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    Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic (12th c.-1550) 
    Tarsi, Matteo (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-05-18)
    This thesis addresses the coexistence and interplay of loanwords and their corresponding endogenous synonyms during the Old and Middle Icelandic period (12th c.–1550), i.e. in a period with no ideologically rooted nor overtly expressed language purism. ...
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    On loanwords of Latin origin in contemporary Icelandic 
    Tarsi, Matteo (Háskólinn á Akureyri, 2014)
    This article focuses on the Icelandic lexis' history by analysing the loanwords of Latin origin in it. The corpus examined traverses the history of Icelandic through its whole. The borrowings are divided into four main waves, ...
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    On the origin of the oldest borrowed Christian terminology in Icelandic 
    Tarsi, Matteo (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, 2016)
    This article deals with the origin of the oldest core of borrowed Christian terminology still extant in Icelandic, i.e. those words which were introduced in Old Norse in the period ranging from the first evangelical missions in Scandinavia (9th c.) to ...