The ''Middle English Dictionary'' is a
dictionary of
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) 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 pe ...
published by the
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
. It comprises roughly 15,000 pages with a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 11751500, based on the analysis of over three million quotations from primary sources. It is the largest collection of this kind available.
The project began in 1925. The first installment, "Plan and Bibliography", containing a list of Middle English texts used for the dictionary, was published by
Hans Kurath and Sherman Kuhn in 1954. More
fascicles were published in numerous volumes (in alphabetical order) over the next several decades. The dictionary was completed in 2001.
In 2007, the full dictionary was made freely available and searchable online in an
HTML format.
See also
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) 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 pe ...
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Dictionary of Old English''
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Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
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