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Re: The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. DomA Send a noteboard - 19/02/2013 03:56:54 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).


Definitely, it has no use for that. I love to read it on its own. I also find it terribly useful to clarify doubts about the use of some words in specific works (and I'm thinking more 18th-19th centuries). I turn to the four Larousse for old works, though I've barely ever used the Français Classique one.

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'll note it down for when I have another medieval phase. It's not the same I have after all, but it sounds very similar.

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


One of the major works I forgot would be de Lorris, le Roman de la Rose. But you already have a very varied survey as it is. Your interest is probably more purely linguistic than mine was, though. I studied enough of the language to be able to read a lot of the works over a few years as I delved into the great works on medieval society. In school we had Tristan and Isolde read to us over the course of the year on Friday afternoon but except for the odd explanation of the origin or this or that odd grammar rule we didn't hear much of Old French, and I took the extra History course over the optimal fifth year of Latin when the transition to Old French was covered.



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