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Andrew Breeze

Andrew Breeze has 2 papers in our library, in 1995, most of them on Historical linguistics & language change, English.

2 papers in our library · 1995

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 11 · 454 works · 463 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6354

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 Affiliations

🎓Universidad de NavarraPamplona · Spain1970–2026 · 161 paperscurrent🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United KingdomEducation🎓University of OxfordOxford · United KingdomEducation

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 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 3The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksClassics · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 2 worksHistorical linguistics & language change · 2 works

 Works by year

1990s

19951 paperA Celtic Etymology for Old English claedur, 'clapper'

Undated

undated1 paperOld English Hula ‘Sheds’ and Hull, Yorkshire

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. A Celtic Etymology for Old English claedur, 'clapper' (1995)
    Andrew Breeze takes up the unclear origin of the Old English word claedur. It survives only in the oldest English glossaries: Épinal has claedur, Erfurt cledur, and Corpus cleadur. There it translates Latin crepacula and is explained as a wooden board for driving birds away from crops. Earlier scholars sought…
  2. Old English Hula ‘Sheds’ and Hull, Yorkshire
    Breeze reconsiders where the name of Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull) in Yorkshire comes from. Earlier reference works treated it as a river-name of British (Celtic) or Scandinavian origin, with proposed meanings such as 'muddy' or 'deep'. The author argues against this on sound-change grounds. British had no word-initial h…

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Truso in the Old English Orosius and Tczew, PolandSELIM 26 · original ↗ · no summary yetAndrew Breeze2021
  2. A Celtic Etymology for Old English claedur, 'clapper'SELIM Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and LiteratureAndrew Breeze1995
  3. The Three Hosts of Doomsday in Celtic and Old EnglishMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 15 · original ↗ · no summary yetAndrew Breeze1994
  4. Old English Hula ‘Sheds’ and Hull, YorkshireSELIM Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and LiteratureAndrew Breeze

Venues

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