Dictionary of Old English

Dictionary of Old English project: A to Le

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Description

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) uses twenty-first-century technology to define the vocabulary of the English language's first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150). Current coverage is from A - Le and growing. This work is the project of the University of Toronto.

It complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period C.E. 1100-1500) and the Oxford English Dictionary, and is derived from texts and translations the digital Dictionary of Old English Corpus also available at Kent.

Useful if you study: 

  • History 

  • Literature 

  • English

  • Medieval and early modern studies

Help for using this e-resource

  • You can run simple and Boolean searches on all the fields of the Dictionary.

  • Keywords are highlighted in the search results.

  • Hotlinks in the entries make it possible to bring up the entries of related words or the bibliographic reference of an Old English citation or its Latin source with the click of a mouse.

  • The DOE is now linked to the online OED2/3, MED, and CoNE to facilitate seamless linguistic research.

  • DOE: A - I includes 693 annotations on palaeographical cruxes with thumbnail images from Parker on the Web.