Auchinleck Manuscript Lexicon
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What are the etymological connections of the Auchinleck Manuscript’s texts?
Click on a bar to download its associated list of wordsChart 2
When are Auchinleck lexicon items first cited in the MED?1
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Where do words with French connections appear in each Auchinleck poem and how novel is their use in written English?2
About:
This website was developed as part of a project funded by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, which ran from February to May 2020.
It matched words occurring in the Auchinleck Manuscript, an early fourteenth-century compilation of Middle English texts, with headwords in the Middle English Dictionary.
Our goal was to extract information about these words’ etymologies and their dates of earliest citation in English, with particular focus falling on the Auchinleck lexis having French connections.
It matched words occurring in the Auchinleck Manuscript, an early fourteenth-century compilation of Middle English texts, with headwords in the Middle English Dictionary.
Our goal was to extract information about these words’ etymologies and their dates of earliest citation in English, with particular focus falling on the Auchinleck lexis having French connections.
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Notes:
1 If the "Manuscript year" option is selected and a word does not have a manuscript date, it is left out of the statistics. This also applies for the "Composition year" option.
2 If the "Manuscript year" option is selected and a word does not have a manuscript date, its earliest composition date is shown. This also applies for the "Composition year" option.
2 If the "Manuscript year" option is selected and a word does not have a manuscript date, its earliest composition date is shown. This also applies for the "Composition year" option.