Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Si-Stoytene-Sale

The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tonguedefines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. It touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society and supplies a wealth of illustration in the form of quotations accompanying every word and meaning it discusses. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, medicine, agriculture, and all other aspects of Scottish society. This "Scots OED" is published in paper-bound parts (fascicles) and also as volumes, each containing several parts.Aitken, A. J. is the author of 'Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Si-Stoytene-Sale' with ISBN 9780198613466 and ISBN 0198613466.