The Dictionary of Old English

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Scholars at U of T's Centre for Medieval Studies have been working on a comprehensive dictionary of the Old English since the 1970s. With the release of “H” this year, they have published definitions for more than half of the roughly 35,000 words from the earliest form of the language.
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@user-xn8hk4je4i Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

@xxXTychoXxx 7 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating

@8randomprettysecret8 3 ай бұрын

Cool finds!

@JackbenImbel2274 Ай бұрын

This is really cool. I have to see if they finished it. A lover of Germanic languages am I.

@gealg5752 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@showman139 2 жыл бұрын

Is it available on Amazon?

@chrystalearhart9939 7 ай бұрын

Has this dictionary been published yet?

@simajia9213 7 жыл бұрын

Wow I understand nothing

@Dunkle0steus 7 жыл бұрын

The grammar in Old English is very different, so that hurts your chances. If the words were in the right order for Modern English, it'd be a lot easier. For example in the first quote, I'm pretty sure the OE sentence ended with the word scolde, (pronounced like shoal-deh) which is ancestor of the word "should". The Modern English translation of the sentence ended with the word "way", so you can see that the translation rearranges the words a bit which makes it confusing. After listening to it a couple times, I'm pretty sure it begins "Why, thou Lord, ever wouldst..." but my grasp of OE isn't great enough to get much farther than that. Pretty sure wyrd means fate and he says that a bit on but I can't do anything with the other bits.

@tammcd 5 жыл бұрын

If you want to hear some easily-comprehensible Old English, this is only 1 1/2 minutes: watch?v=p72ciUaTBCk