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Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Before the beginnings of large-scale modern lexicography in the 16th century and the development of the comparative method in the 18th, a scientific etymology (in the sense understood by modern linguistics) was not possible.
The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.
Etymology is the study of the history of individual words. The origins and developments of Medieval Latin words are extremely interesting in their own right, but for the DMLBS etymology is of particular importance because, although it is not generally used to order the senses and subsenses of a word (as in some dictionaries), the history of a ...
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA) is a four-volume dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Oxford University Press. It contains over 5,000 entries concerning European history and culture from AD 500 to 1500 as well as topics related to the Byzantine Empire, Islamic history, and medieval Asia. [1]
Etymology in the medieval sense of the term could involve a number of different processes: for example, aspects of word-formation, such as analysis of a compound or derivative, or explanation of a word in terms of onomatopoeia or sound-symbolism or by association with one or more similar-sounding words that were felt to shed light on the ...
The DMLBS is the key lexical reference work for anyone reading Medieval Latin texts produced in Britain or by British authors. The period covered extends from the 6th to the 16th century.
