Authority Cited: Lye
Author name and dates: Edward Lye (1694-1767)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 33 total citations of Lye in the etymology of headwords]
Author name and dates: Edward Lye (1694-1767)
BKG Bio-tweet: Old English and Germanic philologist: cleric; SJ references in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 33 total citations of Lye in the etymology of headwords]
- 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 in the 1773 Dict. History of the English Language, Yale Vol. 18, p.126)
- 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.
- Lye (no work cited); bilk; broke; bugle/buglehorn; char; charcoal; daggle; dairy; drown; ere; gaude; gonfalon; gun; jilt; lad; lout; many (Lye citation added to unattrib. Latin list in 1773 Dict.); nappy; noose; ort; 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.]