Authority Cited: Lye
Author name and dates: Edward Lye (1694-1767)
BKG Bio-tweet: Old English, Germanic philologist: cleric; Thomas Percy mentor; documented old English vocabulary; SJ references as Mr. Lye
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 13 Lye cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, 18 Lye cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. word list, indicated in bold italic below and a reference to Lye and the title below was also added in the 1773 Dict. History of the English Language, Yale Vol. 18, p.126. All Lye word list citations are for the etymology of headwords.]
Author name and dates: Edward Lye (1694-1767)
BKG Bio-tweet: Old English, Germanic philologist: cleric; Thomas Percy mentor; documented old English vocabulary; SJ references as Mr. Lye
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 13 Lye cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, 18 Lye cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. word list, indicated in bold italic below and a reference to Lye and the title below was also added in the 1773 Dict. History of the English Language, Yale Vol. 18, p.126. All Lye word list citations are for the etymology of headwords.]
- Etymologicon Anglicanum: per Allen Walker Read, The Contemporary Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary, ELH Vol. 2, No. 3 (Nov., 1935), pp. 246-25: "Edward Lye (1694- 1767) was drawn upon frequently in the etymologies on the basis of the notes that he [Lye] had marked "L." in his edition of Junius's Etymologicon Anglicanum (1743)." per Harold Byron Allen, Samuel Johnson and the Authoritarian Principle in Linguistic Criticism, the full citation is: Junius, Franziskus. Francisci Junii Francisci filii Etymologicum Anglicum ex autogranho descripsit & accessionibus permultis auctum edidit Edwardus Lye . , . Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1743; bilk; broke; bugle/buglehorn; char; charcoal; daggle; dairy; drown; ere; gaude; gonfalon; gun; jilt; lad; lout; many (Lye citation added to unattributed list of Latin words in the 1773 Dict.); nappy; noose; orts; pelt; piddle; pudder; purl; purloin; quarry; revel; scull; slake; spirt; stubborn; thatch; whitlow [BKG Note: all of these citations of Lye likely refer to Lye's editorial notes in the Etymologicon Anglicanum as discussed above.]
- Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum. Auctore Eduardo Lye, A. M. Rectore de Yardley-Hastings in Agro Northantoniensi. Accedunt fragmenta versionis Ulphilanæ, necnon opuscula quædam Anglo-Saxonica. Edidit, Nonnullis Vocabulis auxit, plurimis Exemplis illustravit, et Grammaticam utriusque Linguae praemisit, Owen Manning, S. T. B. Canon. Lincoln. Vicarius de Godelming, et Rector de Peperharow in Agro Surreiensi; necnon Reg. Societ. et Reg. Societ. Antiqu. Lond. Socius. 1772, Londini: excudebat Edm. Allen: prostat autem venale apud Benj. White, in Vico vulgo dicto Fleet-Street; apud J. Woodyer, et T. et J. Merril, Bibliopolas Cantabrigienses; et J. et J. Fletcher, et D. Prince, Bibliopolas Oxonienses (published posthumously in 1772; see the mention of Lye and this work added added in the 1773 Dict. History of the English Language, Yale Vol. 18, p.126.)
- Lye (no work cited);