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Middle English Dictionary. 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.
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Middle English. • Middle English Dictionary. • Corpus of Middle English prose and verse. • Concise Dictionary of Middle English (from 1150 to 1580) by Anthony Mayhew & Walter Skeat (1888) or text version.
17 wrz 2018 · This is an online edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, or a dictionary of “Old English“. The dictionary records the state of the English language as it was used between ca. 700-1100 AD by the Anglo-Saxon inhabitans of the British Isles.
If we look at the vocabulary of Middle English as a whole, the evidence of dictionaries suggests that the number of words borrowed from French and/or Latin outstrips the number of words surviving from Old English by quite a margin.
There are three types of search: Lookups (look up a head word or variant form); search MED entries for words, phrases, etc, in specific sections of entries; and search the MED quotations. Detailed help on searches is provided.
The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. It comprises roughly 15,000 pages with a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1175–1500, based on the analysis of over three million quotations from primary sources.
14 wrz 2018 · Welcome to the electronic Middle English Dictionary. The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as “the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America.” Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips ...
