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Original materials in Middle and Modern English and French are freely quoted, and an appendix gives a full Middle English transcription of the version of the tale in Houghton Library MS Richardson 35. ‘The English language of the day was Middle English not usable as such.’ ‘The national language is Icelandic, a northern Germanic language with some resemblance to Middle English.’ ‘In my dictionary of etymology, I discovered that ‘worry’, ‘choke’ and ‘strangle’ were one and the same word in Old and Middle English.’.
- Middle English (abbreviated to ME) was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period when Middle English was spoken as being from 1150 to 1500.
- 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.
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A Middle-English dictionary: containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century 1891, Clarendon Press in English - A new ed., re-arranged, rev., and enl.
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Middle English Dictionary Michigan
The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. '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, the largest collection of this kind available.'[1]
The project began in the 1920s. The first installment, 'Plan and Bibliography', containing a list of Middle English texts used for the Middle English Dictionary, was published by Hans Kurath and Sherman Kuhn in 1954. More fascicles were published in numerous volumes (in alphabetical order) over the next several decades. The dictionary was completed in 2001.
In 2007, the full dictionary was made freely available and searchable online in an HTML format.
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