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A Thesaurus of Old English captures the lexis of Old English, the variant of English spoken between roughly 500 and 1100 by the Anglo-Saxons. This thesaurus groups together lexical items that are considered near-synonymous and provides insight into the distribution of those items in the surviving Old English texts. Edited by Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, and Lynne Grundy, the first edition was published in print in 1995. A new impression was published five years later. Currently, the thesaurus is available in Evoke and on a website hosted by the University of Glasgow. The latter contains further documentation on the thesaurus, including on its source material, creation, and distribution flags.

Version

A Thesaurus of Old English has been transformed to the interoperable data form called Linguistic Linked Data (described here). This form of the thesaurus, known as TOE-LLD has been available in Evoke since 2018, based on an extract of the TOE database on May 26th, 2017 that was kindly provided by the University of Glasgow.

How to cite

If you use the Linguistic Linked Data version of A Thesaurus of Old English, please cite the following article:

• Sander Stolk, “A Thesaurus of Old English as Linguistic Linked Data”, Proceedings of eLex2019, Sintra, 1–3 October. https://elex.link/elex2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/eLex_2019_13.pdf .

License

The database of A Thesaurus of Old English is copyright of the University of Glasgow, who kindly granted the right to make this data available to you through Evoke. This site makes available that data to you for non-commercial research purposes (such as private reference, personal research, and the provision of teaching materials). You may not use the material on this site for commercial or for-profit purposes.

Regardless of your purpose, you are not permitted to use this site to gain access to a significant amount of Thesaurus data. Only limited quantities of data can be made available through this website, although the amount which can be accessed is more than sufficient for almost all research purposes. Should you be involved in a research project which requires a substantial amount of Thesaurus data, please contact the University of Glasgow. It is explicitly prohibited to use this website to systematically download large amounts of data.

Finally, beyond limited extracts of up to a few hundred words which are necessary for your research or teaching, you may not reproduce, copy or transmit any part of the data on this site without the prior permission in writing of University of Glasgow.