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Excerpt from The Semantic Development of Words for Mental Aberration in Germanic: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty, Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
This study aims to define the comparisons which have given ex pressions for mental aberration. When it has established this underlying figure it does not concern itself with the further history of a word. Accordingly only those definitions of a word are given which are pertinent to the subject. When a word appears in a large number of dialects, only representative dialects or those dialects which show an interesting variation of form or meaning of this word are instanced.
Expressions for mental aberration shade off into those for stupidity, folly, feeblemindedness, etc., and therefore the limits of the subject were drawn somewhat arbitrarily to include certain very closely related words rather than to exclude anything of interest.
The words of the separate groups have been arranged in the order of the Sanskrit alphabet, as this frequently brings associated words nearer together. The works in the List of Sources are grouped by languages. Following each title is found the abbreviation which has been used to refer to the same.
The writer is deeply indebted to Professor Francis A. Wood for inspiration and generous criticism.
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