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Oct 17, 2017 · The cuneiform tablets of the Akkadian Empire are considered the oldest dictionaries. The tablets contain a bilingual list of the Sumerian-Akkadian words and were discovered around 2300 BCE in Elba, which is now modern day Syria. The oldest known monolingual dictionary is the Chinese dictionary which traces its origin in the 3rd century BCE.
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Jun 16, 2020 · one, two, three. Now, this one probably isn’t a surprise—that counting words are among the earliest recorded words in English. In Old English, one was ān (yes, the articles an and a are related), two was twā (think twin ), and three was thrēo or thrīo . Easy as ān, twā, and thrēo.
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Feb 2, 2013 · a dictionary of the first, or oldest words in the english language . a dictionary. of the first, or. oldest words in the english language: from the. semi-saxon period of a.d. 1250 to 1300. consisting of. an alphabetical inventory of. every word found in the printed english literature of the 13th century. by the late herbert coleridge,
The Jazz Age: nightclubby party-crashers. A new political age: Commies and America Firsters. Word list: words as old as the OED. When the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was finally completed in 1928, the world of 1857, when work on the dictionary began, must have seemed impossibly distant. Radio, motorcars, electric lighting ...
Jan 12, 2023 · The word is basically raih or raiha, plus a presumed possessive -an, maybe denoting “ [animal] of the roe type,” or maybe denoting that the bone is from the deer. In later Old English the word was usually spelled ra or raha. So that would indicate roe (n.2) is the oldest word in English.
Catalan-Latin dictionary from the year 1696 with more than 1000 pages. Gazophylacium Dictionary. The oldest known dictionaries were cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian – Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated to roughly 2300 BCE, the time of the Akkadian Empire.
Feb 26, 2009 · Scientists at the University of Reading have discovered that 'I', 'we', 'who' and the numbers '1', '2' and '3' are amongst the oldest words, not only in English, but across all Indo-European languages. What's more, words like 'squeeze', 'guts', 'stick', 'throw' and 'dirty' look like they are heading for history's dustbin – along with a host ...
