Oxford
English Dictionary - UW restricted
(Print: PE 1625 .O87 1989)
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of
the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide
to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both
present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations
from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic
literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The
OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America
to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also
offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings,
and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Concise
Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology - UW
restricted (Print: PE 1580 .O5)
Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority
on the origin and development of English words, The Concise Oxford Dictionary
of Etymology contains a wealth of information about the English language and
its history. Find out where the words 'bungalow' and 'assassin' came from,
what 'nice' meant in the Middle Ages and much more.
English Etymology Dictionary
"These are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant
600 or 2,000 years ago. The basic sources of this work are Weekley's 'An Etymological
Dictionary of Modern English,'Klein's 'A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary
of the English Language,' 'Oxford English Dictionary'(second edition), 'Barnhart
Dictionary of Etymology,'Kluge's 'Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen
Sprache,'Ayto's '20th Century Words,'and Chapman's 'Dictionary of American
Slang.'"
A Table Alphabetical (Robert Cawdrey, 1604)
"Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, first printed in 1604, is generally regarded to be the first fully developed representative of the monolingual
dictionary in English. For each of the 2543 headwords contained in its first edition, Cawdrey provided a concise definition -- the standard entry rarely
exceeded more than a few words, usually synonyms -- and he marked those words thought to be of French or Greek origin; in some cases, he also marked those
words which were a "kind of" a larger group. Cawdrey added material to each of its three later editions (1609, 1613, 1617), ultimately to define over 3200
words, but did not vary his method. While small and unsophisticated by today's standards, the Table was the largest dictionary of its type at the
time and, when viewed in the full context of Early Modern English lexicography, it exemplifies the movement from words lists and glosses to dictionaries
which more closely resemble those of today."
Old & Middle English:
Middle English
Dictionary - UW restricted
(Print: PE 679.M54)
The print Middle English Dictionary, now complete, has been described as "the
greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000
pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500,
based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips,
the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of
the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this,
by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible
within any print dictionary.
Dictionary of
Old English - UW restricted
(Microfiche M-2021)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries
(600-1150 A.D.) of the English language, using today's most advanced technology.
The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period
1100-1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing
a full description of the vocabulary of English. Click here
for more information about the DOE.
Comprehensive Old-English Dictionary
(A. Borden, Jr.) - PE 279 B48 1982
Goal is to provide as nearly complete a list of Old-English words as possible,
and to "list them in all discernible shades of meaning" as possible.
Bosworth-Toller
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Print: PE 279 .B5 1882)
Since 1898, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary has been the primary
lexical reference for study of the Anglo-Saxon language. The printed monograph
was digitized under the direction of Sean Crist, with funding provided by
Joel Dean grants, at Swarthmore College.
American English:
Dictionary
of American Regional English - PE2843 .D52 1985 (4 vols.)
DARE documents "the varieties of English that are not found everywhere
in the United States--those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from
one region to another. . . .part of our oral rather than written culture."
Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles
- PE2835 .C72 (4 vols.)
DAE contains words originating in the US, used mostly in the US, or having
a connection with the development of the country & history of its people.
Slang & dialect terms are limited to early or prominent examples. Cutoff
date for new words is the end of the 19th century.
Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles
- PE2835 .D5 (2 vols.)
DA contains words originating in the US, words with a particular American
meaning or foreign terms adopted into American English through 1950.
Random House Historical Dictionary of American
Slang - PE 2846 .H57 1994
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of
the English Language Unabridged - PE1625 .W36 1986
Webster's Third is a dictionary "of the current vocabulary of standard
written and spoken English," especially in the US. Some 450,000 words
include variant spellings, pronunciation, part of speech, etymology, etc.
Australian English:
Macquarie Dictionary - PE1625 .M26 1981
"Since its first publication, in 1981, it has been progressively adopted by Australian schools, businesses and courts as their standard dictionary. The second edition was published in 1991 and it introduced encyclopedic content to many entries. The third edition, published in 1997, made use of an inhouse corpus of Australian writing, Ozcorp, to add a large number of examples of Australian usage, in a style reminiscent of the original Oxford English Dictionary. The fourth edition, published in 2005, increases the number of citations, includes etymologies for many phrases and pays particular attention to Australian regionalisms (Wikipedia)."
Oxford
Reference Online: English Language Reference - UW
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Search a variety of Oxford Dictionaries online, including the Oxford Dictionary
of Idioms, Dictionary of Linguistics, Dictionary of Proverbs, Dictionary
of American Usage & Style, and the Companion to the English Language.
