LANGUAGE LINKS

 

Elizabethan English:

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/history/elizlng.html

A list of Elizabethan slang.

 

English-Danish Dictionary

http://danish.nigilist.ru/engelsk-dansk.html

One document; very useful, but takes quite a long time to load.

 

English to Japanese Word Translation Service:

http://www.alc.co.jp/

 

ENHG:

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.west/enhg_dic_home.htm

An Early New High German-English Dictionary based on Petrus Dasypodius’s Dictionarium latinogermanicum (Strasbourg, 1536). Provided by the University of Newcastle.

 

Etymology

http://www.etymologie.info/~e/

A slightly bewildering number of windows on the front page, but an interesting site nonetheless with a wealth of etymological information.

 

French, Italian and Spanish Dictionaries

http://www.wordreference.com/

Contains hundreds of thousands of translations; one of the best online resources for these languages.

 

Germanic Lexicon Project

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html

Old dictionaries and grammars of Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, English dialects, Old High German, Middle High German, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Norse.

 

History of Dutch:

http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/index.htm?staatenbibel.htm

A history of the Dutch Language. Provided by the University of Vienna, this excellent resource is available in Dutch, German and English.

 

iLoveLanguages:

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

Formerly known as The Human-Languages Page. A wide-ranging catalogue of language-related Internet resources.

 

InfoNorway

http://www.infonorway.com/language/dictionaries/

English-Norwegian and Norwegian-English dictionaries.

 

The JapanesePage

http://www.thejapanesepage.com/news.php

A colourful and lively site with many free resources for learning Japanese.

 

Joyo96

http://www.joyo96.org/index.html

If you wish to buy a book related to learning the Japanese language online, this is one of the best sites

 

National Monuments Record Thesauri

http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/

A thesaurus for our built and buried heritage.

 

open dictionary

http://open-dictionary.com/

A multilingual dictionary.

 

Specialised Glossaries

http://www.venicetranslations.com/resources/a-list-of-english-glossaries-specialized.htm

Contains links to 65 glossaries – on masonry, transport, hoofcare, CCTV, rugs, bridge, tobacco, hats…

 

Wortgeschichten

http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/henrike.laehnemann/etymologie.html

Etymological essays on mediaeval German concepts (in German).

 

 

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