The Oxford English Dictionary, Volumul 20Clarendon Press, 1989 - 975 pagini Presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang. |
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ОTeut waniz f Teut and Indo | 1 |
iwurde to meastling 1380 WYCLIF Sel Wks III 40 | 11 |
wenen swa swa pis folc wend c1200 ORMIN 9826 Annd tatt | 45 |
wenyng to many men þat he schuld not sone come ageyn | 119 |
Wenyng unto the thevys that the boxys hadde | 234 |
inconuenience of ouer light credulitie leading such easie | 377 |
expecting etc In ME often mere opinion | 400 |
æt nyhstan ðurhteah c 1330 R BRUNNE Chron Wace Rolls | 495 |
Surmountyng the imperfection of coniecture weenyng | 747 |
other weenies to roast And he went back to his maps | 3 |
for his two sonnes hereafter 1613 SHAKS Hen VIII v i | 5 |
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