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Kassel gloss

Latin-German language

Also known as: Cassel gloss

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In Romance languages: Romance glosses to Latin texts
…well-known glossary, known as the Kassel (or Cassel) glosses, probably dates from the very early 9th century. It gives Latin equivalents of German (Bavarian) words and phrases and provides evidence of lexical and phonetic differentiation within Latin that permits scholars to localize the work as probably French or Rhaetian (e.g.,…
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