The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary: A Glossary of Yorkshire Words, 1120-c.1900 [2 volume set]

A comprehensive glossary of regional words from Yorkshire's dialect, covering a wide range of topics and providing a unique insight into the county's history and culture. The dictionary draws on a variety of sources to expand the English lexicon, including historical documents, oral traditions, and specialist craft and industry terminology. It also fills in gaps in our understanding of the development of regional language and offers new vocabulary for by-names, place-names, agricultural and animal terms, and more.

Format: Hardback
Length: 760 pages
Publication date: 24 June 2021
Publisher: Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

An invaluable reference work, providing definitions for a plethora of words both old and new from Yorkshire's dialect. This comprehensive volume offers an unparalleled collection of words and phrases gleaned from Yorkshire's archives, offering a powerful new perspective on the county's intangible heritage and what it means to be from Yorkshire. The Dictionary employs a diverse range of sources to expand the English lexicon, introducing new vocabulary for various terms such as by-names and place-names, agricultural and animal terms, and specialist craft and industries. In addition to introducing innovative words like fulture (a mixture of manure and bedding), working tree (a stand for hides to be worked upon), stonery (a place where stones could be quarried), and wand hagger (part of a wood set out for producing wands or saplings for baskets, hurdles, etc.), the Dictionary also provides earlier references to established words that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, such as necessary-house (privy, here from 1414 compared to 1609), orange (as a color, here from 1504 compared to 1600), and oliver (a tilt hammer, used by early iron-workers, here from 1350, compared to 1846). Furthermore, the Dictionary fills in gaps in our understanding of the development of regional language, encompassing borrowings from the Baltic and Low Countries and its decline from the Tudor period onwards. This groundbreaking publication marks the first time a comprehensive glossary of regional words has been published, with its broad scope and underpinned by excellent scholarship, making it of interest not just to historians of Yorkshire but to local historians across the country, as well as linguists and place-name and surname researchers.

Weight: 796g
Dimension: 164 x 246 x 56 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916506671