TR2. 22 Yě knówe ěk thát ǐn fórme ǒf spéche ǐs cháungě
TR2. 23 Wǐthínne ǎ thóusǎnd yéer, ǎnd wórděs thó
TR2. 24 Thǎt hádděn prís, nǒw wónděr nýce ǎnd stráungě
TR2. 25 Ǔs thínkěth hém, ǎnd yét thěi spáke hěm só,
TR2. 26 Ǎnd spédde ǎs wél ǐn lóve ǎs mén nǒw dó;
TR2. 27 Ěk fór tǒ wýnněn lóve ǐn sóndry̌ ágěs,
TR2. 28 Ǐn sóndry̌ lónděs, sóndry̌ bén ǔságěs.

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• Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
• English translations (Windeatt: 1998): You also know that over a thousand years there is change in the forms of speech, and words that were current then now seem amazingly silly and strange to us, and yet they spoke them like that and got on as well in love as people do now. To win love in different times and different places, customs differ.
• Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): 皆さんも言語の形が千年も経たぬうちに変わることをよく存じているだろう、かつて高く評価した言葉は今ではひどくばかげて変に思われるが、その頃の人びとは言葉をそのように話して、今の人々と同じように恋愛に成功した。愛を得るためにも、いろいろな時代において、いろいろな土地において、作法は種々様々なのだ。
• Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 你们都知道，每过一千年，语言就变了形式，当初很有意义的字眼，人人援用，如今却觉得琐屑怪癖；古人讲爱其实和今人同样认真；不过时代和地域既有不同，获爱的风尚也就悬殊了。

Word Information

• Etymology: OE
• Addresser: Narrator
• Addressee: N/A
• Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
• Counterpart in its source (Fil): N/A
• Noun(s) (NPs) modified: manner or action (ways people use languages, usages)
• Attributive/ Predicative: predicative

Information in Previous Studies

• OED: Not quoted
• MED: 2. (a) Different in nature, character, etc., dissimilar, unlike; varied, diverse; maken diverse and ~, to make (a veil) with varied designs or colors; (s.v. sǒndrī, adj.)

• Commented in other previous works:
• Windeatt (2003): N/A
• Fisher (1989): N/A
• Benson (1987): N/A
• Davis et al. (1979): various, different (s.v. sondry, adj.)
• Donaldson (1975): N/A
• Baugh (1963): N/A

Possible Definitions

various, different

Comments from the Editor

See my comment of ‘sondri’ (adj., Tr2.27).