Search results
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. Image: The Ellesmer Manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, c. 1400-1405.
- About
The 70-year Middle English Dictionary project drew on...
- Bibliography
Middle English Compendium. Toggle navigation. Skip to...
- The Middle English Compendium
The Hyper-Bibliography, linked to both the ME texts and the...
- About
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 ...
People also ask
What does lookup mean in English?
Where can I find a comprehensive dictionary of Middle English lexicon?
How do I find Middle English words?
What is a good dictionary for Middle English?
The Hyper-Bibliography, linked to both the ME texts and the electronic Dictionary, stands at the center of the project and potentially at the hub of a larger set of linguistic and lexicographic tools for the study of early English; the searchable e-MED, long a desideratum of Middle English studies, offers unprecedented access to the MED’s ...
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. Go to the Middle English Dictionary; Bibliography
The Middle English Compendium is a product of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. The project was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Chief Editor is Frances McSparran and the Associate Editor is Paul Schaffner. The Project Director during the grant-funded phase was John Price ...
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. • Middle English dictionary (12 th -15 th century) by Francis Henry Stratmann & Henry Bradley (1891)
Dictionary search types. A search of the entire entry will retrieve all entries containing the word or phrase, text, author, date, etc. (or a combination of these) you specify; search items could appear in any of the parts of the entry (form section, definition, quotation, notes, etc.). A search within headword (with alternate spellings ...