单词Middle English
na.: 中世纪英语
网络: 中古英语；语源；中古英文
中古英语（约公元 1150 至 1500 年间的英语）:
an old form of English that was used between about AD 1150 and AD 1500
中世纪英语
The word cement seems to have come into Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin.
水泥这个词似乎最早是由拉丁语演变为古法语，随后进入中世纪英语。
Old French picked this up and the word appeared as a Middle English word fol whose earliest written record appears in 1225.
古法语借鉴了这个词，而它最早出现在中世纪英语书面记录的时间是1225年。
Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer"s great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.
在这里沃伦scheer读取开始杰弗里乔叟的伟大的诗，“坎特伯雷故事”，因为这是在中东的书面英语。
But there was a Middle English stut that came before with the same meaning, and that can be traced to Germanic roots.
不过，在此之前，有个中世纪英语单词stut具有同样的含义，而且可以追溯到日耳曼语根源。
A similar process took place in northern Middle English, as evidenced by the use of qu-, quh-, and cu- for hw- in multiple manuscripts.
类似的过程也发生在北部的中古英语中，从大量的手稿里都使用qu-，quh-和cu-来取代hw-，就可以证明。
The Middle English Period stretches roughly to the early years of the 15th century.
中古英语期大约持续到十五世纪初。
Both French and English belong to the Indo-European Family. Since the Middle English period French has had strong influence on English.
法语和英语同属于印欧语系，中古英语以来法语对英语就有着极其深刻的影响。
In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. This language is called Middle English.
在14世纪英语重新成为英国主流语言，但也增加了许多法语单词，这就是中世纪英语。
Apparently, it was this devoiced, "whispered" w for which Middle English scribes, under French influence, invented the spelling wh-.
显然，正是由于这个清音化，“whispered”中的w在中古英语的文书中，受到法语的影响，发明了拼写wh-。
The word Christmas is derived from Middle English Christemasse. It is a contraction meaning "Christ"s mass" .
Christmas一词来源于中世纪英语Christemasse，大概的意思是耶稣的弥撒。