Middle English

English

Proper noun

Middle English

1. The ancient or older language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD. It developed from Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English, with heavy influence from French and Latin after the Norman invasion.

Synonyms

• Medieval English

Related terms

• Early Modern English
• English
• Late Modern English
• Modern English
• New English
• Old English

Translations

Middle English

• Catalan: anglès mitjà (ca) m

  Valencian: anglés mitjà m

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 中古英語, 中古英语 (zung¹ gu² jing¹ jyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 中古英語 (zh), 中古英语 (zh) (Zhōnggǔ Yīngyǔ)

  Min Nan: 中古英語, 中古英语 (Tiong-kó͘ Eng-gí, Tiong-kó͘ Eng-gú)

• Danish: middelengelsk n
• Dutch: Middelengels (nl) n
• Esperanto: Mezoangla Lingvo
• Finnish: keskienglanti
• French: moyen anglais (fr) m
• Galician: inglés medio m
• Georgian: საშუალო ინგლისური ენა (sašualo inglisuri ena), შუაინგლისური (šuainglisuri), შუაინგლისური ენა (šuainglisuri ena)

• German: Mittelenglisch (de) n
• Icelandic: miðenska f
• Irish: Meán-Bhéarla m
• Japanese: 中英語 (ja) (ちゅうえいご, chū-ēgo), 中期英語 (ちゅうきえいご, chūki-ēgo)
• Middle English: Englisch
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mellomengelsk m

  Nynorsk: mellomengelsk m

• Portuguese: inglês médio (pt) m
• Russian: среднеангли́йский (ru) m (sredneanglíjskij)
• Spanish: inglés medio m
• Swedish: medelengelska (sv) c
• Turkish: Orta İngilizce (tr)

See also

• Anglo-Saxon
• Germanic
• Wiktionary's coverage of Middle English terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code enm (SIL)