io.github.gowinder/eldertongue

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Eldertongue

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Old English dictionary over MCP: headwords, inflection tables, form ID, Beowulf citations.

Summary by lookupd

Looks up Old English headwords, inflection tables, form identification, English-to-Old English mapping, and Beowulf line occurrences.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http eldertongue https://eldertongue.com/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add eldertongue --url https://eldertongue.com/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eldertongue": {
      "url": "https://eldertongue.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

lookup_headword Look up an Old English headword (macrons optional) in the eldertongue dictionary. Returns senses, IPA, syllables, part of speech, gender, noun declension / verb
inflect Return the full declension (nouns/adjectives) or conjugation (verbs) table for an Old English headword. Every word form carries an anchor URL into the eldertong
identify_form Given any inflected form (e.g. cyninges, band, gōdra), return the headwords it could belong to and the grammatical reading (case, number, gender, person, tense,
english_to_old_english Given a modern English word (e.g. king, ship, write), list Old English headwords whose definitions mention it, with a score, part of speech, gloss, and the elde
beowulf_occurrences Given an Old English headword, return every line of Bēowulf that carries it: the line numbers, the line text, the spellings used, and a link to the poem line on

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