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The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. Tom Send a noteboard - 19/02/2013 03:09:25 PM
I'm assuming you're talking about La Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française sous le direction d'Alain Rey published by Le Robert. It's a nice hefty brick of a book and it's fun reading on its own. However, it doesn't really provide the Old French forms for a lot of words, just the ultimate origin (usually Latin, but sometimes OHG or Gaulo-Celtic).

The Kibler is an English-language book:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-French-Introductions-Languages-Series/dp/0873522923/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361286304&sr=8-1&keywords=old+french+kibler

I will probably just work with what I have (and maybe your suggested Renart) for now; it sounds like I have the major works.

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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Any recommendations for reading Old French? Tom - 19/02/2013 01:17:09 AM 1059 Views
Not too many outside the ones you've already said Larry - 19/02/2013 02:20:23 AM 598 Views
Bertrand keeps cropping up Tom - 19/02/2013 03:10:15 PM 633 Views
I can't find Bertrand in a good edition. Tom - 23/02/2013 02:42:56 AM 582 Views
Hmmm... DomA - 19/02/2013 05:02:50 AM 556 Views
The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. Tom - 19/02/2013 03:09:25 PM 565 Views
Re: The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. DomA - 19/02/2013 03:56:54 PM 795 Views
Good suggestion Tom - 19/02/2013 07:05:58 PM 656 Views
Re: Good suggestion DomA - 20/02/2013 12:01:00 AM 585 Views
I figured it was a cool sounding purchase either way. Tom - 20/02/2013 01:11:06 AM 632 Views
Re: I figured it was a cool sounding purchase either way. DomA - 20/02/2013 04:47:12 AM 619 Views
Actually, it's 195 pages Tom - 20/02/2013 06:16:56 AM 535 Views
And please let me know if you ever hear of that Rabelais original being printed! *NM* Tom - 20/02/2013 05:00:40 PM 256 Views
Re: And please let me know if you ever hear of that Rabelais original being printed! DomA - 20/02/2013 05:21:11 PM 628 Views
The Roman de la Rose doesn't have the full text. Tom - 23/02/2013 02:40:23 AM 488 Views
Oh, and I did finally get the Zorzi history of Venice Tom - 20/02/2013 01:12:22 AM 496 Views
Is de Machaut Old French or Middle? Ghavrel - 19/02/2013 09:02:15 AM 525 Views
Probably Middle Tom - 19/02/2013 03:12:11 PM 581 Views
A bit of both DomA - 19/02/2013 03:15:32 PM 639 Views
They have a few of his poems in the anthology - I checked. Tom - 20/02/2013 01:22:15 AM 819 Views
that's awesome. i love old dead languages... i have no suggestions that aren't old irish, though. *NM* temeraire - 20/02/2013 01:38:50 AM 258 Views
Apparently the word "lay" meaning "story" comes from Irish "laid", meaning "song". *NM* Tom - 20/02/2013 07:54:47 PM 255 Views
One of our friends works with Old French and Occitan and Oxford Uni at the moment. Rebekah - 20/02/2013 04:14:36 PM 610 Views
Sure, why not? Tom - 20/02/2013 04:59:01 PM 615 Views
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