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Check out dozens of Old English words and their modern definitions that you can try out in your everyday conversation. Words from Old English vocabulary are mainly found in literature and poetry prior to the Norman invasion of 1066.
This interactive resource allows you to explore a vast collection of Old English vocabulary. You can easily navigate through the list using our alphabetical filter, which includes special characters like ‘æ’ and ‘þ’. Additionally, you can refine your search by word type, such as nouns, verbs, or adjectives.
The list below presents some 500 Old English words which could be regarded as literary core vocabulary - perhaps the most important words in Old English, a language spoken and written in England ca. 450-1100.
Find here a collection of free, downloadable Old English text editions and translations, including Apollonius of Tyre. Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, Biblical Translations, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and many other texts.
This is a list of approximately 700 of the most common or useful Old English words, given in normalized Early West Saxon forms. The goal of this list is to provide you with a relatively small core vocabulary to study so that you can move on to reading texts quickly.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau , chiffon ...
This online version enables users to pinpoint the range of meanings of a word throughout its history, their synonyms, and their relationship to words of more general or more specific meaning.
This interactive resource allows you to explore a vast collection of Old English vocabulary. You can easily navigate through the list using our alphabetical filter, which includes… Old English words, their meanings, examples of their use and old English words that are in use today.
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language, using twenty-first century technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period C.E. 1100-1500) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of the ...
The surviving vocabulary of Old English (OE) is relatively small. The Thesaurus of Old English (TOE), with which you will be working, contains almost 34,000 different word forms, whereas a modern desk dictionary might contain 80,000.