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SNSBI: links
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External links useful for onomastic research. Voprosy Onomastiki (Problems of Onomastics). Dictionaries of old languages. Ondrej Tichy's new Bosworth-Toller. Wright, English Dialect Dictionary. Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch. Dictionaries by Gerhard Köbler. Dictionnaire de français "Littré". Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500). Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français. Dictionary of Old-English Plant-Names. Le trésor de la langue française informatisé. Gérard Huet's Sanskrit site. By W St. ...
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Anglo-Norman words: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Word of the Month: Fitchews and mitching. Despite what is often thought, Anglo-Norman’s influence on English extends well beyond the domains of the court, the law, and towns, with an interesting number of modern English dialect words ultimately being traceable back to the language of the Norman invaders. Two such are fitchew. 8220;a foumart, polecat”,. Which the 1896 article in the OED. Derives from “OF fissel. 8221;, and mitch. Chiefly Picardy and north-east.). In the section...
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Anglo-Norman words: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Words of the month: Parker, Paliser and Parchementer: Anglo-Norman occupational surnames. One of the other changes in the dictionary entries that users might notice, aside from the new usage tags and the addition of references to cognate words in other dictionaries, involves the content of the entries. The addition that is likely to interest a wide variety of users is that we are beginning to note the use of certain terms as surnames, where we have attestations of such a use.
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Anglo-Norman words: May 2014
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Friday, May 30, 2014. Word of the month: quyne, the 'evil monkey'? In the first edition of the AND we find the entry quyn. Currently also online, until work on the second edition of Q- is completed, sometime in 2015). The word is defined as ‘(term of abuse) monkey’ and is illustrated by a single attestation from Nicholas Bozon’s Life of Saint Margaret. 8216;Ceo ke avint de celi mal quyn. 8216;Si vu ne mettez mayn en moys,. Parte de ciel ne averez o moy’ (ll. 299-300). 8216;If you do no lay hand upon me.
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Anglo-Norman words: July 2014
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Monday, July 21, 2014. Word of the month: 'ombre' and a botanical mystery! A new word of the month to announce that the entries for O/U are now revised and online! To celebrate being finished, here's an account of one word that was a bit problematic. Deytre, roine e teine: ombre. De fosse / feltrid / triblés od gresse de pork et gise .xl. jours en pelotes. This citation brought to light a number of additions and corrections to the dictionary. Firstly, deytre. A variant of dertre. N in the OED. The na...
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Account of the Battle of Evesham | Anglo-Norman: a blog
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Information and references about Anglo-Norman literature and language. My book is on Google Books. Recent reflections on translating Anglo-Norman →. Account of the Battle of Evesham. August 28, 2013. As I mentioned before. The scenes from the end and aftermath of the battle are also rendered memorably and gruesomely, as the lord Edward (later Edward I) and his men chase down the defeated soldiers mercilessly:. View all posts by John Spence →. This entry was posted in historical writing. I know Lars Kjaer...
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Information and references about Anglo-Norman literature and language. Newer posts →. Earliest prose chronicle of the kings of England. May 9, 2013. The earliest prose chronicle of the kings of England (Dean 30) gives an account of English and Norman kings from Edgar to Richard I. The text has been edited by Diana B. Tyson in ‘An Early French Prose Chronicle of the Kings of England’,. Laws from William I’s reign also recorded in Anglo-Norman prose (Dean 33). At pp 109-10) I’ve noted that the sectio...
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An Itinerary of Edward I in Scotland in 1296 | Anglo-Norman: a blog
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Information and references about Anglo-Norman literature and language. Recent reflections on translating Anglo-Norman. An Itinerary of Edward I in Scotland in 1296. September 24, 2013. Or they might appear in several manuscripts like the. Recounts his army’s movements day by day in the campaign, providing some detail on key events. It is a much drier account than the Evesham narrative, mainly concerned with places, names and key facts. However, it appears it was written very close to the ca...45 (2001), ...
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Anglo-Norman words: September 2014
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Monday, September 15, 2014. Word of the month: Nice! English speakers may be surprised to learn that the etymology of. Is not very nice at all and that its semantic development is unparalleled in the Romance languages. This word, which style guides recommend that you avoid as it both ubiquitous and nearly devoid of all meaning, has a most complicated semantic evolution. Is attested quite early in French – ca 1160 and has its roots in the Latin nescius. The semantic development of the word nice. Carrow Ps...
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