Middle English Definition

noun
The English language from about 1100 to 1500.
American Heritage
The English language as written and spoken between c. 1100 and c. 1500, preceded by Old English and followed by Early Modern English: it is characterized by the loss of grammatical gender and most of the inflectional endings of Old English, by the emergence of a syntax based on word order and function words, by the simplification of the pronominal system, and by extensive vocabulary borrowings from French, Latin, and Low German.
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pronoun

The ancestor language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD. It developed from Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English, with heavy influence from French and Latin after the Norman invasion.

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  • Portions of this text are printed in Henry Sweet's First Middle English Primer (Oxford, 2nd ed., 1895), which contains a grammatical introduction.

  • The periphrastic superlatives also greatly outnumber the inflectional superlatives from the Late Middle English period onwards.

  • After studying Middle English literature Emma loved using the word gast instead of scare.

  • Besides the palace of the maharaja, the town contains a middle English school and a female dispensary, entirely supported out of the estate.

  • The word "kennel," a gutter, a drain in a street or road, is a corruption of the Middle English canel, cannel, in modern English "channel," from Latin canalis, canal.

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