The paper deals with a group of Old English lexemes the meaning ʻpowerʼ, namely: wald/weald, mund, rīki/rīce, dōm. use dōm in genre-variegated original texts gives grounds for referring them to semantic field «Law», i.e., very important cluster vocabulary ancient Angles and Saxons. Working words expressing concept «power», authors set goal analyzing nuances that differentiate OE wald, etc., whi...

We present a reinterpretation of lexical information embedded in the English WordNet in an alternate type of structure called lexical system. First, we characterize lexical systems as graphs of lexical units (word senses) connected mainly by Meaning-Text lexical function relations, then introduce a hand-built lexical system: the French Lexical Network or frLN, a lexical resource that implements...