DICTIONARIES AND OTHER
REFERENCE WORKS USED BY DOST
Dictionaries and
Word-lists
DUTCH
Verdam, J.,
Middelnederlandsch Handwoordenboek, The
Hague, 1949.
Verwijs, E. and Verdam, J.,
Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 10
vols., The Hague, 1885-1941.
ENGLISH
Barnhart, Robert K. and
Steinmetz, Sol, The Barnhart Dictionary of
Etymology, New York, 1988.
Bosworth, J. and Toller, T.N.,
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford,
London, 2nd impression, n.d.
Carter, Henry Holland,
A Dictionary of Middle English Musical
Terms, New York, 1968.
Kurath, H. and Kuhn, S.M.,
Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor,
1956-2001.
Murray, James, et. al., The New
English Dictionary (Oxford English Dictionary), various
editions.
Onions, C.T., The Oxford
Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford, 1966.
Sandahl, Bertil,
Middle English Sea Terms, vol. 1
(1951), vol. 2 (1958), vol. 3 (1982), Uppsala.
Wright, Joseph,
The English Dialect Dictionary, 6
vols., London, Oxford, New York, 1898-1905.
FRENCH
Beaujean, A.,
Dictionnaire de la langue française
abrégé du dictionnaire de E. Littré, Paris,
1881.
Godefroy,
F., Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue
française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, 10
vols., Paris, 1880-1902, and
Complément, 3 vols., Paris,
1895-1902.
Grandsaignes d'Hauterive, R.,
Dictionnaire d'ancien français moyen
âge et renaissance, Paris, 1947.
Greimas, A.J.,
Dictionnaire de l'ancien français
jusqu'au milieu du XIVe siècle, 2nd ed., Paris, 1968.
Guilbert,
Louis, et. al., Grand Larousse de la langue
française, 7 vols., Paris, 1971-78.
Hatzfeld, A.,
Darmesteter, A., Thomas, A., Dictionnaire
générale de la langue française du commencement du XVIIe
siècle jusqu'à nos jours, 2 vols., Paris, 1924.
Tobler, A. and Lommatzsch, E.,
Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch,
11 vols., Berlin, 1925-89.
von Wartburg, W.,
Französisches Etymologisches
Wörterbuch, 36 vols., Bonn, Basel,
1928-83.
GAELIC/IRISH
Dineen, P.S.,
An Irish-English Dictionary, Dublin,
1927.
Dwelly, Edward, The Illustrated
Gaelic-English Dictionary, Glasgow, 1949, 1977.
Macbain, Alexander,
An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic
Language, Stirling, 1911.
Maclennan, M.,
A pronouncing and etymological dictionary of
the Gaelic language, Edinburgh, 1925.
Marstrander,
G.J.S., Joynt, M. and Knott, E., Dictionary of
the Irish language, based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials,
Dublin, 1913.
O Daly, M.,
O’Sullivan, A., O Fiannachta, P., Joynt, M., Quin, E.G., Greene, D. and
Condon, T., Contributions to a Dictionary of
the Irish language, Dublin, 1939-.
ICELANDIC
Cleasby, R. and Vigfusson, G.,
An Icelandic-English Dictionary,
Oxford, 2nd ed., 1957.
Kvaran,
Guðrún (director),
Orðabók
Háskólans, database of Icelandic, 1540-, Institute of
Lexicography, University of Iceland, 1943-; www.lexis.hi.is.
LATIN
Latham, R.E.,
Revised Medieval Latin Word-List from British
and Irish Sources, London, 1965.
Lewis, C.T. and Short, C.,
A Latin Dictionary, Oxford,
1933.
NORN
Jakobsen, J.,
An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn
Language in Shetland, 2 vols., London, Copenhagen, 1928, 1932.
Marwick, H., The Orkney
Norn, Oxford, 1929.
SCOTS
Donaldson, D.,
Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish
Dictionary, Paisley, London, 1887.
Grant, W., and Murison, D.,
The Scottish National Dictionary, 10
vols., Edinburgh, 1927-76.
Jamieson, J., An
Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 4 vols., Paisley,
1879-82.
Kerr, R.D., A Glossary of Mining
Terms Used in Fife, Fife Colleges, 1980.
Pride, Glen L.,
Dictionary of Scottish Building,
Edinburgh, 1975, new revised ed., 1996.
Bibliography
Aldis, H.G., A List of
books printed in Scotland before 1700, Edinburgh, 1970.
Law
Gibb, Andrew Dewar,
Students' Glossary of Scottish Legal
Terms, Edinburgh, 1946.
Wark, J.L.,
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 1926-35.
Watson,
George, Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the
Law of Scotland, 7th ed., Edinburgh, London, 1890.
Onomastics
Black, George F., The
Surnames of Scotland, New York, 1946.
Johnston, J.B.,
Place-Names of Scotland, London,
1934.
Watson, W.J., The History of the
Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, Edinburgh, London, 1926.
Costume/Armour
Beard, C.R., Dictionary of
Costume and Armour, unpublished MS, Victoria and Albert Museum,
n.d.
H.D. Watson