Project Gutenberg 2013-02-02 Public domain in the USA. 501 Coleridge, Herbert 1830 1861 11006238 A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300 Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language" by Herbert Coleridge is a scholarly dictionary written in the mid-19th century. This work serves as a comprehensive inventory of every word found in the printed English literature of the 13th century, aiming to establish a historical perspective on the evolution of the English language. The book is likely to attract linguists, philologists, and those interested in the historical development of English vocabulary. The opening of the dictionary begins with a preface where Coleridge outlines the purpose and significance of the work. He emphasizes that the dictionary aims to provide a foundational resource for the Philological Society's larger project of compiling an English dictionary. In this section, he notes how the words are organized, detailing the approach taken to illustrate both older forms and modern equivalents, along with the systematic referencing of etymological roots. The introduction also acknowledges contributions from various scholars, highlighting a collaborative effort toward documenting the lexicon of early English literature and its historical context. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41975/41975-h/images/cover.jpg en English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. PE Text Browsing: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature 565346 565356 2024-09-17T14:38:54.993516 2023-09-18T09:24:50.140997 text/html text/html 586546 2013-02-02T15:07:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 192549 2013-02-02T15:07:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 201235 2024-09-17T14:39:12.867418 application/epub+zip 208023 2024-09-17T14:38:56.927510 application/epub+zip 208023 2024-09-17T14:38:55.877497 application/epub+zip 536465 2024-09-17T14:39:22.278385 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380131 2024-09-17T14:39:11.730439 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380416 2022-09-19T08:07:29.409978 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 427834 2024-09-17T14:38:43.354576 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 427727 2013-02-02T15:07:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 147256 2013-02-02T15:07:44 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 17817 2024-09-17T14:39:22.467374 application/rdf+xml 11382 2024-09-17T14:38:56.115509 image/jpeg 1963 2024-09-17T14:38:55.997496 image/jpeg 198043 2024-09-17T14:38:55.034503 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog