reader to understand what it means.
Going with "valsen presbyteren", I wonder which cases this could be and what this implies for the rest of the sentence.
I mean, if you're writing a manuscript where you have to write a form of "presbyter" twenty times, then it's natural to abbreviate it, especially since it will generally be used in sentences where the full word is suggested by the context.
Now perhaps the preceding word is context enough, if for example it is to be read as "valsen". In Middle Dutch and German, "vals(ch)" means false, fake, mean, treacherous...
In that case, it would mean something like "the false presbyter". This word combination alone might be enough in the given context for the reader to understand what it means.
Going with "valsen presbyteren", I wonder which cases this could be and what this implies for the rest of the sentence.