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-istics (-ist +‎ -ics)[edit]

Title Title -ic- Sg. Adj. Pl.
Anglist 1888[1] Anglicist < ref></ref> Anglistic 1896?[2]? Anglistic 1906[3] 1930[4] Anglistics 1927[5] 1930[6]
Germanist < ref></ref> Germanicist < ref></ref> Germanistic < ref></ref> Germanistic < ref></ref> Germanistics < ref></ref>
Slavist < ref></ref> Slavicist < ref></ref> Slavistic < ref></ref> Slavistic < ref></ref> Slavistics < ref></ref>
Romanist 19th c.< ref></ref> Romanicist < ref></ref> Romanistic < ref></ref> Romanistic < ref></ref> Romanistics < ref></ref>
Medievalist Medievalistic medievalistic Medievalistics
Medievist Medievistic medievistic Medievistics


Balkanistics · Bohemistics · Bulgaristics · Hispanistics · Hungaristics · Iranistics · Koreanistics · Macedonistics · Polonistics · Russistics · Serbistics · Slovakistics · Ukrainistics · Yugoslavistics · Also: medievalistics · Medievalistics · medievistics · Medievistics ·


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    1888 January 1, The Journal of Education, a Monthly Record and Review, volume X, London: [] William Rice, [], page 32, column 2:
    Most Anglists, it appears, in Germany conceive that they have done their duty if they have studied thoroughly Gothic, German, and English; but they are warned that no one can pretend to be a serious student of English who has not mastered the Old Norse and made himself acquainted generally with the Scandinavian languages, besides possessing a competent knowledge of comparative grammar and of Sanskrit.
  2. ^
    1896, “Editor's Preface”, in C. H. Hereford, editor, The Tragedy of Kind Richard II (Complete Work of William Shakespeare):
    On the other hand, for the relatively few words already handled in the New English Dictionary, he has been content to draw freely upon that great treasury of concrete Anglistic.
  3. ^
    1906, “On some cases of Scandinavian influence in English”, in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, volumes 117-118, Westermann, page 34:
    In a little book which deserves to be better known in non-Scandinavian Anglistic circles, half a hundred at least may be found to occur in the Scotch dialect as spoken in the Shetlands; compare De Norröne Sprog på Shetland af Jakob Jakobsen (Köbenhavn, Prior, 1897).
  4. ^
    1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 639:
    English studies are now vigorously pursued in our universities, and the childhood of Anglistic scholarship now lies definitely in the past.
  5. ^
    1927, Lawrence Counselman Wroth, editor, The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine: Published in the Interest of the University and the Alumni[1], volume 15, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, page 116:
    The history of our English department thus begins with one of the greatest names that Anglistics in America has to offer.
  6. ^
    1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 643:
    Regularly on the Continent, and widely in America as well, that part of Anglistics devoted to the editing of texts is called English philology.