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Middle English

noun

English from about 1100 to 1450.

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Etymology of 'Middle English'

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"Middle English" Quotes from Famous Books

... nominative singular. Many of these pronouns, perhaps all, as well as a vast number of other words of frequent use in our language, and in that from which it chiefly comes, were very variously written by the Middle English, Old English, Semi-Saxon, and Anglo-Saxon authors. He who traces the history of our language, will meet with them under all the following forms, (or such as these would be with Saxon characters for the Saxon forms,) and ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... occurrence of Old English words is contained in that Dictionary, but is to a very large extent overlooked because it is to be found under the head of words which are now obsolete, so that unless one happens to know what was the last form which they had in Middle English, one does not know how to get at it. This information will be made readily available by the references in the present work, which will form a practically complete index to the Anglo-Saxon material in the larger ...

— A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - For the Use of Students • John R. Clark Hall

Words linked to "Middle English" : southwestern, East Midland, English, northern, West Saxon, West Midland, English language, Kentish