Edward Lye | |
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 Engraving of Edward Lye by Thomas Burke (1784), after a portrait by Frances Reynolds. | |
| Born | 1694 |
| Died | August 27, 1767 Yardley Hastings |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Hart Hall, Oxford |
| Known for | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. |
Edward Lye (1694–1767) was an 18th-century scholar of Old English and Germanic philology.
His Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, published posthumously in 1772, was a milestone in the development of Old English lexicography, surpassed only by, and substantially contributing to Joseph Bosworth's Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language of 1838.