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Excerpt from Parts of the Body in the Later Germanic Dialects: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This investigation deals with the words for the body and its parts in the later Germanic dialects. Its object is to show how these words came to have their present meaning, rather than to show the original meaning. The method of procedure is to place beside each word under consideration a group of related words from the same dialect and from other dialects, in order to exhibit the primary meaning from which came the present meanings of the words in the group. Thus is shown the development of the use of a certain word as a name (usually a descriptive term) for a part of the body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.