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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.
Middle English. Dictionary. • 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)
Middle English (abbreviated to ME [1]) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.
Subject: General reference , Middle English. Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Dictionary, Glossary, Grammar , Textual Evidence. Geopolitical Region: British Isles and Ireland , Europe. Original Language: English , Middle English. Created by the Medieval Academy of America.
This resource is of particular relevance to lexicographers and language scholars, but is moreover a key reference work for all scholars in medieval studies. The Dictionary entries provide head words, variant spellings, etymology, definition, and illustrative quotations with links to the HyperBibliography.
Project MELT is the Middle English Language Translator. For this project, our team created a functional, responsive, web-based application that converts Middle English (or English) text into a .wav file with correctly pronounced Middle English audio.
This page gathers some tools to help you read Middle English out loud, and to translate it. Because I use this page for a range of courses, some of the examples may not be drawn from texts you are reading in any given course, but these general remarks should have applicability across a range of Middle English works.
