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The special word UNCERTAIN is a temporary marker for later action in a text in progress. It has the following meaning:

There is some uncertainly about how the text should properly encoded at this point (e.g. a character encoding question, special formatting of text, etc.). Someone will study and resolve this problem later.

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Following are the numbers of occurence of UNCERTAIN in each text:

Language	Text	Strict matching	Loose matching
PGmc	Torp	--	--
Goth	Wright's Gothic Grammar	--	--
OE	Bosworth/Toller	724	724
OE	Bright's OE Grammar	1	1
OIcel	Cleasby/Vigfusson	163	163
OIcel	Gordon/Taylor	--	--
	All texts	888	888

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UNCERTAIN is not in the list of known abbreviations in Bosworth/Toller. If it really is an abbreviation, please click here to report it.

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External links:

Modern English: Search ARTFL's Gutenberg Webster for UNCERTAIN

Modern German: Search Leo for UNCERTAIN

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