Anglish Wordbook
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Notation Key
᛫ = definition separator
᛬ = part of speech separator
[ᛏ] = transitive
[ᚾ] = intransitive (neuter verb)
[ᚹ] = widened (an expanded meaning given to a word for the sake of Anglish)
[ᚱ] = revived (a dead definition returned to a living word)
[ square brackets ] = older form of the word
{ curly brackets } = related word
NE = New English | ENE = Early New English | ME = Middle English | OE = Old English
N = Norse | WF = West Frisian | LG = Low German | HG = High German | NL = Dutch | Þ = Proto-Germanic
C = Celtic | I = Italic | H = Hellenic | O = other
PST = past tense
PTCP = past participle
PL = plural
[OXF] = Found in Oxford English Dictionary or Oxford's online "Lexico" Dictionary
[MW] = Found in Merriam-Webster (though maybe only the 1913 edition)
[CED] = Found in Collins English Dictionary
[MEC] = Found in the Middle English Compendium's online dictionary
About the New Spellings
This wordbook includes optional "Anglish Spellings" for words whose spellings have been influenced by foreign orthographies after the Norman Invasion.
About the Wordbook
This wordbook was started in 2017 by Hurlebatte, and is now worked on by many members of the community. It follows Oxford spelling rules (armour, nationalize). Its contents are based partly on the following sources: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Bosworth-Toller; the Middle English Compendium; Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary; The Collins English Dictionary; and Lexico. You can also read the Wordbook on Google Sheets.
Wordbook
WORD | ANG. SPEL. | MEANING | KIND | FOREBEAR | WHENCE | NOTES |
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a | ᛫ per ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
abboten | ᛫ an abbess ᛫ | N | abbot+en | NE‹‹I‹H‹O+NE | ||
abbotric | ᛫ an abbacy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(O+E) | ||
abide | ᛫ to act in accordance with ᛫ to remain ᛫ to wait ᛫ to wait for ᛫ to await ᛫ to persist ᛫ to reside ᛫ to face ( in combat etc ) ᛫ | V | ~[abīden][ābīdan] | NE | ||
abiding | ᛫ enduring ᛫ continuing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
abidinghouse | abidinghuse | ᛫ an almshouse ᛫ a poorhouse ᛫ | N | abiding house | NE | [OXF] |
abite | ᛫ to devour ᛫ to mangle ᛫ to bite to death ᛫ | V | abītan | OE | ||
abode | ᛫ a place of residence ᛫ residence ᛫ a stay ᛫ a sojourn ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: abide | |
aboveboard | abufboard | ᛫ transparent ( as in not hidden ) ᛫ legitimate and in the open ᛬ openly and legitimately ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | aboveboard | NE | |
abraid | ᛫ to move violently ᛫ to burst forth ᛫ to start up ᛫ to awake ᛫ | V | abraid&abreiden | NE&ME | ||
abreast | ᛫ to make abreast ᛫ to inform ᛬ informed ᛬ parallel ᛫ alongside ᛫ | V᛬AJ᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
abreasting | ᛫ information ᛫ | N | abreast+ing | NE×2 | ||
abreethe | abreeth | ᛫ to degenerate ᛫ to deteriorate ᛫ | V | abrẹ̄then[abrēoþan] | ME | kin: brẹ̄þen |
abroad | ᛫ in or to a foreign country ᛫ away from home ᛫ in different directions ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
abrothen | ᛫ degenerate ᛫ | AJ | abroþen | OE | kin: brothel? | |
abrothenness | ᛫ degeneracy ᛫ | N | abroþenness | OE | ||
abuy | abye | ᛫ to suffer a penalty ᛫ to atone ᛫ to pay for something ᛫ | V | abye[abīen][ābycgan] | NE | PST: abought ᛫ PTCP: abought; aboughten |
abye | ᛫ to bow ᛫ to bend ᛫ to turn ᛫ to inflect ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | V | gebīgan | OE | ||
abying | ᛫ case ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | N | gebīgednys | OE | ||
achesoothing | akesoothing | ᛫ anodyne ᛫ | AJ | ache+soothing | NE×2 | |
ack | ᛫ but ᛫ however ᛫ except ᛫ | C | ac | ME | ||
ackle | ackel | ᛫ frightened ᛫ terrified ᛫ | AJ | acol | OE | |
acknow | ᛫ to recognize ᛫ to identify ᛫ | V | iknouen&gecnāwan | ME&OE | ||
acknowledge | acknowlecg | ᛫ to recognize something's validity existence presence or standing ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
acknowledging | acknowlecging | ᛫ acknowledgement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
acost | ᛫ proven ᛫ tried and true ᛫ tested ᛫ | AJ | gecost | OE | ||
acre | aker | ᛫ an English unit of land area ( 4840 square yards ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
acreman | akerman | ᛫ a husbandman ᛫ a ploughman ᛫ a farmer [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | akerman | ME | |
acretilth | akertilth | ᛫ agriculture ᛫ | N | acre+tilth | NE×2 | calque: akkerbouw |
addeem | adeem | ᛫ to adjudge ᛫ | V | ~[adēman] | NE | |
adder | ᛫ a viper ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | corruption of: nadder | |
adderbiter | ᛫ an ichneumon ᛫ an Egyptian mongoose ᛫ a mongoose [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | nǣderbita | OE | ||
adderbolt | ᛫ a dragonfly ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
adderkin | ᛫ a Serpentes animal ? ᛫ | N | nǣdercynn | OE | ||
adderwort | ᛫ a Persicaria bistorta plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | aka: snakeweed | |
addle | addel | ᛫ liquid filth ᛬ to confuse ᛫ to muddle ᛬ putrid ᛫ rotten ᛫ idle ᛫ vain ᛫ unsound ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[adela] | NE | |
addle | addel | ᛫ to earn ᛫ to gain ᛫ to procure ᛫ to save up money ᛫ to grow ᛫ to thrive ᛫ to flourish ᛫ to yield fruit ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹ME‹N | |
addled | addelled | ᛫ confused ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
adight | adigt | ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to set up ᛫ to edit [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | adight | ME | |
adle | adel | ᛫ illness ᛫ ailment ᛫ disease ᛫ | N | ā̆dle | ME | |
ado | ᛫ to do away with ᛫ to take away ᛫ subtract ᛫ to remove ᛫ | V | ādōn&ādōn | ME&OE | equal to: do off? | |
ado | ᛫ trouble ᛫ difficulty ᛫ fuss ᛫ bustling activity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
adole | ᛫ a division ᛫ a separation ᛫ a dissolution ᛫ a parting ᛫ a separating ᛫ a dividing ᛫ a dispensation ᛫ a portion ᛫ | N | gedāl | OE | ||
adread | ᛫ frightened ᛫ terrified ᛫ scared ᛫ afraid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
adrench | adrenc | ᛫ to drown ᛫ to sink ᛫ to overwhelm ᛫ to suffocate ᛫ | V | adrenchen | ME | |
adwesh | adwesc | ᛫ to extinguish ᛫ to blot out ᛫ to delete ᛫ to quench ᛫ | V | adweshen | ME | |
afar | ᛫ at a distance ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
afear | ᛫ to frighten ᛫ to terrify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
afeared | ᛫ frightened ᛫ terrified ᛫ afraid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Affer | ᛫ an African ᛫ | N | affer | ME | ||
afford | aford | ᛫ to be able to pay for ᛫ to provide ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
afield | afeeld | ᛫ in a field ᛫ to a field ᛫ away from home ᛫ off-topic ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
afire | ᛫ to castrate ᛫ | V | afȳran | OE | ||
afired | ᛫ a eunuch ᛫ a castrated animal ᛫ | N | afȳrida{afȳrd} | OE | ||
afold | ᛫ simple ᛫ plain ᛫ onefold ᛫ single ᛫ singular ᛫ | AJ | ōfōld/afōld | ME | short for: onefold ᛫ or: ofold ᛫ possible rhyme: shovelled | |
afoldly | ᛫ simply ᛫ plainly ᛫ singularly ᛫ | AV | ōfōld+ly | ME+NE | short for: onefoldly ᛫ or: ofoldly | |
afoot | ᛫ in action ᛫ in process ᛫ in the area ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
afore | ᛫ before ᛫ in front of ᛫ opposite ᛫ | AV&P | afore&afō̆rn | NE&ME | ||
aforesaid | ᛫ aforementioned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
afoul | afule | ᛫ into conflict or difficulty with ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
Africk | ᛫ Africa ᛫ | N(P) | Affrīk&Affrica | ME&OE | ||
aft | ᛫ a stern of a vessel ᛬ located at the back of a vehicle ᛬ at near or towards a vessel's stern ᛫ | N᛬AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
after | ᛫ post- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
afterbear | ᛫ a descendant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
afterbirth | ᛫ a placenta ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
afterborn | ᛫ posthumous ( born after father's death ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
afterbrain | ᛫ a myelencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
aftercomer | aftercummer | ᛫ a successor ᛫ | N | aftercomer | NE | |
aftercoming | aftercumming | ᛫ a sequel ᛫ a consequence ᛫ a result ᛬ succeeding ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
afterdeal | ᛫ a disadvantage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
afterdeath | ᛫ post-mortem ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
afterdoomsday | ᛫ post-apocalyptic ᛫ | AJ | after+dooms+day | NE×3 | ||
afterganger | ᛫ a follower ᛫ a successor ᛫ | N | æftergenga | OE | ||
afterhand | ᛫ subsequently ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
afterling | ᛫ an after follower ᛫ a descendant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
Afterlithe | ᛫ July ᛫ | N(P) | Æftera Liþa | OE | or: meadmonth (from mǣdmōnaþ)? | |
aftermath | ᛫ consequences ( usually of something bad ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
aftermidday | ᛫ afternoon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
afters | ᛫ dessert ᛫ sweets ᛫ the last course of a meal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
afterspeak | ᛫ to claim ( possession ) ᛫ | V | æftersprecan | OE | ||
afterspeech | afterspeec | ᛫ a claim ( of possession ) ᛫ | N | æfterspræc | OE | |
aftertime | ᛫ the future ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
afterword | ᛫ an epilogue ᛫ a postscript ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Afteryule | Afteryool | ᛫ January ᛫ | N(P) | Æfterra Geola | OE | |
against | ᛫ versus ᛫ contrary to ᛫ in opposition to ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
aghast | agast | ᛫ horrified ᛫ shocked ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
agraith | ᛫ to make ready ᛫ prepare ᛫ to dress a wound ᛫ to adorn ᛫ to embellish ᛫ | V | agraithen | ME‹N | ||
agraithing | ᛫ embellishment ᛫ ornament ᛫ | N | agraithing | ME‹N | ||
ahap | ᛫ fitting ᛫ suitable ᛫ | AJ | gehæp | OE | ||
aheave | aheaf | ᛫ to heave up ᛫ to elevate ᛫ to exalt ᛫ | V | ahebban | OE | |
ail | ᛫ ailment ᛬ to make suffer ᛫ to trouble ᛫ to pain ᛬ troublesome ᛫ painful ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[egle][eglan] | NE | ||
ait | ᛫ a small island in a river ᛫ an eyot ᛫ an islet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
akeep | ᛫ to preserve ᛫ to reserve ᛫ | V | ikēpen | ME | ||
akin | ᛫ related ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
alack | ᛫ alas ! ᛫ | I | ~ | NE | ||
alast | ᛫ to perform ᛫ to accomplish ᛫ to execute ᛫ | V | gelæstan | OE | ||
albeit | ᛫ though ᛫ | C | ~ | NE | ||
Albert Mere | ᛫ Lake Albert ᛫ | N(P) | Albert+mere | NE×2 | ||
alder | ᛫ a parent ᛫ an ancestor ᛫ an elder ᛫ a chief ᛫ a leader ᛫ a ruler ᛫ | N | alder | ME | ||
alderbishop | alderbiscop | ᛫ an archbishop ᛫ | N | ealdorbiscop | OE‹(E+H) | |
alderborough | alderboroug | ᛫ a metropolis ᛫ | N | ealdorburh | OE | |
alderdeemer | ᛫ a supreme court judge ᛫ | N | aldordēma | OE | ||
alderdom | ᛫ authority ᛫ eldership ᛫ magistracy ᛫ principality ᛫ | N | ealdordōm | OE | ||
alderman | ᛫ an elected member of a city council ᛫ a baillie ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
aleater | ᛫ an omnivore ᛫ | N | all+eater | NE×2 | inspired by German "Allesfresser" | |
alee | ᛫ on the lee side of a ship ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
aleesing | ᛫ salvation ᛫ redemption ᛫ | N | ālīsedness | OE | ||
alehouse | alehuse | ᛫ a bar ᛫ a tavern ᛫ a pub ( public house ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
aleknight | aleknigt | ᛫ a man who drinks alcohol ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
alewife | ᛫ a woman who keeps an alehouse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
alfather | ᛫ an epithet used for a head god ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
alight | aligt | ᛫ to descend ᛫ to exit ᛫ to dismount ᛫ to disembark ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
alighten | aligten | ᛫ enlighten ᛫ illuminate ᛫ | V | ālīhtan | OE | |
alike | ᛫ similar ᛬ similarly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
alkin | ᛫ of every kind ᛫ universal ᛫ | AJ | ~[eallcyn] | NE | ||
alknowing | ᛫ omniscient ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
alknowingness | ᛫ omniscience ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
all | ᛫ omni- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
all told | ᛫ in total ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
allay | alay | ᛫ to calm down ᛫ to lull ᛫ to pacify ᛫ to alleviate ᛫ to abate ᛫ to mitigate ᛫ to subside ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
allings | ᛫ entirely ᛫ sufficiently ᛫ | AV | allinges | ME | ||
allness | ᛫ totality ᛫ universality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
allow | ᛫ aloe ᛫ | N | alwe | OE‹‹O | rhyme: hallow ᛫ "aloe" is French | |
ally | ᛫ of all ᛫ universal ᛫ Catholic ᛫ | AJ | eallic | OE | ||
Almannish | Almannisc | ᛫ Alemannic speech ᛬ Alemannic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | all+man+ish | NE×3 | calque: Alemannisch |
almight | almigt | ᛫ omnipotence ᛫ | N | almighty | NE | |
almighty | almigty | ᛫ omnipotent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
almsful | ᛫ charitable ᛫ | AJ | ælmesfull | OE | ||
almsman | ᛫ a taker of alms ᛫ a beggar ᛫ a giver of alms ( an almoner ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹‹OE‹(I‹H+E) | ||
aloft | ᛫ at to or in the air ᛫ above ᛫ up ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | could be spelled: alift (to make it English instead of Norse) | |
aloneness | ᛫ solitude ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
along of | ᛫ because of ᛫ | P | ~[gelang]{ilong on} | NE | ||
aloom | ᛫ frequently ᛫ | AV | ilōme[gelōme] | ME | ||
alow | ᛫ low down ᛬ below ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | rhyme: a toe | |
alseeing | ᛫ omnipercipient ᛫ | AJ | allseeing | NE | ||
alsuch | alsuc | ᛫ exactly ᛫ just ᛫ exactly as ᛫ just as ᛫ | AV | alswich | ME | |
altew | ᛫ sound ᛫ healthy ᛫ | AJ | æltæw/ealteaw | OE | ||
altheedish | altheedisc | ᛫ international ᛫ | AJ | all+theedish | NE×2 | inspired by Icelandic "alþjóðlegur" |
alther | ᛫ ( modifies an adjective's superlative form in a way similar to the " very " in " very best " ) ᛫ | PREFIX | alther | ME | or: alder, aller | |
altogether | ᛫ completely ᛫ totally ᛫ in total ᛫ in general ᛫ for the most part ᛫ overall ᛫ | AV | altogether | NE | ||
alway | ᛫ perpetually ᛫ continually ᛫ | AV | ~[ealneg] | OE | or: always | |
alwhere | alhwere | ᛫ everywhere ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | [MW] |
amain | ᛫ with all one's might ᛫ with full speed ᛫ in great haste ᛫ to a high degree ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
amake | ᛫ a mate ᛫ a spouse ᛫ a pair ᛫ an equal ᛫ | N | imāke[gemaca] | ME | ||
amaze | amase | ᛫ to astonish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
amazedness | amasedness | ᛫ amazement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
amber | ᛫ a bucket ᛫ | N | ambre[amphora?] | ME‹OE‹I | ||
amid | ᛫ during ᛬ in the middle of ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
amind | ᛫ memory ᛫ a memory ᛫ a recollection ᛫ | N | imīnde[gemynd] | ME | ||
amind day | ᛫ a commemoration day ᛫ | N | gemynd dæg | OE | ||
amiss | ᛫ faulty ᛫ out of order ᛫ improper ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
amone | ᛫ social intercourse ᛫ sexual intercourse ᛫ | N | imōne[gemāna] | ME | ||
anclee | ᛫ an ankle ᛫ | N | ~ | ME | overtaken by Norse form 'ankle' during ME | |
and | ᛫ an ampersand ( & or ⁊ ) ᛫ | N | and | ME | or: andstaff | |
and | ᛫ ( shows return action ) ᛫ | PREFIX | and/an | ME | the D gets dropped when convenient, making it "an-" | |
andestone | ᛫ andesite ᛫ | N | Andes+stone | NE‹I+NE | calque: andesite | |
andet | ᛫ to confess ᛫ | V | andettan | OE | ||
andetter | ᛫ a confessor ᛫ | N | andettere | OE | ||
andeven | andefen | ᛫ a quality ᛫ a quantity ᛫ an extent ᛫ a capacity ᛫ an amount ᛫ a proportion ᛫ | N | andefn | OE | |
andsoforth | ᛫ et cetera ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | abbreviation: asf | |
aneed | ᛫ to compel ᛫ to force ᛫ | V | inēden[genēadian] | ME | ||
anent | ᛫ about ᛫ concerning ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
anew | ᛫ to restore to an original state ᛫ | V | ineuen | ME | ||
ang | ᛫ angry ᛫ vexed ᛫ | AJ | ange | OE | ||
ang | ᛫ ( shows an ailment of a tight vexed nature ) ᛫ | PREFIX | ang | OE | ||
angbreast | ᛫ a tight vexation of the breast ᛫ asthma ᛫ | N | angbreost | OE | ||
angmood | ᛫ anxiety ᛫ a vexed mood ᛫ | N | angmod | OE | ||
angness | ᛫ anxiety ᛫ distress ᛫ | N | angnes | OE | ||
angsome | andsum | ᛫ troublesome ᛫ | AJ | angsum | OE | |
anight | anigt | ᛫ abundance ᛫ sufficiency ᛫ plenty ᛫ | N | genyht | OE | |
anip | ᛫ clouds ᛫ mist ᛫ fog ᛫ vapor ᛫ obscurity ᛫ a nebula [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | inip&genip | ME&OE | kin: nebula | |
anker | ᛫ an anchorite ᛫ an anchoret ᛫ | N | āncor | OE‹I‹H | ||
anklebone | ankelbone | ᛫ a tarsal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | or: ancleebone |
anlet | ᛫ a face ᛫ an appearance ᛫ | N | anlē̆t[andwlita/andwlite] | ME | ||
anletbone | ᛫ a facial bone ᛫ | N | anlet+bone | ME+NE | ||
anlikeness | ᛫ an image ᛫ a figure ᛫ resemblance ᛫ a model ᛫ | N | anlīcnes | OE | ||
anneal | aneal | ᛫ to ignite ᛫ to inflame ᛫ to incite ᛫ to temper through heating ᛫ | V | anneal&onǣlan | NE&OE | |
anon | ᛫ instantly ᛫ immediately ᛫ | AV | ~[anōn][on ān] | NE | rhyme: a swan | |
anothergates | ᛫ a different kind of ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | "gate" here means "way" | |
anqueath | ancweath | ᛫ a response ᛫ an answer ᛫ a reply ᛬ to respond ᛫ to answer ᛫ to reply ᛫ | N᛬V | oncweþan | OE | |
ansaker | ᛫ a denier ᛫ a renouncer ᛫ an apostate ᛫ an opposer ᛫ | N | andsaca | OE | ||
ansen | ᛫ a face ᛫ a countenance ᛫ an aspect ᛫ a form ᛫ a figure ᛫ an appearance ᛫ | N | ansẹ̄ne[ansȳn] | ME | ||
ansenstone | ᛫ a fossil ᛫ | N | ansẹ̄ne+stone | ME+NE | calque: steingervingur | |
anshot | anscot | ᛫ a tax rebate ᛫ a tax return ᛫ | N | and+scot | OE+OE | equal to: return tax |
antimber | ᛫ matter ( mass noun ) ᛫ material ( mass noun ) ᛫ substance ( mass noun ) ᛫ a theme ? ᛫ a topic ? ᛫ a subject ? ᛫ | N | antimber&andtimber | ME&OE | ||
anvil | anfil | ᛫ an incus ( bone ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
anward | ᛫ present ᛫ current ᛫ contemporary ᛫ in one's presence ᛫ | AJ | andweard | OE | ||
anward tide | ᛫ the present tense ᛬ of the present tense ᛫ | N᛬AJ | andwerd tīd | OE | ||
anwarden | ᛫ to make present ᛫ to update ᛫ to modernize ᛫ | V | andward+en | OE+NE | ||
anwardening | ᛫ an update ᛫ modernization ᛫ | N | andward+en+ing | OE+NE×2 | ||
anword | ᛫ an answer ᛬ to answer ᛫ | V | andwurden&andwyrde | ME&OE | ||
anwork | ᛫ matter ᛫ material ᛫ substance ᛫ | N | andwork | ME | ||
anyet | ᛫ perception ᛫ sensation ᛫ understanding ᛫ a sense ( such as sight ) ᛫ an explanation ᛫ sense ( like in makes sense ) ᛫ | N | andȝet&andgit | ME&OE | or: anget (Norse) | |
anyetful | ᛫ sensible ᛫ intelligible ᛫ | AJ | andgitfull | OE | ||
anyetfully | ᛫ sensibly ᛫ intelligibly ᛫ | AJ | andgitfullīce | OE | ||
anyetless | ᛫ senseless ( as in lacking sensation ) ᛫ senseless ( as in irrational , nonsensical , or foolish ) ᛫ | AJ | andgitlēas | OE | ||
anyettle | anyettel | ᛫ intelligent ᛫ sensible ᛫ discerning ᛫ | AJ | andgitol/andgyttol | OE | |
anyetty | ᛫ sensational ( as in sensory ) ᛫ sensible ᛫ | AJ | andȝet+y{andgitlic} | ME+NE | ||
anywise | ᛫ in any way or manner ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
ape | ᛫ an ape ᛫ a monkey ᛬ to imitate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
apebreadtree | ᛫ a baobab ᛫ | N | ape+bread+tree | NE×3 | calque: monkeybread tree ᛫ note: apenbroodboom | |
apely | ᛫ simian ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
aper | ᛫ a copycat ᛫ an imitator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
applewine | appelwine | ᛫ apple cider ᛫ | N | æppelwīn | OE | |
aquine | acwine | ᛫ to dwindle away ? ᛫ | V | acwīnan | OE | |
Araby | ᛫ Arabia ᛫ | N(P) | Arabī[Arabia] | ME‹OE‹O | ||
arade | ᛫ instructed ᛫ skilled ᛫ expert ᛫ educated ᛫ | AJ | irade[gerād] | ME | ||
ard | ᛫ a dwelling place ( especially one's native land or region ) ᛫ a home ᛫ a homeland ᛫ an abode ᛫ | N | ē̆rd | ME | ||
aread | ᛫ to guess ᛫ to conjecture ᛫ to form or render an opinion ᛫ to estimate ᛫ to interpret ᛫ | V | aread&arēden[ārǣdan] | NE&ME | [MW]; CED | |
areading | ᛫ an ordinance ᛫ a decree ᛫ | N | gerǣdnes | OE | ||
arear | ᛫ to construct ᛫ to establish ᛫ to levy ( troops , taxes , &c ) ᛫ | V | areren | ME | ||
argh | arg | ᛫ timid ᛫ cowardly ᛫ | AJ | argh/arow[earg] | ME | rhyme: borrow? |
arise | ᛫ to emerge ᛫ to become apparent ᛫ to come into being ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
arisen | ᛫ proper ᛫ fitting ᛫ seemly ᛫ | AJ | gerisene | OE | ||
arist | ᛫ an arising ᛫ the rising of the sun ᛫ | N | arist | ME | ||
arkenstone | ᛫ a precious stone ᛫ a jewel ᛫ | N | eorcanstān | OE | kin: Eorconbeorht | |
arm | ᛫ poor ᛫ unwealthy ᛫ pitiful ᛫ indigent ᛫ | AJ | arm[earm] | ME | ||
armbone | ᛫ a humerus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
armchary | armcary | ᛫ sad ᛫ miserable ᛫ | AJ | earmcearig | OE | |
Armeny | ᛫ Armenia ᛫ | N(P) | armenīe/armany/armonye | ME | or: Hayastan ᛫ should rhyme with "harmony"? | |
arming | ᛫ a poor creature ᛫ a wretch ᛫ | N | erming | ME | ||
armth | ᛫ poverty ᛫ | N | ermthe/armþe | ME | ||
arown | arune | ᛫ a mystery ᛫ a sacrament ᛫ mysterium ᛫ | N | gerȳne | OE | |
arrowblaster | ᛫ an arbalest ᛫ | N | arowblaster{arbalest} | ME | a medieval folk etymology of arbalest | |
arse | ᛫ a derrière ᛫ a posterior ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: ass | |
arsefoot | ᛫ a Podicipedidae bird ( a grebe ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
arseling | ᛫ backwards ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
arsetril | ᛫ an anus ᛫ | N | earsþerl | OE | ||
arveth | arfeth | ᛫ difficult ᛫ | AJ | arveþ[earfoþ] | ME | |
arveth | arfeth | ᛫ ( shows something is difficult to do or deal with ) ᛫ | PREFIX | earfoþ | OE | |
arvethhield | arfethheeld | ᛫ ill-inclined ᛫ ill-natured ᛫ | AJ | earfoþhylde | OE | |
arvethly | arfethly | ᛫ with difficulty ᛫ | AJ | arveþlīch | ME | |
arvethness | arfethness | ᛫ toil ᛫ hardship ᛫ | N | earfoþnes | OE | |
arvethright | arfethrigt | ᛫ hard to correct ᛫ | AJ | earfoþrihte | OE | |
arvethrow | arfeththrow | ᛫ a difficult time ᛫ a time of tribulation ᛫ | N | earfoþþrāg | OE | |
arvethsithe | arfethsithe | ᛫ a laborious journey ᛫ misfortune ᛫ calamity ᛫ | N | earfoþsīþ | OE | |
arvethteachy | arfethteacy | ᛫ difficult to show ᛫ difficult to prove ᛫ | AJ | earfoþtǣcne | OE | |
as an aside | ᛫ in passing ᛫ en passant ᛫ | PHRASE | ~ | NE×3 | ||
asamming | ᛫ a convention ᛫ a congregation ᛫ a synagogue ᛫ a church ᛫ | N | gesamnung | OE | ||
aset | ᛫ to appoint ᛫ | V | aset | ME | ||
Asey | ᛫ Asia ᛫ | N(P) | Assye [Asia] | ME‹O | rhyme: crazy | |
ashen | ascen | ᛫ made from the ash tree ᛫ of or resembling ashes ᛫ pale ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
ashgrey | ascgrey | ᛫ cinereous ᛫ | AJ | ash+grey | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes |
aside | ᛫ a digression ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
asit | ᛫ to oppress ᛫ to occupy ᛫ | V | asitten&onsittan | ME&OE | PST: asat | |
asithe | ᛫ a comrade ᛫ | N | gesīþ | OE | ||
ask | ᛫ a lizard ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ask | ᛫ a question ᛫ an inquiry ᛫ a request ᛬ to request ᛫ to inquire ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
askeel | ᛫ a Halosauridae fish ( a halosaur ) ᛫ | N | ask+eel | NE×2 | calque: Echsenaale | |
askingly | ᛫ interrogative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | āsciendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
aslake | ᛫ to abate ᛫ to diminish ᛫ to moderate ᛫ to mitigate ᛫ to appease ᛫ to satisfy ᛫ | V | ~[āslacian] | NE | ||
asoothe | ᛫ to prove ᛫ to confirm ᛫ to verify ᛫ | V | isōþien[gesōþian] | OE | ||
aspen | ᛫ a Populus tree [ᚹ] ᛫ a poplar ᛫ a cottonwood ᛫ an aspen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
astell | ᛫ to install ᛫ to establish ᛫ to found ᛫ to institute ᛫ | V | onstellen&onstellan | ME&OE | ||
astir | ᛫ to activate ᛫ to put in motion ᛬ active ᛫ in motion ᛫ | AJ | astir&astiren | NE&ME | ||
astride | ᛫ with legs on each side ᛬ with legs on each side of ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
asunder | ᛫ apart ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
asunderhood | ᛫ segregation ᛫ apartheid ᛫ | N | asunder+hood | NE×2 | calque: apartheid | |
asweeve | asweef | ᛫ to calm down ᛫ to lull ᛫ to pacify ᛫ to appease ᛫ to put to rest ᛫ to soothe ᛫ | V | aswēve&aswebban | ME&OE | |
at a braid | ᛫ in a moment ᛫ momentarily ᛫ | AV | at a breid | ME | phrase | |
at unset steven | stefen | ᛫ unexpectedly ᛬ by chance ᛫ | AV | at unset steven | ME | rhyme: seven |
atbraidingly | ᛫ ablative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | ætbregdendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
atbrest | ᛫ to break away ᛫ to escape ᛫ | V | atbresten | ME | ||
atease | ᛫ to tear ᛫ to tease ( as in to pull apart ) ᛫ | V | ātǣsan | OE | kin: tease | |
atell | ᛫ number ( grammatical term ) ᛫ a register ᛫ a catalogue ᛫ a catalog ᛬ to register ᛫ to catalog ᛫ to catalogue ᛫ | N | ȝetel&getæl/getel | ME&OE | ||
atew | ᛫ to appear ᛫ to display ᛫ to manifest ᛫ | V | atẹ̄wien{ēowan} | ME | kin: eye | |
atfang | ᛫ to claim lost or stolen property ᛫ | V | ætfōn{fang} | OE | ||
atgo | ᛫ to go away ᛫ to pass away ᛫ | V | atgon | ME | ||
Athabasca Mere | ᛫ Lake Athabasca ᛫ | N(P) | Athabasca+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
athel | ᛫ a noble ᛬ noble ᛫ | N᛬AJ | aþel | ME | ||
athelborn | ᛫ nobleborn ᛫ highborn ᛫ | AJ | aþelborn | ME | ||
athelen | ᛫ to ennoble ᛫ | V | æþelian+en | OE+NE | ||
atheling | ᛫ a noble ᛫ a prince ᛫ | N | atheling[æþeling] | ME | ||
athelingen | ᛫ a princess ᛫ | N | æþeling+en | OE+NE | a more historically sound term for "princess" is simply "lady" | |
athelkind | ᛫ of noble kind or origin ᛫ | AJ | æþelcund | OE | ||
athelly | ᛫ nobly ᛫ elegantly ᛫ | AV | æþellīce | OE | ||
athelman | ᛫ a nobleman ᛫ | N | athelman | ME | ||
athelness | ᛫ nobility ᛫ | N | æþelnes | OE | ||
athelwhite | athelhwite | ᛫ a Leontopodium alpinum plant ᛫ edelweiss ᛫ | N | aþel+white | ME+NE | calque: Edelweiß |
athelwield | athelweeld | ᛫ aristocracy ( the political system ) ᛫ | N | athel+wield | NE | |
atithe | ᛫ to grant ᛫ to allow ᛫ | V | itīthien[getigþian] | ME | ||
atlast | ᛫ finally ᛫ ultimately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
atle | atel | ᛫ terrible ᛫ horrible ᛫ dire ᛫ repulsive ᛫ ugly ᛫ hideous ᛫ | AJ | ātel[atol] | ME | |
atley | ately | ᛫ hideous ᛫ ugly ᛫ | AJ | atelīch[atollīc] | ME | |
atone | ᛫ to make amends ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | equal to: at one | |
atsammen | ᛫ together ᛫ | AV | atsomne[ætsomne] | ME | ||
atsit | ᛫ to resist ᛫ to oppose ᛫ | V | atsitten | ME | ||
atstall | ᛫ a station ᛫ a camp ᛫ | N | ætsteall | OE | ||
atter | ᛫ poison ᛫ venom ᛫ pus ᛬ to poison ᛫ to envenom ᛫ | N | atter&ǣtrian | NE&OE | ||
attercop | ᛫ a spider ᛫ | N | [āttercoppe/āttorcoppe] | NE | kin: cobweb | |
attercraft | ᛫ the art of poisoning ᛫ wicked sorcery ᛫ | N | ātorcræft | OE | ||
atterdeer | ᛫ a poisonous animal a venomous animal ᛫ | N | atter+deer | NE×2 | ||
atterling | ᛫ a malicious person ᛫ | N | atterling | ME | ||
atterloath | ᛫ an antidote ᛫ | N | atterlothe | ME | ||
attern | ᛫ poisonous ᛫ venomous ᛫ cruel ᛫ ill-natured ᛫ | AJ | attern | ME | ||
attery | ᛫ venomous ᛫ poisonous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Attle | Attel | ᛫ Lazio ? ᛫ Italy ? ᛫ | N(P) | Eatol | OE | kin: Italy |
Attler | Atteler | ᛫ a Latin ? ᛫ an Italian ? ᛫ | N(P) | Eatolware | OE | |
atwain | ᛫ in two parts ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
atween | ᛫ between ᛫ | P | atwēn | ME | ||
atwind | ᛫ to escape ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
Atwisen | ᛫ Gemini ᛫ | N(P) | Getwisan | OE | ||
atwist | ᛫ substance ᛫ | N | ætwist | OE | ||
atwite | ᛫ to attribute to ᛫ to charge ᛫ to blame ᛫ | V | atwīten | ME | ||
aught | augt | ᛫ property ᛫ possession ᛫ | N | aughte[ǣht] | ME | |
aught | augt | ᛫ anything ᛫ | N | ~[āht] | NE | |
aught | augt | ᛫ deliberation ᛫ evaluation ᛫ meditation ᛬ to deliberate ᛫ to evaluate ᛫ to meditate on ᛫ | N | æht&eahtian | OE&OE | |
Australia | ᛫ Australia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: Australy; or New Holland | |
aver | afer | ᛫ vehement ᛫ | AJ | afor | OE | rhyme: waver? ᛫ kin: æfur (Icelandic)? |
awe | ᛫ admiration tinged with fear ᛬ to inspire awe ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
awesome | awesum | ᛫ incredible ᛫ awe-inspiring ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
awful | ᛫ horrible ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
awin | ᛫ contest ᛫ tumult ᛫ war ᛫ | N | gewin | OE | ||
awk | ᛫ perverse ᛫ sinister ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹N | ||
awn | ᛫ one of the slender bristles that terminate the glumes of the spikelet in some cereal and other grasses ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
awork | ᛫ a fortress ᛫ a fort ᛫ a castle ᛫ | N | geweorc | OE | ||
awortwale | ᛫ to uproot ᛫ to eradicate ᛫ to exterminate ᛫ to extirpate ᛫ | V | āwyrtwalian | OE | ||
awrack | ᛫ wrecked ᛫ in ruins ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
awry | ᛫ contorted ᛫ twisted ᛫ bent ᛫ out of place ᛫ deviant ᛫ perverse ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
axe | ᛫ an axe ᛫ a hatchet ᛬ to strike with an axe ᛫ to cancel ᛫ to cut down ᛫ to remove something ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | or: ax | |
axle | axel | ᛫ an axis ᛫ | N | ~[eaxl] | NE | |
axlespan | axelspan | ᛫ a crossbar ᛫ a crosspiece ᛫ | N | eaxlegespann | OE | |
ay | ᛫ eternal ᛬ always ᛫ ever ᛫ continually ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE‹ME‹N | rhyme: day | |
ayen | ᛫ again ᛫ | AV | ayēn | ME | ||
ayen | ᛫ facing ᛫ towards ᛫ contrary to ᛫ against the fact that ᛫ | P | onyēn [ongean] | ME | ||
ayenbite | ᛫ remorse ᛫ | N | ayenbite | ME | or: againbite (Norse influenced) | |
ayenbuy | ayenbye | ᛫ to ransom ᛫ | V | ayẹ̄nbīen | ME | calque: redimere |
ayet | ᛫ to perceive ᛫ | V | ayiten{yeten} | ME | ||
ayin | ᛫ to commence ᛫ | V | aginnen[onginnan] | ME | ||
Babilon | ᛫ Babylon ᛫ | N(P) | Babilōn | OE | ||
Babilony | ᛫ Babylonia ᛫ | N(P) | Babilony | ME | ||
babyhood | ᛫ infancy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Babylony | ᛫ Babylonia ᛫ | N | babylonie | OE | ||
back | ᛫ to support ᛫ to sponsor ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
backbite | ᛫ to talk maliciously about someone who is not present ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
backbone | ᛫ the ridgebone ᛫ the spine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
backen | ᛫ to delay ᛫ to retard ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
backer | ᛫ a supporter ᛫ a sponsor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
backfriend | backfreend | ᛫ a friend who is secretly an enemy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
backhanded | ᛫ insincere ᛫ sarcastic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
backleech | backleec | ᛫ a physiatrist ᛫ | N | back+leech | NE×2 | |
backridgebone | backricgbone | ᛫ a thoracic vertebra ᛫ | N | back+ridgebone | NE×2 | |
backslide | ᛫ to regress ᛫ to lapse morally or in the practice of religion ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
backstab | ᛫ to attack someone unfairly in a deceitful and treacherous way ᛫ to betray ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
backstabber | ᛫ a traitor ᛫ a betrayer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
backward | ᛫ retrograde ᛫ socially unsophisticated ᛫ socially barbaric ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
backwater | ᛫ a remote place ᛫ water held back by an obstruction ᛬ to vacillate on a long-held position ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
backwoods | ᛫ a woody countryside ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
badblood | ᛫ feelings of ill will ᛫ a serious feud ᛫ an inherited immoral nature ᛫ a long-standing grudge ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
baddle | baddel | ᛫ a hermaphrodite ᛫ an intersex person ᛫ | N | bæddel | OE | |
badmouth | badmuthe | ᛫ to criticize ᛫ to disparage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
badow | ᛫ battle ᛫ | N | beado/beadu/beadwe | OE | or: bade (like shadow and shade) | |
bag | ᛫ a sack ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N? | ||
Baikal Mere | ᛫ Lake Baikal ᛫ | N(P) | Baikal+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
bake | ᛫ a baked good ᛫ a pie ᛫ pastry ᛫ | N | bāke | ME | same sense as Icelandic 'baka' | |
baked good | ᛫ a piece of baked food ᛫ a pastry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bakehouse | bakehuse | ᛫ a bakery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Baker Mere | ᛫ Baker Lake ᛫ | N(P) | baker+mere | NE×2 | ||
bakern | ᛫ a bakery ᛫ | N | bakern | ME | ||
Balaton Mere | ᛫ Balaton Lake ᛫ | N(P) | Balaton+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
bale | ᛫ great evil ᛫ great woe ᛫ great sorrow ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
balecraft | ᛫ the craft of evil magic ᛫ | N | bealocræft | OE | ||
baleful | ᛫ pernicious ᛫ forebodingly evil ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
balk | ᛫ a ridge ᛫ a mound ᛫ an archery butt ᛫ a ridge left between furrows accidently ᛫ a blunder ᛫ | N | balk[balca] | ME | ||
balk | ᛫ a hindrance ᛫ a check ᛫ a failure ᛬ to pass over ᛫ omit ᛫ to suddenly refuse ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
Balkash Mere | Balkasc | ᛫ Lake Balkhash ᛫ | N(P) | Balkhash+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
ballock | ᛫ a testicle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: bollock | |
ballocks | ᛫ testicles ᛫ nonsense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: bollocks | |
Balt | ᛫ a speaker of a Baltic language ᛫ a Lithuanian ᛫ a Latvian ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹O | ||
Baltland | ᛫ the Baltic states ᛫ the Baltic land region ᛫ | N(P) | Balt+land | NE‹O+NE | ||
ban | ᛫ a prohibition ᛬ to prohibit ᛫ to disallow ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
bandog | ᛫ a mastiff ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | band-dog | |
bane | ᛫ death ᛫ destruction ᛫ poison ᛫ a cause of misery ᛫ a murderer ᛫ a killer ᛫ a slayer ᛫ | N | ~[bana] | NE | ||
baneful | ᛫ harmful ᛫ destructive ᛫ deadly ᛫ malignant ᛫ poisonous ᛫ venomous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
banewort | ᛫ an Atropa belladonna plant ( deadly nightshade ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bangle | bangel | ᛫ to fritter away ᛫ to squander ᛫ to waste ᛫ | V | ~ | ENE | often used with "away" like "bangle away" |
bank | ᛫ an edge of a river lake or watercourse ᛫ an embankment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bare | ᛫ unclothed ᛫ devoid of ᛫ basic and simple ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
barm | ᛫ a bosom ᛫ a lap ᛫ one's possession ᛫ | N | barm | ME | ||
barm | ᛫ beer froth ᛫ yeast ᛫ leaven ᛫ beer head ( the froth from pouring beer ) ᛫ | N | barm&berm[beorma] | NE&ME | ||
barmcloth | ᛫ an apron ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
barn | ᛫ a child ᛫ a kid ᛫ | N | barn[bearn] | ME | "bairn" found in Scots | |
barneken | ᛫ pregnant ᛫ | AJ | bearnēacen | OE | ||
barnteam | ᛫ offspring ᛫ lineage ᛫ | N | barntem | ME | ||
barrow | ᛫ a mountain ᛫ a hill ᛫ a mound ᛫ | N | ~[beorg] | NE | ||
barrowmouse | barrowmuse | ᛫ a marmot ᛫ | N | barrow+mouse | NE×2 | calque: mountain-mouse |
barton | ᛫ a farmyard ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | equal to: barley town? | |
base | ᛫ crimson ᛫ scarlet ᛫ a monarchist ᛬ of crimson hue ᛫ of scarlet hue ᛫ monarchistic [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬AJ | basu/baso | OE | rhyme: gaze ᛫ or: baze | |
basestone | ᛫ topaz ᛫ | N | baswa stān | OE | rhyme: gaze tone ᛫ or: bazestone | |
Baskon | ᛫ a Basque person ᛫ | N(P) | Baskọ̄n | ME‹I | Basque is a reborrowing? | |
bass | ᛫ a perch fish ᛫ | N | ~[bas][bærs] | NE | ||
bast | ᛫ phloem ᛫ bast fiber ᛫ fiber ᛫ fibre ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bat | ᛫ a mace ᛫ a club ᛫ a cudgel ᛫ a bludgeon ᛫ | N | bat&bat[batt] | NE&ME | ||
batch | bac | ᛫ a group of like things ( especially baked goods ) ᛬ to group like things ᛫ to sort ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | kin: bake |
batch | bac | ᛫ a stream ? ᛫ a brook ? ᛫ a valley ? ᛫ | N | bach | ME | |
bate | ᛫ to get better ᛫ to recover ᛫ | V | batian | OE | ||
baxter | ᛫ a baker ᛫ | N | baxter[bæcestre] | ME | ||
Bayer | ᛫ a Bavarian ᛫ | N(P) | Bægerum | OE | ||
Bayerland | ᛫ Bavaria ᛫ | N(P) | Bægerum+land | OE+NE | ||
be | ᛫ to exist ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beacon | ᛫ a signal ᛫ an indication ᛬ to signal ᛫ to indicate ᛫ | N᛬V | beacon&bēacnian | NE&OE | ||
beaconer | ᛫ a signaller ᛫ an indicator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bead | ᛫ a prayer ᛫ a request ᛫ | N | ~[gebed] | NE | ||
beadframe | ᛫ an abacus ᛫ | N | bead-frame | NE | ||
beadle | beadel | ᛫ prayerful ᛫ suppliant ᛫ | AJ | bēdul | OE | |
beam | ᛫ a long straight piece of timber ᛫ a tree ᛫ a ray ( of light etc ) ᛫ | N | beam&bēm&bēam | NE&ME&OE | ||
beamish | beamisc | ᛫ beaming with happy optimism ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
bean curd | ᛫ tofu ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bearcat | ᛫ a binturong ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bearen | ᛫ a she-bear ᛫ | N | biren | OE | ||
bearer | ᛫ a carrier ᛫ a bearer ᛫ a porter ᛫ | N | berend | OE | ||
bearing | ᛫ relevance ᛫ posture ᛫ demeanour ᛫ | N | ~{gebǣru} | NE | ||
bearings | ᛫ a direction or a relative position ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bearly | ᛫ ursine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
beat | ᛫ rhythm ᛫ a unit of rhythm ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beat | ᛫ to curb ᛫ to rein in ᛫ to restrain ᛫ to keep in check ᛫ | V | bǣtan | OE | ||
beath | beath | ᛫ to foment ᛫ to heat ( especially unseasoned wood in order to straighten it ) ᛫ | V | ~[bēthen][beþian] | ENE | [CED] |
bebathe | ᛫ to suffuse ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bebid | ᛫ to command ᛫ | V | bebēodan | OE | ||
becall | ᛫ to accuse ᛫ | V | becall&bicallen | NE&ME | ||
beck | ᛫ a commanding or summoning motion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beck | ᛫ a brook ᛫ a small stream ᛫ a rivulet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹ME‹N | ||
beckon | ᛫ to invite ᛫ to invite over ᛫ to summon ᛫ to gesture someone for their presence ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beckoningly | ᛫ indicative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | gebīcnigendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
beclepe | ᛫ to accuse ᛫ to charge against ᛫ to plead or appeal in court ᛫ to apply a term to ᛫ | V | beclepen | ME | PST: beclept | |
beclip | ᛫ to surround ᛫ to encircle ᛫ to embrace ᛫ to clasp ᛫ to enclose ᛫ to contain ᛫ to envelope ᛫ | V | biclippen | ME | ||
becloud | beclude | ᛫ to make obscure or muddled ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
becoming | ᛫ looking good on someone ᛫ decorous ᛫ appropriate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bedder | ᛫ a bed fellow ᛫ | N | gebedda | OE | ||
bedeal | ᛫ to remove from ᛫ to release from ᛫ to deprive of ᛫ | V | bedǣlan | OE | ||
bedelve | bedelf | ᛫ to inter ᛫ | V | bidelven | ME | |
bedesman | ᛫ one who prays for another ᛫ a petitioner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bedfellow | ᛫ a consort ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
bedight | bedigt | ᛫ to equip ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
bedip | ᛫ to submerge ᛫ | V | bedipan | OE | ||
bedizen | bedisen | ᛫ to dress ( often in a vulgar or gaudy way ) [ᛏ] ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | rhyme: risen; horizon |
bedoven | bedofen | ᛫ drenched ᛫ submerged ᛫ | AJ | ~[bedōven][bedofen] | NE | |
bedrock | ᛫ a substratum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bee | ᛫ a bracelet ᛫ a torque ᛫ an arm ring ᛫ an armlet ᛫ a finger ring ᛫ a collar ᛫ a necklace ᛫ a nose ring ᛫ | N | bee&bei[beah] | NE&ME | ||
beebread | ᛫ pollen ᛫ ambrosia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beed | ᛫ a table ᛫ | N | bēode[bēod] | ME | ||
beedland | ᛫ a tableland ᛫ a plateau ᛫ | N | bēode | ME+NE | calque: tableland | |
beehouse | beehuse | ᛫ an apiary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
beek | ᛫ to charter ᛫ to grant by book or by charter ᛫ | V | gebēcan | OE | ||
beekeeper | ᛫ an apiarist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beely | ᛫ apian ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
beem | ᛫ a trumpet ᛬ to sound with a trumpet ᛫ | N᛬V | bēme | ME | ||
beerlore | ᛫ brewology ᛫ | N | beerlore | NE | ||
beership | beerscip | ᛫ a banquet with beer ᛫ convivium ᛫ | N | gebēorscipe | OE | |
beestings | ᛫ a colostrum ( especially of a cow ) ᛫ | N | ~[bẹ̄sting][bȳsting] | NE | [CED] | |
beet | ᛫ a boast threat or pledge to do a glorious deed ᛫ | N | beot[bēot] | ME | ||
beet | ᛫ to repair ᛫ to mend ᛫ to revive ᛫ to restore ᛫ to fix ᛫ to correct ᛫ to amend ᛫ | V | beet&bēten[bētan] | NE&ME | kin: boot | |
befall | ᛫ to happen ᛫ to happen to someone ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: befell ᛫ PTCP: befallen | |
befalling | ᛫ a happening ᛫ an occurrence ᛫ an event ᛫ an instance of something ᛫ | N | befalling&bifallinge | NE&ME | ||
befasten | ᛫ to fasten ᛫ to entrust ᛫ | V | befæstan | OE | ||
befile | ᛫ to defile ᛫ to vandalize ᛫ to deflower ᛫ | V | ~[befȳlan] | NE | kin: befoul | |
befoe | ᛫ to become a foe of ᛫ to make a foe of someone ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beforehand | ᛫ in advance ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
befoul | befule | ᛫ to make foul or dirty ᛫ to pollute ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | kin: befile |
begang | ᛫ a course ᛫ a passage ᛬ to commit ᛫ to practise a behaviour ᛫ | N᛬V | begang&begangan | OE | ||
beget | ᛫ to produce ᛫ to create ᛫ to cause ᛫ to sire ᛫ to generate ᛫ to engender ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: begot/begat ᛫ PTCP: begotten | |
begetter | ᛫ a procreator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beghast | begast | ᛫ to inspire ᛫ to amaze ᛫ to shock ᛫ to awe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
begod | ᛫ to deify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
begone | ᛫ avaunt! ᛫ | I | ~ | NE | ||
begreed | ᛫ to blame ᛫ to charge ( with a crime ) ᛫ to accuse ( of a crime ) ᛫ | V | begrēden[grǣdan] | ME | ||
begrip | ᛫ an idea ᛫ a notion ᛫ a concept ᛫ | N | begrip | NL | ||
begripe | ᛫ to grasp ᛫ to grip ᛫ to complain at to rebuke to reprehend ᛫ | V | bigrīpen | ME | ||
begriprown | begriprune | ᛫ a logographic rune ᛫ | N | be+grip+rown | NE×3 | calque: Begriffsrune |
behalf | ᛫ the interests of a person group or principle ᛫ a representative of ᛫ one's stead ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
behaving | behafing | ᛫ behavior ᛫ behaviour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
behead | ᛫ to decapitate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beheart | ᛫ to enamour ᛫ ravish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
Beheem | ᛫ a Bohemian ᛫ | N(P) | behēmas{bēme} | OE | ||
Beheemland | ᛫ Bohemia ᛫ | N(P) | behēmas+land | OE+NE | ||
beheeve | beheef | ᛫ beneficial ᛫ | AJ | bihēve | ME | |
behest | ᛫ an order ᛫ a command ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
behight | behigt | ᛫ to vow ᛫ to promise ᛫ | V | behight&beheten | NE&ME | |
behirn | ᛫ to put in a corner ᛫ to store away ᛫ | V | bihirnen | ME | ||
behither | ᛫ on this side of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
behold | ᛫ to see ( something ) ᛫ to observe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beholden | ᛫ owing obedience or a favour to something or someone ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
beholder | ᛫ an observer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
behoof | ᛫ advantage ᛫ benefit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
behoove | behoof | ᛫ to benefit [ᛏ] ᛫ to suit [ᛏ] ᛫ to be proper for [ᛏ] ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
behooveful | behooful | ᛫ expedient ᛫ beneficial ᛫ advantageous ᛫ profitable ᛫ suitable ᛫ proper ᛫ requisite ᛫ | AJ | behoveful&bihọ̄veful | NE&ME | |
behoovely | behoofly | ᛫ expedient ᛫ beneficial ᛫ advantageous ᛫ profitable ᛫ suitable ᛫ proper ᛫ requisite ᛬ advantageously ᛫ profitably ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
being | ᛫ existence ᛫ the nature of a being ᛫ an existing thing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beingless | ᛫ non-existent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
belap | ᛫ to surround ᛫ to envelop ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
belatch | belac | ᛫ to catch ( like in a trap ) ᛫ | V | belacchen | ME | |
belate | ᛫ to retard ᛫ to slow ᛫ to slow down ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
belated | ᛫ late ᛫ overdue ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
belay | ᛫ to stop ᛫ to cancel (nautical) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
belew | ᛫ to betray ᛫ | V | belǣwan | OE | kin: 𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 | |
belide | ᛫ to cover ᛫ | V | behlīdan | OE | kin: lid? | |
belie | ᛫ to misrepresent ᛫ to give a false impression of ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
belight | beligt | ᛫ to illuminate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
belirt | ᛫ to deceive ᛫ to beguile ᛫ to delude ᛫ to defraud ᛫ to cozen ᛫ | V | bilirten | ME | ||
belittle | belittel | ᛫ to denigrate ᛫ to disparage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
belive | belife | ᛫ to stay ᛫ to remain ᛫ | V | bilīven | ME | rhyme: drive |
bell | ᛫ a bellow ᛬ to bellow ( generally used for stag during rutting time ) ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
bellhouse | bellhuse | ᛫ a belfry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bellyache | bellyake | ᛫ to grumble ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
beload | ᛫ to exculpate ᛫ to absolve ᛫ to acquit ᛫ to pardon ᛫ | V | belādian | OE | ||
bemean | ᛫ to demean ᛫ to debase ᛫ to degrade ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bemete | ᛫ to compare ᛫ | V | bemetan | OE | ||
bemiddle | bemiddel | ᛫ to mediate ᛫ | V | be+middle | NE×2 | calque: bemiddelje |
bemiddling | bemiddeling | ᛫ mediation ᛫ | N | be+middle+ing | NE×3 | calque: bemiddelje |
bemoan | ᛫ to complain ᛫ to complain about ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
ben | ᛫ a wound ᛫ | N | benn | OE | kin: bane | |
benchmark | bencmark | ᛫ a standard ( something others are compared to ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bend | ᛫ a bond ᛫ a band ᛫ a binding commitment ᛫ an obligation ᛫ | N | bende | ME | ||
bendsome | bendsum | ᛫ flexible ᛫ pliable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
bene | ᛫ a request to a god ᛫ an entreaty to a god ᛫ a prayer ᛫ | N | bene&bēne[bēn/bōn] | NE | ||
benetide | ᛫ prayer time ᛫ | N | bēntīd | OE | ||
benim | ᛫ to deprive ᛫ | V | binimen[beniman] | ME | PST: benum; benimmed ᛫ PTCP: benum | |
benorth | ᛫ north of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
benote | ᛫ to use ᛫ to consume ᛫ | V | benōten[benotian] | ME | ||
bent | ᛫ an inclination ᛬ sharply curved ᛫ dishonest ᛫ corrupt ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Benthamish | Benthamisc | ᛫ of or pertaining to the utilitarianist doctrines of Jeremy Bentham ᛫ | AJ(P) | Bentham+ish | NE×2 | calque: Benthamian |
Bentleyish | Bentleyisc | ᛫ of or relating to American political scientist and philosopher Arthur Fisher Bentley ᛫ | AJ(P) | Bentley+ish | NE×2 | calque: Bentleyan |
bentmoon | ᛫ a crescent moon ᛫ | N | bente mone | ME | ||
benumb | ᛫ to deprive of physical or emotional feeling ᛫ | V | benumb | NE | [OXF] | |
bequeath | becweath | ᛫ to give ( especially through a will ) ᛫ | V | becweþan | OE | |
bequest | becwest | ᛫ the act of giving through inheritance ᛫ a legacy ᛫ an inheritance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bere | ᛫ barley ᛫ | N | bēre[bere] | ME | barley comes from "bere-ly" | |
bere | ᛫ -bearing ᛫ -able ( passive ) [ᚹ] ᛫ | SUFFIX | bere[bǣre] | ME | see: endly (suffix) | |
bereave | bereaf | ᛫ to deprive ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PTCP: bereft |
beright | berigt | ᛫ to entitle ᛫ | V | be+right | NE×2 | |
berise | ᛫ to befit ᛫ | V | birīsen | ME | ||
berman | ᛫ a porter ᛫ a waiter ᛫ | N | berman[bǣrman] | ME | ||
bern | ᛫ a man ᛫ a soldier ᛫ | N | bern[beorn] | ME | ||
bernet | ᛫ arson ᛫ | N | bernet[bærnet] | OE | ||
Bernick | ᛫ the Bernicians ᛫ | N(P) | Beornice | OE‹C? | ||
Bernickrich | Bernickric | ᛫ the Kingdom of Bernicia ᛫ | N(P) | Beornice Rīce | OE‹C?+OE‹C | |
berth | ᛫ a position ( as in a rank job or role in a group especially in regards to ships ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
beruse | berews | ᛫ to repent ᛫ to feel remorse ᛫ | V | bireusen [behrēowsian] | ME | not akin to "ruse" as in "a trick" |
berusing | berewsing | ᛫ repentance ᛫ penitence ᛫ | N | behrēowsung | OE | |
berusingtide | berewsingtide | ᛫ a season for penitence ᛫ | N | behrēowsungtīd | OE | |
besee | ᛫ to attend to ᛫ to look after ᛫ to provide ᛫ to furnish ᛫ | V | besee&bisēn | NE&ME | ||
beseech | beseec | ᛫ to implore ᛫ to plead ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST/PTCP= besought |
beseem | ᛫ to be suitable for ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beset | ᛫ to surround ᛫ to hem in ᛫ to trouble persistently ᛫ to be covered or studded with ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beshine | bescine | ᛫ to illuminate ᛫ to enlighten ᛫ to dispel ignorance ᛫ | V | bishīnen | ME | |
beshrew | bescrew | ᛫ to curse ( to invoke evil upon ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] |
besing | ᛫ to sing about ᛫ to celebrate in song ᛫ to enchant ᛫ | V | besing&besingan | NE&OE | ||
besit | ᛫ to sit around something ᛫ to besiege ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: besat | |
besmite | ᛫ to strike forcefully ᛫ to hit forcefully ᛫ to infatuate ᛫ to enamour ᛫ to charm ᛫ to fascinate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
besmitten | ᛫ afflicted or troubled by something ᛫ infatuated ᛫ enamoured ᛫ charmed ᛫ fascinated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
besouth | besuthe | ᛫ south of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | |
bespeak | ᛫ to order or reserve something in advance ᛫ to customize [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | bespeak&besprecan | NE&OE | ||
bespoke | ᛫ custom ( as in customized ) ᛫ tailor-made ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bestead | ᛫ situated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bestir | ᛫ to put into brisk or vigorous action ᛫ to move with life and vigour ᛫ to make active ᛫ to rouse oneself ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bestow | ᛫ to endow ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bestrew | ᛫ to cover with scattered objects ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bestride | ᛫ to straddle ᛫ to dominate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
beswathe | ᛫ to cover ( literally or figuratively ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beswink | ᛫ to produce or acquire through labour ᛫ | V | beswinken | ME | ||
betake | ᛫ to grant ᛫ to give a daughter in marriage ᛫ to entrust ᛫ to put in charge ᛫ | V | ~[bitāken] | ME‹(E+N) | ||
beteach | beteac | ᛫ to hand over ᛫ to commit ( like to an asylum ) ᛫ to deliver ᛫ to entrust ᛫ | V | bitēchen&betǣcan | ME&OE | |
betee | ᛫ to devote ᛫ to spend ᛫ | V | bitēn | ME | ||
beteem | ᛫ to allow ᛫ to permit ᛫ to vouchsafe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW]; CED | |
beteld | ᛫ to cover ᛫ to surround ᛫ | V | biteldan | OE | ||
bethatch | bethac | ᛫ to bedeck ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
bethew | ᛫ to enthral ᛫ to enthrall ᛫ to enslave ᛫ to inslave ᛫ | V | be+thew | NE×2 | ||
bethink | ᛫ to remember ᛫ to recall ᛫ to remind oneself ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bethrall | ᛫ to enthral ᛫ to enthrall ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
bethring | ᛫ to throng around ᛫ to press around ᛫ | V | beþringan | OE | PST: bethrang ᛫ PTCP: bethrung | |
bethwack | ᛫ to thwack thoroughly ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
betide | ᛫ to happen ᛫ to happen to someone ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
betightle | betigtel | ᛫ to accuse ᛫ to charge with a crime ᛫ | V | betīhtlian | OE | |
betimes | ᛫ on time ᛫ promptly ᛫ early ᛫ in due time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
betly | ᛫ excellent ᛫ | AJ | betlīc | OE | ||
betoken | ᛫ to indicate ᛫ to signify ᛫ to portend ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
betroth | ᛫ to engage someone to be married ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
betrothed | ᛫ a fiancé ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
better | ᛫ a superior ᛬ to improve ᛫ to make better ᛫ to overcome ᛫ to defeat ᛬ superior ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
betterhood | ᛫ superiority ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
between | ᛫ inter- ᛫ | PREFIX | betweon | OE | ||
betwixt | ᛫ between ᛫ | AV&P | ~[betwēox] | NE | ||
betwixtblin | ᛫ an intermission ᛫ | N | betweohblinness | OE | ||
betwixtfack | ᛫ an interval ᛫ | N | betweohsfæc | OE | ||
betwixtsend | ᛫ to intermit ᛫ | V | betwyxsendan | OE | ||
betwixtset | ᛫ interposed ᛫ | AJ | betwyhgeset | OE | ||
betwixtwarp | ᛫ an interjection ( grammatical term ) ᛬ to interject ᛫ | N᛬V | betwyxaworpennyss | OE | ||
bever | befer | ᛫ to tremble ᛫ to shake ᛫ to quiver ᛫ to shiver ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] |
bevering | befering | ᛫ trembling ᛫ vibrato [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | bevering | NE | calque: Bebung |
bewean | ᛫ to entertain ᛫ | V | bewenian | OE | ||
beweave | beweaf | ᛫ to wrap up ᛫ to envelop ᛫ to clothe ᛫ to entwine ᛫ | V | biwēven | ME | PST: bewove ᛫ PTCP: bewoven |
beweep | ᛫ to lament ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bewest | ᛫ west of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
bewilder | ᛫ to confuse ᛫ to befuddle ᛫ to disorientate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bewitch | bewic | ᛫ to cast a spell on ᛫ to enchant and delight ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
bewray | ᛫ to disclose reveal or divulge a secret ᛫ to expose or rat out someone ᛫ to betray ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bewrayer | ᛫ a betrayer ᛫ a divulger ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bewrite | ᛫ to write about ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
beyet | ᛫ to beget ᛫ | V | beyeten | ME | PST: beyat ᛫ PTCP: beyetten | |
bid | ᛫ to pray ᛫ to request ᛫ | V | bidden[biddan] | ME | PST: bade ᛫ PTCP: bidden ᛫ kin: bead | |
bid | ᛫ to command ᛫ to order ᛫ | V | ~[biddan&bēodan] | NE | PST: bade ᛫ PTCP: bidden | |
bid | ᛫ to offer ᛫ to bid on an auction ᛫ | V | ~[biddan&bēodan] | NE | PST: bid | |
bidden | ᛫ a barrel ᛫ a tub ᛫ | N | byden | OE | ||
bidding | ᛫ an order ᛫ a command ᛫ an auction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
biddingly | ᛫ imperative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | bebēodendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
biddle | biddel | ᛫ an announcer ᛫ a warrant officer ᛫ a constable ᛫ a bailiff ᛫ a beadle ᛫ | N | bidel[bydel] | ME | kin: beadle (from Frankish?) |
bide | ᛫ to wait ᛫ to stay ᛫ to remain ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bidhouse | bidhuse | ᛫ a chapel ᛫ an oratory ᛫ | N | bēdhūs | OE | |
bidword | ᛫ a motto ᛫ | N | bid+word | NE×2 | calque: biedwurd | |
bield | beeld | ᛫ shelter ᛫ protection ᛫ courage ᛫ confidence ᛬ to encourage ᛫ to embolden ᛫ | N᛬V | bield&beald&beldan | NE&OE&OE | |
bieldy | beeldy | ᛫ sheltering ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] |
Big Dipper | ᛫ a bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky which is part of Ursa Major ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
biggen | ᛫ to enlarge ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bight | bigt | ᛫ a curve ᛫ a bend ᛫ a corner ᛫ a coast bend which forms an open bay ᛫ | N | bight&byht | NE&OE | |
bigwheel | bighweel | ᛫ a ferris wheel ᛫ | N | big wheel | NE | [MW] |
bile | ᛫ an ulcer ᛫ a carbuncle ᛫ a boil ᛫ a pimple ᛫ a blister ᛫ a callus ᛫ | N | bīl[bȳl] | ME | ||
bilk | ᛫ a cheater ᛫ a hoax ᛬ to cheat ᛫ to defraud ᛫ to deceive ᛫ to craft a hoax ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bill | ᛫ a hooked polearm ᛫ a halberd ᛫ a gisarme ᛫ a falcastrum ᛫ a mattock ᛫ a pickaxe ᛫ a pickax ᛫ | N | bill&bil&bil | NE&ME&OE | ||
billwhite | billhwite | ᛫ simple ᛫ innocent ᛫ | AJ | bilewhīt | ME | |
billwhitely | billhwitely | ᛫ simply ᛫ sincerely ᛫ honestly ᛫ | AV | bilehwītlīce | OE | |
bin | ᛫ during ᛫ inside ᛫ within ᛫ | P | binne | ME | ||
bind | ᛫ a restraint ᛫ a predicament ᛬ to restrain ᛫ to connect ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
binder | ᛫ a determiner ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | N | binder | NE | calque: determiner | |
bindlestiff | bindelstiff | ᛫ a hobo ᛫ a tramp ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
bindword | ᛫ a compound word ᛫ | N | bind+word | NE×2 | ||
bir | ᛫ to behoove ᛫ ought to ᛫ should ᛫ must ᛫ to deserve to ᛫ to be fitting ᛫ to be likely to ᛫ | V | biren[gebyrian] | ME | NEEDS WORK ᛫ third person only, "it birs him" not "he birs" | |
birdlime | ᛫ an adhesive substance used to trap birds ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
birdling | ᛫ turtle ᛫ tortoise ᛫ | N | byrdling | OE | ||
birdlore | ᛫ ornithology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
birdly | ᛫ avian ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bire | ᛫ an opportunity ᛫ | N | bȳre | OE | ||
birl | ᛫ to spin ᛫ to whirl ᛫ to twirl ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | coined in the 18th century | |
birl | ᛫ to carouse ᛫ | V | ~[birlen][byrlian] | NE | [MW] | |
birler | ᛫ a butler ᛫ a cupbearer ᛫ | N | birler | ME | ||
birr | ᛫ energy ᛫ an impetus ᛫ a force ᛫ a strong wind ᛫ | N | birr&bir[byre?] | NE&ME | ||
birthfather | ᛫ one's biological father ᛫ | N | birth father | NE | ||
birthleech | birthleec | ᛫ an obstetrician ᛫ | N | birth+leech | NE×2 | |
birthmother | ᛫ one's biological mother ᛫ | N | birth mother | NE | ||
bisen | ᛫ a model ᛫ an example to follow ᛬ to symbolize ᛫ to betoken ᛫ | N᛬V | bīsne[bȳsen]&bīsnen | ME&ME | ||
bishopric | ᛫ a diocese ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(H+C) | ||
bishopswort | biscopswort | ᛫ a Stachys officinalis plant ( wood betony ) ᛫ | N | bishop's wort | NE‹(H+E) | |
bist | ᛫ are ( only for second person singular ) ᛫ | V | bist | ME | ||
bitter | ᛫ resentful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bitterness | ᛫ resentment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bittock | ᛫ a small bit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bive | bif | ᛫ to tremble ᛫ | V | bivien | ME | rhyme: give |
black | ᛫ an anarchist [ᚹ] ᛬ anarchistic [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
black nightshade | nigtscade | ᛫ a Solanum nigrum plant ᛫ a Solanum americanum plant ᛫ a Solanum ptychanthum plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Black Sheep Turkmen | Sceep | ᛫ Qara Qoyunlu / Kara Koyunlu ᛫ | N(P) | Black Sheep Turkomans | NE | |
blackthorn | ᛫ a Prunus spinosa plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | also called "sloe" | |
blackwort | ᛫ a Symphytum officinale plant ( comfrey ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | also: knitback; knitwort | |
bladderwort | ᛫ an Utricularia plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
blain | ᛫ an inflamed swelling or sore on the skin ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] ᛫ found in: chilblains | |
blake | ᛫ to pale [ᚾ] ᛬ pale ᛫ pallid ᛫ wan ᛫ withered yellow ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~[blāc] | NE | ||
blast | ᛫ an explosion ᛬ to explode ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
blastle | blastel | ᛫ explosive material ᛫ a bomb ᛫ | N | blast+le | NE+ME | |
blatant | ᛫ obvious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
blate | ᛫ bashful ᛫ shy ᛫ sheepish ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
blaze | blase | ᛫ a great fire ᛬ to burn fiercely ᛫ | N᛬V | blaze&blæse | NE&OE | |
bleach | bleac | ᛫ to make lighter in hue ᛬ pale ᛫ bleak ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | kin: bleak |
blead | ᛫ fruit ᛫ vegetables ᛫ produce ᛫ vegetation ᛫ crops ᛫ | N | blead&blēd | NE&ME | ||
bleak | ᛫ pale ᛫ wan ᛫ pallid ᛫ desolate ᛫ miserable ᛫ depressing ᛫ uncheery ᛫ | AJ | ~[bleik] | NE‹N | kin: bleach | |
bleat | ᛫ a cry from a sheep goat or calf ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bleck | ᛫ ink ᛫ | N | ~[blēk][blæc] | NE | vowel tended to shorten ᛫ dialectal word | |
bleckern | ᛫ an inkstand ᛫ | N | blæcern | OE | ||
bleckfish | bleckfisc | ᛫ a cephalopod ᛫ | N | blēk+fish | ME+NE | calque: inkfish |
bleckhorn | bleckhorn | ᛫ an inkhorn ᛫ | N | blæchorn | OE | |
blee | ᛫ colouration ᛫ colour ᛫ skin colour ᛫ complexion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bleefaw | ᛫ versicolour ᛫ particoloured ᛫ multicoloured ᛫ polychromatic ᛫ | AJ | blēofāg | OE | ||
bleeth | ᛫ timid ᛫ apprehensive ᛫ | AJ | blēþ[blēaþ] | ME | ||
blench | blenc | ᛫ a trick ᛫ a ruse ᛫ cheating ᛬ to trick ᛫ to cheat ᛫ to elude ᛫ | N᛬V | blench&blenchen&blencan | ME&ME&OE | |
blend | ᛫ a mix ᛬ to mix ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
bless | ᛫ to sanctify ᛫ to give divine aid ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
blessing | ᛫ divine aid ᛫ a beneficial thing ᛫ one's sanction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
blike | ᛫ to shine ᛫ to gleam ᛫ to twinkle ᛫ to glitter ᛫ to dazzle ᛫ to sparkle ᛫ | V | blīken&blīcan/blician | ME&OE | ||
bliket | ᛫ a coruscation ᛫ a sparkle ᛫ a twinkle ᛫ | N | blīcettung | OE | ||
blin | ᛫ cessation ᛬ to cease ᛫ to desist ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
bliss | ᛫ great happiness ᛫ great joy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
blissen | ᛫ to make blissful or happy ᛫ fill with or impart bliss to ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
blissful | ᛫ extremely happy ᛫ extremely joyful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
blissome | blissum | ᛫ joyous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
blithe | ᛫ joyful ᛫ cheerful ᛫ carefree ᛫ concernless ᛫ indifferent ᛫ heedless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
blithely | ᛫ carelessly ᛫ indifferently ᛫ gladly ᛫ joyfully ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
blithen | ᛫ to make or become blithe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
blitheness | ᛫ joy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
blither | ᛫ to talk foolishly ᛫ blather ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | rhyme: wither | |
blithering | ᛫ foolish talk ᛬ talking incoherently ᛫ jabbering ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
blithesome | blithesum | ᛫ having a cheerful or careless disposition ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] |
bloak | ᛫ pale ᛫ wan ᛫ pallid ᛫ | AJ | blōk[blāc] | ME | kin: bleak | |
bloakern | ᛫ a light place ᛫ a lamp ᛫ a lantern ᛫ | N | blācern&blācern | ME&OE | ||
bloat | ᛫ livid ᛫ pale ᛫ ghastly ᛫ | AJ | blāt | OE | ||
bloodbath | ᛫ a massacre ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bloodleech | bloodleec | ᛫ a haematologist ᛫ a hematologist ᛫ | N | blood+leech | NE×2 | |
bloodsax | ᛫ a fleam ( a tool used for bloodletting and such ) ᛫ | N | blōdseax | OE | ||
bloodsucker | ᛫ a vampire ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bloodtale | ᛫ a tale involving bloodshed and violence ( specifically a cheaply published story of a sensational kind ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
bloodwite | ᛫ a penalty for committing bloodshed ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bloom | ᛫ a lump of metal ᛫ metal [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | blōme[blōma] | ME | ||
bloom | ᛫ a flower ᛬ to produce flowers ᛫ to flourish ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹ME‹N | ||
bloomcole | ᛫ cauliflower ᛫ | N | bloom+cole | NE×2 | calque: Blumenkohl | |
bloomer | ᛫ a serious or stupid mistake ᛫ a blunder ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
blooming | ᛫ ( used to express annoyance or for emphasis ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bloop | ᛫ a low-pitched beeping sound ᛬ to make a bloop sound ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
blooper | ᛫ an embarrassing public blunder ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bloot | ᛫ sacrifice ᛬ to sacrifice ᛫ | N᛬V | blōt&blōtan | OE | ||
Blootmonth | ᛫ November ᛫ | N(P) | Blotmonaþ | OE | ||
blossom | ᛫ a flower ᛬ to flower ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
blossomdeer | ᛫ an Anthozoa animal ( a coral , a sea anemone ) ᛫ | N | blossom+deer | NE | ||
blossomy | ᛫ flowery ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
blow | ᛫ a strike ᛫ a damaging occurrence ᛫ | N | ~[blēwe] | NE | ||
blow | ᛫ cocaine ᛬ to make air current ᛫ to fellate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[blāwan] | NE | ||
blow | ᛫ the state or period of flowering ᛬ to produce flowers ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[blōwan] | NE | ||
blow up | ᛫ to explode ᛫ to make explode ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
blower | ᛫ a telephone ᛫ a phone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
blowth | ᛫ floruit ᛫ florescence ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
blushworthy | bluscworthy | ᛫ embarrassing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
bly | ᛫ an appearance ᛫ a faint resemblance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bo | ᛫ both ᛫ | N(PRO) | bō | ME | "both" might be from Norse "báðir" | |
board | ᛫ a plank ᛫ a sign board ᛫ a plate ᛫ a table ᛫ a desk ᛫ a group of officials ᛫ a bureau ᛫ a department ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | meaning inspired partly by Dutch "bord" | |
boatswain | ᛫ a Petty Officer charged with hull maintenance on a ship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: bosun | |
boatward | ᛫ a ship's commander ᛫ | N | bātweard | OE | ||
bobcat | ᛫ a Lynx rufus animal ᛫ a Lynx animal [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(C+E) | ||
bode | ᛫ to declare ᛫ to announce ᛫ to proclaim ᛫ to portend ᛫ to preach ᛫ | V | bode&bōden&bodian | NE&ME&OE | ||
bodelock | ᛫ a decree ᛫ an ordinance ᛫ | N | bodlac | ME | ||
boder | ᛫ a messenger ᛫ ambassador ᛫ herald ᛫ apostle ᛫ angel ᛫ foreboder ᛫ | N | boda | OE | ||
bodeword | ᛫ a commandment ( usually in a religious sense ) ᛫ | N | bodeword | ME | ||
bodily | ᛫ corporal ᛫ material ᛫ corporeal ᛬ forcefully ᛫ in one mass ᛫ as a whole ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
body | ᛫ to embody ᛫ to represent ᛫ to symbolize ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | or: inbody (calque of embody) | |
bog | ᛫ a stretch of unforested wetland with acidic peaty soil ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹C | ||
bold | ᛫ a house ᛫ a castle ᛫ a mansion ᛫ an abode ᛫ | N | bōld | ME | ||
bolden | ᛫ to embolden ᛫ to take courage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bolder | ᛫ a hero ? ᛫ a prince ? ᛫ | N | bealdor/baldor | OE | ||
Boleyn | ᛫ the city of Bologna ᛫ | N | Boleyn | ME | ||
bolster | ᛫ a cushion ᛫ a pillow ᛬ to reinforce ᛫ to boost ᛫ | N᛬V | bolster&bolster | NE&OE | ||
bond | ᛫ a connection ᛫ a tie ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bonddom | ᛫ servitude ᛫ bondage ᛫ | N | bondedom | ME | ||
bondfolk | ᛫ people in a state of bondage ᛫ serfs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bondland | ᛫ land held by tenure of bond service or rent ᛫ | N | bondelond | ME | ||
boneframe | ᛫ a skeleton ᛫ | N | bone+frame | NE×2 | ||
bonehead | ᛫ a stupid person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bonehouse | bonehuse | ᛫ a body ( poetic ) ᛫ a charnel house ᛫ an ossuary ᛫ | N | ~[bānhūs] | NE | |
boneleech | boneleec | ᛫ an orthopaedist ᛫ an orthopedist ᛫ | N | bone+leech | NE×2 | |
boner | ᛫ an erection ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | slang | |
bones | ᛫ dice ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
book | ᛫ a tome ᛬ to charter ᛫ to get something reserved ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | PL: books; beech (archaic) | |
bookcraft | ᛫ the art of literature ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookend | ᛫ to occur or be located on either side of something ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
booker | ᛫ a writer a scribe an author ᛫ | N | bōcere | OE | ||
bookfell | ᛫ a sheet of vellum parchment or paper ᛫ vellum ᛫ parchment ᛫ paper ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookhoard | ᛫ a library ( a collection of books ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookhouse | bookhuse | ᛫ a library ( a building to house books ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bookkeeper | ᛫ an accountant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookland | ᛫ land held by charter or written title which is free from service and fines ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookling | ᛫ a booklet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
booklore | ᛫ bibliology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
booklover | booklufer | ᛫ a bibliophile ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bookly | ᛫ literary ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bookman | ᛫ a literary man ᛫ a scholar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookshop | bookscop | ᛫ a bookstore ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bookspeech | bookspeec | ᛫ literary language ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bookstaff | ᛫ a letter ( like A B or C ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bookward | ᛫ a librarian ᛫ | N | book+ward | NE+NE | calque: bókavörður | |
bookwork | ᛫ literary work ᛫ study ᛫ | N | bōcweorc | OE | ||
bookwright | bookwrigt | ᛫ an author of books ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
boomer | ᛫ a large male kangaroo ᛫ a kangaroo ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
boon | ᛫ a benefit ᛫ a favour ᛫ a request ᛫ a petition ᛫ | N | ~[bōn] | NE‹N | ||
boor | ᛫ a peasant ᛫ an uncultured person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹NL | ||
boorish | boorisc | ᛫ rude ᛫ crude ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹NL | |
boose | ᛫ a stall for an animal ( usually a cow ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
boot | ᛫ remedy ᛫ compensation ᛫ amends ᛫ redress ᛬ to avail ᛫ to profit ᛫ to benefit ᛫ to redress ᛫ | N᛬V | boot&bōt | NE&OE | found in: to boot | |
booten | ᛫ to heal ᛫ to cure ᛫ to recover from illness ᛫ | V | botnen | ME | ||
bootet | ᛫ to repair ᛫ | V | bōtettan | OE | ||
bootful | ᛫ useful ᛫ | AJ | bōteful | ME | ||
bootless | ᛫ profitless ᛫ pointless ᛫ unavailing ᛫ ineffectual ᛫ useless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
bootworthy | ᛫ pardonable ᛫ expiable ᛫ able to get atoned for ᛫ | AJ | bōtwyrþe | OE | ||
bore | ᛫ a drill ᛬ to perforate ᛫ to pierce ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
borough | boroug | ᛫ a city ᛫ | N | ~[burg/burh/buruh] | NE | or: burgh ᛫ may be "bury" in place names |
borougher | borouger | ᛫ a citizen ᛫ | N | ~{burgware} | NE | |
boroughership | borougerscip | ᛫ citizenship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
borougherwye | borougerwye | ᛫ a civil war ᛫ | N | borough+er+wye | NE×2+ME | calque: boargeroarloch; Bürgerkrieg |
boroughland | borougland | ᛫ city land ᛫ | N | burhland | OE | |
boroughlaw | borouglaw | ᛫ civil law ᛫ | N | borough+law | NE×2‹N | calque: Bürgerliches Gesetz; Burgerlijk Wet |
boroughman | borougman | ᛫ a citizen ᛫ | N | burhman | OE | |
boroughreeve | borougreef | ᛫ a mayor ᛫ | N | burhgerefa | OE | |
boroughward | borougward | ᛫ a city guard ᛫ | N | burhweard | OE | |
boroughwit | borougwit | ᛫ a city counsellor ᛫ a city counselor ᛫ | N | burhwita | OE | |
boroughy | borougy | ᛫ urban ᛫ municipal ᛫ civil ( as in "having to do with cities" ) ᛫ | AJ | borough+y | NE×2 | |
borrow | ᛫ a protection ᛫ a defence ᛫ a guarantor ᛫ a surety ᛫ a piece of armor ᛬ to protect ᛫ to defend ᛫ to lend or borrow a surety or a loan ᛫ | N᛬V | borrow&borwen&borgh | NE&ME&ME | becomes -bour/-bor in compounds (harbour/harbor) | |
bosom | ᛫ the front of the thorax ( the chest ) ᛫ a person's loving care and protection ᛫ | N | ~[bōsm] | NE | ||
botch | boc | ᛫ to misperform ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
bothen | ᛫ a Rosmarinus officinalis plant ( rosemary ) ᛫ | N | bothen | ME | ||
bothhanded | ᛫ ambidextrous ᛬ ambidextrously ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | bothhanded | NE | ||
bottle | bottel | ᛫ an abode ᛫ a dwelling ᛫ a habitation ᛫ | N | botel[botl] | ME | |
bough | buge | ᛫ a branch ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: plough |
bouk | book | ᛫ a bulging vessel such as a bottle jug pitcher or bulb ᛫ a belly ᛫ an abdomen ᛫ a torso ᛫ | N | bouk&būc | ME&OE | |
bound | bund | ᛫ going or ready to go towards a specified place ᛫ destined or very likely to have a specified experience ᛫ | AJ | ~[boun][N buinn] | NE‹N | [CED] |
bounden | bunden | ᛫ obligatory ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
bout | bute | ᛫ a period of intense activity which does not last long ᛫ an attack of illness or strong emotion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bow | bue | ᛫ to dwell ᛫ to inhabit ᛫ to occupy ᛫ | V | būan/būgan | OE | kin: bold (dwelling) |
bower | bure | ᛫ a bedroom ( especially a boudoir ) ᛫ a dwelling ᛫ a shady place ( like in a garden ) ᛫ | N | ~[būr] | NE | rhyme: tower |
bower | bure | ᛫ a young hawk ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: tower ᛫ literally: branch-er |
bower | bure | ᛫ a farmer ᛫ a boor ᛫ a jack ( playing cards ) ᛫ a pawn [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | gebūr | OE | rhyme: tower |
bowerbird | burebird | ᛫ an Australasian ptilonorhynchidae bird ᛫ | N | bower bird | NE | |
bowerland | bureland | ᛫ farmland ᛫ land of farmers ᛫ | N | būrlō̆nd | ME | |
bowman | ᛫ an archer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bown | bune | ᛫ to get ready ᛫ to get prepared ᛫ to get going ᛫ | V | bounen | ME‹N | |
bowyer | ᛫ a maker of bows ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Bragman | ᛫ a brahmin ᛫ an Indian ( erroneous ) ᛫ | N | Bragmā̆n | ME‹I | ||
braid | ᛫ a weave of strands ᛫ a sudden jerk ᛫ a moment ᛫ an instant ᛫ a second [ᚹ] ᛬ to intertwine ᛫ to move suddenly ᛫ to rush ᛫ to jump ᛫ | N᛬V | braid&breid&breiden | NE&ME&ME | PST: braided; braid ᛫ "at a braid" = "in a moment" | |
brainleech | brainleec | ᛫ a neurologist ᛫ | N | brain+leech | NE×2 | |
brainpan | ᛫ a skull ᛫ a brain ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brainwash | brainwasc | ᛫ to indoctrinate ( in the negative sense ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | calque: 洗腦 |
brake | ᛫ a thicket ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brakestreeling | ᛫ bremsstrahlung ( an electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle ) ᛫ | N | brake+streel+ing | NE+ME+NE | calque: Bremsstrahlung | |
brambleberry | brambelberry | ᛫ a blackberry ᛫ | N | brǣmelberie | OE | |
brand | ᛫ a torch ᛫ a flame ᛫ a mark made with fire ᛫ a logo or reputation ᛫ a sword ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | supposedly means "sword" because swords shine kind of like fire | |
brassy | ᛫ Kyphosus vaigiensis ᛬ resembling brass ᛫ impudent ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
brat | ᛫ a cloak of coarse cloth ᛫ | N | brat[bratt] | ME‹OE‹C | ||
brazen | brasen | ᛫ made of brass ᛫ audacious ᛫ barefaced ᛫ harsh and loud sounding ᛫ resolute ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
breach | breac | ᛫ a rupture ᛫ a fissure ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: break |
breadth | ᛫ an extent ᛫ a range ᛫ a measure of how broad something is ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
breadthwise | ᛫ in terms of breadth ᛫ horizontal ᛬ in a horizontal manner ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
breakdown | breakdune | ᛫ a system's collapse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
breakneck | ᛫ dangerously or extremely fast ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
breakth | ᛫ brokenness ᛫ | N | brecþ | OE | ||
breakwater | ᛫ a jetty ( as in a barrier which protects from waves ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
breast | ᛫ a thorax ᛫ a chest of a creature ᛫ | N | ~[brẹ̄st][brēost] | NE | ||
breastband | ᛫ a brassiere ᛫ a bra ᛫ | N | brẹ̄st band/brestbande | ME | ||
breastbone | ᛫ a sternum ᛫ | N | brẹ̄stbōn | ME | ||
breastbone | ᛫ a sternum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
breastbour | breastbor | ᛫ a breastplate ᛫ a piece of breast armour ᛫ | N | brēostbeorh | OE | |
breastgirdle | breastgirdel | ᛫ a brassiere ᛫ | N | brẹ̄st girdel | ME | |
breathlessness | ᛫ dyspnea ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bred | ᛫ a surface ᛫ a table ᛫ a tablet ᛫ a board ᛫ a plank ᛫ a log ᛫ | N | bred[bred] | ME | ||
bredheel | ᛫ a platform heel ᛫ | N | bred+heel | OE+NE | ||
bree | ᛫ to fear ᛫ to frighten ᛫ to terrify ᛫ | V | breen[brēgan] | ME | kin: braid ? | |
bree | ᛫ porridge ᛫ pulse ( edible leguminous seeds ) ᛫ meat broth ᛫ vegetable liquor ᛫ aleberry ( ale boiled with spices and sugar ) ᛫ | N | brẹ̄ | ME | kin: brew | |
breeches | breeces | ᛫ pants ᛫ trousers ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: britches, breeks |
breed | ᛫ roasted meat ᛫ grilled meat ᛫ a roast ᛫ barbecue ᛬ to roast ᛫ to fry ᛫ to grill ᛫ to roast ᛫ to barbecue ᛫ | N᛬V | brēde&brēden | ME&ME | ||
breed | ᛫ a sub-type within a species ᛫ | N | ~[brēdan] | NE | kin: brood | |
breem | ᛫ illustrious ᛫ splendid ᛫ vigorous ᛫ fierce ᛫ savage ᛫ ferocious ᛫ tempestuous ᛫ | AJ | breem/breme/brim&brēme | NE&ME | ||
breem | ᛫ to celebrate ᛫ | V | brēman | OE | ||
breet | ᛫ to break ᛫ to bruise ᛫ to destroy ᛫ to degenerate ᛫ | V | brēotan | OE | ||
brewhouse | brewhuse | ᛫ a brewery ᛫ | N | brewhouse | NE | |
brey | ᛫ a ruler ᛫ | N | brego[bregu/brege] | OE | ||
brich | bric | ᛫ useful ᛫ advantageous ᛫ | AJ | brīce&brȳce | ME&OE | |
bridal | ᛫ a nuptial ᛬ nuptial ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~[brȳdealo] | NE | the "-al" at the end isn't from Latin | |
bridelock | ᛫ nuptials ᛫ | N | brūdlāc | ME | ||
bridewort | ᛫ meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria ) ᛫ Spiraea salicifolia ᛫ Spiraea alba ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bridgeask | bricgask | ᛫ a tuatara ᛫ | N | bridge+ask | NE×2 | calque: Brückenechse |
bridle | bridel | ᛫ the headgear used to control a horse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
brightness | brigtness | ᛫ luminance ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
brightom | brigtom | ᛫ glittering ᛫ scintillation ᛫ twinkling ᛫ a moment ᛫ an instant ᛫ a second [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | bearhtm{bearhtmhwīl} | OE | "moment" by association with the twinkling of an eye |
brightomwhile | brigtomhwile | ᛫ a moment ᛫ an instant ᛫ a second [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | bearhtmhwīl | OE | |
brim | ᛫ a sea ᛫ an ocean ᛫ water ᛫ a flood ᛫ an edge of water ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brimhengest | brimhencgest | ᛫ a ship ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | brimhengest | OE | |
brimstone | ᛫ sulpher ᛫ sulfur ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brimyest | ᛫ a mariner or a sailor ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | brimgǽst | OE | ||
brindled | brindelled | ᛫ tabby ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] |
brine | ᛫ salt water ᛫ water saturated with salt ᛫ saline solution ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bring about | abute | ᛫ to produce ᛫ to cause ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
bring forth | ᛫ to produce ᛫ to cause ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
bring up | ᛫ to mention ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
brist | ᛫ damage ᛫ | N | brist[byrst] | ME | ||
bristle worm | bristel | ᛫ a Polychaete animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
bristly oxtongue | oxtung | ᛫ a Helminthotheca echioides plant ᛫ a Picris echioides plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
brit | ᛫ to fragment ᛫ to divide ᛫ to bruise ᛫ to indent ᛫ to shatter ᛫ | V | ~[brittian/bryttian] | NE | kin: brittle; brytja (Icelandic) | |
Britenwielder | Britenweelder | ᛫ a great king ᛫ a ruler of dispersed lands ᛫ | N(P) | brȳtenwalda | OE | |
Britten | ᛫ Britain ᛫ | N(P) | bryten | OE‹C | ||
britter | ᛫ a dispenser ᛫ a distributor ᛫ | N | brytta | OE | ||
brittle | brittel | ᛫ fragile ᛫ unable to bend without breaking ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Britwales | ᛫ Britons ( pre-Anglo-Saxon ) ᛫ Celtic Brits ( as opposed to Anglo Brits ) ᛫ | N(P) | bretwalas/brytwalas | OE | ||
Britwelsh | Britwelsc | ᛫ Brythonic language ᛬ Brythonic ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | bretwilisc | OE | |
broadcast | ᛫ a transmission ᛬ to transmit ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
broadly | ᛫ generally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
brock | ᛫ a badger ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹C? | ||
broken rime | ᛫ a fraction ᛫ | N | broken+rime | NE+ME | calque: broken number | |
Bronding | ᛫ one of the Brondings ᛫ someone from Brännö in Sweden ᛫ | N(P) | Brondingum&Brondingas | OE | ||
brood | ᛫ the young of an animal ᛬ to sit on eggs to hatch them ᛫ to dwell on something that sours one's mood ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
brook | ᛫ to enjoy ᛫ to use ᛫ | V | brook&brouken[brūcan] | NE&ME | ||
broom | ᛫ a Cytisus scoparius plant ᛫ a sweeping tool ᛫ | N | broom&brọ̄m[brōm] | NE&ME | ||
brosen | ᛫ to decay ᛫ to erode ᛫ | V | brosnian | OE | ||
brothel | ᛫ a degenerate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brothelhouse | brothelhuse | ᛫ a whorehouse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | often shortened to "brothel" |
brother | ᛫ a friar ᛫ a male member of a religious order ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brotherbane | ᛫ a fratricide ᛫ | N | brōþorbana | OE | ||
brotherhood | ᛫ a fraternity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
brotherly | ᛫ fraternal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
brotherslayer | ᛫ a fratricide ᛫ | N | brotherslayer | NE | ||
brotherwife | ᛫ a brother's wife ᛫ | N | brōþorwīf | OE | ||
brow | ᛫ terror ᛫ dread ᛫ horror ᛫ | N | brōga | OE | rhyme: grow | |
brown | brune | ᛫ a fascist [ᚹ] ᛬ fascistic ᛫ fascist ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
buck | ᛫ a male animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bud | ᛫ a bribe ᛫ | N | bud | ME | believed to be an offshoot of "bode" | |
bugbear | ᛫ an ongoing problem obstacle or adversity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
build | ᛫ a physique ᛫ a structure ᛬ to construct ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
buildcraft | ᛫ the art of architecture ᛫ | N | build+craft | NE×2 | ||
Bulgar | ᛫ a Bulgarian ᛫ | N(P) | Bulgarisc | OE | or: Pulgar (from OE Pulgare) | |
Bulgaria | ᛫ Bulgaria ᛫ | N(P) | Bulgaria | ME | ||
bulk | ᛫ mass ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bulwark | ᛫ a defensive wall ᛫ a safeguard ᛬ to fortify ᛫ to provide protection ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹NL? | equivalent to "bole"+"work" | |
bunch | bunc | ᛫ a multitude ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
burden | birden | ᛫ a heavy load ᛫ duty ᛫ responsibility ᛫ onus ᛫ | N | ~[birthen][byrþen] | NE | |
burdensome | birdensum | ᛫ arduous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
burdock | ᛫ an Arctium plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bure | ᛫ a son ᛫ child ᛫ descendant ᛫ | N | byre | OE | ||
buriel | ᛫ entombment ᛫ | N | burial | NE | ||
burn | ᛫ a small stream ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: bourn (southern England version?) | |
burn | ᛫ a coat of mail ᛫ a hauberk ᛫ a cuirass [ᚹ] ᛫ a corslet [ᚹ] ᛫ a lorica [ᚹ] ᛫ a breastplate [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | byrne{brinie/burn} | OE | ||
buryleeth | ᛫ an epitaph ᛫ a eulogy ᛫ | N | byrglēoþ | OE | dubious modernisation | |
bushwhack | buschwack | ᛫ to ambush ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
business | bisiness | ᛫ affairs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
busk | ᛫ to ready ᛫ to prepare ᛫ to furnish ᛫ to provide ᛫ to adorn ᛫ to clothe ᛫ | V | busken | ME‹N | ||
busy | bisy | ᛫ active ᛫ preoccupied ᛫ | AJ | ~[bisī][bisig] | NE | |
busybody | ᛫ a meddling or prying person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
but | ᛫ just ᛫ only ᛫ no more than ᛬ except ᛫ other than ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
butterfish | butterfisc | ᛫ a gunnel ( fish ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(NE‹‹I+NE) | [OXF] ᛫ gunnel is of unknown, possibly Celtic origin |
butterpear | ᛫ an avocado ᛫ | N | butter pear | NE | [OXF] | |
by dint of | ᛫ by means of ᛫ by force of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
by heart | ᛫ from memory ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
by hook or by crook | ᛫ by any means necessary ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
by the rood | ᛫ by the cross ! ( a phrase used in oath making ) ᛫ | I | ~ | NE | ||
bye | ᛫ to bend ᛫ to curve ᛫ to bow ᛫ | V | bȳgan | OE | ||
byedness | ᛫ curvature ᛫ | AJ | gebīgednys | OE | ||
byfare | ᛫ to pass ( as in to go by, not to hand over ) ᛫ | V | by+fare | NE×2 | ||
bygirdle | bygirdel | ᛫ a purse worn at the belt ᛫ | N | bīgirdel[bīgyrdel] | ME | |
bygone | ᛫ a thing dating from an earlier time ᛬ belonging to an earlier time ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
byland | ᛫ a peninsula ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bylaw | ᛫ an ordinance from a local authority ᛫ a rule made by a society to control the actions of its members ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
byname | ᛫ a pronoun ᛫ | N | bīnama | OE | ||
byquid | bycwid | ᛫ a proverb ᛫ a fable ᛫ | N | bīcwide | OE | |
byre | ᛫ a barn ( especially one for cattle ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
byrlady | ᛫ ( an exclamation of surprise ) ᛫ | I | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
bysmear | ᛫ mockery ᛬ to mock ᛫ deride ᛫ irritate ᛫ reproach ᛫ blaspheme ᛫ defame ᛫ revile ᛫ | N᛬V | bysmer&bysmerian | OE | ||
byspel | ᛫ a parable ᛫ a fable ᛫ a proverb ᛫ | N | bīspel&bigspell | ME&OE | see comment | |
bystander | ᛫ one who is present but not taking part in a situation or event ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bytime | ᛫ leisure time ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
bytongue | bytung | ᛫ a dialect ᛫ | N | by+tongue | NE×2 | |
bytonguelore | bytunglore | ᛫ dialectology ᛫ | N | by+tongue+lore | NE×3 | |
Bytown | Bytune | ᛫ Ottawa ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ceased to be official name in 1854, remains a popular nickname |
byway | ᛫ a side road ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
byword | ᛫ a proverb ᛫ a proverbial saying ᛫ an epithet ᛫ an adverb ᛫ | N | byword&bijwoord | NE&NL | ||
cack | ᛫ excrement ᛫ faeces ᛫ poop ᛫ crap ᛫ dung ᛬ to poop ᛫ to crap ᛫ to shit ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[cac] | NE | ||
cackhouse | cackhuse | ᛫ a privy ᛫ a latrine ᛫ | N | cachūs | OE | |
calfbone | ᛫ the fibula ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
calfbone | ᛫ a fibula ᛫ | N | calf+bone | NE‹N+NE | or: sparlirebone | |
calfflesh | calfflesc | ᛫ veal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
call | ᛫ a hair net ᛫ a kind of headdress ᛫ | N | calle | ME | ||
called for | ᛫ warranted ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
callow | ᛫ inexperienced ᛫ bald ᛫ unfledged ᛫ unfeathered ᛫ immature ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
candletree | candeltree | ᛫ a candelabrum ᛫ a chandelier ᛫ | N | candeltrēow | OE | the candle element is ultimately from Latin |
canker | ᛫ cancer ᛫ a plant disease characterized by cankers ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹OE‹I | ||
cankerleech | cankerleec | ᛫ an oncologist ᛫ | N | canker+leech | NE‹I+NE | |
cannel | ᛫ cinnamon ᛫ a Cinnamomum zelanicum tree ᛫ | N | canē̆l | ME‹I | ||
canny | ᛫ pleasant ᛫ fair ᛫ shrewd or astute ( especially in business matters ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
capittle | capittel | ᛫ a chapter ( in all senses ) ᛫ | N | capitle[capitol] | ME‹OE‹I | |
carer | ᛫ a nurse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
caretaker | ᛫ a custodian ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
careworn | ᛫ tired and unhappy because of prolonged worry ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cart | ᛫ a paper ᛫ a treatise ᛫ | N | carte | ME‹OE‹I | ||
Cartain | ᛫ Carthage ᛫ | N(P) | Cartaina | OE‹O | ||
catbear | ᛫ a panda ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] ᛫ calque of Chinese? | |
Cathom | ᛫ Caen ( city in Normandy ) ᛫ | N(P) | Caþum | OE | From the Anglo Saxon Chronicle | |
catlore | ᛫ felinology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
catly | ᛫ feline ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
chafer | ceafer | ᛫ a Scarabaeidae insect ( scarab beetles ) ᛫ | N | ~[ceafor] | NE | rhyme: wafer ᛫ kin: chaff (probably) |
chaff | ceaf | ᛫ grain husks ( collective ) ᛫ something worthless ᛫ refuse ᛫ garbage ᛫ trash ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
chaffer | ceafer | ᛫ trade ᛫ commerce ᛫ merchandise ᛫ a commodity ᛬ to trade ᛫ to do business ᛫ | N | chaffer&chaffā̆re | NE&ME‹(I+E) | equal to: cheap fare |
chapman | ceapman | ᛫ a merchant ᛫ a trader ᛫ a peddler ᛫ a bargainer ᛫ | N | chapman | ME | or: cheapman (from variant) |
char | cear | ᛫ a turn ( one's allotted time ) ᛫ a shift ( of work or such ) ᛬ to turn ᛫ to change beliefs or allegiance ᛫ to convert ᛫ | N᛬V | char&chāren&cyrran | NE&ME&OE | kin: chare |
charlady | cearlady | ᛫ a maid ( a cleaning lady ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: charwoman |
charlock | cearlock | ᛫ a Cruciferae plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
chary | ceary | ᛫ wary ᛫ hesitant ᛫ reluctant ᛫ cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something ᛫ anxious about doing something ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | kin: care ᛫ rhyme: cherry (for some at least) |
chavel | ceafel | ᛫ a jowl ᛫ a jaw ᛫ | N᛬V | chavel[ceafl] | ME | "jowl" has French influence? |
cheap | ceep | ᛫ bargaining ᛫ a bargain ᛬ to bargain ᛬ inexpensive ᛫ inexpensive and of poor quality | AJ | cheap&chēp&chēpen | NE‹I&ME‹I | terms like "good cheap" simplified to just "cheap" |
cheaping | ceeping | ᛫ marketing ᛫ trading ᛫ bargaining ᛫ | N | chẹ̄pinge | ME‹OE‹I | |
cheapstow | ceepstow | ᛫ a market place ᛫ | N | ceapstōw | OE‹(I+E) | |
chedder | cedder | ᛫ cedar ᛫ | N | cederbēam/cedertrēow | OE‹I‹H | or: cader (from cæderbēam) |
cheed | ceed | ᛫ a pouch ᛫ a bag ᛫ a sack ᛫ | N | cēod | OE | |
cheekbone | ceekbone | ᛫ a zygomatic bone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
cheel | ceel | ᛫ a small flat-bottomed kind of ship or boat ᛫ | N | cēol | OE | "keel" seems to be Norse |
cheen | ceen | ᛫ a torch ( of a particular kind? ) ᛫ | N | cēn | OE | |
cheet | ceet | ᛫ a cabin ᛫ a cottage ᛫ | N | chẹ̄te[cēte] | ME | |
chell | cell | ᛫ a gullet ᛫ a front of a neck ᛫ | N | chelle/cholle[ceole] | ME | |
chettle | cettel | ᛫ a kettle ᛫ | N | chetel[cetel] | ME | kettle is Norse? |
cheves | ceefes | ᛫ a concubine ᛫ a paramour ᛫ | N | cheves[ciefes/cefes/cyfes] | ME | ANG: ceefs? |
chevesborn | ceefesborn | ᛫ born of a concubine ᛫ bastard ᛫ | AJ | cheves boren | ME | |
chide | cide | ᛫ to admonish ᛫ to rebuke ᛫ to reproach ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
child | cild | ᛫ a juvenile ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | PL: children; childer |
Childermas | cildermas | ᛫ Holy Innocents' Day ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+I) | |
childleech | cildleec | ᛫ a pediatrician ᛫ | N | child+leech | NE×2 | or: barnleech |
childrearing | cildrearing | ᛫ the bringing up of a child ᛫ parenting ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
chine | cine | ᛫ a fissure ᛫ a chasm ᛬ to crack ᛫ to fissure ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[cīnu/cīnan] | NE | |
Chinish | Cinisc | ᛫ Chinese ᛫ | N | Chinish | ENE | [OXF] |
chink | cink | ᛫ a narrow opening ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
chirk | cirk | ᛫ to cheer up ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
chirkel | cirkel | ᛫ the circle of the Zodiac ᛫ | N | circul | OE‹I | |
chirm | cirm | ᛫ noise ᛫ din ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
chirse | cirs | ᛫ a cherry ᛫ | N | ciris/cyrs | OE‹I‹H | |
chirten | cirten | ᛫ beautiful ᛫ | AJ | cyrten | OE | |
chirtenledge | cirtenlecg | ᛫ to beautify ᛫ | V | cyrtenlǣcan | OE | |
chise | cise | ᛫ choosy ᛫ choice ᛫ picky ᛫ petty ᛫ overly critical ᛫ | AJ | chīs | ME | |
chisel | cisel | ᛫ gravel ᛫ | N | chisel/chysel/chesel | ME | |
chistle | cistel | ᛫ a Castanea plant ( a chestnut tree ) ᛫ | N | cystel | OE‹I | also: chistbeam; chistenbeam, stonechist, stonechistle |
chit | cit | ᛫ a young beast ( such as a whelp or a cub or a kitten ) ᛫ a brat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
chokelew | ceokelew | ᛫ apt to choke or suffocate someone ᛫ | AJ | chokeleu | ME | |
choose | ceoos | ᛫ to pick ᛫ to decide ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
chooser | ceooser | ᛫ an elector ᛫ a connoisseur ᛫ | N | chooser&chēsere | NE&ME | |
choosling | ceoosling | ᛫ one of the elect ( of Christian myth ) ᛫ | N | chōsling | ME | |
chophouse | ceophuse | ᛫ a steakhouse ᛫ a restaurant that specializes in steaks , chops , and similar fare ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | see: LEX |
chore | ceore | ᛫ a task ( especially a habitial one ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
Christendom | cristendom | ᛫ Christianity ᛫ the Christian world ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
churchly | circly | ᛫ ecclesiastical ᛫ | AJ | ~[cyriclīc] | NE | |
churchman | circman | ᛫ a cleric ᛫ a member of the clergy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(H+E) | |
churchward | circward | ᛫ a custodian of a church ᛫ a sacristan ᛫ | N | chircheward | ME‹(H+E) | |
churl | cerl | ᛫ a commoner ᛫ a peasant ᛫ a boor ᛫ | N | ~[chē̆rl] | NE | |
churlborn | cerlborn | ᛫ low-born ᛫ | AJ | ceorlboren | OE | |
churlfolk | cerlfolk | ᛫ the common people ᛫ | N | ceorlfolc | OE | |
churlish | cerlisc | ᛫ servile ᛫ rustic ᛫ rude ᛫ villainous ᛫ unlearned ᛫ | AJ | cherlish | ME | |
churlishness | cerliscness | ᛫ rudeness ᛫ vulgarity ᛫ | N | ceorliscnes | OE | |
Churlwain | cerlwain | ᛫ the Big Dipper ᛫ Ursa Major ᛫ the constellation Boötes ᛫ | N | carlewain | ME | |
churly | cerly | ᛫ vulgarly ᛫ in the manner of commoners ᛫ | AV | ceorllīce | OE | |
chy | cie | ᛫ to call ᛫ to call upon ᛫ to invoke ᛫ to summon ᛫ | V | cīgan | OE | |
chyingly | cyingly | ᛫ vocative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | gecēgendlīc{cīgan} | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar |
cinder | sinder | ᛫ slag ᛫ dross ᛫ impurity of metal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
clammy | ᛫ cold and damp ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
clauster | ᛫ a cloister ᛫ | N | clauster | OE‹I | ||
cleam | ᛫ to plaster ᛫ to smear ᛫ to anoint ᛫ | V | clēmen[OE clǣman] | ME | kin: cloam | |
cleancut | ᛫ sharply defined ᛫ unambiguous ᛫ of wholesome appearance ᛫ | AJ | cleancut | NE‹(E+N) | ||
cleanhearted | ᛫ pure in heart ᛫ innocent of heart ᛫ | AJ | clǣnheort+ed | OE+NE | ||
cleanly | ᛫ habitually clean ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cleanness | ᛫ moral purity ᛫ innocence ᛫ cleanliness ᛫ integrity ᛫ chastity ᛫ celibacy ᛫ | N | cleaness | NE&ME | ||
cleanse | ᛫ to purge ᛫ to purify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
cleat | ᛫ a wedge ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cleave | cleaf | ᛫ to sever ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: clove; cleft ᛫ PTCP: cloven; cleft |
cleavers | cleafers | ᛫ a Galium aparine plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: clivers |
cleaving | cleafing | ᛫ cleavage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
cleeve | cleef | ᛫ a dwelling ᛫ | N | clēve[cleofa] | ME | |
cleft | ᛫ a fissure ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: cleave | |
clepe | ᛫ to name ᛫ to summon ᛫ to invoke ᛫ to speak ᛫ to utter ᛫ to vocalize ᛫ | V | clēpen[cleopian] | ME | PST: clept | |
clepend | ᛫ a vowel ᛫ | N | cleopigend | OE | ||
clependy | ᛫ vocalic ᛫ | AJ | cleopigend+ly | OE+NE | ||
clerk | ᛫ a cleric ᛫ an office worker ᛫ one who works with records or accounts ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹‹OE‹I | kin: cleric | |
clew | ᛫ an indication ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: clew | |
clew | ᛫ a sphere ᛫ a ball of thread ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cling | ᛫ to adhere ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
clip | ᛫ a flexible or spring-loaded device for holding objects ᛫ a metal holder containing firearm cartridges ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
clip | ᛫ to hug ᛫ to embrace ᛫ | V | clippen | ME | same word as "clip" meaning "binding device" | |
clithe | ᛫ a plaster ᛫ salve ᛫ poultice ᛫ | N | clithe[cliþa] | ME | ||
cloam | ᛫ earthenware ᛫ crockery ᛫ | N | ~[clām] | NE | [MW] | |
clod | ᛫ a lump of something ( especially clay or earth ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
clog | ᛫ a log ᛫ a block of wood to impede an animal's movement ᛫ a block ᛫ a lump that causes a block ᛫ a lump ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
clote | ᛫ the burdock ᛫ the clotbur ᛫ | N | clote | ME | ||
clothe | ᛫ to dress ᛫ to give someone clothes ᛫ to endow ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PTCP: clad | |
clother | ᛫ a person who makes or sells cloth or clothing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
clough | cluge | ᛫ a steep valley ᛫ a ravine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] ᛫ rhyme: tough |
clousing | clusing | ᛫ a cell ᛫ | N | clȳsing | OE‹I | kin: clūsen (ME) |
clout | clute | ᛫ a patch ( of leather cloth metal or code ) ᛫ a blotch ᛫ a heavy blow ᛫ influence ᛬ to patch ( to mend with a patch ) ᛫ | N | clout&clout[clūt] | NE&ME | |
clove | clofe | ᛫ a duplicate charter ᛫ a copy ᛫ a duplicate [ᚹ] ᛬ to copy [ᚹ] ᛫ to duplicate [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬V | iclova&geclofa | ME&OE | |
clove | clofe | ᛫ something which is cleft ᛫ a den ᛫ a chasm ᛫ a hollow ᛫ a bulbil ᛫ a bit of garlic ᛫ a celler ᛫ | N | clove&clēofa | NE&OE | |
cloven | clofen | ᛫ divided ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
clutchfist | clucfist | ᛫ a miser ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
coaf | ᛫ courageous ᛫ | AJ | cōf[cāf] | ME | ||
coalfish | coalfisc | ᛫ a Pollachius virens fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | AKA: pollock; saithe |
coalmouse | coalmuse | ᛫ a Periparus ater bird ᛫ | N | coalmouse | NE | |
coaser | ᛫ an emperor ᛫ an imperator ᛫ a caesar ᛫ | N | cāsere | OE‹I | ||
coaserdom | ᛫ imperium ᛫ | N | cāserdōm | OE‹(I+E) | ||
coaserly | ᛫ imperial ᛫ | AJ | cāserlīc | OE‹(I+E) | ||
coasern | ᛫ an empress ᛫ | N | cāsern | OE‹(I+E) | ||
coaserrich | coaserric | ᛫ an empire ᛫ | N | cāsere+rīche | OE+ME | calque: Kaiserreich |
coathe | ᛫ disease ᛫ illness ᛫ sickness ᛫ | N | ~[cothe][coþu] | NE | used only for sheep in Modern English? | |
coathed | ᛫ diseased ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cobweb | ᛫ a spider's web ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cock | ᛫ a male bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cocker | ᛫ a quiver ᛫ | N | coker | ME | ||
cockshead | cockscead | ᛫ an Onobrychis plant ( a sainfoin ) ᛫ | N | cock's head | NE | |
cod | ᛫ a bag ᛫ a sack ᛫ a pouch ᛫ integument ᛫ a scrotum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
codapple | codappel | ᛫ a quince ? ᛫ | N | codæppel | OE | |
codtree | ᛫ a Ceratonia siliqua plant ( a carob or a locust tree ) ᛫ a Prosopsis plant ( an algarroba ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
coffeehouse | coffeehuse | ᛫ a cafe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(O+NE) | |
coldrife | ᛫ cold ᛫ chilling ᛫ gelid ᛫ frigid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cole | ᛫ any Brassica oleracea plant ( broccoli , kale , brussels sprouts , cabbage , cauliflower , kohlrabi , gai lan ) | N | ~[cāl]{cawel}{caulis} | NE‹OE‹I | kin: kale | |
coleneep | ᛫ kohlrabi ᛫ | N | cole+nep | NE+ME‹I | calque: Kohlrabi | |
Coleyn | ᛫ the city of Cologne ᛫ | N | Coleyn | ME | ||
colk | ᛫ an apple core ᛫ an onion heart ᛫ a core [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | colk{hertecolk} | ME | kin: kolk (Middle Dutch); kälk (Swedish dialectal) | |
comeliness | cumliness | ᛫ beauty ᛫ attractiveness ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
comeling | cumling | ᛫ a foreigner ᛫ a stranger ᛫ an intruder ᛫ a newcomer to a religious faith ᛫ a new convert ᛫ an import ( from abroad ) ᛫ | N | cǒmeling | ME | |
comelithe | cumlithe | ᛫ hospitable ᛫ | AJ | cumlīþe | OE | |
comelitheness | cumlitheness | ᛫ hospitality ᛫ | N | cumlīþness | OE | |
comely | cumly | ᛫ attractive ᛫ agreeable ᛫ suitable ᛫ proper ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
comendliness | cummendliness | ᛫ possibility ᛫ | N | acumendlīcness | OE | |
comendly | cummendly | ᛫ possible ᛫ | AJ | ācumendlic | OE | or: comingly; camely |
comer | cummer | ᛫ a guest ᛫ a stranger ᛫ | N | cǒmere{cuma} | ME | |
con | ᛫ to study attentively ᛫ to study ᛫ | V | ~[cunnan] | NE | [OXF] | |
conned | ᛫ educated ᛫ having studied ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
conner | ᛫ a student ᛫ | N | con+er | NE×2 | ||
cook up | ᛫ to fabricate ᛫ to make ( usually in a shady or rushed way ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
cookiecutter | ᛫ generic ( usually in a bad way ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(NL+E) | ||
cooler | ᛫ a refrigerator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
coomb | ᛫ a short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹C | ||
cop | ᛫ a spider ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | shortened from "atorcoppe" ᛫ kin: cobweb | |
cop | ᛫ the top summit or crest of something ᛫ | N | ~[copp] | NE | [MW] | |
coppen | ᛫ to eagerly await ᛫ | V | copnen | ME | ||
core | ᛫ discrimination ᛫ a decision ᛫ a choice ᛫ | N | core&gecor | ME&OE | ||
corn | ᛫ a grain ᛫ maize ( grain from the Zea mays plant ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Cornish | Cornisc | ᛫ Cornish language ᛬ Cornish ᛫ Cornubian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | ~ | NE | or: Cornwelsh; Westwelsh (from OE Westwealas) |
cornstone | ᛫ granite ᛫ | N | corn+stone | NE×2 | calque: granite | |
Cornwales | ᛫ Cornishmen ᛫ | N(P) | cornwealas | OE | or: Cornishman; Westwale (from OE Westwealas) | |
Cornwall | ᛫ Cornubia ᛫ | N(P) | cornwealas | OE | or: Westwales; Cornwales | |
Corsick | ᛫ Corsica ᛫ | N(P) | Corsicam | OE | or: Corsica | |
cost | ᛫ a trait ᛫ a property ᛫ an attribute ᛫ a disposition ᛫ a way of doing things ᛫ a procedure [ᚹ] ᛫ a process [ᚹ] ᛫ a method [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | cost | ME‹N | ||
costen | ᛫ to tempt ᛫ | V | costnian | OE | ||
costening | ᛫ temptation ᛫ | N | costnung | OE | ||
cot | ᛫ a cottage ᛫ | N | cot | OE | ||
couth | cooth | ᛫ known ᛫ well known ᛫ familiar ᛫ sophisticated ᛫ refined ᛫ | AJ | couth&couth | NE&ME | |
couther | coother | ᛫ an acquaintance ᛫ | N | cuþa | OE | |
couthledge | coothlecg | ᛫ to befriend ᛫ to make known to yourself ᛫ | V | cūþlǣcan | OE | |
couthly | coothly | ᛫ surely ᛫ certainly ᛫ familiarly ᛫ courteously ᛫ | AV | cūþelīce | OE | |
couthness | coothness | ᛫ acquaintance ᛫ | N | cūþnes | OE | |
couthred | coothred | ᛫ intimacy ᛫ | N | cuþreden | ME | |
cove | cofe | ᛫ a small coastal inlet ᛫ | N | ~[cōfa] | NE | |
covegod | cofegod | ᛫ a household god ᛫ penates ᛫ | N | cōfgod | OE | |
cow | cue | ᛫ a Bos taurus animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | PL: cues; kine |
cowberry | cueberry | ᛫ a berry from a Vaccinium vitis-idaea plant ᛫ a lingonberry ᛫ a mountain cranberry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Crab | ᛫ Cancer ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
crack | ᛫ highly trained and competent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
craft | ᛫ an art ᛫ a vehicle ᛫ a trade ( as in a profession ) ᛬ to construct ᛫ to develop ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
crafted tongue | tung | ᛫ a constructed language ᛫ a conlang ᛫ | N | crafted+tongue | NE×2 | |
crafter | ᛫ an architect ᛫ an artifex ᛫ | N | cræftiga | NE&OE | ||
craftless | ᛫ artless ᛫ inexpert ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
craftsman | ᛫ an artisan ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
craftspeech | craftspeec | ᛫ a craft's jargon ᛫ | N | cræftspræc | OE | |
crafty | ᛫ relating to a craft ᛫ technical ᛫ wily ᛫ skillful ᛫ innovative ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cram | ᛫ to stuff ᛫ to fill to capacity ᛫ | V | ~[crammen][crammian] | NE | ||
cranesbill | ᛫ a Geranium plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
crank | ᛫ a device which moves something when turned ᛫ methamphetamine ᛬ to turn a crank ᛫ | N᛬V | ~{crancstæf} | NE | ||
crat | ᛫ a chariot ᛫ a cart ᛫ | N | cræt | OE | ||
craw | ᛫ the stomach of an animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
creepdeer | ᛫ a reptile ᛫ | N | creep+deer | NE×2 | calque: Kriechtier | |
Crete | ᛫ Crete ᛫ Cretan wine ᛫ | N(P) | Crete&Crēte | NE&ME | ||
cringe | crincg | ᛫ to shudder from embarrassment fear or disgust ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
cringeworthy | crincgworthy | ᛫ embarrassing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Cristen | ᛫ Christian ᛫ | AJ | cristen | OE | ||
Croatish | Croatisc | ᛫ Croatian ᛫ | AJ | Croat+ish | NE×2 | |
crock | ᛫ an earthenware pot or jar ᛫ something considered to be complete nonsense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
crockwright | crockwrigt | ᛫ a potter ᛫ | N | crocwyrhta | OE | |
croft | ᛫ a small rented farm comprising of a plot of arable land attached to a house ᛫ | N | croft | NE | ||
croft | ᛫ an underground vault ᛫ a crypt ᛫ a basement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹Þ‹I | ||
crook | ᛫ a hooked staff ᛫ one who engages in fraudulent or criminal practices ᛫ a bend ᛫ a curve ᛬ to bend ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
crooked | ᛫ bent ᛫ twisted ᛫ illegal ᛫ fraudulent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cropland | ᛫ farmland ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cropper | ᛫ one who raises a crop ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
crud | ᛫ clabber ᛫ curds ᛫ cottage cheese ᛫ rennet ᛫ junket ᛫ a coagulated substance ᛬ to coagulate ᛫ to congeal ᛫ to curdle ᛫ | N᛬V | crud&crud&crudden | NE&ME&ME | doublet: curd | |
crundle | crundel | ᛫ a mound raised over graves to protect them ᛫ a barrow ᛫ a tumulus ᛫ a burial mound ᛫ | N | crundel | OE | |
cud | ᛫ gum ᛫ resin ᛫ mastic ᛫ quid ᛫ | N | cud[cudu] | ME | ||
cuddy | ᛫ gummy ᛫ resinous ᛫ | AJ | cud+y | ME+NE | ||
cudgel | kicgel | ᛫ a club ᛫ | N | ~[cycgel]{kycglum/kigclas} | NE | "club" is Norse |
culver | culfer | ᛫ a dove ᛫ a pigeon ᛫ | N | ~[culfre][columba] | NE‹I | |
Cumberland | ᛫ Cumbria ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
cun | ᛫ to be able to ᛫ | V | cunnen | ME | PST: could ᛫ PTCP: cunnen ᛫ PRES: can ᛫ PPR: cunning | |
cunning | ᛫ ability ᛫ knowledge ᛫ information ᛫ a science ᛫ a field of knowledge ᛫ an art ᛬ experienced ᛫ able ᛫ crafty ᛫ sly ᛫ clever ᛫ guileful ᛫ | N᛬AJ | cunning&cǒnninge | NE&ME | ||
cunt | ᛫ a vulva ᛫ a vagina ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
cust | ᛫ virtue ᛫ one's character ᛫ | N | custe[cyst] | ME | ||
custiness | ᛫ generosity ᛫ liberality ᛫ munificence ᛫ | N | cystignes | OE | ||
custy | ᛫ devout ᛫ benevolent ᛫ of good character ᛫ | AJ | cystig | OE | ||
cutthroat | ᛫ a murderer ᛫ a ruthless person ᛬ ruthless ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
cutwater | ᛫ Rynchops niger ᛫ the forward curve of a ship's stern ᛫ the wedge of a bridge pier ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
daft | ᛫ silly ᛫ insane ᛫ crazy ᛫ mad ( crazy ) ᛫ stupid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dale | ᛫ a valley ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dalk | ᛫ a clasp ᛫ a buckle ᛫ a brooch ᛫ a fibula ᛫ | N | dalk[dalc] | ME | ||
dall | ᛫ eminent ᛫ | AJ | deal/deall | OE | ||
Damask | ᛫ Damascus ᛫ a kind of cloth from Damascus ᛫ | N(P) | damask | ME‹I?‹O | ||
damp | ᛫ moisture ᛫ humidity ᛫ dampness ᛬ moist ᛫ humid ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE‹LG | ||
dapper | ᛫ neat ᛫ spiffy ᛫ stylish ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹NL? | ||
dare | ᛫ to brave ᛫ a challenge of bravery ᛬ to challenge an act of bravery ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: dared; durst | |
daring | ᛫ adventurous courage ᛬ adventurous ᛫ audaciously bold ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dark | ᛫ aphotic ᛫ atramentous ᛫ caliginous ᛫ cimmerian ᛫ crepuscular ᛫ somber ᛫ solemn ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
darkling | ᛫ in the dark ᛬ darkly ᛫ done or taking place in the dark ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
darling | ᛫ a beloved one ᛬ beloved ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
darst | ᛫ leaven ᛫ | N | dærst | OE | ||
darth | ᛫ a dart ᛫ a javelin ᛫ | N | daroþ | OE | "dart" is French, from Frankish cognate of "daroþ" | |
dash | dasc | ᛫ a hyphen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | |
daughterdaughter | daugterdaugter | ᛫ a maternal granddaughter ᛫ | N | daughter+daughter | NE×2 | based on: sunsunu; dohtorsunu |
daughterson | daugtersun | ᛫ a maternal grandson ᛫ | N | dohtorsunu | OE | |
daven | dafen | ᛫ to suit ᛫ to be fitting ᛬ becoming ᛫ suitable ᛫ proper ᛫ convenient ᛫ | V᛬AJ | dafenian&dafen | OE | |
daw | ᛫ a Coloeus monedula bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
daw | ᛫ to dawn ᛫ | V | dauen | ME | kin: day | |
daws | ᛫ days ᛫ | N | dawes | ME | archaic plural form | |
dayblindness | ᛫ hemeralopia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
daybook | ᛫ a journal ᛫ a log ᛫ a logbook ᛫ a diary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dayish | dayisc | ᛫ diurnal ᛫ | AJ | daiish | ME | |
daymeal | ᛫ a clock ᛫ a sundial ᛫ a waterclock ᛫ a clepsydra ᛫ | N | dægmǣl | OE | literally day-measure | |
daysman | ᛫ an arbitrator ᛫ a mediator ᛫ an umpire ᛫ an arbiter ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
daystar | ᛫ Lucifer ( as in the morning star ) ᛫ | N | dægsteorra | OE | ||
dead | ᛫ to kill ᛫ to die ᛫ | V | dēden[dēadian] | ME | ||
deadlock | ᛫ a stalemate ᛫ an impasse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deadly | ᛫ fatal ᛫ lethal ᛬ fatally ᛫ mortally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
deadly nightshade | nigtscade | ᛫ an Atropa belladonna plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
deadshot | deadscot | ᛫ a highly accurate marksman ᛫ | N | dead shot | NE | |
deal | ᛫ a part ᛫ a component ᛫ a portion ᛫ an agreement ᛫ a pact ᛬ to distribute ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
dealer | ᛫ a divider ᛫ a distributor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dealing | ᛫ a business transaction ᛫ an interaction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dealnim | ᛫ to take part ᛫ to participate ᛫ | V | dǣlniman | OE | PST: dealnum; dealnimmed ᛫ PTCP: dealnum | |
dealnimmer | ᛫ a participant ᛫ a participle ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | N | dǣlnimend | OE | ||
dealnimmerly | ᛫ sharing ᛫ participating ᛫ participal ᛫ | AJ | dǣlnimendlīc | OE | ||
dealth | ᛫ a portion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: wealth | |
dealy | ᛫ partial ᛫ | AJ | deal+y | NE×2 | ||
dear | ᛫ expensive ᛫ costly ᛫ cherished ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dearest | ᛫ a favourite ᛫ a beloved one ᛬ favourite ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dearness | ᛫ expensiveness ᛫ costliness ᛫ affection ᛫ fondness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dearsome | dearsum | ᛫ precious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
dearth | ᛫ a famine ᛫ scarcity ᛫ paucity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: birth | |
dearworthy | ᛫ precious ᛫ beloved ᛫ precious ᛫ prized ᛫ | AJ | dereworthi | ME | ||
deathknell | ᛫ a sign foretelling the death of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deathless | ᛫ immortal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
deathling | ᛫ a mortal ᛫ a being subject to death ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deathlore | ᛫ thanatology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deathraked | ᛫ a sepulchre ᛫ | N | dēaþræced | OE | ||
deathshild | deathscild | ᛫ a capital crime ᛫ | N | dēaþscyld | OE | |
deathshildiness | deathscildiness | ᛫ mortality ᛫ | N | dethshildiȝnesse | ME | |
deathshildy | deathscildy | ᛫ mortal ᛫ liable to death ᛫ | AJ | dethshildiȝ | ME | |
deathsman | ᛫ an executioner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deathsong | ᛫ a requiem ( in the musical sense ) ᛫ | N | death+song | NE×2 | ||
deech | deec | ᛫ to smear ᛫ to daub ᛫ to plaster ᛫ | V | dēchen | ME | |
deed | ᛫ an action ᛫ an act ᛫ a legal document showing bond ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
deedbane | ᛫ an evildoer ᛫ | N | dǣdbana | OE | ||
deedbeet | ᛫ to make amends ᛫ to be penitent ᛫ to repent ᛫ | V | dǣdbētan | OE | ||
deedbeeter | ᛫ a deed amender ᛫ a penitent ᛫ | N | dǣdbēta | OE | ||
deedboot | ᛫ repentance ᛫ penitence ᛫ penance ᛫ | N | dǣdbōt | OE | ||
deedfrom | ᛫ a deed-doer ᛫ an actor ᛫ a causative agent ᛫ | N | dǣdfruma | OE | ||
deedlate | ᛫ slow to act ᛫ slothful ᛫ | AJ | dǣdlæt | OE | ||
deedlater | ᛫ a lazy person ᛫ a sluggard ᛫ | N | dǣdlata | OE | ||
deedlean | ᛫ a reward ᛫ recompence ᛫ recompense ᛫ | N | dǣdlēan | OE | ||
deem | ᛫ to regard ᛫ to judge ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
deemer | ᛫ a judge ᛫ | N | dēma | OE | ||
deer | ᛫ an animal ᛫ a beast ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | PL: deer; deers (huntien after deores) | |
deerkind | ᛫ the animal kingdom ᛫ | N | deer+kind | NE×2 | ||
deerlore | ᛫ zoology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE×2 | ||
deeryard | ᛫ a zoo ᛫ a zoological garden ᛫ | N | deer+yard | NE×2 | calque: diergaarde; Tiergarten | |
deeve | deef | ᛫ proper ᛫ | AJ | gedēfe | OE | kin: 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍉𐍆 |
deft | ᛫ neatly skillful and quick in one's movements ᛫ demonstrating skill and cleverness ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
delf | ᛫ digging ᛫ the act of digging ᛫ an excavation ᛫ a quarry ᛫ a mine ᛫ | N | delf[gedelf] | ME | ||
delfine | ᛫ a dolphin ᛫ | N | delfīn | ME‹I | ||
dell | ᛫ a secluded hollow or small valley usually covered with trees or turf ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
delve | delf | ᛫ to dig ᛫ to mine to ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PTCP: dolven |
Den | ᛫ a Dane ᛫ | N | Dene | OE | or: Deen? | |
dene | ᛫ a valley ᛫ a vale ᛫ a dale ᛫ | N | dēne[denu/dænu] | ME | ||
Denlaw | ᛫ the region in Britain which was governed by Danish law ᛫ the Danelaw ᛫ | N(P) | denelage | OE | ||
Denmark | ᛫ Denmark ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | or: Denmarch | |
Dennish | Dennisc | ᛫ Danish ᛫ | N | Dennish[Denisc] | ME | or: Dench (from variant) |
Deprobane | ᛫ Sri Lanka ᛫ Ceylon ᛫ Taprobana ᛫ | N(P) | Dēprobane | OE | ||
Der | ᛫ a Deirian ᛫ | N(P) | Dere | OE‹C | ||
dere | ᛫ hurt ᛫ harm ᛫ injury ᛬ to hurt ᛫ to harm ᛫ to injure ᛫ | N᛬V | dēre | ME | ||
derf | ᛫ tribulation ᛫ affliction ᛫ trouble ᛫ torture ᛫ labour ᛫ | N | derf&deorf | ME&OE | ||
dern | ᛫ to hide ᛫ to conceal ᛬ secret ᛫ hidden ᛫ underhanded ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
derning | ᛫ camouflage ᛫ a disguise ᛫ | N | dern+ing | NE×2 | calque: Tarnung (HG) | |
dernship | dernscip | ᛫ secrecy ᛫ | N | derneshipe | ME | |
Derrich | Derric | ᛫ the Kingdom of Deria ᛫ | N(P) | Dera rīce | OE‹(C+C) | |
derringdo | ᛫ action displaying heroic courage ᛫ | N | derringdo | NE | ||
derve | derf | ᛫ to trouble ᛫ to labour ᛫ | V | deorfan | OE | kin: derf |
devilcraft | defilcraft | ᛫ the art of the devil ᛫ | N | dēofolcræft | OE(I‹H+E) | |
devilfish | defilfisc | ᛫ an octopus ᛫ any cephalopod ᛫ a devil ray ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E‹I‹H+E) | |
devilreigh | defilreig | ᛫ a devil ray ᛫ | N | devil ray | NE‹(E‹I‹H+E) | |
devilsdung | defilsdung | ᛫ asafoetida ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | Compare: HG Teufelsdreck; NL duivelsdrek |
dewsnail | ᛫ a slug ᛫ | N | dew-snail | NE | slug is Norse | |
dight | digt | ᛫ to prepare ᛫ to ready ᛫ to polish ᛫ to ornament ᛫ to make preparations ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to order ᛫ to organize ᛫ to direct ᛫ | V | dighten | ME‹OE‹Þ‹I? | |
dighting | digting | ᛫ a preparation ᛫ an arrangement ᛫ an ordering ᛫ | N | dighting[dihtung] | ME | |
dile | ᛫ hidden ᛫ secret ᛫ furtive ᛫ cryptic ᛫ | AJ | dīȝel[dīegel] | ME | ||
dill | ᛫ an Anethum graveolens plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dimhouse | dimhuse | ᛫ a lautumia ᛫ a dungeon ᛫ | N | dimhūs | OE | |
din | ᛫ a loud noise ᛫ a loud sound ᛬ to sound loudly ᛫ resound ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
ding | ᛫ a dent ᛫ a blow ᛬ to dent ᛫ to hit ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
dingle | dingel | ᛫ a valley which is small and wooded ᛫ a cleft which is deep and narrow ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [CED] ᛫ kin: Tunc (HG); dyngja (N) |
dint | ᛫ a blow or stroke ( typically one made with a weapon ) ᛫ force of attack ᛫ an impact ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
dishbearer | discbearer | ᛫ a waiter ᛫ a waitress ᛫ a server of food ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] ᛫ also: disher (which can also mean dishmaker) |
distaff | ᛫ a staff for spinning thread ᛫ the domain or work of women ᛬ maternal ᛫ female ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
distaff side | ᛫ the female side of a family ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dit | ᛫ to seal ᛫ to close ᛫ to shut ᛫ to block ᛫ to shut up ᛫ to plug ᛫ | V | ditten[dyttan] | ME | ||
dither | ᛫ to act nervously or indecisively ᛫ vacillate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
divedopper | difedopper | ᛫ a pelican ᛫ | N | dūfedoppa | OE | |
dizen | disen | ᛫ to dress [ᛏ] ᛫ to attire ᛫ to deck out ᛫ to adorn ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | rhyme: risen; horizon |
doall | ᛫ a factotum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dock | ᛫ a Rumex plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
doe | ᛫ a female animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
doff | ᛫ to take off ᛫ to remove an item of clothing ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | from "do off" | |
dogdays | ᛫ a period of stagnation or inactivity ᛫ the period between early July and early September ᛫ | N | dog days | NE | [MW] | |
dogged | ᛫ marked by stubborn determination ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
doglore | ᛫ cynology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dogly | ᛫ canine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dogmad | ᛫ rabid ᛫ | AJ | dog-madness | NE | ||
dogmadness | ᛫ rabies ᛫ | N | dog-madness | NE | ||
dogsbody | ᛫ a menial worker ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dole | ᛫ a share ᛫ something given as charity ᛫ a donation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: deal | |
doleland | ᛫ an allotted share of commonly held land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | Lands of Doura in Scotland may be contraction of "Doleland" | |
dolk | ᛫ a wound ᛫ | N | dolc/dolh[dolg/dolh] | ME | ||
dom | ᛫ ( shows a state or condition ) ᛫ -cracy ᛫ -archy ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
Dominica | ᛫ Dominica ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹O+NE | ||
don | ᛫ to put on ᛫ to dress in ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | from "do on" | |
Donnow | Donnue | ᛫ the river Danube ᛫ | PN | Donua | OE | |
donothing | ᛫ a slacker ᛬ idle ᛫ | N᛬AJ | donothing | NE | ||
dook | ᛫ a bastard ᛫ | N | dōc | OE | ||
dooken | ᛫ to bastardize ᛫ to bastardise ᛫ | V | dōc+en | OE+NE | ||
doom | ᛫ judgment ᛫ legal decision ᛫ legal ruling ᛬ to sentence ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
doombook | ᛫ a book of decrees or laws ᛫ | N | dōmbōc | OE | ||
doombough | doombuge | ᛫ a judicial branch ᛫ | N | doom+bough | NE×2 | |
doomed | ᛫ judged ᛫ ill-fated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
doomern | ᛫ a court where judgments take place ᛫ a tribunal ᛫ | N | dōmern | OE | ||
doomful | ᛫ full of judgement ᛫ ominous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
doomhouse | doomhuse | ᛫ a courthouse ᛫ | N | dōmhūs | OE | |
doomladen | ᛫ conveying a sense of tragedy ᛫ | AJ | doomladen | NE | ||
doomly | ᛫ judicial ᛫ | AJ | dōmlīc | OE | ||
doomsday | ᛫ judgment day ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
doomsettle | doomsettel | ᛫ a judgment seat ᛫ a tribunal ᛫ | N | dōmsetl | OE | |
doomsman | ᛫ a judge ᛫ an umpire ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
doppet | ᛫ to immerse ᛫ | V | doppettan | OE | ||
dor | ᛫ an insect that buzzes when flying ᛫ | N | ~[OE dora] | NE | found in "dumbledore" | |
dote | ᛫ to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
dought | dugt | ᛫ courage ᛫ valour ᛫ bravery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: doubt |
doughty | dugty | ᛫ brave ᛫ courageous ᛫ valiant ᛫ intrepid ᛫ dauntless ᛫ | AJ | ~[dyhtig] | NE | rhyme: doubty |
douse | duse | ᛫ to immerse ᛫ to dunk or sink into liquid ᛫ to extinguish something like fire ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹N? | |
dout | dute | ᛫ to extinguish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
douth | duthe | ᛫ a troop of retainers ᛫ a retinue ᛫ virtue ᛫ | N | ~[douthe][duguþ] | NE | semantic shift: virtue › virtue of retainers › a troop of retainers |
dove | duf | ᛫ a pigeon ᛫ | N | ~[douve][dufe?] | NE | |
dow | due | ᛫ to have use ᛫ to matter ᛫ to be helpful ᛫ to be effective ᛫ | V | douen[dugan/dēah/dēag] | ME | rhyme: plough ᛫ PST: dought |
down | dune | ᛫ a hill ᛫ | N | ~[dūn] | NE | "down" as in "netherwards" comes from this word |
downbeat | dunebeat | ᛫ the accented beat at the beginning of a bar ᛬ sad and pessimistic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
downelf | duneelf | ᛫ a mountain elf ᛫ a mountain fairy ᛫ a mountain nymph ᛫ | N | dūnælf | OE | |
downfall | dunefall | ᛫ a collapse ᛫ a loss of power prosperity or status ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
downgang | dunegang | ᛫ a descent ᛫ a way down ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
downlink | dunelink | ᛫ a transmission or link to the earth from an airborne terminal ᛬ to transmit to the earth ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
downplay | duneplay | ᛫ to de-emphasize ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
downputting | duneputting | ᛫ denigrating ᛫ pejorative ᛫ derogatory ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
downright | dunerigt | ᛫ unambiguous ᛫ utter ᛬ unambiguously ᛫ utterly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
downside | duneside | ᛫ a con ᛫ a negative feature of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
draff | ᛫ swill ᛫ dregs ᛫ refuse ᛫ the damp remains of malt ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
drake | ᛫ trouble ᛫ | N | dracu | OE | kin: dretch | |
drake | ᛫ a dragon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹‹I | ||
drast | ᛫ dregs ᛫ sediment ᛫ scum ᛫ | N | drast | ME | ||
draught | draugt | ᛫ a preliminary version ᛫ a plan ᛫ a map ᛫ a concscription ᛬ to map out ᛫ to make a preliminary version ᛫ to conscript ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
draughthouse | draugthuse | ᛫ an outhouse ᛫ a privy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
draughts | draugts | ᛫ checkers ( the game ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
draughtsman | draugtsman | ᛫ a maker of engineering or architectural plans ᛫ an illustrator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: draftsman |
draughty | draugty | ᛫ gusty ( of wind ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: drafty ᛫ [CED] |
draw | ᛫ to attract ᛫ to derive ᛫ to pull ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: drew ᛫ PTCP: drawn | |
drawback | ᛫ an negative feature ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
drawingroom | ᛫ a room where visitors may be entertained ᛫ a lounge ᛫ | N | drawing room | NE | ||
drawlatch | drawlac | ᛫ a thief ᛫ a burglar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
dreadless | ᛫ intrepid ᛫ dauntless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dreap | ᛫ to kill ᛫ to strike down ᛫ | V | drēpen[drepan] | ME | ||
drear | ᛫ blood ᛫ gore ᛫ | N | dreor | OE | ||
dreary | ᛫ gloomy ᛫ cheerless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dree | ᛫ to endure ᛫ to suffer ᛫ to perform service ( especially military ) ᛬ tedious ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~[drīen][drēogan] | NE | or: dry | |
dreesome | dreesum | ᛫ tedious ᛫ wearisome ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
dreeve | dreef | ᛫ to disturb ᛫ to trouble ᛫ to vex ᛫ | V | drẹ̄ven[drēfan] | ME | |
dreeze | drees | ᛫ to fall ᛫ to perish ᛫ | V | drēsen[dreosan] | ME | |
dreg | ᛫ sediment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
drench | drenc | ᛫ a poisonous or medicinal drink ᛫ a potion ᛬ to soak ᛫ to make drink ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | kin: drink |
dretch | drec | ᛫ to injure ᛫ to damage ᛫ to trouble ᛫ to delay ᛫ to hesitate ᛫ | V | drecchen[dreccan] | ME | |
drib | ᛫ to do by little and little ᛫ to appropriate unlawfully ᛫ to filch ᛫ to defalcate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
dright | drigt | ᛫ a host ᛫ a body of retainers or warriors ᛫ a group of people ᛫ a people ᛫ a multitude ᛫ | N | driht | ME | |
drighten | drigten | ᛫ a lord ᛫ a ruler ᛫ a chief ᛫ a leader ᛫ a god ( pagan or otherwise ) ᛫ | N | drihten | ME | |
drightenly | drigtenly | ᛫ lordly ᛫ noble ᛫ | AJ | dryhtlīc | OE | |
drightenship | drigtenscip | ᛫ rulership ᛫ lordship ᛫ domination ᛫ | N | dryhtscipe | OE | |
dring | ᛫ a warrior ᛫ a soldier ᛫ | N | dring/dreng[dreng] | ME‹N? | or: dreng | |
drinkhail | ( in reply to someone making the " wassail toast " ) | N᛬I | drink heil | ME | ||
drite | ᛫ to shit ᛫ to poop ᛫ to defecate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
drivel | drifel | ᛫ saliva ᛫ nonsense ᛬ to slobber ᛫ to talk nonsense ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
drone | ᛫ a male bee ᛫ a menial worker ᛫ a remote-controlled or autonomous vehicle ᛫ a robot [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
droof | ᛫ turbid ᛫ disturbed ᛫ sorrowful ᛫ troubled ᛫ | AJ | drōf[drōf] | ME | ||
droovy | droofy | ᛫ stirred up ( of water ) ᛫ muddy murky ᛫ | AJ | drōvi[drōfig] | ME | |
dropmeal | ᛫ one drop at a time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
dropstone | ᛫ a stalactite ᛫ a stalagmite ᛫ a stalagnate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: dripstone | |
dropwort | ᛫ Filipendula vulgaris ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dross | ᛫ waste ᛫ something that is base trivial or inferior ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
drought | drugt | ᛫ a water shortage ᛫ a paucity ( semi-poetic ) ᛫ | N | ~[drūgaþ] | NE | |
drove | drofe | ᛫ a herd or flock of animals being driven ᛫ a bunch of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
drowse | druse | ᛫ a state of sleepiness or inactivity ᛬ to be inactive ᛫ to fall into a light slumber ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | [MW] |
drub | ᛫ to beat severely ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
drudge | drucg | ᛫ menial or tedious labour ᛬ to do menial or tedious labour ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | [MW] |
drunken | ᛫ intoxicated ᛫ caused by intoxication ᛫ saturated with liquid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
drunkenness | ᛫ intoxication ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
drunklew | ᛫ a drunkard ᛫ an alcoholic ᛬ addicted to drink habitually drunk ᛫ | N᛬AJ | dronkeleu | ME | ||
dry | ᛫ a druid ᛫ a magician ᛫ a sorcerer ᛫ a wizard ᛫ a magus ᛫ a mage ᛫ | N | drī[drȳ] | ME‹OE‹C | kin: druid | |
drycraft | ᛫ druidcraft ᛫ sorcery ᛫ the art of magic ᛫ | N | drȳcræft | OE | ||
drycrafty | ᛫ skilled in magic ᛫ skilled in druidic magic ᛫ magical ᛫ | AJ | drȳcræftig | OE | ||
Dubawnt Mere | ᛫ Dubawnt Lake ᛫ | N(P) | Dubawnt+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
duckbill | ᛫ a platypus ᛫ a hadrosaur ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
duckmole | ᛫ a platypus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
dugout | dugute | ᛫ a canoe ᛫ a shelter dug in a hillside ᛫ an area in the side of a trench for quarters storage or protection ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
dumb | ᛫ stupid ᛫ mute ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
dumbness | ᛫ stupidity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dun | ᛫ tan ( the hue ) ᛬ tan coloured ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~[dun/dunn] | NE | [MW] | |
dun | ᛫ to make persistent demands for payment ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
dung | ᛫ a dungeon ᛫ a subterranean chamber ᛫ | N | dung/donge[dung] | ME | ||
dunnock | ᛫ a Prunella modularis bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dusk | ᛫ the night's twilight ( as opposed to the morning's twilight ) ᛬ to darken ᛫ to make gloomy ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
dusky | ᛫ dark in colour ᛫ dim ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Dutch | Duc | ᛫ the Dutch language ᛫ mainland West Germanic language ᛬ of the Netherlands ᛫ of mainland West Germanic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
Dutchland | Ducland | ᛫ the part of Europe where continental West Germanic languages are spoken ᛫ | N(P) | Dū̆chelōnd | ME | |
dwale | ᛫ an error ᛫ incorrectness ᛫ | N | dwale[dwola] | ME | ||
dwale | ᛫ an Atropa belladonna plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dwalegod | ᛫ an idol ᛫ a false god ᛫ | N | gedwolgod | OE | ||
dwalesome | dwalesum | ᛫ erroneous ᛫ incorrect ᛫ wrong ᛫ | AJ | gedwolsum | OE | |
dwarf | ᛫ a mythological humanoid usually depicted as short stout mountain dwelling and skilled in certain crafts ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | PL: dwarfs; dwarves | |
dwarfdwostle | dwarfdwostel | ᛫ a Mentha pulegium plant ( pennyroyal ) ᛫ | N | dweorgedwostle[dwosle] | OE | |
dwease | ᛫ foolish ᛫ stupid ᛫ dumb ᛫ | AJ | dwǣs | OE | ||
dwell | ᛫ to live in a place ᛫ to reside ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
dwelling | ᛫ a place of residence ᛫ a habitation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
dwelse | ᛫ to stray in a stupor ᛫ | V | dwelsian | OE | ||
dwelsing | ᛫ a stupor which leads one astray ᛫ | N | dwelsinge{dwelsian} | ME | ||
dwere | ᛫ doubt ᛫ perplexity ᛫ uncertainty ᛫ | N | dwēre | ME | ||
dwild | ᛫ error ᛫ heresy ᛫ | N | dwild&gedwild | OE | ||
dwildman | ᛫ a heretic ᛫ | N | gedwildmann | OE | ||
dwildy | ᛫ erroneous ᛫ heretical ᛫ | AJ | dwild+y | ME+NE | ||
dwimmer | ᛫ illusion ᛫ delusion ᛫ an apparition ᛫ a phantom ᛫ | N | dwimor | OE | resurrected by Tolkien? | |
dwimmerly | ᛫ as an illusion ᛫ deceptively ᛫ | AV | dwimorlīce | ME | ||
dwimmery | ᛫ illusory ᛫ | AJ | dwimorlīc | OE | ||
dwindle | dwindel | ᛫ to become steadily less ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
dwine | ᛫ to waste or pine away ᛫ to languish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
dwolen | ᛫ erroneous ᛫ wrong ᛫ perverse ᛫ | AJ | gedwolen | OE | ||
dwolm | ᛫ chaos ᛫ a chasm ᛫ | N | dwolma | OE | ||
e | ᛫ a horse ᛫ a steed ᛫ | N | eh | OE | SEE COMMENT FOR PRONUNCIATION | |
ea | ᛫ a law ᛫ a statute ᛫ a custom ᛫ a rule ᛫ | N | ē/eu-/ewe-/eaw-[ǣ] | ME | becomes: ew in compounds | |
ea | ᛫ a river ᛫ | N | ē | ME | ||
eace | ees | ᛫ a bait ᛫ a lure ᛫ | N | ēs | ME | found in: eaceworm |
eaceworm | eesworm | ᛫ an earthworm ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
each | eac | ᛫ eternal ᛫ everlasting ᛫ perpetual ᛫ | AJ | ēche[ēce/ǣce] | ME | |
ead | ᛫ prosperity ᛫ happiness ᛫ bliss ᛫ | N | ēad{ME ednesse} | OE | kin: auður | |
eady | ᛫ prosperous ᛫ fortunate ᛫ | AJ | ēdī [ēadig] | ME | ||
eal | ᛫ oil ᛫ | N | ēle/eal/eale[ele] | ME‹OE‹I | ||
eal | ᛫ to kindle ᛫ to burn ᛫ | V | ǣlan | OE | ||
Ealand | ᛫ Åland ᛫ | N | ea+land | ME+NE | calque: Åland | |
ealberry | ᛫ an olive ᛫ | N | eleberge | OE | ||
ealtree | ᛫ an olive tree ᛫ | N | eletreow | OE | ||
eam | ᛫ an uncle ᛫ | N | eame/eme[ēam] | NE | ||
eamdaughter | eamdaugter | ᛫ a paternal female cousin ᛫ | N | eam+daughter | NE×2 | built on analogy with "modry sune" ᛫ see: needmay |
eamson | eamsun | ᛫ a paternal male cousin ᛫ | N | eam+son | NE×2 | built on analogy with "modry sune" ᛫ see: needmay |
ear | ᛫ to plow ᛫ | V | ~[erian] | NE | ||
eard | ᛫ one's character ᛫ a disposition ᛫ a personality [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ērd[eard] | ME | kin: aard (Dutch) | |
eardghost | eardgoast | ᛫ an ethos ( a characteristic spirit of a group period movement etc ) ᛫ | N | ērd+ghost | ME+NE | |
earding | ᛫ a dwelling ᛫ a tabernacle ᛫ | N | eardung | OE | ||
earl | ᛫ a count ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earlap | ᛫ an earlobe ᛫ an ear lobe ᛫ the outer ear ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earldom | ᛫ a county ( in the sense of " a count's domain " ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earlen | ᛫ a countess ᛫ | N | earl+en | NE×2 | ||
earmark | ᛫ a distinguishing mark ᛫ a provision in Congressional legislation that allocates a specified amount of ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earn | ᛫ to gain through work ᛫ to deserve ᛫ | V | earn&earnian | NE&OE | ||
earnest | ᛫ seriousness ᛬ serious ᛫ urgent ᛫ intent ᛫ diligent ᛫ important ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
earp | ᛫ brown ( especially dark brown ? ) ᛫ | AJ | eorp | OE | kin: jarpr (Icelandic) | |
earsh | earsc | ᛫ a vivarium ( an animal preserve ) ᛫ | N | ersc | OE | |
earshhen | earscen | ᛫ a quail ᛫ | N | erschenn | OE | |
earshrift | earscrift | ᛫ auricular confession ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
earthapple | earthappel | ᛫ a potato ᛫ | N | earthapple | NE | |
earthberry | ᛫ a strawberry ᛫ | N | eorþberige | OE | ||
earthbiving | earthbifing | ᛫ earthquake ᛫ | N | eorþbifung | OE | |
earthcraft | ᛫ geometry ᛫ | N | eorþcræft | OE | ||
earthenware | ᛫ ceramic ware ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earther | ᛫ an inhabitant of Earth ᛫ | N | eorþwaru | OE | ||
earthern | ᛫ a tomb ᛫ a sepulcher ᛫ | N | eorþærn | OE | ||
earthhog | ᛫ an aardvark ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
earthhouse | earthhuse | ᛫ an underground chamber ᛫ a basement ᛫ a cellar ᛫ a souterrain ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
earthivy | earthify | ᛫ Glechoma hederacea ( ground-ivy ) ᛫ | N | eorþifig | OE | |
earthling | ᛫ a plowman ᛫ an inhabitant of Earth ᛫ a worldling ᛫ | N | earthling&irþling | NE&OE | ||
earthlore | ᛫ geology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earthly | ᛫ terrestrial ᛫ tellurian ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
earthman | ᛫ a human resident or inhabitant of the planet Earth ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earthnavel | earthnafel | ᛫ asparagus ᛫ | N | eorþnafela | OE | |
earthtar | ᛫ asphalt ᛫ | N | eorþtyrewa | OE | ||
earthtilth | ᛫ agriculture ᛫ | N | earthtilth | NE | ||
earthweal | ᛫ earthly wealth ᛫ | N | eorþwēla | OE | ||
earthwhate | earthhwate | ᛫ geomancy ᛫ | N | earth+whāte | NE+ME | |
earthwolf | ᛫ an aardwolf ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
earthy | ᛫ natural ( the way of the world ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
earwax | ᛫ cerumen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
earwig | ᛫ a prying informer ᛬ to gain the influence of someone through covert statements ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[earwicga] | NE | ||
easel | ᛫ a donkey ᛫ an ass ᛫ | N | esol | OE | ||
East Engle Rich | Engel Ric | ᛫ the Kingdom of East Anglia ᛫ | N(P) | ēast Engla Rīce | OE | or: East Engles |
East Timor | ᛫ East Timor ᛫ Timor-Leste ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹(E+O) | ||
easten | ᛫ from the east ᛫ | AV | ēastan | OE | ||
Easterling | ᛫ a native of the Hanseatic region of the Netherlands , Northern Germany , and the Baltic coast ᛫ | N | ēsterling | ME | ||
Eastermonth | ᛫ April ᛫ | N(P) | Eastermonaþ | OE | ||
Eastern | ᛫ Oriental ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Easterner | ᛫ an Oriental ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eastle | eastel | ᛫ a table for notes ᛫ a tablet ᛫ | N | ǣstel | OE | |
Eastrich | Eastric | ᛫ Austria ᛫ | N(P) | estrich | ME | |
eath | ᛫ ease ᛬ to ease ᛬ easy ᛬ easily ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ᛬AV | eathe[eaþe]; ēthen | ME | ||
eathfully | ᛫ easily ᛫ | AV | ethefulli | ME | ||
eathhield | eathheeld | ᛫ satisfied ᛫ contented ᛫ | AJ | ēþhylde | OE | |
eathly | ᛫ insignificant ᛫ trivial ᛫ of little worth or value ᛫ | AJ | ēthelich | ME | ||
eathmood | ᛫ humble ᛫ lowly ᛫ obedient ᛬ to be humble ᛫ to obey ᛫ to make humble ᛫ to humble ᛫ | AJ | ēaþmōd&ēaþmōdgian | OE | ||
eathmoodly | ᛫ humble ᛬ humbly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ēaþmōdlic&ēaþmōdlice | OE | ||
eathmoodness | ᛫ humility ᛫ | N | ēaþmōdnis | OE | ||
eathness | ᛫ easiness ᛫ facility ᛫ favour ᛫ | N | ēþnes | OE | ||
eathom | ᛫ breath ᛫ breathing ᛫ | N | ēþem[ǣþm/ēþm] | ME | kin: Atem (HG) | |
eatinghouse | eatinghuse | ᛫ restaurant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
eatingroom | ᛫ a dining room ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eattle | eattel | ᛫ gluttonous ᛫ | AJ | etol | OE | |
eattleman | eattelman | ᛫ a glutton ᛫ | N | ettulman | OE | |
eattleness | eattelness | ᛫ gluttony ᛫ | N | etolness | OE | |
eaver | eafer | ᛫ a boar ᛫ | N | eauer[eofor] | ME | |
eaverthring | eaferthring | ᛫ the constellation Orion ? ᛫ | N(P) | eoforþring | OE | literally: boar crowd |
eaves | eafs | ᛫ the part of a roof that meets or overhangs the walls of a building ᛫ | N | ~[efes] | NE | |
eavesdrop | eafsdrop | ᛫ to secretly listen to a conversation ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
eavestrough | eafstroug | ᛫ a rain gutter for a building ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: weaves scoff |
ebb | ᛫ receding tide ᛬ to recede ᛫ to decline ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
ebber | ᛫ laid bare ᛫ revealed ᛫ manifest ᛫ obvious ᛫ unconcealed ᛫ | AJ | ē̆bere[ǣbær] | ME | ||
Ebresh | Ebresc | ᛫ Hebrew speech ᛬ Hebrew ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | ebrēisc/hebrēisc | OE | or: Hebresh |
ed | ᛫ re- ᛫ | PREFIX | ed- | ME | ||
edder | ᛫ a blood vessel ᛫ | N | edre | ME | ||
edder | ᛫ a hedge ᛫ a fence ᛫ an enclosure ᛫ | N | eodor | OE | ||
edderbreach | edderbreac | ᛫ trespassing by means of breaching a fence of hedge ᛫ | N | eodorbrice | OE | |
edfleshhame | edflescame | ᛫ to reincarnate ᛫ | V | ed+flǣschamian | ME+OE | |
edhew | ᛫ a reform ᛬ to reform ᛫ | N᛬V | ed+hew | NE×2 | PST: edhewn | |
edledge | edlecg | ᛫ to repeat ᛫ | V | edlǣcan | OE | |
ednew | ᛫ to renew ᛫ to renovate ᛫ to furbish ᛫ | V | edniwe | OE | ||
edstaddle | edstaddel | ᛫ to restore ᛫ to refound ᛫ | V | edstaþelian | OE | |
edwend | ᛫ to return ᛫ to turn back ᛫ to reverse ᛫ | V | edwendan{edwenden} | OE | ||
edwent | ᛫ reverse ᛫ | AJ | edwendan+ed | OE+NE | ||
edwharft | edhwarft | ᛫ a return ᛫ | N | edhwyrft | OE | |
edwist | ᛫ sustenance ᛫ being ᛫ existence ᛫ | N | edwist | OE | ||
edwistly | ᛫ existing ᛫ subsisting ᛫ substantial ᛫ substantive ᛫ | AJ | edwistlīc | OE | ||
edwite | ᛫ to censure ᛫ reproach ᛫ reprove ᛫ to criticize ᛫ | N᛬V | edwīten | ME | ||
edwiteful | ᛫ shameful ᛫ disgraceful ᛫ ignominious ᛫ | AJ | edwītfull | OE | ||
edwitespeaker | ᛫ a caviller / caviler ᛫ a faultfinder ᛫ | N | edwītspreca | OE | ||
edword | ᛫ to rephrase ᛫ to reword ᛫ | V | ed+word | OE+NE | ||
eelpout | eelpute | ᛫ a Zoarcidae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
eerie | ᛫ strange in a frightening or worrying way ᛫ | AJ | ~[earg?] | NE | ||
eest | ᛫ grace ᛫ | N | ēste&ēst | ME&OE | ||
eestful | ᛫ pleasure-seeking ᛫ fastidious ᛫ palatable ᛫ delicious ᛫ | AJ | ēstful | ME | ||
eesty | ᛫ gracious ᛫ | AJ | ēstig | OE | ||
eft | ᛫ to repeat ᛫ to iterate ᛬ again ᛫ back ( back to where it was ) ᛫ | V᛬AV | eft&eftgian | ME&OE | ||
eft | ᛫ a newt ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
eft | ᛫ re- ᛫ | PREFIX | eft | OE | ||
eftbook | ᛫ to reschedule ᛫ | V | eft+book | ME+NE | or: edbook | |
eftboot | ᛫ a restoration of health ᛫ restitution ᛫ reparation ᛫ | N | eftbōt | OE | ||
eftcome | eftcum | ᛫ to return ᛫ | V | eftcuman | OE | |
eftlean | ᛫ recompense ᛫ | N | eftlēan | OE | ||
eftleaner | ᛫ a recompenser ᛫ | N | eftlēaniend | OE | ||
eftleesing | ᛫ redemption ᛫ | N | eftlēsing | OE | ||
eftlooking | ᛫ respect ᛫ | N | eftlōcung | OE | ||
eftnewing | ᛫ renewal ᛫ | N | eftnīwung | OE | ||
eftrun | ᛫ a running back ᛫ a rerun ᛫ | N | eftryne | OE | ||
eftselleness | ᛫ retribution ᛫ recompense ᛫ requital ᛫ | N | eftselness | OE | ||
eftsithe | eftsithe | ᛫ a journey back ᛫ a return journey ᛫ | N | eftsīþ | OE | |
eftsoons | ᛫ once again ᛫ another time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
eftspelling | ᛫ a recapitulation ᛫ | N | eftspellung | OE | ||
eftwharve | efthwarf | ᛫ to turn back ᛫ to return ᛫ | V | efthweorfan | OE | |
eftyeave | eftyeaf | ᛫ to give back ᛫ to return ᛫ | V | eftagyfan | OE | or: eftgive |
Egypt | ᛫ Egypt ᛫ | N(P) | egipte[egypt] | ME | G as in GOAT not as in GEORGE | |
Egyptish | Egyptisc | ᛫ Egyptian ᛫ | AJ | egiptish | ME | G as in GOAT not as in GEORGE |
eight | eigt | ᛫ persecution ᛬ to persecute ᛫ to pursue ᛫ | N᛬V | ǣht&ēhtan | OE&OE | kin: ōht ᛫ rhyme: height |
eke | ᛫ an addition ᛫ an increase ᛬ to add ᛫ to increase ᛬ plus ᛬ also ᛫ plus ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AV᛬P | eke&ēke&ēken | NE&ME&ME | ||
eke out | ute | ᛫ to supplement ᛫ to augment ᛫ to obtain with difficulty ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
ekemote | ᛫ a proton ᛫ | N | eke+mote | NE×2 | ||
ekename | ᛫ an epithet ᛫ a nickname ᛫ a surname ᛫ a title ᛫ | N | ēkenāme | ME | "nickname" comes from this word? | |
ekend | ᛫ an adjective ( grammar ) ᛫ | N | īcend | OE | calque: adjective | |
ekenoosle | ekenoosel | ᛫ to degenerate ᛬ degenerate ᛫ | V᛬AJ | geǣcnōslian&ǣcnōsle | OE | |
eking | ᛫ an augment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ekingly | ᛫ adjective ᛫ additive ᛫ | AJ | geīcendlic | OE | ||
el | ᛫ ( denotes strangeness or foreignness ) ᛫ | PREFIX | el | OE | kin: else? | |
elbone | ᛫ an ulna ᛫ | N | elbow+bone | NE×2 | calque: ellepijp | |
elbowbour | elbowbor | ᛫ a couter ᛫ a cowter ᛫ | N | elbow+beorg{healsbeorg} | NE+OE | |
eld | ᛫ to put off ᛫ to delay ᛫ to deter ᛫ | V | ēlden | ME | ||
eld | ᛫ age ᛫ an age ᛫ a time period ᛫ an epoch ᛫ an era ᛬ to age ᛫ | N᛬V | eld&ēlde&ēlden | NE&ME | both "what is your eld?" and "the dark eld" would be alright | |
elder | ᛫ a senior ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
elder | ᛫ a Sambucus nigra plant ( on which the elderberry grows ) ᛫ | N | ~[ellern/eller] | NE | kin: æld (fire)? | |
elderless | ᛫ deprived of parents ᛫ orphaned ᛫ | AJ | ealdorlēas | OE | ||
eldfather | ᛫ a grandfather ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eldmother | ᛫ a grandmother ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eldritch | eldric | ᛫ supernatural ᛫ unearthly ᛫ otherworldly ᛫ strange ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
elfen | ᛫ a fairy ᛫ a nymph ᛫ a female elf ᛫ | N | ælfen | OE | ||
elfkin | ᛫ the race of elves ᛫ | N | ælfcynn | OE | ||
elflocks | ᛫ a tangled mess of hair ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
elfsheen | elfsceen | ᛫ beautiful like an elf ᛫ | AJ | ælfsciēne | OE | |
elk | ᛫ a moose ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
elksand | ᛫ amber ᛫ | N | eolhsand | OE | ||
elksedge | elksecg | ᛫ a Cladium mariscus plant ? ᛫ | N | eolhxsecg | OE | |
elland | ᛫ a foreign land ᛫ | N | elland | OE | ||
ellandish | ellandisc | ᛫ of another land ᛫ foreign ᛫ | AJ | ellendish | ME | |
ellen | ᛫ vigour ᛫ valour ᛫ zeal ᛫ | N | elne[ellen] | ME | ||
ellenly | ᛫ valiant ᛬ daringly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ellenlīc&ellenlīce | OE | ||
ellenmearth | ᛫ glory of valour or courage ᛫ | N | ellenmǣrþ | OE | ||
ellenwood | ᛫ to rage with zeal ᛬ furiously zealous ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ellenwōdian&ellenwōd | OE | rhyme: ellenmood | |
eller | ᛫ elsewhere ᛫ | AV | ellor | OE | ||
ellerfouse | ellerfuse | ᛫ ready to go elsewhere ᛫ | AJ | ellorfūs | OE | |
ellersithe | ᛫ a departure ᛫ a journey to elsewhere ᛫ | N | ellorsīþ | OE | ||
elning | ᛫ zeal ᛫ | N | elnung/ellung | OE | ||
elp | ᛫ an elephant ᛫ | N | elp[elp/elpend] | ME‹I‹H‹O | ||
elpsbone | ᛫ elephant bone ᛫ ivory ᛫ | N | elpes bon{elpendbǣnen} | ME‹OE‹(O+E) | ||
Elpsbone Shore | Score | ᛫ Cote d'Ivoire ᛫ Ivory Coast ᛫ | N(P) | elpes bon+shore | ME+NE | calque: Ivory Coast |
elreardiness | ᛫ barbarousness ( as in foreign-speakingness ) ᛫ | N | elreordignes | OE | literally: foreign-voice-y-ness | |
elreardy | ᛫ barbarous ( as in foreign-speaking ) ᛫ | AJ | elreordig | OE | literally: foreign-voice-y | |
elsewhence | elshwens | ᛫ from elsewhere ᛫ aliunde ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
eltheed | ᛫ a foreign nation ᛫ | N | elþēod | OE | ||
eltheedy | ᛫ foreign ᛫ of a foreign nation ᛫ | AJ | elþeodig | OE | ||
emberwood | ᛫ a Caesalpinia echinata plant ( a brazilwood ) ᛫ | N | ember+wood | NE×2 | calque: brazilwood | |
emforth | ᛫ to the extent of ᛫ in proportion to ᛫ | P | emforth[evenforth] | ME | ||
emirdom | ᛫ an emirate ᛫ | N | emir+dom{emirate} | O+NE | ||
emnet | ᛫ a plain ᛫ level ground ᛬ to make level ᛫ | N | emnett&emnettan | OE | ||
en | ᛫ -ize ᛫ -ise ᛫ -ify ᛫ -fy ᛫ -ate ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | found in: "fatten" | |
en | ᛫ ( denotes a sense of pertaining to , or of being made of ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | found in: "wooden" | |
en | ᛫ -ess ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
end | ᛫ a duck ᛫ | N | ende[ened/æned] | ME | ||
end | ᛫ ( present participle suffix ) ᛫ ( agent suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | -end/-and/-ant[-ende] | ME | not recommended for common use | |
endbird | ᛫ an order ( as in arrangement ) ᛬ to set in order ᛫ | N᛬V | endebyrd&endebyrdan | OE | literally end-birth | |
endbirdly | ᛫ ordinal ᛫ | AJ | endebyrdlīc | OE | ||
endbirdness | ᛫ row ᛫ series ᛫ rank ᛫ order of nature ᛫ | N | endebyrdnes | OE | ||
endbrain | ᛫ the telencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ending | ᛫ a conclusion ᛫ a finale ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
endless | ᛫ infinite ᛫ countless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
endly | ᛫ -capable ( active ) ᛫ -able (passive ) ᛫ -ably ( passive ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | enlīc/enlīce/endlīce/enndliȝ | ME | READ ME ᛫ see: -bere ᛫ or: -enly | |
endly | ᛫ final ᛫ terminal ᛫ conclusive ᛬ finally ᛫ at last ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
endsay | ᛫ a conclusion ( as in the closing words of something ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
endtime | ᛫ apocalyptic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Engledom | Engeldom | ᛫ the Anglosphere ᛫ the domain of Englishness ᛫ | N | Engle+dom | ME+NE | |
Englekin | Engelkin | ᛫ the English people ᛫ | N | Angelcynn | OE | |
Engles | Engels | ᛫ Anglos ᛫ Englishmen ᛫ | N(P) | Engles | ME | singular form not attested? |
Engley | Engely | ᛫ Anglic ᛫ | AJ | englelīc | OE | |
Englishen | Engliscen | ᛫ to translate into English ᛫ to express in English ᛫ to Anglicize ᛫ | V | Englishen | ME | |
enough | enuge | ᛫ sufficient ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
ent | ᛫ an ettin ᛫ a giant ᛫ an intelligent walking tree ( modern fantasy ) ᛫ | N | ent | OE | the tree meaning comes from Tolkien | |
entask | ᛫ a dinosaur ᛫ | N | ent+ask | NE×2 | risaeðla | |
entish | entisc | ᛫ gigantic ᛫ | AJ | entisc | OE | |
er | ᛫ anger ᛫ wrath ᛫ ire ᛫ rage ᛬ angry ᛫ wrathful ᛫ ireful ᛫ | N᛬AJ | erre | ME | ||
erdendly | ᛫ habitable ᛫ | AJ | eardigendlīc | OE | ||
erdfast | ᛫ settled ᛫ established in a place ᛫ abiding ᛫ earthfast ᛫ | AJ | eardfæst | OE | ||
erding | ᛫ a habitation ᛫ dwelling ᛫ | N | earding | OE | ||
erdshrew | erdscrew | ᛫ Sorex araneus ( a kind of shrew ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ere | ᛫ pre- ᛫ ante- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | see fore (prefix) | |
ere | ᛫ earlier ᛫ formerly ᛬ before ᛫ sooner than ᛫ | AV᛬P | ere&ǣr | NE&OE | rhyme: air | |
Erelithe | ᛫ June ᛫ | N(P) | Ærra Liþa | OE | or: searmonth? (from sēarmonaþ) | |
erelong | ᛫ before long ᛫ soon ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
erenow | erenue | ᛫ before now ᛫ prior to this point of time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
erer | ᛫ more ere ᛫ earlier ᛫ | AV | ǣror | OE | ||
erewhile | erehwile | ᛫ a while before ᛫ some time ago ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
ereyesterday | ᛫ the day before yesterday ᛬ on the day before yesterday ᛫ | N᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
Ereyule | Ereyool | ᛫ December ᛫ | N(P) | Ærra Geola | OE | |
erf | ᛫ inheritance ᛫ patrimony ᛫ cattle ᛫ heritage ᛫ | N | erve&irfe | ME&OE&OE | or: erve | |
erfdeal | ᛫ a division of an inheritance ᛫ | N | irfegedāl | OE | ||
erfland | ᛫ land that passes as an inheritance ᛫ heritable land ᛫ | N | irfeland | OE | ||
erflove | erflofe | ᛫ an heirloom ᛫ | N | irfelāf | OE | |
erfnimmer | ᛫ an heir ᛫ an inheritor ᛫ one who takes an inheritance ᛫ | N | irfenuma | OE | ||
erfwrit | ᛫ a will ( as in a legal testament ) ᛫ | N | irfegewrit | OE | ||
erfwriter | ᛫ a testator ᛫ | N | irfewrītend | OE | ||
Erie Mere | Earry | ᛫ Lake Erie ᛫ | N(P) | Erie+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
erm | ᛫ to grieve ᛫ | V | ermen | ME | ||
ermen | ᛫ (denotes universality , immensness , or totality ) ᛫ | AJ | eormen- | OE | ||
ern | ᛫ a building ᛫ | N | ern[ærn] | ME | survives in: barn (which means "barley-ern"); saltern | |
ern | ᛫ ( shows the noun is a location ) ᛫ -ery ᛫ | SUFFIX | ern | OE | ||
erne | ᛫ an eagle ᛫ | N | earne&earn/ern[earn] | NE&ME | broad meaning has been restored | |
errand | ᛫ a task ᛫ a message ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
errandghost | errandgoast | ᛫ a spiritual messenger ᛫ an angel ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
errandrake | ᛫ an ambassador ᛫ diplomat ᛫ | N | erendrāke[ǣrendraca] | ME | ||
errandwrit | ᛫ a letter ᛫ a message ᛫ a report ᛫ | N | ǣrendgewrit | OE | ||
erst | ᛫ first ᛬ first of all ᛫ sooner than ᛫ before ᛫ once ᛫ erstwhile ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
erstwhile | ersthwile | ᛫ previous ᛫ former ᛬ previously ᛫ formerly ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [OXF] |
erve | erf | ᛫ to inherit ᛫ | V | erven&irfan | ME | |
erver | erfer | ᛫ an heir ᛫ an inheritor ᛫ successor ᛫ | N | irfa | OE | |
esen | ᛫ a man of the servile class ᛫ | N | esne | OE | ||
Estland | ᛫ Estonia ᛫ | N | Estland{ēstland} | NL | ||
et | ᛫ -ize ᛫ -ise ᛫ -ify ᛫ -fy ᛫ -ate ᛫ | SUFFIX | ettan | OE | like "bōt" (assistance, remedy) to "bōtettan" (to repair) | |
et | ᛫ ( forms nouns from adjectives , verbs , and other nouns ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | et | OE | survives in: thicket | |
ethe | ᛫ to breathe ᛫ | V | ēthien[ēþian] | ME | ||
ethel | ᛫ a homeland ᛫ an ancestral land ᛫ a native land ᛫ a fatherland ᛫ an estate ᛫ patria ᛫ | N | ethel | ME | ||
ethel | ᛫ native- ᛫ domestic- ᛫ | PREFIX | eþel | OE | ||
ethelward | ᛫ a ward of one's ancestral land ᛫ | N | eþelweard | OE | ||
Ethiopy | ᛫ Ethiopia ᛫ | N(P) | ethiopy/Ethiopie | ME | ||
ettenish | ettenisc | ᛫ giant ᛫ gigantic ᛫ | AJ | ēotenisc | OE | |
ettin | ᛫ an ent ᛫ a giant ᛫ | N | ~[eoten] | NE | kin: jǫtunn (Norse) | |
ettle | ettel | ᛫ intention ᛫ intent ᛬ to intend ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹N | kin: eahtian ᛫ [CED] |
Eufrate | ᛫ the Euphrates ᛫ | N(P) | eufrate | OE | ||
Europish | Europisc | ᛫ European ᛫ | AJ | Europe+ish | NE‹I+NE | |
eve | efe | ᛫ the day evening or other period of time immediately before an event or occasion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
even | efen | ᛫ equal- ᛫ fellow- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | |
even | efen | ᛫ to even ᛫ to equalize ᛬ equal ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
evenamind | efenamind | ᛫ commemoration ᛫ | N | efengemynd | OE | |
evenamindy | efenamindy | ᛫ commemorative ᛫ | AJ | efengemyndig | OE | |
evenbank | efenbank | ᛫ a credit union ᛫ a financial cooperative ᛫ | N | even+bank | NE×2 | inspired by "Genossenchaftsbank" |
evenborn | efenborn | ᛫ of equal birth ᛫ | AJ | efenboren | OE | |
evenbusiness | efenbusiness | ᛫ a cooperative business ᛫ | N | even+business | NE×2 | |
evenedwistly | efenedwistly | ᛫ consubstantial ᛫ of the same substance or essence ᛫ | AJ | efenedwistlīc | OE | |
eveneld | efeneld | ᛫ coeval ᛫ of the same age ᛫ | AJ | efeneald | OE | |
evener | efener | ᛫ an equator ᛫ | N | even+er | NE×2 | calque: equator |
evenfall | efenfall | ᛫ dusk ᛫ twilight ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evenhearted | efenhearted | ᛫ concordant ᛫ harmonious ᛫ | AJ | efenheort | OE | |
evenhood | efenhood | ᛫ impartiality ᛫ fairness ᛫ equality ᛫ justice ᛫ moderation ᛫ temperance ᛫ | N | ~[ēvenhēde] | NE | |
evenledge | efenlecg | ᛫ to imitate ᛫ | V | efenlǣcan | OE | |
evenling | efenling | ᛫ an equal ᛫ | N | evenling | ME | |
evenly | efenly | ᛫ equally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
evenmatch | efenmac | ᛫ an equivalent ᛫ | N | even+match | NE×2 | |
evenmete | efenmete | ᛫ coequal ᛫ equal ᛫ | AJ | evenmete | ME | |
evenminded | efenminded | ᛫ equanimous ᛫ equable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
evenmindedness | efenmindedness | ᛫ equanimity ᛫ equability ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evenness | efenness | ᛫ balance ᛫ equilibrium ᛫ equality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evennight | efennigt | ᛫ equinox ᛫ | N | efenniht | OE | |
evensong | efensong | ᛫ vespers ( the service held at the sixth canonical hour ) ᛫ | N | ~[ēvensō̆ng][ǣfensang] | NE | |
evensorrow | efensorrow | ᛫ empathy ᛫ sympathy ᛫ compassion ᛬ to compassionate ᛫ to be sorry for ᛫ to empathize ᛫ to sympathize ᛫ | N᛬V | efensorgian | OE | |
eventide | efentide | ᛫ evening ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evenword | efenword | ᛫ synonym ᛫ | N | even+word | NE×2 | calque: evenwoord |
evenwork | efenwork | ᛫ to cooperate ᛫ to work together ᛫ | V | efenweorcan | OE | |
evenwright | efenwrigt | ᛫ a coworker ᛫ | N | efenwyrhta | OE | |
evenyeavel | efenyeafel | ᛫ supper ᛫ dinner ᛫ | N | ǣfengifl | OE | |
ever | efer | ᛫ perma- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | |
ever | efer | ᛫ a descendant ᛫ | N | eafora | OE | |
everdeath | eferdeath | ᛫ permadeath ( gaming ) ᛫ | N | ever+death | NE×2 | calque: permadeath |
Everettish | Eferettisc | ᛫ of or pertaining to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics ᛫ | AJ(P) | Everet+ish | NE×2 | calque: Everettian |
everfern | eferfern | ᛫ a Polypodium vulgare plant ( common polypody ) ? ᛫ an Osmunda regalis plant ( royal fern ) ? ᛫ | N | everfē̆rn | ME | |
everfrost | eferfrost | ᛫ permafrost ᛫ | N | ever+frost | NE×2 | calque: permafrost |
everfrostland | eferfrostland | ᛫ a stretch of tundra ᛫ | N | ever+frost+land | NE×3 | |
everlasting | eferlasting | ᛫ eternal ᛫ permanent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
everlastingness | eferlastingness | ᛫ permanence ᛫ durability ᛫ eternality ᛫ | N | everlasting+ness | NE×2 | |
everlink | eferlink | ᛫ a permalink ᛬ to permalink (create a static address) ᛫ | N᛬V | ever+link{permalink} | NE×2 | calque: permalink |
evermore | efermore | ᛫ eternally ᛫ forever ᛫ always ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
everness | eferness | ᛫ perpetuity ᛫ eternity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evertilth | efertilth | ᛫ permaculture ᛫ | N | ever+tilth | NE×2 | calque: permaculture |
everyday | eferyday | ᛫ ordinary ᛫ typical ᛫ commonplace ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
everyman | eferyman | ᛫ an average or ordinary person ᛫ a commoner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evest | efest | ᛫ envy ᛫ | N | evest[æfēst] | ME | |
evildoer | efildoer | ᛫ a malefactor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
evilqueath | efilcweath | ᛫ to slander ᛫ to curse ( someone ) ᛫ | V | yfelcweþan | OE | |
ewbough | ewbuge | ᛫ a legislative branch ᛫ | N | ē+bough | ME+NE | |
ewbreach | ewbreac | ᛫ adultery ᛫ | N | ǣwbryce | OE | |
ewbreaker | ᛫ an adulterer ᛫ | N | ǣbreca | OE | ||
ewe | ᛫ a female sheep ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | opposite of: ram | |
ewfast | ᛫ firm in observing the law ᛫ pious ᛫ law-abiding ᛫ | AJ | ǣfæst | OE | ||
ewfastness | ᛫ firmness in observing the law ᛫ piety ᛫ | N | ǣfæstnes | OE | ||
ewleap | ᛫ a crime ᛫ a violation of the law ᛫ a transgression ᛫ | N | ǣhlȳp | OE | literally law-leap | |
ey | ᛫ an egg ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | PL: eyren | |
ey | ᛫ terror ᛫ | N | ege/ōga{oue} | OE | ||
eyedoor | ᛫ a window ᛫ | N | ēagdūru | OE | "window" is Norse | |
eyeleech | eyeleec | ᛫ an ophthalmologist ᛫ | N | eye+leech | NE×2 | |
eyely | ᛫ visible ᛫ ocular ᛬ visibly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
eyering | ᛫ an orbit ( an eye socket ) ᛫ | N | eiring | ME | ||
eyesome | eyesum | ᛫ attractive ᛫ pleasing to the eye ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
eyethril | ᛫ a window ᛫ an eye-hole ᛫ | N | ēagþyrl | OE | ||
eyetooth | ᛫ a canine tooth ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eyewater | ᛫ vitreous humour ᛫ aqueous humour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
eylime | ᛫ egg white ᛫ | N | æglīm | OE | ||
eyse | ᛫ to terrorize ᛫ | V | egesian | OE | ||
eywhite | eyhwite | ᛫ a protein ᛫ | N | ey+white | NE×2 | calque: eiwit |
eywort | ᛫ a dandelion ᛫ | N | ægwyrt | OE | ||
fack | ᛫ an interval ᛫ a portion of time ᛫ | N | fece/fæce&fæc | ME&OE | ||
fade | ᛫ to direct ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to order ᛫ to dictate ᛫ | V | fade&fadian | ME&OE | ||
fain | ᛫ joyful ᛫ pleased ᛫ gladly willing ᛬ joyfully ᛫ gladly willingly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV᛬I | fain&fain[fægen] | NE&ME | ||
fair | ᛫ just ᛫ equitable ᛫ reasonable ᛫ of decent value ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fairhaired | ᛫ blond / blonde ᛫ | AJ | fairhaired | NE | ||
fairminded | ᛫ unbiased and impartial ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fairness | ᛫ impartiality ᛫ beauty ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fale | ᛫ a companion ᛫ one who is faithful to another ᛫ | N | fāle | ME | kin fēle/fǣle | |
fall | ᛫ autumn ᛫ | N | ~[feallan] | NE | ||
fall | ᛫ a descent ᛫ a case ( grammatical term ) ᛫ a case [ᚹ] ᛫ an instance [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | fyll | OE | ||
fall back | ᛫ to retreat ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: fellback ᛫ PTCP: fallenback | |
fallish | fallisc | ᛫ autumnal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fallow | ᛫ pale brown ᛫ tan brown ᛫ tawny ᛫ khaki ᛫ beige ᛫ | AJ | ~[fealu] | NE | ||
fallow | ᛫ uncultivated land ᛫ | N | ~[fealh] | NE | ||
fallsick | ᛫ epileptic ᛫ | AJ | fyllesēoc | OE | ||
fallsickness | ᛫ epilepsy ᛫ | N | fyllesēocnys | OE | ||
fallsome | fallsum | ᛫ deciduous ( botany ) ᛫ | AJ | fall+some | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes |
fallwind | ᛫ a katabatic wind ᛫ | N | fall wind | NE | [MW] | |
fand | ᛫ a trial ᛫ an attempt ᛬ to try ( in a trial ) ᛫ to try ( to attempt ) ᛫ to endeavour ᛫ to put to a test ᛫ to experiment ᛫ | N᛬V | fond/fand&fonden/fanden | ME | or: fond | |
fane | ᛫ a banner ᛫ a flag ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fang | ᛫ to take ᛫ to capture ᛫ to catch ᛫ to seize ᛫ | V | afọ̄n{fang} | ME | PST: fanged ᛫ PTCP: fanged | |
far | ᛫ distant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
far | ᛫ a bull ᛫ | N | fearr/fear | OE | ||
Far | ᛫ Taurus ᛫ | N(P) | Fearr | OE | ||
farandman | ᛫ a wayfarer ( especially a pedlar or a merchant who travels ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fare | ᛫ a journey ᛫ a voyage ᛫ a transportation fee ᛬ to journey ᛫ to voyage ᛫ to travel ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
fareld | ᛫ a course ᛫ a passage ᛫ a going ᛫ an expedition ᛫ | N | færeld | OE | ||
farflung | ᛫ remote ᛫ widely spread ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
farl | ᛫ a cake of a certain type ᛫ a biscuit of a certain type ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
farl | ᛫ distance ᛫ | N | firl{feorlen} | OE | ||
farlen | ᛫ distant ᛫ remote ᛫ | AJ | feorlen/fyrlen | OE | ||
farm | ᛫ food ᛫ sustenance ᛫ entertainment ᛬ to feed ᛫ to sustain ᛫ to entertain ᛫ | N᛬V | feorm&feormian | OE | ||
farmth | ᛫ a harbouring ᛫ an entertaining ᛫ a cleansing ᛫ | N | feormþ | OE | ||
farness | ᛫ distance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Faroish | Faroisc | ᛫ the Faroese language ᛬ Faroese ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
farrand | ᛫ having a specified form or disposition ᛫ fashioned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
farrow | ᛫ a piglet ᛫ a litter of piglets ᛫ | N | farrow&fearh | NE&OE | ||
farth | ᛫ a tide ᛫ a current ᛫ a shore ᛫ | N | faroþ | OE | ||
farthing | ᛫ a quarter ( of something ) ᛫ one-quarter of an old penny ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | equivalent to forth-ing | |
fast | ᛫ firm ᛫ solid ᛫ stable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fast | ᛫ ( denotes stability , firmness , solidity , reliability , adherence to ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
fasten | ᛫ to secure ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fasten | ᛫ a fortress ᛫ a stronghold ᛫ a castle ᛫ | N | fæsten | OE | ||
fasthavel | fasthafel | ᛫ stingy ᛫ miserly ᛫ | AJ | fæsthafol | OE | fast-havel |
fastness | ᛫ a secure place ᛫ stability ᛫ immobility ᛫ firmness ᛫ solidity ᛫ obduracy ᛫ obstinacy ᛫ | N | fastness&fastnes | NE&ME | ||
fastshaft | fastscaft | ᛫ solid matter ᛫ | N | fast+shaft | NE+ME | |
fatgoose | ᛫ a penguin ᛫ | N | fat+goose | NE×2 | calque: vetgans | |
fatherland | ᛫ the land of one's ancestors or birth ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fatherly | ᛫ paternal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fathermurther | ᛫ patricide ᛫ | N | father+murther | NE+ME | calque: Vatermord | |
fathern | ᛫ paternal ᛫ | AJ | fæderen | OE | ||
fathernbrother | ᛫ paternal brother ( a brother one shares a father with ) ᛫ | N | fæderenbrōþor | OE | ||
fatherslayer | ᛫ a patricide ᛫ | N | fatherslayer | NE | ||
fathom | ᛫ a unit of length equal to six feet ( 1.8 metres ) ᛬ to grasp ᛫ to imagine ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
fathomless | ᛫ immeasurable ᛫ incomprehensible ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fathomlessness | ᛫ unimaginability ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
faw | ᛫ equipped ᛫ variegated ᛫ | AJ | faw&fawe&fāh | NE&ME&OE | ||
fawn | ᛫ to show affection ᛫ to court favour through flattering ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | often found in the term "fawning over" | |
fawning | ᛫ a rejoicing ᛫ an exultation ᛫ a celebration ᛬ obsequious ᛫ | N᛬AJ | fawning&fægnung | NE&OE | ||
fawworm | ᛫ a basilisk ᛫ | N | fāgwyrm | OE | ||
fax | ᛫ head hair ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
faxcloth | ᛫ a headband ᛫ a hairband ᛫ | N | feaxclāþ | OE | ||
faxed | ᛫ maned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
faxedstar | ᛫ a comet ᛫ | N | fax+ed+star | NE×3 | calque: maned star | |
faxfalling | ᛫ loss of hair ᛫ alopecia ᛫ | N | feaxfeallung | OE | ||
faxneedle | faxneedel | ᛫ a hair needle ᛫ | N | feaxnǣdel | OE | |
faxread | ᛫ to dress or trim hair ᛫ | V | feaxgerǣdian | OE | ||
fay | ᛫ a joining ᛫ a combo ᛫ a combination ᛫ a juncture ᛬ to join together ᛫ to attach ᛫ | N᛬V | gefēg&feien | OE&ME | ||
faying | ᛫ a conjunction ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | N | fēging | OE | or: linkword (coined by William Barnes) | |
faze | fase | ᛫ to daunt ᛫ to put off ᛫ to disturb ᛫ to perturb ᛫ | V | ~[fēsen] | NE | |
feamen | ᛫ a woman ᛫ | N | fǣmne | OE | ||
fearsome | fearsum | ᛫ scary ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
feather | ᛫ a pen ᛫ a stylus ᛫ | N | fether&feþer | ME&OE | ||
feather star | ᛫ a non-stalked crinoid ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | poorly attested | |
featherhame | ᛫ plumage ᛫ | N | fetherhāme | ME | ||
featherheaded | ᛫ disorganized and foolish ᛫ | AJ | feather-headed | NE | [OXF] | |
fee | ᛫ livestock ᛫ cattle ᛫ capital ᛫ money ᛫ wealth ᛫ moveable property ᛫ | N | fee&fē | NE&ME | "fee" as in "fine" is French | |
fee | ᛫ to rejoice ᛫ to exult ᛫ to celebrate ᛫ | V | gefēon | OE | ||
feeboot | ᛫ monetary compensation ᛫ | N | feohbōt | OE | ||
feedom | ᛫ capitalism ᛫ | N | fee+dom | ME+NE | ||
feel | ᛫ greatly ᛫ much ᛫ very ᛫ many ᛫ | AV | fēle[fela] | ME | ||
feel | ᛫ excellent ᛫ faithful ᛫ | AJ | fēle&fǣle | ME&OE | ||
feeland | ᛫ a pasture ᛫ pasture land ᛫ | N | feohland | OE | ||
feelfold | ᛫ to increase in number ᛫ to multiply ᛬ manifold ᛫ multiple ᛫ varied ᛫ diverse ᛫ | V᛬AJ | fēlefōlden&fēlefōlden | ME | ||
feening | ᛫ a craving for more narcotics ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Feenish | Feenisc | ᛫ Phoenician language ᛬ Phoenician ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Syrofēnisc{φοῖνιξ} | OE | |
Feenishman | Feeniscman | ᛫ a Phoenician ᛫ | N(P) | Syrofēnisc+man | OE+NE | |
feenix | ᛫ a phoenix ᛫ | N | fēnix | ME‹O | ||
feered | ᛫ a company of people ᛫ a band ᛫ a host ᛫ a troop ᛫ companionship ᛫ comradeship ᛫ | N | ferrēde{fēre} | ME | ||
feership | feerscip | ᛫ companionship ᛫ companions ᛫ company ᛫ | N | fere+ship | OE+NE | |
feeth | ᛫ walking on foot ᛫ the ability to talk on foot ᛬ to travel on foot ᛫ | N᛬V | fēþe&fēþan | OE | ||
feether | ᛫ infantry ᛫ a host ᛫ a troop ᛫ tribe ᛫ company ᛫ | N | fēþa | OE | ||
feethgang | ᛫ a journey on foot ᛫ | N | fēþegang | OE | ||
feethheer | ᛫ a foot army ᛫ a troop of infantry ᛫ | N | fēþehere | OE | ||
feigh | feig | ᛫ to make beautiful ᛫ to adorn ᛫ | V | feahen[fǣgan] | ME | |
feist | ᛫ a fart ᛫ a small dog ( especially a feisty one ) ᛬ to fart ᛫ | N᛬V | feist&fīst&fīsten | NE&ME&ME | ||
feisty | ᛫ like a small energetic dog ᛫ spunky ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
feith | ᛫ a feud ᛫ | N | fǣhþ{feithhēd}{feied} | OE | equal to: foe+th | |
fell | ᛫ a pelt ᛫ hide ᛫ skin ᛫ | N | ~[fel/fell] | NE | [MW] | |
fell | ᛫ to destroy ᛫ to kill ᛫ to fell a tree ᛫ to make something fall ᛫ to strike down ᛫ to destroy ᛫ to kill ᛫ to defeat ᛫ | V | ~[fellan]{afellen} | NE | ||
felling | ᛫ a clearing ᛫ an open space in a forest ᛫ | N | ~ | ME | ||
fellow | ᛫ a companion ᛫ a comrade ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
fellowless | ᛫ peerless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
fellowship | fellowscip | ᛫ a community ᛫ community ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | |
felly | ᛫ the exterior rim supported by spokes ᛫ a circumference ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
felton | ᛫ a toilet ᛫ a privy ᛫ | N | feltūn | OE | ||
fen | ᛫ a stretch of unforested wetland fed by ground water and runoff ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fenberry | ᛫ a Vaccinium oxycoccos plant ( a cranberry ) ᛫ | N | fen-berry | NE | ||
fengle | fengel | ᛫ a prince ᛫ a princeps ᛫ | N | fengel | OE | |
fennel | ᛫ a Foeniculum vulgare plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fenny | ᛫ boggy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fenow | ᛫ mold ᛫ | N | fenowed&fyne | NE&OE | ||
fenowed | ᛫ moldy ᛫ decayed ᛫ corrupted ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fer | ᛫ ( denotes a negative suddenness and unexpectedness ) ᛫ | PREFIX | fǣr{fērlī}{ferly} | OE | kin: fear | |
ferd | ᛫ an army or troop especially when a militia ᛫ | N | ferd | ME | ||
ferdman | ᛫ a militiaman ᛫ | N | fyrdmann | OE | ||
ferdwite | ᛫ a penalty for evading military service ᛫ | N | fyrdwīte | OE | ||
fere | ᛫ a companion ( a comrade , a spouse , a friend , &c ) ᛫ | N | ~[ifẹ̄re][gefēra] | ENE | ||
fere | ᛫ life ᛫ | N | fēre{feore/feorh} | ME | ||
ferk | ᛫ to support ᛫ to bring in support ᛫ to assist ᛫ to drive ᛫ to rush ᛫ | V | ferken&fercian | ME&OE | ||
ferking | ᛫ provisions ᛫ a sustaining ᛫ | N | fercung | OE | ||
ferly | ᛫ an oddity ᛫ an anomaly [ᚹ] ᛫ a surprise [ᚹ] ᛬ strange ᛫ surprising ᛫ unexpected ᛫ anomalous ᛬ strangely ᛫ surprisingly ᛫ unexpectedly ᛫ | N᛬AJ᛬AV | ferly&fērlī | NE&ME | equal to: fear+ly | |
fern | ᛫ ancient ᛫ old ᛫ previous ᛫ past ᛫ | AJ | fern/furn | ME | ||
fern | ᛫ ancient- ᛫ old- ᛫ | PREFIX | fern[fyrn] | ME | ||
fern | ᛫ a Filicophyta plant ᛫ a Filicopsida plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
ferndays | ᛫ days of old ᛫ | N | fyrndagas | OE | ||
fernman | ᛫ an ancient ( as in "the ancients" ) ᛫ | N | fyrnman | OE | ||
fernseed | ᛫ one of the asexual dustlike spores of a fern which resemble seeds ᛫ | N | fern seed | NE | ||
fernsitter | ᛫ a rabbit ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | fernsitter | ME | poorly attested | |
ferry | ᛫ a ship used to transport passengers and goods ᛬ to transport ᛫ to convey ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | or: fere (from ME alternative) | |
ferse | ᛫ a verse ᛫ | N | fers | OE‹I | ||
ferthyeaver | ferthyeafer | ᛫ giver of life ᛫ God ᛫ | N | feorhgifa | OE | |
fetch | fec | ᛫ to go after and bring back ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
fether | ᛫ to burden ᛫ to put a load upon ᛫ | V | fetheren | ME | ||
fetter | ᛫ a limit ᛫ a regulation ᛫ a restricter ᛫ a restriction ᛫ a restrainer ᛬ to restrict ᛫ to restrain ᛫ to impede ᛫ to slow down ᛫ to limit ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
fettered | ᛫ restrained ᛫ restricted ᛫ limited ᛫ regulated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fettle | fettel | ᛫ a vessel ᛫ a receptacle ᛫ a cask ᛫ a bag ᛫ a sack ᛫ | N | fētil[fǣtels] | ME | |
fettle | fettel | ᛫ condition ᛬ to repair ᛫ to mend ᛫ to fix ᛫ to put in order ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[fetel] | NE | [MW] |
fettler | fetteller | ᛫ a repairer ᛫ a repairman ᛫ a railway maintenance man ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fewshaft | fewscaft | ᛫ destitute ᛫ miserable ᛫ squalid ᛫ | AJ | feasceaft | OE | |
fey | ᛫ doomed ᛫ dying ᛫ fraught with fatal consequences ᛫ | AJ | ~[fei][fǣge] | NE | ||
fick | ᛫ deceit ᛫ fraud ᛫ | N | fic&gefic | OE&OE | ||
fickle | fickel | ᛫ unreliable ᛫ disloyal ᛫ treacherous ᛫ deceptive ᛫ deceitful ᛫ | N | fickle&fikel[ficol] | NE&ME | |
fiddle | fiddel | ᛫ a violin ᛫ | N | ~[fiþele] | NE | |
fiddle with | fiddel with | ᛫ to manipulate ᛫ to tinker ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fieldelf | feeldelf | ᛫ a field elf ᛫ a field fairy ᛫ a field nymph ᛫ | N | feldælf | OE | |
fieldhen | feeldhen | ᛫ a Perdix bird ( a partridge ) ᛫ | N | field+hen | NE×2 | calque: NL veldhoen |
fieldhouse | feeldhuse | ᛫ a tent ᛫ a building used for sports ᛫ | N | ~[feldhūs] | NE | |
fieldswamb | feeldswamb | ᛫ fungus ᛫ | N | feldswamm | OE | |
fiend | feend | ᛫ an evil person ᛫ a lowlife ᛫ a drug addict ᛫ an enemy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fiendish | feendisc | ᛫ very bad unpleasant or difficult ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fiendred | feendred | ᛫ enmity ᛫ | N | fēondrǣden | OE | |
fiendship | feendscip | ᛫ enmity ᛫ foeship ᛫ | N | fēondscip | OE | |
fight | figt | ᛫ to moisten ᛫ | V | fȳhtan | OE | |
fike | ᛫ to feign ᛫ to dissemble ᛫ to flatter ᛫ to wheedle ᛫ | V | fiken[fician] | ME | ||
fike | ᛫ a fig ᛫ | N | fīke | ME‹I? | ||
filch | filc | ᛫ some stolen thing or things ᛬ to steal ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
file | ᛫ to defile ᛫ to corrupt ᛫ | V | fīlen[fȳlan] | ME | ||
fill | ᛫ chervil ? ᛫ the Thymus serpyllum plant ( breckland thyme ) ? ᛫ | N | fille | OE | ||
film | ᛫ a movie ᛫ a membrane ᛫ skin ᛫ | N | film&filmen | NE&OE | ||
filmcraft | ᛫ the art or craft of making movies ᛫ cinematography ᛫ | N | filmcraft | NE | ||
filmgoer | ᛫ a moviegoer ᛫ a cinemagoer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
filmhouse | filmhuse | ᛫ a cinema ᛫ | N | film+house | NE×2 | |
filmish | filmisc | ᛫ filmic ᛫ cinematic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
filmling | ᛫ a short film ᛫ | N | film+ling | NE×2 | ||
filmmaker | ᛫ a cinematographer ᛫ a filmographer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
filmstar | ᛫ a movie star ᛫ | N | film star | NE | ||
filst | ᛫ aid ᛫ assistance ᛫ support ᛫ furtherance ᛫ abetment ᛬ to aid ᛫ to assist ᛫ to support ᛫ to abet ᛫ | N᛬V | filst&filsten | ME&ME | ||
filthfear | ᛫ mysophobia ᛫ | N | dirt+fear | NE×2 | ||
find | ᛫ to locate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
findle | findel | ᛫ something found ᛫ a discovery ᛫ an invention ᛫ | N | findles | ME | |
finger | ᛫ to identify ᛫ to point out ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fingerapple | fingerappel | ᛫ a date ᛫ | N | fingeræppel | OE | |
fingerbone | ᛫ a phalanx of a finger ( anatomy ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fingry | ᛫ digital ᛫ | AJ | finger+y | NE×2 | ||
Finn | ᛫ a Finn ᛫ | N(P) | Finn | OE | ||
fint | ᛫ a tail ᛫ sequel ᛫ consequence ᛫ | N | finta | OE | ||
firebarrow | ᛫ a volcano ᛫ | N | fire+barrow | NE×2 | ||
firebouk | firebook | ᛫ a Molotov cocktail ᛫ | N | fire+bouk | NE+ME | |
firebrand | ᛫ a torch with a flame ᛫ an argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
firedog | ᛫ an andiron ᛫ a landiron ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | calque: chenet? | |
fireflood | ᛫ a lava flow ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
firen | ᛫ to sin ᛫ | V | firenian | OE | ||
firenful | ᛫ sinful ᛫ wicked ᛫ | AJ | firenfull | OE | ||
firenlust | ᛫ sinful lust ᛫ wantonness ᛫ | N | firenlust | OE | ||
firenlustyearn | ᛫ voluptuous ᛫ lascivious ᛫ | AJ | firenlustgeorn | OE | ||
firepan | ᛫ a brazier ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fires | ᛫ living beings ᛫ humanity ᛫ humans ᛫ | N | fīras | OE | kin: feorm/farm; firihōs (Old Saxon); fīrar (Icelandic) | |
firewater | ᛫ liquor ᛫ strong alcoholic drink ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | possibly a calque from an American Indian language | |
fireweapon | ᛫ a firearm ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "earliest use found in Humphrey Barwick (d. 1598)" ᛫ see OXF | |
firk | ᛫ to move quickly ᛫ hasten ᛫ to be lively ᛫ to jerk ᛫ to switch ᛫ to fidget ᛫ to fuss ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
firnut | ᛫ a fircone ᛫ | N | fir+nut | NE×2 | note: pīnhnutu | |
firrow | ᛫ a mountain ᛫ | N | firgen/fyrgen{firegāt} | OE | kin: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌽𐌹; पर्वत ᛫ evidence from ME shows loss of /n/ | |
firrowbuck | ᛫ an ibex ? ᛫ | N | firgenbucca | OE | ||
firse | ᛫ to keep away ᛫ to take away ᛫ | V | firsen/fursen[feorsian] | ME | "firse him from me" ᛫ kin: far | |
firsen | ᛫ the heel ᛫ | N | fiersn/fyrsn | OE | ||
first | ᛫ a ceiling ᛫ a roof ᛫ | N | first[first] | ME | ||
first hoad | ᛫ first person ᛫ | N | fyrest hād | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
firstbirth | ᛫ primogeniture ᛫ | N | first-birthe | ME | ||
firsthand | ᛫ direct ( without intermediate stages ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
firth | ᛫ an estuary ᛫ an inlet ᛫ a fjord ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
firwit | ᛫ curiosity ᛫ | N | firwit/firwet | OE | ||
fishhawk | fischawk | ᛫ a Pandion haliaetus bird ( an osprey ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fishlore | fisclore | ᛫ ichthyology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fishly | fiscly | ᛫ piscine ᛫ ichthyic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fishwife | fiscwife | ᛫ a coarse-mannered woman who is prone to shouting ᛫ a female fishmonger ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fishy | fiscy | ᛫ suspicious ᛫ dubious ᛫ questionable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fit | ᛫ a section of a narrative ( especially a poem or song ) ᛫ a canto ᛫ a chapter ᛫ | N | fit&fit/fitt[fitte] | NE&ME | "chapter" usage found in "the Hunting of the Snark" | |
fitful | ᛫ sporadic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fivald | fifald | ᛫ a butterfly ᛫ a Lepidopteran insect [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | fifalde | OE | |
fivel | fifel | ᛫ a monster ᛫ a giant ᛫ | N | fifel | OE | |
fivelish | fifelisc | ᛫ monstrous ᛫ | AJ | fifel+ish | ME+NE | |
fivepenny | fifepenny | ᛫ a nickel [ᚹ] ᛬ worth five cents ᛫ worth five pence ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
fizz | fis | ᛫ soda ᛫ pop ᛫ coke ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
flask | ᛫ a flask ᛫ a bottle ᛫ | N | flaxe | OE‹I? | or: flax | |
flat | ᛫ an apartment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
flatware | ᛫ eating utensils such as knives forks and spoons ᛫ cutlery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
flawed | ᛫ imperfect ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹N | ||
flawless | ᛫ perfect ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
flaxen | ᛫ made of flax ᛫ of the pale yellow colour of dressed flax ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
flaxenhaired | ᛫ blond ᛫ blonde ᛫ | AJ | flaxenhaired | NE | ||
flay | ᛫ to skin ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fleabane | ᛫ an Erigeron plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fleard | ᛫ falsehood ᛫ deceit ᛫ | N | flērd[gefleard] | ME | ||
flearder | ᛫ a deceiver ᛫ a trickster ᛫ | N | fleardere | OE | ||
fledge | flecg | ᛫ to care for a young bird until it can fly ᛫ to grow feathers ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
fledgling | flecgling | ᛫ an immature or inexperienced person or thing ᛬ nascent ᛫ emerging ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
fleed | ᛫ to flow ᛫ | V | flēden | ME | kin: flood | |
fleem | ᛫ exile ᛫ an exile ᛫ an outcast ᛬ to outcast ᛫ to exile ᛫ | N᛬V | flēme&flēmen | ME&ME | ||
fleet | ᛫ a navy ᛫ | N | ~[flēot] | NE | ||
fleet | ᛫ a marshland creek ᛫ a marshland channel ᛫ a marshland ditch ᛫ | N | ~[flēot] | NE | ||
fleet | ᛫ to move quickly ᛫ to pass time rapidly ᛫ to fade away ᛫ | V | ~[flēotan] | NE | ||
fleeting | ᛫ lasting for a very short time ᛫ ephemeral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fleetlord | ᛫ an admiral ᛫ | N | fleet+lord{sciphlāford} | NE×2 | ||
fleettow | ᛫ an admiral ᛫ | N | fleet+tow | NE×2 | by analogy with heretowa ᛫ or: fleettough | |
flesher | flescer | ᛫ a butcher ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fleshhame | flescame | ᛫ to incarnate ᛫ to become incarnate ᛫ | V | flǣschamian | OE | |
fleshhamed | flescamed | ᛫ incarnate ᛫ | AJ | flǣschamod | OE | |
fleshliness | flescliness | ᛫ carnality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fleshly | flescly | ᛫ carnal ᛫ sensual ᛫ having an actual physical appearance ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fleshy | flescy | ᛫ plump ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fley | ᛫ to scare [ᛏ] ᛫ to become scared ᛫ | V | āflēgan | NE | kin: fly?; flee? | |
flightcraft | fligtcraft | ᛫ an airplane ᛫ an aeroplane ᛫ | N | flight+craft | NE×2 | |
flightfear | fligtfear | ᛫ aerophobia ᛫ | N | flight+fear | NE×2 | |
flightfield | fligtfield | ᛫ an airfield ᛫ | N | flight+field | NE×2 | calque: fleanfjild |
flintstone | ᛫ any hard stone such as flint , quartz , granite , basalt ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
flitch | flic | ᛫ a slab of meat ( especially bacon ) ᛫ a slab of timber ᛫ | N | ~[flicche][flicce] | NE | |
flite | ᛫ a quarrel ᛫ a dispute ᛫ an argument ᛬ to quarrel ᛫ to dispute ᛫ to argue ᛫ to contend ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
flitecraft | ᛫ the art of dialectics ᛫ the art of arguing ᛫ | N | flītcræft | OE | ||
flitecraftly | ᛫ dialectical ᛫ disputational ᛫ | AJ | flītcræftlīc | OE | ||
fliteful | ᛫ contentious ᛫ | AJ | flītful | OE | ||
flitem | ᛫ a lancet ᛫ a scalpel ᛫ | N | flītme | OE | glossary word | |
fliteyern | ᛫ a litigator ᛫ | N | flītgeorn | OE | glossary word | |
fliting | ᛫ a contention ᛫ a debate ᛫ a quarrel ᛫ | N | flite+ing | NE×2 | ||
float | ᛫ a raft ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | raft is Norse | |
flone | ᛫ an arrow ᛫ a bolt ( for a crossbow ) ᛫ a dart ᛫ a bullet [ᚹ] ᛫ a projectile [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | flōn[flān] | ME | ||
flow | ᛫ a flux ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
flowy | ᛫ fluid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fluke | flook | ᛫ a Pleuronectiformes fish ᛫ | N | ~[flōc] | NE | |
flukeworm | flookworm | ᛫ a parasitic worm ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fob | ᛫ a little pocket for holding a watch ᛫ a pocket watch chain ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹HG | ||
fodder | ᛫ food for livestock ᛫ inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foe | ᛫ an enemy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foeman | ᛫ an adversary ᛫ | N | ~[fōman] | NE | ||
foeship | foescip | ᛫ enmity ᛫ the opposite of friendship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
foken | ᛫ deceit ᛫ fraud ᛫ deceitfulness ᛫ guile ᛬ deceitful ᛫ false ᛫ fake ᛫ | N᛬AJ | fōken&fācen | ME&OE | kin: fake? | |
fokenful | ᛫ deceitful ᛫ fraudulent ᛫ | AJ | fācenful | OE | ||
fokentoken | ᛫ a false signal ᛫ a false sign ᛫ a false token ᛫ a misdirection ᛫ | N | fācentācen | OE | ||
fold | ᛫ the Earth ᛫ the world ᛫ mankind ᛫ dry land ᛫ | N | folde[folde] | ME | ||
fold | ᛫ a political party ᛫ a religious group ᛫ an ideological group ᛫ a fellowship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fold | ᛫ a pen or an enclosure in a field for livestock ᛫ a religious community ᛫ a community ᛫ | N | ~[fōld][fald/falod] | NE | ||
foldway | ᛫ the Earth ᛫ | N | foldweg | OE | ||
folk | ᛫ a people ᛫ people ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
folk | ᛫ demo- ᛫ | PREFIX | folc | OE | ||
folkbale | ᛫ torment from the public ᛫ public backlash ᛫ | N | folcbealo | OE | ||
folkcouth | folkcooth | ᛫ well-known ᛫ widely celebrated ᛫ popular ᛫ | AJ | folccūþ | OE | |
folkdom | ᛫ a democracy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | invented by William Barnes | |
folkish | folkisc | ᛫ characteristic of ordinary people or traditional culture ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
folkland | ᛫ public property ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
folklore | ᛫ traditional customs tales sayings dances or art forms preserved among a people ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
folkmear | ᛫ popular ᛫ folk-known ᛫ | AJ | folcmǣre | OE | ||
folkmoot | ᛫ an assembly of the people ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
folkmorth | ᛫ a genocide ᛫ | N | folk+morth | NE+ME | calque: Völkermord | |
folkrich | folkric | ᛫ a democracy ᛫ | N | folk+rīche | NE+ME | |
folkright | folkrigt | ᛫ common law ᛫ | N | folcriht | OE | |
folkshather | folkscather | ᛫ people's tyrant ᛫ a villain ᛫ | N | folcsceaþa | OE | or: folkscather (Norse influenced) |
folkstow | ᛫ a country place ᛫ a rustic place ᛫ | N | folcstōw | OE | ||
folktale | ᛫ a characteristically anonymous tale circulated orally among a people ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
folktelling | ᛫ a census ᛫ | N | folk+tell+ing | NE×3 | calque: volkstelling | |
folktilth | ᛫ pop-culture ᛫ | N | folk+tilth | NE×3 | ||
folktow | ᛫ a popular lead ᛫ a chief ᛫ a chieftain ᛫ | N | folctoga | OE | ||
Folkwandering | ᛫ the migrations of the Migration Period ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | calque: Völkerwanderung | |
folkway | ᛫ a custom or belief common to members of a society or culture ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
folkways | ᛫ the customs of a community ( a culture ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
follow after | ᛫ to succeed ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
follower | ᛫ a successor ᛫ an adherent ᛫ a pupil ᛫ a partisan ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
following | ᛫ ensuing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
followth | ᛫ that which follows ᛫ a retinue ᛫ service of a follower ᛫ | N | folgoþ | OE | ||
folm | ᛫ a palm ᛫ | N | folm | OE | ||
fond | ᛫ affectionate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fondest | ᛫ a favourite ᛫ a beloved one ᛬ favourite ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fondness | ᛫ affection ᛫ dearness ᛫ endearment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
footadle | footadel | ᛫ gout ᛫ | N | fōtādl | OE | |
footbone | ᛫ a metatarsal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
footgoer | ᛫ a pedestrian ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
footleech | footleec | ᛫ a podiatrist ᛫ | N | foot+leech | NE×2 | |
footly | ᛫ pedestrian ᛫ | AJ | fōtlic | OE | ||
footman | ᛫ a foot soldier ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
footmeal | ᛫ step by step ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
footmen | ᛫ infantry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
footwelm | ᛫ the sole of the foot ᛫ | N | fōtwelm | OE | ||
for | ᛫ because of ᛫ for the sake of ᛫ because ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
for eld | ᛫ for ages ᛫ | AV | for ēlde | ME | ||
for that | ᛫ because ᛫ | AV&C | for that | ME | or: forthat ᛫ to say "because of" say "along of" or "owing to" | |
forane | ᛫ beforehand ( denoting anticipation or prevention ) ᛫ | AV | forane | OE | was used with gēan, ongēan, and tōgēanes to mean "against" | |
forbear | ᛫ to avoid ᛫ to abstain ᛫ to refrain when provoked ᛫ to decline ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forbearing | ᛫ forbearance ᛫ | N | forbear+ing | NE×2 | ||
forbid | ᛫ to prohibit ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: forbade ᛫ PTCP: forbidden | |
forbidden | ᛫ prohibited ᛫ verboten ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
forbode | ᛫ a prohibition ᛫ | N | forbōd[forbod] | ME | ||
forbond | ᛫ a federation ᛫ | N | for+bond | NE×2 | calque: verbond | |
forbow | forbue | ᛫ to avoid ᛫ to evade ᛫ to refrain from ᛫ | V | forbǒuen[forbūgan] | ME | |
forbuy | forbye | ᛫ to bribe ᛫ to ransom a prisoner ᛫ to redeem ᛫ | V | forbīen | ME | |
forby | ᛫ in addition ᛬ past ᛫ near ᛫ besides ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | or: forbye | |
forcouth | forcooth | ᛫ despised ᛫ infamous ᛫ | AJ | forcūþ | ME | |
ford | ᛫ a shallow spot in a river or stream ᛬ to wade across a ford ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
fordeal | ᛫ to distribute ᛫ | V | fordǣlan | OE | ||
fordeem | ᛫ to condemn ᛫ to convict ᛫ | V | fordēmen | ME | ||
fordit | ᛫ to close up ᛫ to stop ᛫ | V | forditten | ME | ||
fordo | ᛫ to abolish ᛫ to annul ᛫ to cancel ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: fordid ᛫ PTCP: fordone | |
fordraw | ᛫ to torture by stretching ᛫ to take away by force ᛫ | V | fordrauen | ME | ||
fordrench | fordrenc | ᛫ to intoxicate ᛫ | N | fordrenchen | ME | |
fordrive | fordrife | ᛫ to drive away ᛫ to physically expel ᛫ | V | fordriven | ME | |
fordwine | ᛫ to fade away ᛫ to waste away ᛫ to decay ᛫ to dwindle ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fore | ᛫ the front ᛬ in front ᛫ | N᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
fore | ᛫ pre- ᛫ ante- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | see ere (prefix) | |
forebear | ᛫ an ancestor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forebisen | ᛫ an example ( good or bad ) ᛫ a model ᛫ an exemplar ᛫ a template ᛫ an archetype ᛫ an allegory ᛫ an analogy [ᚹ] ᛬ to example ᛫ | N᛬V | forebisen&forbisenen | ME&ME | ||
forebode | ᛫ to predict ᛫ to foretell ᛫ to portend ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
foreboder | ᛫ an oracle ᛫ a prophet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foreboding | ᛫ an evil omen ᛬ ominous ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
forebody | ᛫ the thorax ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forebook | ᛫ a prelude to a book or series of books ᛫ a preface ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forebrain | ᛫ the prosencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
forebusy | ᛫ to preoccupy ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forecast | ᛫ a prediction ᛬ to predict ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
forecaster | ᛫ a predictor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N+E) | ||
forecoming | ᛫ an advent ᛬ preceding ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
forecool | ᛫ to precool ᛫ | V | fore+cool | NE×2 | by analogy of: preheat | |
fored | ᛫ broken ᛫ | AJ | forod | OE | rhyme: horrid ᛫ what verb does this word come from? | |
foredeal | ᛫ advantage ᛫ | N | ~[fōredēl] | NE | ||
foredeem | ᛫ to expect ᛫ to assume ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
foredoom | ᛫ prejudice ᛬ to judge beforehand ᛫ | N᛬V | fore+doom | NE×2 | ||
foredoor | ᛫ a front door ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forefang | ᛫ to anticipate ᛫ to take beforehand ᛫ | V | fōrefōn | OE | ||
forefather | ᛫ an ancestor ᛫ a precursor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forefeeling | ᛫ presentiment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forefighter | forefigter | ᛫ a vanguard ᛫ | N | forefightere | ME | |
forefinger | ᛫ the index finger ᛫ the pointer finger ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | see "shotfinger" | |
foreflood | ᛫ antediluvian ᛫ before the Biblical flood ᛫ | AJ | fore+flood | NE×2 | calque | |
foreganger | ᛫ a predecessor ᛫ a herald ᛫ | N | foreganger | ME | ||
foregate | ᛫ a main entrance ᛫ a front gate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forego | ᛫ to precede ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | often found in the saying "foregone conclusion" | |
foregoer | ᛫ a predecessor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foregoing | ᛫ preceding ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
foregone | ᛫ past ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
foreguess | foregess | ᛫ conjecture ᛫ an assumption ᛬ to assume ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
foregut | ᛫ the anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo from the mouth to the duodenum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forehand | ᛫ the chief part ᛫ an advantage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forehanded | ᛫ prudent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
foreheadbone | ᛫ a frontal bone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forehouse | forehuse | ᛫ a foyer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
forekidney | ᛫ the pronephros ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foreknow | ᛫ to know beforehand ( especially through supernatural means ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
foreknowledge | foreknowlecg | ᛫ prescience ᛫ foresight ᛫ precognition ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
foreland | ᛫ a cape ᛫ a promontory ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
forelock | ᛫ a lock of hair growing just above the forehead ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forelook | ᛫ a preview ᛬ to preview ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
foremake | ᛫ to prefabricate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
foreman | ᛫ a taskmaster ᛫ a supervisor of work ᛫ a honcho ᛫ a boss ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foremost | ᛫ paramount ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
foremother | ᛫ a female ancestor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
forename | ᛫ a pronoun ᛫ | N | fōrenama | OE | ||
forenamed | ᛫ previously named ᛫ aforementioned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
foreneed | ᛫ prerequisite ᛫ | N | fore+need | NE×2 | ||
forenight | forenigt | ᛫ the early part of the evening ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [CED] |
foreowned | ᛫ pre-owned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
foreridle | foreridel | ᛫ one who rides ahead ᛫ a precursor ᛫ a harbinger ᛫ | N | forridel | ME | |
forerun | ᛫ to run before ᛫ to come before as a token of something to follow ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forerunner | ᛫ a predecessor ᛫ a precursor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foresee | ᛫ to predict ᛫ to anticipate ᛫ to provide ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
foreseen that | ᛫ provided that ᛫ | C | fōrsẹ̄n that | ME | ||
foreset | ᛫ to prepose ᛫ | V | foresetten | ME | ||
foresetting | ᛫ a proposal ᛫ a proposition ᛫ a preposition ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | N | fōresetnes | OE | ||
foreshadow | forescadow | ᛫ to presage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
foreship | forescip | ᛫ the forward part of a ship ᛫ the prow ᛫ | N | forship | ME | |
foreshow | forescow | ᛫ to show before ᛫ to give warning or promise of ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
foresight | foresigt | ᛫ the ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future ᛫ an act of looking forwards ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
foresitter | ᛫ a president ᛫ | N | fore+sit+er | NE×3 | calque: Vorsitzende; Forseti | |
foresmack | ᛫ a foretaste ᛫ a sample ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forespeak | ᛫ to foretell ᛫ to predict ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forespeech | forespeec | ᛫ a preface ᛫ a preamble ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
forestall | ᛫ to obstruct ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forestear | ᛫ prehistory ᛫ | N | fore+stǣr | NE+OE‹I‹H | ||
forestighting | forestigting | ᛫ predestination ᛫ | N | forestihtung | OE | |
foreswayed | ᛫ swayed beforehand ᛫ biased ᛫ | AJ | fore+sway+ed | NE×3 | ||
foretale | ᛫ a prologue ᛫ a prediction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foretell | ᛫ to predict ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forethink | ᛫ to premeditate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forethought | forethougt | ᛫ a thinking out beforehand ᛫ anticipation ᛫ premeditation ᛬ premeditated ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | var: aforethought |
foretoken | ᛫ a presage ᛫ an omen ᛫ a prognostic ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foretooth | ᛫ an incisor ᛫ a front tooth ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foreward | ᛫ a scout ᛫ an explorer ᛫ | N | foreweard | OE | ||
forewarm | ᛫ to preheat ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forewit | ᛫ precaution ᛫ prudence ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
foreword | ᛫ a preface ᛫ an introduction ( in a document ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forework | ᛫ a fortifying structure erected for defense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
forfare | ᛫ to perish ᛫ to go to ruin ᛫ to go astray ᛫ to stray ᛫ | V | forfāren | ME | ||
forgather | ᛫ to assemble ᛫ to gather together [ᚾ] ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
forgo | ᛫ to go or do without ᛫ to refrain from ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forhew | ᛫ to slash into pieces ᛫ to kill by cutting ᛫ | V | forheuen | ME | ||
forhow | ᛫ to despise ᛫ to reject ᛫ to treat with contempt ᛫ to disregard ᛫ | V | forhouen[forhogian/forhycgan] | ME | ||
forleese | ᛫ to abandon ᛫ to forfeit ᛫ to lose something ᛫ to desert ᛫ to damn ᛫ | V | forlēsen | ME | PST: forlore ᛫ PTCP: forlorn | |
forlet | ᛫ to desert ᛫ to forsake ᛫ to neglect ᛫ to abandon ᛫ to reject ᛫ to leave ᛫ to depart ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: forlet | |
forlie | ᛫ to rape ᛫ to fornicate ᛫ | V | forlien | ME | ||
forlier | ᛫ adultery ᛫ fornication ᛫ an adulterer ᛫ an adulteress ᛫ a fornicator ᛬ adulterous ᛫ | N᛬AJ | forliger | OE | ||
forlorn | ᛫ abandoned ᛫ deserted ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | from the verb "forleese" | |
form | ᛫ original ᛫ primal ᛫ | AJ | forme | ME | ||
formfather | ᛫ the first father of something ᛫ a progenitor ᛫ | N | formefader | ME | ||
formly | ᛫ originally ᛫ primally ᛫ | AV | forme+ly | ME+NE | ||
formmother | ᛫ the first mother of something ᛫ a progenitrix ᛫ | N | formemoder | ME | ||
forn | ᛫ previous ᛫ former ᛬ formerly ᛫ previously ᛬ before ( in space or in time ) ᛫ | AJ᛬AV᛬P | forne[forn] | ME | ||
fornigh | fornige | ᛫ very nearly ᛫ almost ᛫ | AV | forneh[fornēah] | ME | |
fornim | ᛫ to remove ᛫ to deprive ᛫ to plunder ᛫ to ransack ᛫ to seize ᛫ | V | fornimen&forniman | ME&OE | PST: fornum; fornimmed ᛫ PTCP: fornum | |
fornumb | ᛫ deprived of vigour ᛫ sluggish ᛫ | AJ | fornome | ME | ||
forold | ᛫ to become feeble or decrepit with age ᛫ to go or make out of date [ᚹ] ᛫ to become or make obsolete [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | forōlden | ME | ||
forolded | ᛫ feeble or decrepit with age ᛫ obsolete [ᚹ] ᛫ outdated [ᚹ] ᛫ out of date [ᚹ] ᛫ | AV | forolded | ME | ||
forqueath | forcweath | ᛫ to deny ᛫ to repudiate ᛫ to reject ᛫ | V | forquēthen[forcweþan] | ME | |
forread | ᛫ to betray ᛫ to lead astray ᛫ | V | forreden | ME | ||
forsake | ᛫ to abandon ᛫ to desert ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: forsook ᛫ PTCP: forsaken | |
forsaken | ᛫ abandoned ᛫ deserted ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
forsay | ᛫ to renounce ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
forsench | forsenc | ᛫ to submerge ᛫ | V | forsenchen | ME | |
forshape | forscape | ᛫ to transform or to metamorphose something ( usually for the worse ) ᛫ to distort ᛫ to disfigure ᛫ to degrade ᛫ | V | forshāpen | ME | |
forslack | ᛫ to neglect ᛫ to be neglectful ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
forslow | ᛫ to procrastinate ᛫ to put off ᛫ to delay ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
forsooth | ᛫ indeed ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
forspeak | ᛫ to bewitch ᛫ to charm ᛫ to renounce ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forspend | ᛫ to exhaust ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forspent | ᛫ exhausted ᛫ fatigued ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
forspill | ᛫ to destroy ᛫ to waste ᛫ to demolish ᛫ | V | forspillen&forspillan | ME&OE | ||
forstand | ᛫ to stand up for ᛫ to defend ᛫ to protect ᛫ | V | forstandan&fōrstandan | OE&OE | ||
forstop | ᛫ to stop completely ᛫ to smother ᛫ to block ᛫ | V | forstoppen | ME | ||
forswear | ᛫ to reject upon oath ᛫ to renounce ᛫ to abjure ᛫ | V | ~[forswēren] | NE | ||
forswink | ᛫ to exhaust by labour ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forswy | ᛫ to keep silent ᛫ to be silent ᛫ | V | forswīgian | OE | ||
fortee | ᛫ to draw away to evil ᛫ to seduce ᛫ | V | fortēn&fortēon | ME&OE | ||
forth | ᛫ to proceed ᛫ | V | forthen[forþian] | ME | ||
forthby | ᛫ past ᛫ | AV | fō̆rthbī | ME | ||
forthen | ᛫ on that account ᛫ for that reason ᛫ consequently ᛫ | AV&C | ~ | NE | ||
forthfare | ᛫ to go forth ᛫ to die ᛫ to pass away ᛫ | N᛬V | forthfare&fōrthfāren | ME | ||
forthfill | ᛫ to enforce ᛫ to fulfil ᛫ | V | forthfillen | ME | ||
forthgang | ᛫ progress ᛫ a continuance ᛫ a procession ᛫ | N | forthgang&forthgang | NE&ME | ||
forthgo | ᛫ to proceed ᛫ to continue ᛫ | V | forthgon[forþgān] | ME | ||
forthink | ᛫ to regret ᛫ to rethink ᛫ to change one's mind ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
forthnim | ᛫ to take someone away ᛫ to remove ᛫ to take one's way ᛫ to leave ᛫ | V | forthnimen | ME | PST: forthnum; forthnimmed ᛫ PTCP: forthnum | |
forthput | ᛫ to propose ᛫ to put forth ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
forthright | forthrigt | ᛫ unambiguous ᛫ unevasive ᛬ directly forward ᛫ immediately ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | [MW] |
forthship | forthscip | ᛫ progress ᛫ | N | forþscype | OE | |
forthtee | ᛫ to draw forth ᛫ to quote ᛫ to cite ᛫ | V | forthtēn | ME | ||
forthward | ᛫ an agreement ᛫ a contract ᛫ a treaty ᛫ a covenant ᛫ a pledge ᛫ | N | fōrthwārd | ME | ||
forthwith | ᛫ immediately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
forthwitten | ᛫ past ᛫ goneby ᛫ | N᛬AJ | forthwiten[forþgewiten] | ME | ||
forthwitten tide | ᛫ the past tense ᛬ of the past tense ᛫ | N᛬AJ | forþgewiten tīd | OE | ||
fortnight | fortnigt | ᛫ two weeks ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fortnightly | fortnigtly | ᛫ biweekly ᛬ every two weeks ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
fortylegs | ᛫ a centipede ᛫ | N | forty-legs | NE‹(E+N) | or: fortyshanks | |
forwander | ᛫ to exhaust oneself by wandering ᛫ | V | forwandren | ME | ||
forwarry | ᛫ to hex ᛫ to curse something ᛫ | V | forwarien | ME | ||
forwhy | forhwy | ᛫ for the reason that ᛫ the reason why ᛫ | AV | forwhy | ME | |
forwird | ᛫ destruction ᛫ perdition ᛫ | N | forwī̆rd | ME | ||
forwonder | forwunder | ᛫ to astonish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
forworth | ᛫ to perish ᛫ to spoil ᛫ to degenerate ᛫ | V | forwōrthen[forweorþan] | ME | ||
forwright | forwrigt | ᛫ an agent ᛫ a vicegerent ᛫ | N | forwyrhta | OE | |
foryeave | foryeaf | ᛫ to forgive ᛫ | V | foryēven | ME | |
foryeaveness | foryeafeness | ᛫ remission ᛫ forgiveness ᛫ | N | foryēveness | ME | ANG: foryeafness? |
foryeavingly | foryeafingly | ᛫ dative ( grammar) ᛫ | AJ | forgifendlīc | OE | |
foryet | ᛫ to forget ᛫ | V | foryeten | ME | PST: foryat ᛫ PTCP: foryetten | |
foryield | foryeeld | ᛫ to repay ᛫ to yield what is owed ᛫ to recompense ᛫ | V | forgieldan | OE | |
foryielding | foryeelding | ᛫ retribution ᛫ punishment ᛫ | N | foryēlding | ME | |
foster | ᛫ to cultivate ᛫ to rear another's child ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fosterling | ᛫ a foster child ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fother | ᛫ a load ( especially a wagonload ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fought | fougt | ᛫ moist ᛫ damp ᛫ | AJ | fūht | OE | rhyme: bought ᛫ kin: feucht (HG) |
foughtenfield | fougtenfeeld | ᛫ a battleground ᛫ a battlefield ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
foul | fule | ᛫ unclean ᛫ disgusting ᛫ obscene ᛫ vulgar ᛫ detestable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
foumart | ᛫ the European polecat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | likely from "foul"+"marth" | |
foundling | fundling | ᛫ an infant found after its unknown parents have abandoned it ᛫ | N | foundling | NE | [MW] |
fouredge | fourecg | ᛫ a square ᛬ square ᛫ | N᛬AJ | feowerecge | OE | |
fourfold | ᛫ quadruple ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fourfooted | ᛫ quadrupedal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
foursheat | foursceat | ᛫ quadrangular ᛫ | AJ | fēowerscȳte | OE | |
fourth | ᛫ a quarter ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fourwheeler | fourhweeler | ᛫ an ATV ᛫ a quad ᛫ an all-terrain vehicle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
fouse | fuse | ᛫ ready ᛫ prepared ᛫ willing ᛫ inclined ᛫ disposed ᛫ | AJ | ~[fūs] | NE | |
fousely | fusely | ᛫ readily ᛫ promptly ᛫ gladly ᛫ | AV | fūslīce | OE | |
fowl | fule | ᛫ a bird ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
fowler | fuler | ᛫ a person who hunts fowl ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
foxly | ᛫ vulpine ᛫ cunning ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
fox's sleep | ᛫ feigned sleep ᛫ | N | fox's sleep | NE | ||
frain | ᛫ to inquire about ᛫ to ask ᛫ to question ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | kin: fricgan | |
frainmark | ᛫ a question mark ( ? ) ᛫ | N | frain+mark | NE×2 | ||
fraked | ᛫ bad ᛫ vile ᛫ shameful ᛫ | AJ | fraked[fracod] | ME | ||
frame | ᛫ a context ᛫ an outlining ᛬ to fit into place ᛫ to put into context ᛫ | V | ~[framian] | NE | ||
framework | ᛫ the support structure of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Frank | ᛫ a Frenchman ᛫ a Frank ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
frank | ᛫ a javelin of some sort ᛫ | N | franca | OE | ||
Frankdom | ᛫ the Francosphere ᛫ the domain of Frenchness ᛫ | N | Frank+dom | NE×2 | ||
Frankland | ᛫ France ᛫ | N(P) | francland | OE | ||
Frankrich | Frankric | ᛫ France ( the state not the land ) ᛫ | N | francrice | OE | |
fratow | ᛫ treasure ᛬ to adorn with treasure ᛫ to adorn ᛫ to decorate ᛫ | N᛬V | frætwe&frættewian | OE | ||
fraught | fraugt | ᛫ abounding abundant or replete with a bad thing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹NL | [MW] |
frea | ᛫ a lord ᛫ a master ᛫ | N | frēa | OE | ||
freak | ᛫ a capricious action or event ᛫ a distastefully abnormal thing ᛫ | N | ~[frec]? | NE | ||
frech | frec | ᛫ greedy ᛫ voracious ᛫ eager ᛫ bold ᛫ fierce ᛫ | AJ | frecche[frec] | ME | kin: freak? |
freck | ᛫ to checker ᛫ to diversify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | whence comes "freckle" | |
free | ᛫ a woman ? a lady ( a female lord ) ? ᛫ | N | frēo | OE | or: frow? ᛫ kin: frēa (lord)? Frau (German)? Friday? | |
freebooter | ᛫ a pirate ᛫ a lawless adventurer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
freed | ᛫ to experience ( by touch or taste ) ᛫ to experience ( a sensation ) ᛫ to learn through experience ᛫ | V | frēden | ME | PST: fred ᛫ PTCP: fred | |
freedom | ᛫ liberty ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
freeken | ᛫ peril ᛫ danger ᛫ | N | frēcen | OE | kin: freak? | |
freeledge | freelecg | ᛫ franchise ( the ability to vote ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
freeload | ᛫ to mooch ᛫ to sponge off another ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
freelock | ᛫ oblation ᛫ | N | frēolāc | OE | ||
freem | ᛫ to aid something ᛫ to advance something ᛫ to avail something ᛫ | V | frēmen[fremian] | ME | ||
freerunning | ᛫ parkour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
freestand | ᛫ to be independent ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
freestanding | ᛫ independent ᛫ not supported by or on anything ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
freethinker | ᛫ one who forms opinions on the basis of reason independently of authority ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
freit | ᛫ divination ᛫ augury ᛫ | N | freit | ME‹N? | ||
frelse | ᛫ to save one from something ᛫ to save or to reserve a day for religious observance ᛫ | V | frelsen | ME | from Proto-Germanic combination of "free" and "halse" | |
frem | ᛫ to further ᛫ to perform ᛫ to execute ᛫ to operate ᛫ | V | fremmen&fremman | ME&OE | ||
fremmed | ᛫ to alienate ᛫ to estrange ᛬ foreign ᛫ alien | V᛬AJ | fremed&afremdan | ME&OE | or: fremd | |
fremmedfear | ᛫ xenophobia ᛫ | N | fremed+fear | ME+NE | ||
fremmedledge | fremmedlecg | ᛫ to alienate ᛫ | V | fremedlǣcan | OE | |
fremmedling | ᛫ a stranger ᛫ a foreigner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
fremming | ᛫ a furtherance ᛫ a performance ᛫ an execution ( of an action ) ᛫ an operation ᛫ | N | gefremming | OE | ||
fremmingbough | fremmingbuge | ᛫ an executive branch ᛫ | N | gefremming+bough | OE+NE | |
freshwater | frescwater | ᛫ of neoclassical economics ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fret | ᛫ to devour ᛫ to consume ᛫ to eat up ᛫ to corrode ᛫ to mortify ᛫ | V | fret&frēten | NE&ME | PST: fretted ᛫ PTCP: fretten | |
frettle | frettel | ᛫ voracious ᛫ gluttonous ᛫ | AJ | fretol | OE | |
frever | frefer | ᛫ to comfort ᛫ to console ᛫ | V | frẹ̄vren[frēfran] | ME | |
Friday | ᛫ Friday ᛫ | N(P) | ~[fryday] | NE | ||
frie | ᛫ to question ᛫ | V | fricgan | OE | ||
friendfoe | freendfoe | ᛫ a frenemy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
friendly | freendly | ᛫ amicable ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
frike | ᛫ to dance about ᛫ to move briskly ᛫ | V | friken[frician] | ME | ||
Frily | ᛫ Venusian ᛫ Venutian ᛫ | AJ | fry+ly | ME+NE | ||
frim | ᛫ excellent ᛫ vigorous ᛫ flourishing ᛫ | N᛬AJ | frim&freme | NE&OE | ||
frimful | ᛫ beneficial ᛫ | AJ | fremful | ME | ||
frimth | ᛫ a beginning ᛫ an origin ᛫ | N | frymþ | OE | ||
Frinight | Frinigt | ᛫ the night following Friday's dusk ᛫ | N(P) | ~[frīgeniht] | NE | |
Frise | ᛫ a Frisian ᛫ | N(P) | frīse{Frysa/Fresna} | ME | or: Freese | |
Friseland | ᛫ Frisia ᛫ | N(P) | Frī̆slō̆nd{Freslond} | ME | or: Freeseland | |
Frish | Frisc | ᛫ the Frisian language ᛬ Frisian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Frysisc | OE | or: Freesh ᛫ the ‹i› should likely be /ɪ/ (analogy: wýscan › wish) |
frist | ᛫ a limited period ᛫ time allotted for repayment ᛫ a grace period ᛫ credit ᛫ | N | frist&frist/frest | NE&ME | ||
fristing | ᛫ a delay ᛫ a suspension ᛫ a postponement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: first | |
fristmark | ᛫ an interval ᛫ | N | firstmearc | OE | ||
frith | ᛫ peace ( especially a broad societal kind ) ᛫ | N | frith[friþ] | ME | ||
frithe | ᛫ stately ᛫ beautiful ᛫ | AJ | frīþ | OE | kin: frīðr (N) | |
frithend | ᛫ a peacebearer ᛫ | N | friþiend | OE | ||
frithful | ᛫ peaceful ᛫ gentle ᛫ mild ᛫ | AJ | friþlīc | OE | ||
frithguild | frithgild | ᛫ a guild for maintaining peace ᛫ | N | friþgild | OE | |
frithhouse | frithhuse | ᛫ a safehouse ᛫ | N | friþhus | OE | |
frithless | ᛫ peaceless ᛫ | AJ | friþelēas | OE | ||
frithoath | ᛫ a peace oath ᛫ a truce ᛫ | N | friþāþ | OE | ||
frithsome | frithsum | ᛫ peaceful ᛫ pacific ᛫ | AJ | friþsum | OE | |
frithstow | ᛫ a refuge ᛫ an asylum ᛫ | N | friþstōw | OE | ||
frithwrit | ᛫ a peace treaty ᛫ | N | friþgewrit | OE | ||
frithyearn | ᛫ eager for peace ᛫ | AJ | friþgeorn | OE | ||
from | frum | ᛫ a source ᛫ an origin ᛫ the first part of a series ᛫ an originator ᛫ an author ᛫ a founder ᛫ an inventor ᛫ | N | frume/frome[fruma] | ME | |
from | ᛫ firm ᛫ potent ᛫ | AJ | from | OE | rhyme: bomb | |
from time to time | ᛫ occasionally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
fromchar | fromcar | ᛫ to turn from ᛫ to avert ᛫ | V | fromcyrran | OE | |
fromshaft | frumscaft | ᛫ origin ᛫ | N | frumsceaft | OE | |
fromward | ᛫ away ᛬ from ᛫ | AV᛬P | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
fromwharve | fromhwarf | ᛫ to depart from ᛫ to turn from ᛫ | V | fromhweorfan | OE | |
frood | ᛫ cautious ᛫ shrewd ᛫ wise ᛫ | AJ | frōd | OE | ||
frore | ᛫ extremely cold ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
frosh | frosc | ᛫ a frog ᛫ | N | frosh | ME | or: frox (from an OE variant) |
froshdeer | froscdeer | ᛫ an amphibian ᛫ | N | frosh+deer | NE×2 | or: froxdeer ᛫ calque: froskdýr |
frostmoor | ᛫ tundra ᛫ | N | frost+moor | NE×2 | calque of faroese frostmýra and icelandic freðmýri | |
frover | frofer | ᛫ comfort ᛫ consolation ᛫ solace ᛫ | N | frovre[frōfor] | ME | |
froward | ᛫ unmanageable ᛫ disobedient ᛫ untoward ᛫ habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
Fry | ᛫ an English goddess equivalent to Norse Frigg ᛫ the planet Venus [ᚹ] ᛫ | N(P) | Frie/Frye | ME | or: Frie | |
fuck | ᛫ to copulate ᛫ to copulate with ᛫ to mate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fulcome | fulcum | ᛫ to attain ᛫ to realize ( in all senses ) ᛫ to accomplish ᛫ | V | fulcomen | ME | |
fuldo | ᛫ to complete ᛫ to finish ᛫ | V | fuldọ̄n | ME | PST: fuldid ᛫ PTCP: fuldone ᛫ calque: perfectum | |
fulend | ᛫ to accomplish ᛫ | V | fulenden | ME | ||
fulfill | ᛫ to achieve something ᛫ to carry out a duty as required or promised ᛫ to satisfy or meet a condition ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
fulfledged | fulflecged | ᛫ fully qualified ᛫ having all credentials ᛫ entire ᛫ authentic ᛫ fully covered with feathers ᛫ | AJ | fullfledged | NE | |
fulfrem | ᛫ to perfect ᛫ | V | fulfremman | OE | ||
fulfremmed | ᛫ perfect ᛫ perfect ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | AJ | fulfremed | OE | ||
fulfremmedness | ᛫ perfection ᛫ | N | fulfremednys | OE | ||
full | ᛫ a cup ᛫ a drinking bowl ᛫ | N | ful/full[ful] | ME | ||
full | ᛫ filled ᛫ entire ᛬ very ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~[ful] | NE | found in: know full well | |
fullblown | ᛫ completely developed or formed ᛫ ripe ᛫ puffed up ᛫ | AJ | fullblown | NE | ||
fullbore | ᛫ full-blown ᛫ made with maximum effort ᛬ with maximum effort or speed ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | fullbore | NE | [MW] | |
fullow | ᛫ to baptize ᛫ | V | fulwen[fullian] | ME | ||
fullstop | ᛫ a period ( as in the punctuation mark ) ᛫ | N | full stop | NE | ||
fully | ᛫ completely ᛫ entirely ᛫ totally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
fulmard | ᛫ a Mustela putorius animal ( European polecat ) ᛫ | N | fū̆lmard | ME | ||
fulought | fulugt | ᛫ baptism ᛫ | N | fulloght{fulluht} | ME | rhyme: full out |
fuloughter | fulugter | ᛫ a baptist ᛫ | N | fulwihtere | OE | rhyme: full outer |
fuloughthood | fulugthood | ᛫ a baptismal vow ᛫ | N | fulwihthād | OE | rhyme: full out hood |
fuloughtstow | fulugtstow | ᛫ a baptistery ᛫ | N | fulwihtstow | OE | rhyme: full out toe |
fulsome | fulsum | ᛫ overzealous ᛫ excessive ᛫ abundant ᛫ copious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
fulth | ᛫ abundance ᛫ plenty ᛫ satiety ᛫ repletion ᛫ sufficiency ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
fultom | ᛫ support ᛬ to support ᛫ | N᛬V | fultum/fulteam | OE | ||
fulwaxen | ᛫ fully grown ᛫ mature ᛫ | AJ | fulwaxen | ME | ||
fulwrought | fulwrougt | ᛫ completed ᛫ | AJ | fulwroht | ME | |
funnyman | ᛫ a comedian ᛫ a humorist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
furlong | ᛫ an eighth of a mile ( 220 yards ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
furrow | ᛫ a trench ᛫ a groove ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
furrow | ᛫ a pine tree ᛫ a fir tree ᛫ any tree, specifically oak | N | furh{furhwudu} | OE | "fir" is Norse | |
further | ᛫ to promote (as in to advance ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
furthering | ᛫ furtherance ᛫ promotion ᛫ advancement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
furthermore | ᛫ additionally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
furze | furs | ᛫ a Ulex Europaeus plant ᛫ | N | ~[fyrs] | NE | |
futhorc | ᛫ the Anglo-Frisian runic alphabet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gab | ᛫ chatter ᛬ to chatter ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
gadling | ᛫ a vagabond ᛫ a person of low birth ᛫ | N | ~[gadeling][gædeling] | ENE | meaning turned negative over time | |
Gaelish | Gaelisc | ᛫ Gaelic language ( Irish Scottish and Manx ) ᛫ Goidelic language ᛬ Gaelic ᛫ Goidelic ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Gael+ish | NE‹C+NE | |
gainly | ᛫ graceful ᛫ wieldy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
gainrising | ᛫ a resurrection ᛫ | N | ~ | ME | ||
gainsaw | ᛫ a refutation ᛫ | N | gainsau | ME | ||
gainsay | ᛫ to contradict ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gainsaying | ᛫ opposition ( usually in argument ) ᛫ contradiction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gainstand | ᛫ to oppose ᛫ to resist ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
galder | ᛫ an incantation ᛫ an enchantment ᛫ | N | galdor | OE | hard G: galdere swiðe stronge heo ȝeuen | |
galdercraft | ᛫ the art of incantation or enchantment ᛫ | N | galdorcræft | OE | ||
galdergaler | ᛫ a magical enchanter ᛫ | N | galdorgalere | OE | ||
galderquid | galdercwid | ᛫ a magical saying ᛫ an incantation ᛫ an enchantment ᛫ | N | galdorcwide | OE | |
galdersong | ᛫ a magic song ᛫ | N | galdorsang | OE | ||
gale | ᛫ a way ᛫ a course ᛫ a course of action ᛫ a way ᛫ a means ᛫ | N | gāle[gal] | ME | ||
gale | ᛫ to cry out ᛫ to bark ᛫ to chirp ᛫ to sing ᛫ to enchant ᛫ | V | gālen&galan | ME&OE | ||
galer | ᛫ an enchanter ᛫ | N | galere | OE | ||
galingale | ᛫ galangal ᛫ the roots of various Alpinia , Kæmpferia , Aristolochia , and Cyperus plants , including in powdered form ᛫ | N | galingāle | ME‹I‹O | ||
gall | ᛫ bile ᛫ impudence ᛫ brazenness ᛫ temerity ᛬ to bother ᛫ to annoy ᛫ to make resentful ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
galled | ᛫ bothered ᛫ annoyed ᛫ troubled ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Gallish | Gallisc | ᛫ Gaulish language ᛬ Gaulish ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | gallisc | OE | or: Gallwelsh |
gallow | ᛫ to terrify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gallowmood | ᛫ of a grim or gloomy mood ᛫ | AJ | galgmōd | OE | ||
Gallwales | ᛫ the Celts of Gaul ᛫ Gaul ᛫ Gallia ᛫ | N(P) | galwalas | OE | or: Galland | |
galp | ᛫ to gape ᛫ | V | galpen | ME | ||
game | ᛫ eager or willing to do something new or challenging ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
gameful | ᛫ sportive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
gamehouse | gamehuse | ᛫ an arcade building ᛫ | N | game+house | NE×2 | |
gamely | ᛫ sportive ᛬ sportively ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
gamesare | ᛫ a console ( gaming ) ᛫ an arcade machine ᛫ | N | game+searu | NE+OE | ||
gamewood | ᛫ a lyre ᛫ a lute ᛫ a guitar [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | gomenwudu | OE | ||
gamle | gamel | ᛫ to age ᛬ aged ᛫ | V | gamelian&gamel | OE&OE | |
Gandes | ᛫ the Ganges ᛫ | N(P) | gandis/gandes | OE | ||
gang | ᛫ to go ᛫ to proceed ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gang | ᛫ a going ᛫ a journey ᛫ a path ᛫ a road ᛫ a watercourse ᛫ a process [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | gang&gang | NE&ME | ||
Gangdays | ᛫ Rogation days ᛫ | N | Gangdagas | OE | ||
gangle | gangel | ᛫ to move in a manner characteristic of a gangling person ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
gangling | ᛫ awkwardly tall and thin ᛫ ungraceful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
gangman | ᛫ a member of a gang ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gangway | ᛫ a passageway ᛫ a vomitorium ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gannet | ᛫ a Sulidae bird ᛫ | N | ~[genot] | NE | ||
garclive | garclife | ᛫ an Agrimonia plant ( agrimony ) ᛫ | N | gārclive | ME | |
garish | garisc | ᛫ gaudy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹N | |
garsedge | garsecg | ᛫ an ocean ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | garsecg | OE | might mean "spear man" or "gar's edge" (promontory's edge) |
Gascon | Gaskon | ᛫ a native of Gascony ᛫ wine from Gascony ᛬ of Gascony ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | ~[gascoine][gascon] | NE | |
gast | ᛫ to scare ᛫ | V | ~[gǣstan] | NE | ||
gastern | ᛫ an inn ᛫ | N | gæstærn | OE | ||
gateway | ᛫ a portal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: yateway | |
gavel | gafel | ᛫ rent ( count noun ) ᛬ to rent ᛫ | N᛬V | gavel&gafelian | NE&OE | |
gavel | gafel | ᛫ a fork ᛫ | N | gafol | OE | |
geason | ᛫ rare ᛫ uncommon ᛫ unusual ᛫ scarce ᛫ scant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: geazon | |
geld | ᛫ to castrate (especially of an animal) ᛫ to spay (especially of an animal) ᛫ to sterilize ᛫ to weaken ᛫ to trim ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹N | possibly from an unattested *gældan (OE gildet) | |
Germanish | Germanisc | ᛫ Germanic speech ᛬ Germanic ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Germania+ish | OE+NE | G as in GOAT not as in GEORGE |
Germany | ᛫ Germania ᛫ | N(P) | Germania | OE | G as in GOAT not as in GEORGE | |
get rid of | ᛫ to remove ᛫ to clear ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
getter | ᛫ a receiver ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ghastly | gastly | ᛫ frightening ᛫ extremely bad ᛫ unpleasant ᛫ | AJ | ghastly | NE | |
ghost | goast | ᛫ a spirit ( in all senses ) ᛫ | N | ghost | NE | |
ghostgun | goastgun | ᛫ a gun without a serial number ᛫ | N | ghost gun | NE | |
ghostly | goastly | ᛫ spiritual ᛫ spectral ᛫ | AJ | ghostly | NE | |
gidden | ᛫ a goddess ᛫ | N | gyden | OE | ||
giddy | ᛫ to excite and disorientate ᛬ disorientated and excited ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | kin: god | |
gigant | ᛫ a giant ᛫ | N | gīgant | OE‹I‹H | ||
gild | ᛫ to cover thinly with gold ( literally and figuratively ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gill | ᛫ ravine ᛫ | N | ~[gil] | NE‹ME‹N | ||
gird | ᛫ to gird ( to bind around ) ᛫ | N᛬V | gird&gyrd | NE&OE | ||
girdle | girdel | ᛫ a thing which girds ᛫ a belt ( especially one that holds up stockings ) ᛬ to gird ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
girdledeer | girdeldeer | ᛫ an armadillo ᛫ | N | girdle+deer | NE×2 | calque: Gürteltier |
girn | ᛫ a grimace ᛫ | N᛬V | girn/gurn | NE | kin: grin | |
girn | ᛫ calamity ᛫ | N | gyrn | OE | ||
git | ᛫ a fool ᛫ an idiot ᛫ a moron ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gladden | ᛫ to elate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gladdon | ᛫ an Iris plant ( flowers ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
glade | ᛫ an open space in a forest ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: glad | |
glar | ᛫ amber ᛫ resin ᛫ | N | glær | OE | ||
glare | ᛫ an intense light ᛫ an angry stare ᛬ to shine intensely ᛫ to give an angry state at something ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
glaring | ᛫ obvious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
glass | ᛫ vitrum ᛫ a mirror ᛬ to mirror ᛫ to reflect ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
glasses | ᛫ spectacles ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
glassrown | glassrune | ᛫ a rune whose shape is mirrored ( so ᛚ as a glassrown would look like ᛏ ) ᛫ | N | glass+rown | NE×2 | calque: Spiegelrune |
glasstone | ᛫ mica ᛫ | N | glass stone | NE | ||
glasswright | glasswrigt | ᛫ a glassmaker ᛫ a glazier ᛫ a glazer ᛫ | N | glasswryt | ENE | |
glaze | glase | ᛫ gloss ᛫ luster ᛫ lustre ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
glazemill | glasemill | ᛫ calender ( a kind of machine which applies a glaze to a material ) ᛫ | N | glaze+mill | NE‹(E+Þ‹I) | |
glee | ᛫ joy ᛫ music ᛫ entertainment ᛫ sport ᛫ merriment ᛫ amusement ᛫ | N | glee&glẹ̄[glēo/glīw] | NE&ME | ||
gleebeam | ᛫ a harp ᛫ | N | glēobēam | OE | ||
gleecraft | ᛫ the art of music ᛫ minstrelsy ᛫ | N | glēocræft | OE | ||
gleed | ᛫ glowing coal ᛫ an ember ᛫ | N | glede[glēd] | ME | ||
gleemaiden | ᛫ a female musician ᛫ | N | glēomǣden | OE | ||
gleeman | ᛫ a musician ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
glemb | ᛫ a spot ᛫ a blemish ᛫ | N | glemm | OE | ||
glen | ᛫ a narrow valley ᛫ a canyon ? ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹C | ||
glendge | glencg | ᛫ an ornament ᛫ an honour ᛫ a medal [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | glencg | OE | |
glew | ᛫ to rejoice ᛫ to make merry ᛫ to party ᛫ to entertain ᛫ to entertain with music ᛫ to play music ᛫ to make music ᛫ to sing ᛫ | V | gleuen[glīwian/glēowian] | ME | kin: glee? | |
glew | ᛫ wise ᛫ skillful ᛫ sagacious ᛫ prudent ᛫ | AJ | glēaw | OE | ||
glewer | ᛫ a jester ᛫ a baffoon ᛫ a clown ᛫ | N | glīwere | OE | ||
glewly | ᛫ prudently ᛫ wisely ᛫ clearly ᛫ well ᛫ | AV | glēawlīce | OE | ||
glewness | ᛫ prudence ᛫ skill ᛫ wisdom ᛫ ability ᛫ acuteness ᛫ | N | glēawnes | OE | ||
glib | ᛫ smooth ᛫ slippery ᛫ nonchalant ᛫ superficial ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
glide | ᛫ a semivowel ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
glim | ᛫ a candel ᛫ a lantern ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | backformation of "glimmer"? ᛫ [OXF] | |
glisten | ᛫ a sparkling light ᛬ to shine with a sparkling light ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
gloaming | ᛫ twilight ᛫ dusk ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Glom | ᛫ one of the Lemovii people ᛫ | N(P) | Glommum | OE | ||
glove | glofe | ᛫ a gauntlet ᛫ | N | glove&glove | NE&ME | |
glum | ᛫ sullen ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | first appears in Early Modern English | |
gnast | ᛫ a spark ᛫ a live coal ᛫ a small flame ᛫ a snuff of a candle ᛫ | N | gnōst/gnast | ME | ||
gnaw | ᛫ to chew away at something ᛫ to corrode something ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
gnawdeer | ᛫ a rodent ᛫ | N | gnaw+deer | NE×2 | calque: knaagdier | |
gneed | ᛫ stingy ᛫ niggardly ᛫ scanty ᛫ scarce ᛫ | AJ | gnēde | ME | ||
gnide | ᛫ to rub ᛫ to grind through rubbing ᛫ | V | gnīden | ME | ||
gnorn | ᛫ sadness ᛫ sorrow ᛫ grief ᛬ to grieve ᛫ to mourn ᛫ to lament ᛫ | N᛬V | gnorn&gnornan | OE | ||
gnorny | ᛫ aggrieved ᛫ mournful ᛫ lamentful ᛫ dejected ᛫ | AJ | gnorn+y | OE+NE | ||
goad | ᛫ a stick for poking ᛬ to provoke ᛫ to encourage ᛫ to prod ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
goan | ᛫ to gape ᛫ | V | gonen | ME | ||
Goat | ᛫ Capricorn ᛫ | PN | ~ | NE | ||
goaten | ᛫ goatish ᛫ hircine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
goatling | ᛫ a kid (as in young goat) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kid is Norse | |
goatsucker | ᛫ a Caprimulgidae bird ( a nightjar ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gobetween | ᛫ an intermediary ᛫ | N | gobetween | NE | ||
god | ᛫ a deity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
godboot | ᛫ atonement ᛫ | N | godbōt | OE | ||
godforsaken | ᛫ remote ᛫ desolate ᛫ dismal ᛫ miserable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
godhead | ᛫ a god ᛫ a divine nature ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
godhood | ᛫ divinity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
godkind | ᛫ divine nature ᛬ divine in nature ᛫ | N᛬AJ | godcund&godcund | ME&OE | ||
godkindness | ᛫ divine nature ᛫ divinity ᛫ | N | godcundnesse&godcundnys | ME&OE | ||
godlief | godleef | ᛫ theism ᛫ | N | god+lief | NE+ME | |
godlore | ᛫ theology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
godly | ᛫ divine ᛫ pious ᛫ devout ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
godsend | ᛫ a desirable or needed thing or event that comes unexpectedly ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
godsent | ᛫ sent by or as if by God ᛫ unexpectedly beneficial ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
godshild | godscild | ᛫ a sin against God ᛫ impiety ᛫ | N | godscyld | OE | |
godshildy | godscildy | ᛫ impious ᛫ | AJ | godscyldig | OE | |
godsib | ᛫ a god parent ᛫ a sponsor ᛫ | N | godsibb | OE | ||
godsibred | ᛫ a godsib kindred ᛫ sponsorship ᛫ | N | gossipred | NE | ||
godspeech | godspeec | ᛫ an oracle ᛫ | N | godgesprǣce | OE | |
godspeed | ᛫ ( an expression of good wishes during an undertaking ) ᛫ | I | Godspeed | NE | ||
godweb | ᛫ cotton ᛫ a precious garment ᛫ fine clothing ᛫ | N | godwebb | OE | ||
godwebben | ᛫ made of precious cloth ᛫ of purple hue ? ᛫ | AJ | godwebben | OE | ||
godwrack | ᛫ impious ᛫ | AJ | godwrac | OE | ||
goings on | ᛫ events ᛫ activities ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
goldhoard | ᛫ a thesaurus ( as in a treasury ) ᛫ | N | goldhord | NE&OE | calque: thesaurus | |
goldstone | ᛫ topaz ᛫ chrysolite ᛫ chrysoberyl ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gole | ᛫ lustful ᛫ lascivious ᛬ to be lascivious ᛫ | AJ | gol&gālian | ME&OE | ||
gomb | ᛫ tribute ᛫ | N | gombe | OE | ||
gome | gum | ᛫ a male human ᛫ | N | gǒme[guma] | ME | rhyme: some; come |
gong | ᛫ a lavatory ᛫ an outhouse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gongfarmer | ᛫ a cleaner of privies ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
gooddoer | ᛫ a benefactor ᛫ a do-gooder ᛫ | N | gọ̄ddọ̄er | ME | ||
gooden | ᛫ to become good ᛫ to improve ᛫ to get better ᛫ to make good or perfect ᛫ to enrich ᛫ to endow ᛫ | V | gōdian | OE | ||
gooderheal | ᛫ good fortune ᛬ good luck! ᛫ | N᛬I | gōderhele | ME | ||
goodman | ᛫ Mister ᛫ Mr ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
goodwife | ᛫ Mistress ᛫ Mrs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: goody | |
goodwill | ᛫ amity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gorcrow | ᛫ a carrion crow ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gore | ᛫ a skirt ᛫ a wedge of cloth or chain mail ᛫ a triangular piece of land ᛫ | N | gōre[gāra] | ME | skirt is Norse | |
gore | ᛫ a javelin ᛫ a spear for throwing ᛫ a dart ᛬ to stab ᛫ | N | gore&gar | NE&OE | ||
gorse | ᛫ an Ulex plant ᛫ a Genista plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
goshawk | goscawk | ᛫ an Accipiter bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
gosling | ᛫ a young goose ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gospel | ᛫ the message concerning Christ ᛬ to evangelize ᛫ | N᛬V | gospel&godspellian | NE&OE | ||
gospelish | gospelisc | ᛫ evangelical ᛫ | AJ | godspellisc | OE | |
gospeller | ᛫ an evangelist ᛫ | N | gospeller [godspellere] | NE | ||
Got | ᛫ a Goth ᛫ | N | Gota | OE | ||
Gotland | ᛫ the land of the Goths ᛫ | N | Gotland | OE | ||
Gottish | Gottisc | ᛫ the Gothic tongue ᛬ Gothic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | Gotisc | OE | |
gound | gund | ᛫ eye mucus ᛫ | N | gounde | ME | |
gouth | ᛫ battle ᛫ war ᛫ combat ᛫ conflict ᛫ | N | gūþ | OE | ||
gouth | ᛫ war- ᛫ battle- ᛫ | PREFIX | gūþ | OE | ||
gouthcraft | guthecraft | ᛫ warfare ᛫ | N | gūþcræft | OE | |
gouthcust | guthecust | ᛫ warlike excellence ᛫ | N | gūþcyst | OE | |
gouthfane | guthefane | ᛫ a military standard ᛫ an ensign ᛫ | N | gūþfana | OE | |
gouthhawk | guthehawk | ᛫ a war hawk ᛫ a warmonger [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | gūþhafoc | OE | |
gouthhorn | guthehorn | ᛫ a war horn ᛫ | N | gūþhorn | OE | |
gouthmoot | guthemoot | ᛫ a battle meeting ᛫ | N | gūþgemōt | OE | |
gouthrink | gutherink | ᛫ a heroic warrior ᛫ | N | gūþrinc | OE | |
gouthsare | guthesare | ᛫ a war machine ᛫ arms ᛫ armour ᛫ | N | gūþsearo | OE | |
gouthwain | guthewain | ᛫ a war vehicle ᛫ an armoured car ᛫ a tank ᛫ | N | gūþ+wain | OE+NE | |
graff | ᛫ a stylus ᛫ a graphium ᛫ | N | græf{ME gref} | OE‹I‹H | ||
graft | ᛫ a carving ᛫ an engraving ᛫ a sculpture ᛫ a statue ᛫ | N | græft | OE | kin: grave; graf (Middle English) | |
graftiwork | ᛫ an engraved piece of art ᛫ a carved sculpture ᛫ | N | græftgeweorc | OE | ||
graith | ᛫ equipment ᛫ apparel ᛫ accouterments ᛬ to prepare ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹N | ||
graithly | ᛫ preparedly ᛫ | AV | greithlī | ME‹N | ||
gram | ᛫ incensed ᛫ furious ᛫ | AJ | gram[gram] | ME | ||
grame | ᛫ rage ᛫ anger ᛫ grief ᛫ remorse ᛫ | N | grā̆m[grama] | ME | ||
grane | ᛫ a mustache ᛫ a moustache ᛫ | N | granu | OE | ||
grassland | ᛫ a stretch of unforested grassy land ᛫ a prairie ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
grasstepper | ᛫ a locust ᛫ | N | gærsstapa | OE | ||
grave | grafe | ᛫ a tomb ᛬ to carve or shape with a chisel ᛫ to sculpt ᛫ to sculpture ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
graver | grafer | ᛫ a sculptor ᛫ an engraver ᛫ a digger ᛫ a miner ᛫ an engraving tool ᛫ | N | grāver[grafere/græfere] | ME | |
gravewax | grafewax | ᛫ adipocere ᛫ | N | grave-wax | NE | |
graveyard | grafeyard | ᛫ a cemetery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
gray | ᛫ a badger ᛫ a beaver ? ᛫ | N | grei | ME | ||
gread | ᛫ a garment covering the breast ᛫ | N | grēde/greade[grēada] | ME | ||
great | ᛫ size ᛫ greatness ᛫ a majority ᛫ the essence of something ᛫ | N | grēt | ME | kin: grootte (Dutch) | |
great | ᛫ grand ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Great Bear Mere | ᛫ Great Bear Lake ᛫ | N(P) | great+bear+mere | NE×3 | ||
Great Salt Mere | ᛫ Great Salt Lake ᛫ | N(P) | great+salt+mere | NE×3 | ||
Great Thew Mere | ᛫ Great Slave Lake ᛫ | N(P) | great+thew+mere | NE×3 | ||
greatelder | ᛫ a grandparent ᛫ | N | great+elder | NE×2 | ||
greaten | ᛫ to increase in size extent amount or intensity ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
greaterhood | ᛫ a majority ᛫ | N | greater+hood | NE×2 | ||
greatgun | ᛫ a heavy ordnance piece ᛫ a cannon ᛫ | N | great gun | NE | ||
greathearted | ᛫ magnanimous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
greatpox | ᛫ syphilis ᛫ | N | greatpox | NE | ||
greed | ᛫ an outcry ᛬ to cry out to shout ᛫ | V | grēd&greden | ME&ME | PST: gred ᛫ PTCP: gred | |
Greek | ᛫ a Greek ᛫ | N | ~[Grēcas] | NE | or: Creek (from Crēacas) | |
Greekland | ᛫ Greece ᛫ | N | Grēcland | OE | ||
greem | ᛫ to make angry ᛫ to provoke ᛫ to be obnoxious ᛫ to offend ᛫ | V | grēmen[gremian] | ME | ||
green | ᛫ an environmentalist ᛬ environmentalistic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
greenback | ᛫ a dollar ( of the United States ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
greenbrass | ᛫ verdigris ᛫ | N | green brass | NE | ||
greenhorn | ᛫ a novice ᛫ a beginner ᛫ a tyro ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Greenlandish | Greenlandisc | ᛫ Greenlandic ᛫ | AJ | Greenland+ish | NE×2 | |
greenlight | greenligt | ᛫ approval ᛬ to approve ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
greens | ᛫ green vegetables ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
greenwood | ᛫ a forest that is green with foliage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] | |
greet | ᛫ to lament ᛫ to weep ᛫ | V | ~[grētan] | NE | we already have a word for "to weep" ᛫ [MW] | |
grey | ᛫ gloomy ᛫ uninteresting ᛫ having an intermediate or vague position condition or character ᛫ neutral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: gray | |
greyback | ᛫ a Calidris canutus bird ᛫ a louse ᛫ a soldier of the Confederate States of America ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
greymote | ᛫ a neutron ᛫ | N | grey+mote | NE×2 | ||
greywader | ᛫ a Glariolinae bird ᛫ a pratincole ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
greywater | ᛫ sullage ᛫ | N | gray water | NE | or: graywater | |
grill | ᛫ vexation ᛫ offence ᛬ to provoke ᛫ to annoy ᛫ to irritate ᛫ to offend ᛫ | N᛬V | grille&grillen[gryllan] | ME | ||
grim | ᛫ dismal ᛫ gloomy ᛫ forbidding ᛫ sinister ᛫ cynical ᛫ ominous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
grime | ᛫ a mask ᛫ filth or slime that covers something ᛫ | N | grime&grima | NE&OE | ||
grin | ᛫ a noose ᛫ a snare ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
grinder | ᛫ a submarine sandwich ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
grindle | grindel | ᛫ a small stream or ditch ᛫ | N | ~[OE grendel] | NE | |
gripe | ᛫ a griffin ᛫ a vulture ᛫ | N | grī̆p[grīpe] | ME‹I&OE‹I | ||
gripe | ᛫ a complaint ᛬ to complain ᛫ | N᛬V | grīpan | NE | ||
gripping | ᛫ very interesting ᛫ fascinating ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
gripple | grippel | ᛫ covetous ᛫ | AJ | gripel | ME | |
grise | ᛫ to fear ᛫ to be terrified at ᛫ | V | grīsen | ME | kin: grisly | |
grisly | ᛫ inspiring horror and disgust ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
grist | ᛫ ground grain ᛫ grain to be ground ᛫ malt grains which have been cleaned and cracked ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
gristle | gristel | ᛫ tough cartilaginous tendinous or fibrous matter ᛫ cartilage [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
grit | ᛫ small loose particles of stone or sand ᛫ strength of character ᛬ to move with a grating sound ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
grith | ᛫ peace ᛫ safety ᛫ sanctuary ᛫ clemency ᛫ pardon ᛫ mercy ᛫ | N | grith | ME‹N | ||
groat | ᛫ a particle ᛫ a fragment ᛫ | N | grō̆t | ME | or: grot | |
groor | ᛫ terror ᛫ horror ᛬ terrifying ᛫ horrifying ᛫ | N᛬AJ | grure[gryre] | ME | kin: grēosan | |
ground | grund | ᛫ soil ᛫ reason ( for doing something ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ground meat | grund | ᛫ mince ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
groundbreaker | grundbreaker | ᛫ a pioneer ᛫ an innovator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
groundbreaking | grondbreaking | ᛫ pioneering ᛫ innovating ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
grounddown | grunddune | ᛫ exhausted ᛫ | AJ | ground-down | NE | |
groundless | grundless | ᛫ baseless ᛫ without reason ᛫ unfounded ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
groundline | grundline | ᛫ a baseline ᛫ a foundation ᛫ a basis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: Grundlinien ᛫ or: groundrow (line is a loanword) ᛫ [MW] |
groundnut | grundnut | ᛫ a peanut ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
groundpitch | grundpic | ᛫ a tonic ( in music ) ᛫ | N | ground+pitch | NE×2 | calque: Grundton |
groundsel | grundsel | ᛫ a Senecio vulgaris plant ᛫ | N | ~[grǒundeswilie] | NE | |
grouts | grutes | ᛫ plaster ᛫ lees ᛫ dregs ᛫ | N | grouts[grūt] | NE | [MW] |
growingly | ᛫ increasingly ᛫ progressively ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
grownhood | ᛫ adulthood ᛫ | N | grown+hood | NE×2 | ||
growthsome | growthsum | ᛫ fertile ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | [MW] |
grub | ᛫ to dig ᛫ to extract by digging ᛫ to pluck hair ᛫ | V | grubben | ME | ||
grunt | ᛫ a low ranking member of a group ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
guild | gild | ᛫ an association of merchants or craftsmen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | |
guildhall | gildhall | ᛫ a building used as the meeting place of a guild ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | |
guildsman | gildsman | ᛫ a member of a guild ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | |
guiltend | giltend | ᛫ a debtor ᛫ an offender ᛫ | N | gyltend | OE | |
gulch | gulc | ᛫ a ravine ᛫ a gorge ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
gum | ᛫ the tissue that surrounds the necks of teeth and covers the alveolar parts of the jaws ᛫ | N | ~[gōma] | NE | kin: gum | |
gumshoe | gumscoe | ᛫ a kind of shoe ᛫ a detective ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
gun | ᛫ a firearm ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
gundust | ᛫ gunpowder ᛫ | N | gun+dust | NE×2 | ||
gunstone | ᛫ a cannonball ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
gutleech | gutleec | ᛫ a gastroenterologist ᛫ | N | gut+leech | NE×2 | |
hack | ᛫ a tool for rough striking or cutting ( such as a mattock or a miner's pick ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hackle | hackel | ᛫ a coat ᛫ a cloak ᛫ a mantle ᛫ a covering ᛫ | N | ~[hacele] | NE | kin: hökull (Icelandic); hakuls (Gothic) |
hackneyed | ᛫ unoriginal ᛫ bland ᛫ cliche ᛫ banal ᛫ trite ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hackster | ᛫ an assassin ᛫ a ruffian ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
had I wist | ᛫ regret ᛫ | N | had I wist | ME | ||
haff | ᛫ an ocean ᛫ | N | heaf | OE | kin: haven | |
haft | ᛫ the handle of a tool or weapon ᛬ to fit a handle to ᛫ to perform a function ᛫ to process [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
haft | ᛫ a captive ᛫ a prisoner ᛫ captivity ᛫ imprisonment ᛫ possession ᛫ having ᛬ to capture ᛫ to imprison ᛫ | N᛬V | hæft{hæftnẹ̄the} | OE | ||
haftling | ᛫ a captive ᛫ | N | haftling | OE | ||
hag | ᛫ a sorceress ᛫ an enchantress ᛫ a witch ᛫ an unlikable old woman ᛫ | N | ~[hægtesse] | NE | kin: hex | |
hagfish | hagfisc | ᛫ a Myxine fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
haggle | haggel | ᛫ to bargain ᛫ to chaffer ᛫ | V | ~[haccian]? | NE | |
hagtess | ᛫ an old female magic user ? ᛫ | N | hægtesse | OE | ||
hail | ᛫ a greeting ᛬ to greet ᛬ greetings! ᛫ | N᛬V᛬I | ~ | NE | ||
hairbane | ᛫ depilatory ᛫ | N | hair+bane | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes | |
hairclip | ᛫ a barrette ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hairwash | hairwasc | ᛫ shampoo ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hairwax | ᛫ pomade ᛫ | N | hair+wax | NE×2 | ||
hake | ᛫ a Merlucciidae fish ᛫ a Phycidae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
haked | ᛫ an Esox fish ( a pike , a pickerel , a ged , a lucet ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
halch | halc | ᛫ to fasten around ᛫ to loop ᛫ | V | halchen | ME | |
hale | ᛫ a nook ᛫ a cranny ᛫ a hiding place ᛫ | N | hāle/hal | ME | ||
hale | ᛫ robust ᛫ healthy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
half | ᛫ semi- ᛫ sam- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
halfclepend | ᛫ a semi-vowel ᛫ | N | healfclypigende | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
halfgidden | ▪ a demigoddess ▪ | N | half+gyden | NE+OE | ||
halfgod | ᛫ a demigod ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
halfmoon | ᛫ a crescent ᛫ anything crescent shaped ᛫ | N | halfmoon | NE | ||
halftrendle | halftrendel | ᛫ a hemisphere ᛫ | N | healftrendel | OE | |
halfwit | ᛫ a fool ᛫ an idiot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
halidom | ᛫ holiness ᛫ sanctity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
halk | ᛫ a recess or a nook in a building ᛫ a remote corner in an open place ᛫ a cavity ᛫ | N | halk[healoc/healc] | ME | ||
hallmark | ᛫ a defining feature ᛫ a defining characteristic ᛫ a defining attribute ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hallmoot | ᛫ a court baron ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hallow | ᛫ a saint ᛬ to sanctify ᛫ to canonize ᛫ to consecrate ᛫ to dedicate ᛫ to initiate ᛫ to make holy ᛬ sacred ᛫ holy ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | hallow&gehālgian | NE&OE | ||
Hallow Yean Mere | ᛫ Lac Saint-Jean ᛫ | N(P) | hallow+Jean+mere | NE×2‹I+NE | ||
hallowdom | ᛫ sainthood ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hallowing | ᛫ consecration ᛫ sanctification ᛫ | N | hālgung | OE | ||
hallowing book | ᛫ a benedictional ᛫ | N | hālgungbōc | OE | ||
Hallowmas | ᛫ All Saints' Day ᛫ | N | Hallowmas | NE‹(E+I) | ||
hallowtide | ᛫ the first week of November ᛫ | N | halowtide | ME | lacks its own entry on MEC, listed under "halwe" | |
halse | ᛫ to greet ᛫ to salute ᛫ to predict ᛫ to divine ᛫ | V | halsen&hālsian | ME&OE | ||
halse | ᛫ the neck ᛫ the throat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | Did neck once mean "back neck" and halse mean "front neck"? | |
halse | ᛫ to hug ᛫ to embrace ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
halsebee | ᛫ a torc ᛫ a torq ᛫ a torque ᛫ | N | healsbeag | OE | literally neck-bee | |
halsebour | halsbor | ᛫ a gorget ᛫ | N | healsbeorg | OE | |
halseman | ᛫ an executioner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
halsend | ᛫ an omen ᛫ an augur ᛫ | N | hǣlsend | OE | ||
halser | ᛫ a diviner ᛫ an exorcist ᛫ | N | hǣlsere | OE | ||
halsewort | ᛫ a Capparis spinosa plant ᛫ a Symphytum album plant ᛫ a Sedum telephium plant ᛫ a throatwort plant ᛫ | N | halswort | ME | ||
halsing | ᛫ divination ᛫ fortune telling ᛫ augury ᛫ exorcism ᛫ | N | hālsung | OE | ||
Halsing | ᛫ one of the Hälsings ᛫ | N(P) | Hælsingum | OE | ||
halt | ᛫ to walk with a limp ᛫ to conduct oneself immorally ᛫ | V | halt&halten[healtian] | NE&ME | ||
halter | ᛫ a rope for animals or for hanging people ᛫ | N | ~[hælftre] | NE | [MW] | |
ham | ᛫ an enclosure ᛫ a plot of enclosed ground ᛫ | N | hamme&ham | ME&OE | ||
ham | ᛫ the hollow of the knee ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hame | ᛫ covering ᛫ skin ᛫ integument ᛫ membrane ᛫ the slough of a reptile ᛫ | N | hāme[hama] | ME | ||
hammer | ᛫ a malleus ( bone ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hammerbore | ᛫ a pneumatic drill ᛫ a percussion drill ᛫ a piston drill ᛫ a jackhammer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE+ENE | calque: hammer-drill | |
hammerwort | ᛫ a Helleborus niger plant ? ᛫ | N | hamerwyrt | OE | ||
hamstring | ᛫ a thigh muscle between the hip and knee ᛬ to disable by cutting the hamstrings ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
handbag | ᛫ a purse ᛫ | N | ~[baggi?] | NE‹N? | ||
handbone | ᛫ a metacarpal ᛫ | N | hand+bone | NE×2 | ||
handbook | ᛫ a manual ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handcloth | ᛫ a handkerchief ᛫ a towel ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handfast | ᛫ a marriage contract ᛬ to become engaged ( as in marriage ) ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹N | ||
handgun | ᛫ a pistol ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handicap | ᛫ a disability ᛫ a restraint ᛬ to disable ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
handicapped | ᛫ disabled ᛫ | ADJ | ~ | NE | ||
handicraft | ᛫ manual skill ᛫ an occupation requiring skill with the hands ᛫ the articles fashioned by handicraft ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handiswink | ᛫ manual labour ᛫ | N | handiswink | ME | ||
handle | handel | ᛫ a pseudonym ᛫ a username ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
handler | handeller | ᛫ a manager of animals or a kind of object ᛫ a processor [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
handlings | ᛫ by hand ᛫ manually ᛫ | AV | hondlinges | ME | ||
handly | ᛫ manual ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
handmaid | ᛫ a personal maid or female servant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handman | ᛫ a manservant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handpriest | handpreest | ᛫ a chaplain ᛫ | N | handprēost | OE‹(E+I‹H) | |
handsax | ᛫ a dagger ᛫ | N | handseax | OE | ||
handsel | ᛫ a gift given for good luck at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handset | ᛫ a mobile phone ᛫ a cell phone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handwhile | handhwile | ᛫ a short period of time ᛫ a moment ᛫ an instance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
handwrit | ᛫ a manuscript ᛫ a writ written by hand ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
handy | ᛫ useful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hane | ᛫ a rooster ᛫ | N | hana{hanecrau} | OE | ||
hangby | ᛫ a dependent ( used in contempt ) ᛫ | N | hangby | NE | ||
hanger | ᛫ a wood on a steep hillside ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] | |
hangeron | ᛫ a sycophant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hangman | ᛫ an executioner who hangs the condemned ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hangup | ᛫ a delay ᛬ to suspend ᛫ to delay ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
hansel | ᛫ a token of fortune ( good or bad ) ᛫ a gift given at the beginning of a new year or a new venture meant to bring luck ᛫ | N | ~[hanselle][handselen] | NE | or: handsel | |
hap | ᛫ luck ᛫ fortune ᛫ a chance occurrence ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | [OXF] | |
hapful | ᛫ lucky ᛫ fortunate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hapless | ᛫ unfortunate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
haply | ᛫ by accident ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
happening | ᛫ an occurrence ᛫ a event ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E+E) | ||
hapsome | hapsum | ᛫ random ᛫ | AJ | hap+some | N+NE | |
har | ᛫ the hinge of a door or lock ᛫ one of the four cardinal points of the heavens or the earth ᛫ | N | har/harre/herre[heorr] | ME | ||
harbour | harbor | ᛫ a haven ᛫ a barracks ᛫ military quarters ᛫ a sanctuary ᛫ an anchorage ( in some senses ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: heriot; borrow |
harddrive | harddrife | ᛫ a hard disk ᛫ a hard disk drive ᛫ | N | hard drive | NE | |
hardhew | ᛫ a Cichorium intybus plant ( chicory ) ᛫ | N | hardhewe | ME | ||
hardness | ᛫ inflexibility ᛫ rigidity ᛫ stiffness ᛫ harshness ᛫ rigour ᛫ severity ᛫ cruelty ᛫ obduracy ᛫ obstinacy ᛫ hardiness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hardship | hardscip | ᛫ a difficulty ( especially an unpleasant one ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hardtin | ᛫ pewter ᛫ | N | hard+tin | NE×2 | calque: Hartzinn | |
hardware | ᛫ equipment ᛫ the physical components of an electronic system ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hareeyed | ᛫ lagophthalmic ᛫ wide-eyed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | ENE | ||
harehearted | ᛫ timorous ᛫ timid ᛫ easily frightened ᛫ | AJ | harehearted | NE | ||
haresbeard | ᛫ a Verbascum thapsus plant ( great mullein ) ᛫ | N | hares bearde | ENE | poorly attested | |
hareseye | ᛫ a Silene dioica plant ( red campion ) ᛫ | N | hares eie | ENE | poorly attested | |
hareseye | ᛫ lagophthalmus ᛫ lagophthalmia ᛫ | N | hares-eye | NE | ||
haresleep | ᛫ a very light sleep ᛫ | N | hare-sleep | ENE | poorly attested | |
harfee | ᛫ booty ᛫ war spoils ᛫ | N | herefeoh | OE | ||
harfolk | ᛫ army men ᛫ army folk ᛫ | N | herefolc | OE | ||
hargang | ᛫ a military expedition ᛫ | N | heregang | OE | ||
harhithe | ᛫ spoil ᛫ booty ᛫ plunder ᛫ | N | herehȳþ | OE | ||
hark | ᛫ ( commands or requests others to pay attention ) ᛫ | I | ~ | NE | ||
hark back | ᛫ to evoke something from the past ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
harken | ᛫ to listen ᛫ to pay attention to ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
harkworthy | ᛫ noteworthy ᛫ worthy of being paid attention to ᛫ | AJ | hark+worthy | NE×2 | ||
harm | ᛫ a field-mouse ᛫ a dormouse ᛫ | N | hearma | OE | ||
harman | ᛫ a soldier ᛫ a warrior ᛫ a militant ᛫ | N | hereman | OE | ||
harmqueath | harmcweath | ᛫ to revile to speak ill of ᛫ | V | hearmcweþan | OE | |
harmquid | harmcwid | ᛫ blasphemy ᛫ harmful speech ᛫ | N | hearmcwide | OE | |
harpath | ᛫ a military road ᛫ | N | herepaþ | OE | ||
harreif | ᛫ spoil ᛫ booty ᛫ plunder ᛫ that which is reaved by an army ᛫ | N | hererēaf | OE | ||
harrier | ᛫ one who engages in persistent attacks on others or their lands ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
harrow | ᛫ to disturb ᛫ to traumatize ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
harrow | ᛫ a cairn ? ᛫ a stone alter ? ᛫ an open-air temple ? ᛫ | N | hearg&hearh | OE | survives in place names? | |
harry | ᛫ to irritate ᛫ to annoy ᛫ to irk ᛫ to bother ᛫ to pillage ᛫ | V | harry&herien | NE&ME | ||
harsithe | ᛫ a military expedition ᛫ | N | heresīþ | OE | ||
harspeed | ᛫ military success ᛫ | N | herespēd | OE | ||
hart | ᛫ a deer ᛫ | N | hart&hert | NE&ME | male-only in Modern English | |
harteamer | ᛫ a general ᛫ | N | heretēma | OE | ||
harthreat | ᛫ a troop ᛫ a band of soldiers ᛫ | N | hereþrēat | OE | ||
hartmeat | ᛫ venison ᛫ | N | hart+meat{deermeat} | NE×2 | ||
hartow | ᛫ a general ᛫ a marshal ᛫ a duke ᛫ | N | heretowa | ME | or: hartough | |
hartowdom | ᛫ a duchy ᛫ a dukedom ᛫ | N | hartow+dom | ME+NE | calque: Herzogtum | |
hartowen | ᛫ a duchess ᛫ | N | heretow+en | NE | ||
harvest | harfest | ᛫ the fall or autumn season ᛫ | N | hervest | ME | |
harweed | ᛫ armour ᛫ | N | herewǣd | OE | ||
harwoop | ᛫ a war cry ᛫ | N | herewōp | OE | ||
hase | ᛫ grey ᛫ gray ᛫ ashen ᛫ | AJ | hasu/haso{haswed} | OE | ||
hasp | ᛫ a fastening device ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hassock | ᛫ a tussock ᛫ a cushion ᛫ | N | ~[hassuc] | NE | ||
hatch | hac | ᛫ a crosier ᛫ | N | hæcce | OE | |
hatel | ᛫ detestable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hather | ᛫ a restraint ᛫ a confinement ᛬ to restrain ᛫ to confine ᛫ | V | heaþor&heaþorian | OE&OE | ||
hatter | ᛫ clothing ᛫ garments ᛫ clothes ᛫ | N | hater[hæteru/heatru] | ME | plural form seems to have been "hateren" | |
Hatwere | ᛫ one of the Chattuarii ( a sub-group of the Franks ? ) ᛫ | N(P) | Hætwerum | OE | ||
haugh | haug | ᛫ a low-lying meadow by the side of a river ᛫ | N | ~[healh] | NE | rhyme: scoff; loch |
haulm | ᛫ the stems or tops of crop plants ( especially after the crop has been gathered ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
haveless | hafeless | ᛫ poor ᛫ destitute ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
haven | hafen | ᛫ property ᛫ possessions ᛫ | N | hāven[hæfen] | ME | |
haven | hafen | ᛫ a harbour ᛫ a sanctuary ᛫ a port ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
haver | hafer | ᛫ a male goat ᛫ | N | hæfer | OE | |
haverbleat | haferbleat | ᛫ a bittern ᛫ a snipe ᛫ | N | hæferblæte | OE | |
haw | ᛫ an enclosure ᛫ a hedge ᛫ | N | hawe | ME | ||
hawkshaw | hawkscaw | ᛫ a detective ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "from the name of a detective in... The Ticket-of-Leave Man" - Lexico |
hawspind | ᛫ the cheek ᛫ | N | hagospind | OE | "hago" is a variant of "haga" which later bore "haw" | |
hawthorn | ᛫ a Crataegus plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | means enclosure-thorn(?) | |
hay | ᛫ an enclosed plot of land ᛫ a deer park ( an enclosed hunting park in a forest ) ᛫ | N | hei[hege/gehæg] | ME | ||
hayriff | ᛫ a Galium aparine plant ( cleavers ) ᛫ | N | ~[heirive/hayriffe][hegerife] | NE | or: hairif | |
hayward | ᛫ an agricultural overseer ( one who maintains hedges and the common protects grain and oversees the harvest ) ᛫ | N | hayward&heiward | NE&ME | ||
hazel | hasel | ᛫ a Corylus plant ᛫ a light golden brown hue ᛬ hazel in colour ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
head | ᛫ a person ᛫ an individual ᛫ a character ᛫ | N | head&hede | NE&ME | ||
headbone | ᛫ a skull ᛫ a cranium ᛫ | N | heafodban | OE | ||
headborough | headboroug | ᛫ a capital city ᛫ | N | hēafodburh | OE | |
headedder | ᛫ a cephalic vein ᛫ | N | hēafodǣdre | OE | ||
headland | ᛫ a promontory ᛫ coastal land that juts into the sea ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headleighter | headleigter | ᛫ a chief error ᛫ one of the seven deadly sins ᛫ | N | hēafodleahter | OE | |
headless | ᛫ acephalous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
headly | ᛫ chief ᛫ capital ᛫ | AJ | hēafodlīc | OE | ||
headman | ᛫ a chief man ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headpan | ᛫ a skull ᛫ | N | hēafodpanne | OE | ||
headset | ᛫ a pair of headphones ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headship | headscip | ᛫ the position of a leader or head ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
headspring | ᛫ a source ᛫ a fountainhead ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headstool | ᛫ a chief seat ᛫ a chief position [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | hēafodstōl | OE | ||
headstrong | ᛫ self-willed and obstinate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
headward | ᛫ a chief guardian or officer ᛫ | N | hēafodweard | OE | ||
headwater | ᛫ the source and initial part of a stream ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headway | ᛫ advance ᛫ progress ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
headwright | headwrigt | ᛫ a chief workman ᛫ | N | hēafodwyrhta | OE | |
heady | ᛫ intoxicating ᛫ stupefying ᛫ upsetting to the mind or senses ᛫ intellectual and technical ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
healall | ᛫ a panacea ᛫ a universal remedy ᛫ | N | heal-all | NE | ||
healstone | ᛫ some kind of flat cake ᛫ | N | healstān | OE | ||
healthful | ᛫ salubrious ᛫ conducive to good health ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heam | ᛫ to shack up with ᛫ to have sex with ᛫ to have intercourse with ᛫ to marry ᛫ | V | hǣman | OE | ||
heamed | ᛫ sexual intercourse ᛫ | N | hǣmed | OE | said like "heem-id", not "heemd" | |
heamedy | ᛫ sexy ᛫ sexual ᛫ | AJ | heamed+y | OE+NE | said like: hee-mid-ee | |
hean | ᛫ to insult ᛫ to humiliate ᛫ to debase ᛫ | V | hēnen | ME | ||
heap | ᛫ a crowd ᛫ a pile ᛫ a mass ᛫ much or many of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heapmeal | ᛫ in large quantities ᛫ in heaps ᛫ heap by heap ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
hearsay | ᛫ a rumour ᛫ gossip ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hearsome | hearsum | ᛫ obedient ᛫ compliant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
hearsomeness | hearsumness | ᛫ obedience ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
heart | ᛫ a core ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heartache | heartake | ᛫ sorrow ᛫ anguish of the mind ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hearten | ᛫ to comfort ᛫ to give courage ᛫ to encourage ᛫ to console ᛫ to reassure ᛫ to exhort ᛫ | V | hearten&herten | NE&ME | ||
heartening | ᛫ inspiring ᛫ encouraging ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heartfelt | ᛫ sincerely felt or believed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hearth | ᛫ a fireplace floor ᛫ a brick stone or concrete area in front of a fireplace ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heartleech | heartleec | ᛫ a cardiologist ᛫ | N | heart+leech | NE×2 | |
heartless | ᛫ lacking courage ᛫ listless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heartlike | ᛫ like a heart ᛫ central ᛫ core ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heartsome | heartsum | ᛫ uplifting ᛫ comforting ᛫ lively ᛫ joyful ᛫ pleasant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
hearty | ᛫ cordial ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heast | ᛫ violence ᛬ violent ᛫ | N᛬AJ | hǣst | OE | ||
heath | ᛫ uncultivated land ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heath | ᛫ war- ᛫ battle- ᛫ | PREFIX | hēaþu | OE | ||
heathen | ᛫ a pagan ᛬ pagan ᛫ | N᛬AJ | heathen | NE | ||
heathendom | ᛫ paganism ᛫ heathenism ᛫ the state of being heathen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heather | ᛫ an Ericaceae plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heathglemb | ᛫ a war injury ᛫ a war wound ᛫ | N | hēaþuglemm | OE | ||
heathweed | ᛫ armour ᛫ military clothing ᛫ | N | hēaþuwǣd | OE | ||
heatmeter | ᛫ a thermometer ᛫ | N | heat+mete+er | NE×3 | ||
heave | heaf | ᛫ to lift ᛫ to raise ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
heavenly | heafenly | ᛫ divine ᛫ celestial ᛫ wonderful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
heavenrich | heafenric | ᛫ the Kingdom of Heaven ᛫ | N | heofonrīce | OE | |
heavensent | heafensent | ᛫ fortunate appropriate or providential as if ordained by heaven ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
heaviness | heafiness | ᛫ gravity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
heavyhanded | heafyhanded | ᛫ oppressive and clumsy ᛫ | AJ | heavyhanded | NE | |
heavyhandedly | heafyhandedly | ᛫ in a heavyhanded manner ᛫ | AV | heavyhandedly | NE | |
heavywater | heafywater | ᛫ deuterium oxide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hedden | ᛫ a hood ᛫ chasuble ᛫ an overcoat ᛫ a mantle ᛫ cloak ᛫ | N | heden | OE | ||
hedge | hecg | ᛫ a fence made of bushes ᛫ a contract reducing exposure to risk ᛬ to enclose or obstruct with hedges ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
hedge | hecg | ᛫ ( denotes itinerantcy ) ᛫ | PREFIX | hedge- | NE | as in "hedge-priest" and "hedge-knight" |
heed | ᛫ attention ᛬ to pay attention to ᛫ to obey a warning or instruction ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
heedern | ᛫ a storehouse ᛫ | N | hēddern | OE | what does "hēdd" mean? | |
heedful | ᛫ attentive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heedsome | heedsum | ᛫ attentive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | invented by William Barnes |
heef | ᛫ grief ᛫ | N | hēof | OE | ||
heel | ᛫ to keep secret ᛫ to conceal ᛫ to cover ᛫ | V | ~{hēlen} | NE | ||
heel | ᛫ to conceal ᛫ to cover ᛫ to blot out ᛫ to clothe ᛫ to protect with secrecy ᛫ | V | hēlen[helan] | ME | ||
heelbone | ᛫ a calcaneus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
heem | ᛫ an inhabitant ᛫ | N | hēme | ME | ||
heen | ᛫ to scoff at ᛫ to humiliate ᛫ to debase ᛬ low ᛫ humbled ᛫ humiliated ᛫ abject ᛫ poor ᛫ wretched ᛫ | V᛬AJ | hēnen&hēn | ME&ME | ||
heer | ᛫ an army ᛫ | N | here/heer | ME | ||
heerly | ᛫ military ᛫ | AJ | herelīc | OE | ||
heeve | heef | ᛫ to grieve ᛫ | V | hēofan | OE | |
heft | ᛫ something's weight ᛫ the ability or influence to get something done ᛬ to hoist ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
heifer | ᛫ a young cow that has not borne a calf ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
height | heigt | ᛫ one of the three dimensions of a solid object , top to bottom ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
heighten | heigten | ᛫ to make higher ᛫ to intensify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
heightfear | heigtfear | ᛫ acrophobia ᛫ | N | height+fear | NE×2 | |
heightwise | heigtwise | ᛫ in terms of height ᛫ vertical ᛬ in a vertical manner ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
heleth | ᛫ a hero ᛫ | N | hēleth[hæleþ] | ME | "health" is pseudo-archaic spelling? | |
helethen | ᛫ a heroine ᛫ | N | hēleth+en | NE+ME | ||
helethish | helethisc | ᛫ heroic ᛫ | AJ | hēleth+ish | ME+NE | |
helfry | ᛫ gory ᛫ bloody ᛫ | AJ | heolfrig | OE | ||
hellbent | ᛫ determined to achieve something at all costs ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
heller | ᛫ the scale of a balance ᛫ a balance [ᚹ] ᛫ balance [ᚹ] ᛬ to balance on a scale ᛫ to balance [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬V | heolor&heoloran | OE | ||
hellghost | hellgoast | ᛫ an infernal spirit ᛫ | N | hellegāst | OE | |
hellish | ᛫ infernal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Hellmere | ᛫ the river Styx ᛫ | N | hellemere | OE | ||
hellraiser | ᛫ a person who causes trouble through wild behavior ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N+E) | ||
hellrown | hellrune | ᛫ a necromancer woman ᛫ a witch ᛫ a pythonissa ᛫ | N | hellerūne/helrūn | OE | means "hell whisper"? |
hellwain | ᛫ a wagon from hell ( especially as a supernatural manifestation in the night sky ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hellwight | hellwigt | ᛫ a creature of hell ᛫ | N | hellwiht | OE | |
hellwite | ᛫ hellish punishment ᛫ gehenna ᛫ hades ᛫ hell ᛫ | N | hellewīte | OE | ||
helm | ᛫ protection ᛫ protector ᛫ helmet ᛫ | N | helm&helm | NE&OE | ||
helm | ᛫ to steer a boat or ship ᛫ to manage the running of ᛫ to direct a film ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
helmer | ᛫ a director [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
helper | ᛫ an assistant ᛫ an aide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
helping | ᛫ a portion or serving of food ᛫ an amount or quantity of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
helve | helf | ᛫ the handle of a tool or weapon ᛬ to furnish with a helve ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
helver | helfer | ᛫ blood from a wound ᛫ gore ᛫ cruor ᛫ | N | heolfor | OE | |
hem | ᛫ them ᛫ | N(PRO) | hem | ME | or: em (some claim 'em descends from hem) | |
hem | ᛫ a rim ( especially of stitched cloth ) ᛬ to surround in a restricting way ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
hemp | ᛫ a Cannabis plant ᛫ cannabis ᛫ marijuana ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hempen | ᛫ made of hemp ᛫ | ADJ | hempen | NE | ||
hemptree | ᛫ a Vitex agnus-castus plant ( chaste tree ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hemth | ᛫ an undergarment with short sleeves ᛫ a shirt ᛫ | N | hemeþe | OE | kin: Hemd (German) | |
hen | ᛫ from this place ᛫ away ᛫ hence ᛫ | AJ | henne | ME | ||
henbell | ᛫ henbane ᛫ a Hyoscyamus plant ᛫ | N | hennebelle | OE | ||
hence | hens | ᛫ from this place ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
henchman | hencman | ᛫ a subordinate ( usually with negative connotations ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hend | ᛫ courteous ᛫ courtly ᛫ polite ᛫ chivalrous ᛫ beautiful ᛫ pleasant ᛫ gracious ᛫ | AJ | hēnde | ME | ||
hendly | ᛫ courteously ᛫ politely ᛫ chivalrously ᛫ | AV | hẹ̄̆ndelī | ME | ||
hendness | ᛫ courtesy ᛫ politeness ᛫ chivalry ᛫ | N | hēnde+ness | ME+NE | ||
hengest | hencgest | ᛫ a stallion ᛫ | N | hengest | OE | the ‹g› is said as the ‹g› in "hinge" ᛫ kin: henchman |
hent | ᛫ until ᛫ | P&C | hent | ME | short for "henne to" | |
hent | ᛫ to grasp ᛫ to seize ᛫ to capture ᛫ to arrest ᛫ to encounter ᛫ to experience ᛫ | V | ~[henten][hentan] | NE | kin: hunt | |
henth | ᛫ humiliation ᛫ abasement ᛫ disgrace ᛫ | N | henthe[hȳnþ/hēnþu] | ME | ||
henward | ᛫ passing away in time ᛫ fleeting ᛫ brief ᛫ transitory ᛫ transient ᛫ | AJ | heoneward | ME | ||
her | ᛫ a lord ᛫ a nobleman ᛫ a superior ᛫ sir [ᚹ] ᛫ mister [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | herre{hearra} | ME | ||
her | ᛫ their ᛫ | N(PRO) | here/hire/hure[heora] | ME | ||
herd | ᛫ a herdsman ᛫ shepherd ᛫ a guardian ᛫ a pastor ᛫ | N | herde | ME | ||
Herdsman | ᛫ the constellation Boötes ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hereat | ᛫ as a result ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
herethrough | herethruge | ᛫ because of this ᛫ by this means ᛫ | AV | hērthurgh | ME | see: thereby |
hereto | ᛫ to this point matter or topic ᛫ regarding this point matter or topic ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
heriot | ᛫ military equipment ᛫ a return of military equipment ᛫ | N | ~[heregeatu] | NE | ||
herringbone | ᛫ a patch of cirrocumulus clouds ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
herry | ᛫ to honour ᛫ to praise ᛫ to extol ᛫ to celebrate ᛫ | V | ~[herian] | NE | ||
herryendly | ᛫ laudable ᛫ | AJ | herigendlice[herigendlīc] | ME | ||
hers | ᛫ theirs ᛫ | N(PRO) | hē̆res/hirs | ME | or: "hern", from a Middle English alternative | |
herstpan | ᛫ a frying pan ᛫ | N | hearstepanne | OE | ||
herthbelly | ᛫ a scrotum ᛫ | N | herþbelig | OE | ||
herthen | ᛫ testicles ᛫ | N | herþan | OE | or: herths ᛫ this word is always plural | |
hest | ᛫ behest ᛫ a command ᛫ an injunction ᛫ an order ᛫ a precept ᛫ | N | ~[hē̆st][hǣs] | NE | ||
hew | ᛫ a family or household member ᛫ a domestic ᛫ a servant ᛫ a retainer ᛫ | N | hewe | ME | ||
hew | ᛫ to chop at ᛫ to chop down ᛫ to shape ᛫ to form ᛫ to conform ᛫ to forge ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hewcouth | hewcooth | ᛫ familiar ᛫ | AJ | hīwcūþ | OE | |
hewish | hewisc | ᛫ a family ᛫ a household ᛫ | N | hīwisc | OE | |
hewn | ᛫ blue ᛫ azure ᛬ of blue hue ᛫ of azure hue ᛫ | N᛬AJ | hǣwen&hǣwen | ME&OE | ||
hewnbill | ᛫ an Aythya marila or Aythya affinis bird ( a scaup ) ᛫ | N | bluebill | ME+NE | ||
hewngreen | ᛫ blue-green ᛫ cyan ᛫ | AJ | hǣwengrēne | OE | ||
hewster | ᛫ a dyer ᛫ | N | heuster | ME | ||
hex | ᛫ a curse ᛬ to curse ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹HG | kin: hag | |
hext | ᛫ highest ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hide | ᛫ skin ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hidel | ᛫ a secret place ᛫ a hiding place ᛫ a refuge ᛫ | N | hī̆del/hī̆dels[hydels] | ME&OE | ||
hideleech | hideleec | ᛫ a dermatologist ᛫ | N | hide+leech | NE×2 | or: skinleech (Norse influence) |
hideyield | hideyeeld | ᛫ property tax ( tax paid on every hide ) ᛫ | N | hīdgild | OE | |
hidlings | ᛫ secret ᛫ clandestine ᛬ in secret ᛫ secretly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
hie | ᛫ to hasten ᛫ to go quickly ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hield | heeld | ᛫ favour ᛫ affection ᛫ good will ᛫ | N | hēlde | ME | |
high | hige | ᛫ to esteem ᛫ to honour ᛫ to exalt ᛫ | V | heien/highen | ME | |
high end | hige | ᛫ of the highest quality ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
highblown | higeblown | ᛫ pretentious ᛫ grandiloquent ᛫ exaggerated ᛫ | AJ | high-blown | NE | |
highfather | higefather | ᛫ a patriarch ᛫ | N | hēahfæder | OE | |
highhall | higehall | ᛫ a palace ᛫ | N | hēah-heall | OE | |
highhearted | higehearted | ᛫ insouciant ᛫ full of gaiety ᛫ full of courage or nobility ᛫ | AJ | highhearted&hēahheort | NE&OE | |
highherd | higeherd | ᛫ a chief pastor ᛫ an archimandrite ᛫ | N | hēahhirde | OE | |
highking | higeking | ᛫ a chief king or ruler ᛫ a king of kings ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
highland | higeland | ᛫ a stretch of high or mountainous land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
highlight | higeligt | ᛫ to emphasize ᛫ to mark out ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
highmoody | higemoody | ᛫ proud ᛫ lofty ᛫ haughty ᛫ | AJ | hēahmōd+y | OE | |
highmother | higemother | ᛫ a matriarch ᛫ | N | high+mother{hēahfæder} | NE×2 | |
highseld | higeseld | ᛫ a throne ᛫ a position of high rank ᛫ | N | hēahseld | OE | |
hight | higt | ᛫ haste ᛫ hurry ᛫ | N | highthe[hīgþ] | ME | kin: hie |
hight | higt | ᛫ expectation ᛫ hope ᛬ to expect ᛫ to hope ᛫ | N᛬V | hight&highten[hyht/hiht] | ME&ME | |
hightide | higtide | ᛫ a culminating point ᛫ a climax ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
highwayman | higewayman | ᛫ a bandit ᛫ a brigand ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hild | ᛫ to skin ᛫ to flay ᛫ to peel ᛫ | V | hilden[hyldan] | ME | ||
hild | ᛫ battle ᛫ war ᛫ | N | hild | OE | ||
hildlate | ᛫ one sluggish in war ᛫ one slow to fight ᛫ a coward ᛫ | N | hildlata | OE | agent suffix likely would have dropped | |
hildspel | ᛫ a speech given before battle ? ᛫ a story about battle ? ᛫ | N | hildespell | OE | ||
hilk | ᛫ a bend ᛫ a turn ᛫ a winding ᛫ curvature ᛫ anfractus ᛫ | N | hylc | OE | ||
hillhoamer | ᛫ a cricket ᛫ | N | hyllhāma | OE | ||
hillhomer | ᛫ a cicada ᛫ | N | hyllhāma | OE | ||
hillock | ᛫ a small hill ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hilt | ᛫ the handle of a sword ᛬ to provide with a hilt ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
himmel | ᛫ a Humulus lupulus plant ( hummel ) ᛫ | N | himele[hymele] | ME | ||
hin | ᛫ him ( accusative ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | hine | ME | ||
hind | ᛫ rear ᛫ posterior ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hind | ᛫ a female deer ᛫ | N | ~[hind] | NE | ||
hindberry | ᛫ a raspberry ᛫ | N | ~{hindberige} | NE | ||
hindbrain | ᛫ the rhombencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hinder | ᛫ to obstruct ᛫ to impede ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hindering | ᛫ a hinderance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hinderland | ᛫ a hinterland ᛫ an uncharted land ᛫ a land surrounding a town or port ᛫ | N | Hinterland | NE‹HG | ||
hinderling | ᛫ a wretch ᛫ a lowly person or beast ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | begat "hilding"? | |
hindersome | hindersum | ᛫ obstructive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
hindgut | ᛫ the caudal part of the alimentary canal of an embryo including the colon and the rectum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hindlook | ᛫ an afterlook ᛫ a look in review ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hindneck | ᛫ the nape ( especially of birds ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hindsight | hindsigt | ᛫ retrospect ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hine | ᛫ a servant ᛫ a household's servants ᛫ | N | hīne{hind} | ME | ||
hinge | hincg | ᛫ a central or pivotal point or principle on which things depend ᛬ to depend on ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
hipple | hippel | ᛫ a small heap ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [MW] |
hipwark | ᛫ sciatica ᛫ | N | hipwerc | OE | ||
hird | ᛫ a family ᛫ a household ᛫ a retinue ᛫ a court ( those in the court not the physical court ) ᛫ | N | hīred[hīrēd] | ME | equivilent to: hew+-red | |
hirdman | ᛫ a member of a king's household or court ᛫ a retainer ᛫ a courtier ᛫ | N | hiredman | ME | ||
hireling | ᛫ employee ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hirer | ᛫ an employer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hirn | ᛫ a corner ᛫ a niche ᛫ a remote place ᛫ a cranny ᛫ a recess ᛫ an intricacy ᛫ | N | hirn[hyrne] | ME | ||
hirnstone | ᛫ a cornerstone ᛫ | N | hyrnstān | OE | ||
hirst | ᛫ to fry ᛫ | V | hirsten[hierstan] | ME | ||
hirst | ᛫ equipment ( especially things like armour and weapons but also ornaments ) ᛬ to equip ᛫ to ornament ᛫ | N᛬V | hyrst&hyrstan | OE | ||
hit up | ᛫ to contact ( usually for a service or for socializing ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hitch | hic | ᛫ a problem ᛫ a snag ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hithe | ᛫ a river harbour ᛫ a river landing place ᛫ | N | ~[hȳþ] | NE | ||
hithe | ᛫ to plunder ᛫ to ravage ᛫ to pillage ᛫ to lay waste to ᛫ | V | hȳþan | OE | ||
hither | ᛫ to this place ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
hithercoming | ᛫ arrival to this place ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hitherto | ᛫ up to this time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
hoad | ᛫ a person ᛫ a character in a story ᛫ a sex ᛫ a state ᛫ a condition ᛫ a rank ᛫ a degree ᛫ | N | hōde&hād | ME&OE | becomes: hood as a suffix | |
hoar | ᛫ light grey ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hoard | ᛫ a collection of valuable things ᛫ treasure ᛬ to accumulate ᛫ to amass ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
hoardcleeve | hoardcleef | ᛫ a treasure room or chamber ᛫ a treasury ᛫ | N | hordclēofa | OE | |
hoardcove | hoardcofe | ᛫ a place for treasure ᛫ a place where thoughts are stored ᛫ | N | hordcōfa | OE | |
hoarder | ᛫ one who hoards ᛫ a treasurer ᛫ | N | horder&hordere | NE&OE | ||
hoardern | ᛫ a storage place ᛫ a storeroom ᛫ a storehouse ᛫ | N | hordern | OE | ||
hoardlock | ᛫ a treasure chest ᛫ a coffer ᛫ | N | hordloca | OE | ||
hoardvat | hoardfatt | ᛫ a vessel for holding treasure ᛫ | N | hordfæt | OE | |
hoarfrost | ᛫ frozen dew ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hoarstone | ᛫ a stone designating the bounds of an estate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hoary | ᛫ old fashioned ᛫ musty ᛫ moldy ᛫ grey with age ᛫ outdated [ᚹ] ᛫ obsolete [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hobnob | ᛫ to mix socially ( especially with those of higher status ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hock | ᛫ the hollow behind the knee ᛫ the popliteal region ᛬ to hamstring ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[hōh] | NE | or: hough | |
hode | ᛫ to ordain ᛫ to consecrate ᛫ | V | hōden[hādian] | ME | ||
hoder | ᛫ clear ᛫ serene ᛫ | AJ | hādor | OE | kin: heiðr (Icelandic) | |
hoff | ᛫ a house ᛫ a palace ᛫ a court ᛫ | N | hof | OE | kin: hovel | |
hogger | ᛫ a swineherd ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hogreeve | hogreef | ᛫ an official charged with preventing or appraising damage done by stray swine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hogsfennel | ᛫ a Peucedanum officinale plant ᛫ | N | hog's fennel | NE | ||
hogshead | ᛫ a large barrel ᛫ a large cask ᛫ a unit of volume ( 52.5 imperial gallons for wine , 54 imperial gallons for beer ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hogwash | hogwasc | ᛫ nonsense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hold | ᛫ graciously ᛫ kindly ᛫ faithfully ᛫ | AJ | holde[holde] | ME | ||
hold | ᛫ inclined ( literal and figurative ) ᛫ | AJ | heald | OE | ||
holdall | ᛫ a carryall ᛫ an encyclopaedia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
holdend | ᛫ a keeper ( as in a guardian ) ᛫ | N | healdend | OE | ||
holder | ᛫ a container ᛫ a possessor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
holding | ᛫ asset ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
holdover | holdofer | ᛫ a remnant which has survived from a previous period system etc ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
holdship | holdscip | ᛫ loyalty ᛫ fealty ᛫ allegiance ᛫ | N | holdscipe | OE | |
hole | ᛫ to obtain ᛫ | V | hōlen&geholian | ME&OE | ||
holet | ᛫ to greet ᛫ to salute ᛫ | V | hālettan | OE | ||
holibone | ᛫ a sacrum ᛫ | N | holybone | NE | ||
holiday | ᛫ vacation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Holimonth | ᛫ September ᛫ | N(P) | haligmonaþ | OE | or: Harvestmonth (from hærfestmōnaþ) | |
holiness | ᛫ sanctity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
holirope | ᛫ Eupatorium cannabinum ( hemp-agrimony ) ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | ||
Holiwere | ᛫ Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ᛫ | N(P) | Hālīwer | ME | rhyme: hall-a-ware | |
holm | ᛫ an islet ( especially one in a river ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
holm | ᛫ a sea ᛫ an ocean ᛫ a lake ᛫ | N | holm | OE | modern "holm" is from Norse | |
Holmrye | ᛫ one of the Rugii ᛫ | N(P) | Holmrygum | OE | ||
holt | ᛫ a forested hill ᛫ a copse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
holy | ᛫ sacred ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Holy Father | ᛫ the Pope ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
home in | ᛫ to focus on ᛫ to track ᛫ to get closer to that which is being chased ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
homefear | ᛫ oikophobia ᛫ ecophobia ᛫ | N | home+fear | NE×2 | ||
homeheast | ᛫ domestic violence ᛫ | N | home+heast | NE+OE | ||
homely | ᛫ domestic ᛫ not elaborate or complex ᛫ plain or unattractive in appearance ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
homespun | ᛫ homely ᛫ unsophisticated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
homeware | ᛫ furniture utensils and decorative objects for domestic use ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
homewares | ᛫ furnishings for the home such as furniture ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hone | ᛫ delay ᛫ hesitation ᛫ | N | hōne | ME‹C | morphed into "wone" in some dialects | |
hone | ᛫ a sharpening stone ᛬ to sharpen ᛫ to refine or to master a skill ᛫ to make more effective ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
honeybear | hunnybear | ᛫ a kinkajou ᛫ | N | honey bear | NE | |
honeywort | hunnywort | ᛫ a Galium cruciatum plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hoo | ᛫ she ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~[heo] | NE | found in West Yorkshire and Lancashire | |
hoodwink | ᛫ to trick ᛫ to deceive ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
hoof | ᛫ the covering that encloses the feet of ungulate mammals ᛬ to dance ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
hoofdeer | ᛫ an ungulate ᛫ an animal of the clade Ungulata ᛫ | N | hoof+deer | NE×2 | calque: hoefdier, Huftier | |
hookbone | ᛫ a hamate bone ᛫ | N | hook+bone | NE×2 | calque: haakvormig been; Hakenbein | |
hooker | ᛫ a feeling of offence ᛫ mockery ᛫ scorn ᛫ derision ᛫ abusive talk ᛫ | N | hōker[hōcer] | ME | ||
hooky | ᛫ catchy ᛫ easily recalled ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
hool | ᛫ vain speech ᛫ slander ᛫ calumny ᛬ to speak evil of ᛫ to slander ᛫ to calumniate ᛫ | N᛬V | hōl&hōlian | OE | ||
hoose | ᛫ an escort ᛫ a company ᛫ a troop ᛫ a band ᛫ a party ᛫ | N | hōs | OE | ||
hopelessness | ᛫ despair ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hophead | ᛫ a drug addict ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hopper | ᛫ a seed basket used by a sower ᛫ | N | hopper | ME | ||
hore | ᛫ filth ᛫ dirt ᛫ mud ᛫ slime ᛫ muck ᛫ crud ᛫ | N | hore[horh] | ME | ||
hore | ᛫ to defile ᛫ to defoul ᛫ to pollute ᛫ to corrupt ᛫ to become corrupt ᛫ | V | hō̆rien | ME | ||
horewort | ᛫ a Filago germanica plant ? ᛫ | N | hōrwort | ME | ||
horn | ᛫ a telephone (slang) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | especially in the saying "on the horn" | |
horning | ᛫ fornication ᛫ | N | hornung | OE | ||
horningson | horningsun | ᛫ a bastard son ᛫ | N | hornungsunu | OE | kin: Hornung (German) |
hornkin | ᛫ a Hörnchen ᛫ a croissant ᛫ a kifli ᛫ a kipfel ᛫ | N | horn+kin | NE×2 | calque: Hörnchen | |
hornnose | ᛫ a rhinoceros ᛫ | N | horne nose | NE | ||
horny | ᛫ sexually aroused ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
horrow | ᛫ foul ᛫ dirty ᛫ filthy ᛫ slanderous ᛫ | AJ | horrow | ENE | earlier: hory | |
horsefeathers | ᛫ nonsense ᛫ balderdash ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
horseman | ᛫ an equestrian ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
horsern | ᛫ a stable ᛫ | N | horsern | OE | ||
horsewhale | horshwale | ᛫ walrus ᛫ | N | horshwæl | OE | "walrus" is Norse |
horsh | horsc | ᛫ quick-witted ᛫ mentally sharp ᛫ | AJ | horsc | OE | |
hose | ᛫ a legging ᛫ | N | hose&hōse | NE&ME | see: hosen | |
hosen | ᛫ pants ᛫ trousers ᛫ stockings ᛫ greaves | N | hosen&hōse | NE&ME | or: hoses | |
hote | ᛫ to designate ᛫ to name ᛫ to be designated ᛫ to be named ᛫ | V | hōten | ME | PST: hight; hoted ᛫ PTCP: hight; hoten | |
hough | huge | ᛫ a promontory ᛫ | N | hough[hōh] | ME | rhyme: plough |
hound | hund | ᛫ a canine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
houndberry | hundberry | ᛫ a Solanum nigrum berry ( a European black nightshade berry ) ᛫ | N | hǒundberī[hundesberie] | ME | |
houndfear | hundfear | ᛫ cynophobia ᛫ | N | hound+fear | NE×2 | |
houndfish | hundfisc | ᛫ the Tylosurus crocodilus fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hounding | hunding | ᛫ a cynocephalus ( a mythological dogheaded man ) ᛫ | N | hounding | ME | |
Hounding | Hunding | ᛫ one of the Hundings ᛫ | N(P) | Hūndings | OE | |
houndly | hundly | ᛫ canine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
houndshead | hundscead | ᛫ an Antirrhinum plant ( snapdragon ) ᛫ | N | hundes hēafod | OE | |
houndstongue | hundstung | ᛫ a Cynoglossum officinale plant ᛫ | N | hound's tongue | NE | |
hour | hure | ᛫ especially ᛫ particularly ᛫ | AV | hūre[hūru] | ME | the H is pronounced |
housebreach | husebreac | ᛫ burglary ᛫ | N | ~[hūsbrice] | NE | |
housecraft | husecraft | ᛫ domestic science ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
housedeer | husedeer | ᛫ a pet ( an animal kept for company ) ᛫ | N | house+deer | NE×2 | calque: hûsdier |
housefather | husefather | ᛫ a paterfamilias ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
housel | ᛫ an offering to a god ᛫ a sacrifice ᛫ the consecrated elements at Communion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | old heathen meaning was Christianised | |
housel | husel | ᛫ the Eucharist ᛬ to administer the Eucharist ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
housel | ᛫ to offer to a god ᛫ to sacrifice ᛫ to take or to give the consecrated elements at Communion ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | old heathen meaning was Christianised | |
houselady | huselady | ᛫ the mistress of a house ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
houseldish | huseldisc | ᛫ a paten ( a Eucharist plate ) ᛫ | N | hūseldisc | OE | |
houselord | huselord | ᛫ the master of a house ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
housemother | husemother | ᛫ a materfamilias ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
houser | huser | ᛫ a member of a household ᛫ | N | hūsa | OE | |
housewares | husewares | ᛫ domestic utensils ( especially for the kitchen ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
houth | huthe | ᛫ prey ᛫ spoils ᛫ booty ᛫ | N | hūþe | OE | |
hove | hof | ᛫ a headdress ᛫ a coif ᛫ a turban [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | hǒuve[hūfe] | ME | rhyme: dove |
hove | hof | ᛫ to float ᛫ to hover ᛫ to flutter in the air ᛫ to lie in wait ᛫ to lurk ᛫ | V | hove | ME | rhyme: glove? ᛫ kin: hover |
hove | hof | ᛫ moderation ᛫ discretion ᛫ | N | họ̄f | ME‹N | |
hovel | hofel | ᛫ a shed ᛫ a cottage ᛫ a small house ᛫ a low quality house ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hover | hofer | ᛫ to float ᛫ to hang above something ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
how | ᛫ anxiety ᛫ | N | hou[hoga] | ME | rhyme: snow | |
how | ᛫ to intend ᛫ purpose ᛫ to long after ᛫ | V | ho&houen[hogian]{hycgan} | NE&ME | rhyme: snow | |
how | ᛫ to survey ᛫ to inspect ᛫ to view ᛫ to observe ᛫ | V | hāwian&gehāwian | OE&OE | rhyme: snow | |
Hown | Hune | ᛫ a Hun ᛫ | N(P) | Hūnas | OE | |
hub | ᛫ a focal point ᛫ a center of activity ᛫ the central part of a wheel or circle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹? | ||
hue | hew | ᛫ a colour ᛫ | N | hue | NE | |
huer | hewer | ᛫ toner ᛫ | N | hue+er | NE×2 | |
hulk | ᛫ a hut ᛫ a hovel ᛫ a cabin ᛫ a trading ship ᛫ a warship ᛫ a huge and clumsy person or creature ᛫ | N | hulk[hulc] | ME‹OE | some claim this word comes from Italic, but this is doubtful | |
hulstry | ᛫ latebrosus ᛫ dark ᛫ secret ᛫ | AJ | heolstrig | OE | ||
hundred | ᛫ a division of a county with its own court ᛫ a territorial division containing one hundred homesteads. | N | ~ | NE | ||
hundreds alder | ᛫ a centurion ᛫ | N | hundredes ealdor | OE | ||
Hungery | ᛫ Hungaria ᛫ Hungary ᛫ | N(P) | Hungerie | OE | or: Ungerland (OE alternative) | |
hunth | ᛫ catch ᛫ prey ᛫ game ᛫ | N | huntaþ | OE | ||
hurdle | hurdel | ᛫ a lattice ᛫ a barrier frame ( often used for jumping over in sports ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
hurl | ᛫ a downward rush ᛫ a rush of water ᛬ to rush ᛫ to throw with great force ᛫ to vomit ᛫ | N᛬V | hurl&hurl&hurlen | NE&ME&ME | ||
Huron Mere | Hewron Mere | ᛫ Lake Huron ᛫ | N(P) | Huron+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
hurst | ᛫ a copse ᛫ a grove ᛫ a sandbank ᛫ a sandbar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hursting | ᛫ a vessel for frying ᛫ | N | hursting | ME | ||
husband | ᛫ a married man ᛫ a cultivator ᛬ to manage prudently and economically ᛫ to use sparingly ᛫ to conserve ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹N | ||
husbandcraft | ᛫ husbandry ᛫ management and conservation of resources ᛫ | N | husband+craft | NE×2 | calque: husbandry | |
husbanding | ᛫ cultivation ᛫ tillage ᛫ farming ᛫ careful management ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
husbandman | ᛫ farmer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
hussy | ᛫ an imprudent or immoral girl or woman ᛫ | N | ~[husewif] | NE | doublet: housewife | |
husting | ᛫ a deliberative assembly or council ᛫ a platform where candidates in an election give speeches ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
hustings | ᛫ a husting ᛫ an election campaign ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
hux | ᛫ an insult ᛫ an insulting remark ᛫ a jeer ᛫ mockery ᛫ | N | hux[husc] | ME | ||
huxly | ᛫ in an insulting or derisive manner ᛫ mockingly ᛫ | AV | huxlīce[huxlic] | ME | ||
huxy | ᛫ insulting ᛫ | AJ | hux+y | ME+NE | ||
hy | ᛫ they ᛫ | N(PRO) | hē/hy/hie[hīe] | ME | rhyme: pie | |
hye | ᛫ thought ᛫ mind ( as in inclination or desire ) ᛫ | N | hie/hige[hyge] | ME | ||
hyeless | ᛫ thoughtless ᛫ mindless ᛫ foolish ᛫ | AJ | hygelēas | ME | ||
ice flow | ise | ᛫ a flow or stream of ice ᛫ a glacier ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ice fox | ise | ᛫ a Vulpes lagopus mammal ( an arctic fox ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ice island | ise iland | ᛫ an iceberg ᛫ | N | ~[island of ice] | NE | |
ice shoal | ise scoal | ᛫ an ice floe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | floe is Norse |
icebarrow | isebarrow | ᛫ an iceberg ᛫ | N | ice+barrow | NE×2 | calque: ijsberg |
icebear | isebear | ᛫ a polar bear ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | note: ijsbeer |
icebound | isebund | ᛫ frozen in ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Icelandish | Iselandisc | ᛫ Icelandic ᛫ | N | Iceland+ish | NE×2 | |
iceweasten | iseweasten | ᛫ a stretch of polar desert ᛫ | N | ice+wēsten | NE+ME | |
ickle | ickel | ᛫ a piece of ice ᛫ | N | ikel | ME | found in "icicle" |
ides | ᛫ a magical woman ? ᛫ a demi-goddess ? ᛫ a female ancestral spirit ? ᛫ | N | ides | OE | ||
idish | idisc | ᛫ supellex ᛫ household stuff ᛫ furniture ᛫ furnishings ᛫ utensils ᛫ | N | īdisc | OE | rhyme: eye dish |
idle | idel | ᛫ inactive ᛫ ineffective ᛫ unimportant ᛫ pointless ᛫ vain ᛫ | AJ | idle&idel | NE&OE | |
idlewolder | idelwolder | ᛫ vainglory ᛫ | N | īdel wuldor | OE | |
idy | ᛫ busy ᛫ active ᛫ | AJ | idig | OE | ||
iffy | ᛫ of dubious authenticity legitimacy or reliability ᛫ dubious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Ihood | ᛫ conscious personality ᛫ the ego ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [OXF] ᛫ "earliest use found in John Sparrow (1615–1670)" - Lexico | |
ilch | ilc | ᛫ the same ᛫ the ilk ᛫ | ADJ | ilch | ME | south England version of ilk |
ild | ᛫ mankind ᛫ | N | ilde/ylde | OE | ||
ile | ᛫ a granule ᛫ | N | ile&egl | NE&OE | ||
ile | ᛫ a hedgehog ᛫ | N | igil | OE | ||
Iliamna Mere | ᛫ Iliamna Lake ᛫ | N(P) | Iliamna+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
ilk | ᛫ same ᛫ identical ᛫ | AJ | ~ | ME | "same" is Norse | |
ilk | ᛫ a race ᛫ a kind ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ilkhatred | ᛫ racism ᛫ | N | ilk+hatred | NE×2 | ||
ill | ᛫ a sole of a foot ᛫ | N | ile/yle&ile | ME&OE | kin: il (Icelandic) | |
illwill | ᛫ spite ᛫ rancour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
illy | ᛫ poorly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
ilvet | ilfet | ᛫ a swan ᛫ | N | ilfette | OE | |
Imber | ᛫ one of the Ambrones ᛫ | N(P) | Ymbrum | OE | ||
in | ᛫ to include ᛫ | V | geinnian{innian} | OE | or: yin (unrealistic) | |
in keeping with | ᛫ in accordance with ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
in kind | ᛫ in the form of goods rather than money ᛬ in the same way ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
in name | ᛫ nominally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
in the end | ᛫ ultimately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
in the flesh | flesc | ᛫ in person ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
in tow | ᛫ accompanying ᛫ following behind ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
in truth | trewth | ᛫ actually ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
inbed | ᛫ to embed ᛫ | V | in+bed | NE‹(I+E) | ||
inblow | ᛫ to inflate ᛫ | V | inblouen | ME | ||
inborn | ᛫ innate ᛫ native ᛫ inherited by birth ᛫ pertaining to by birth ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
inbosom | ᛫ to enclose ᛫ to conceal ᛫ to shelter ᛫ to embrace ᛫ to envelop ᛫ | V | imbosom | NE | ||
inbreak | ᛫ an invasion ᛫ an incursion ᛬ to break in ᛫ to make an incursion ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
inbreathe | ᛫ to inhale ᛫ to inspire ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
inbring | ᛫ to bring in ᛫ to introduce ᛫ to confiscate legally ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
inchmeal | incmeal | ᛫ inch by inch ᛫ little by little ᛫ gradually ᛫ | ADV | inch+meal | NE | |
incomer | incummer | ᛫ an immigrant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
indearing | ᛫ endearing ᛫ cute ᛫ | AJ | endearing | NE | ||
Indish | Indisc | ᛫ Indian speech ᛬ Indian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Ī̆ndish | ME‹O | |
indwell | ᛫ to possess ( as in spiritual possession ) ᛫ to dwell within ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
Indy | ᛫ India ᛫ | N(P) | Ī̆nde/Yndee | ME‹O | ||
ineard | ᛫ to dwell ᛫ to inhabit ᛫ | V | ineardian | OE | ||
infall | ᛫ an incursion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
infare | ᛫ an entrance ᛫ an invasion ᛫ an incursion ᛫ an inroad ᛫ a wedding reception ᛬ to invade ᛫ to enter ᛫ | N᛬V | infare&infaru&inferan | NE&OE&OE | ||
inflow | ᛫ an influx ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
infold | ᛫ to involve ᛫ to embroil ᛫ | V | infōlden | ME | poorly attested | |
ing | ᛫ a meadow ( especially when near a river ) ᛫ | N | ~[ing/eng] | NE | ||
ing | ᛫ -tion ᛫ -ation ᛫ -sion ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE[ing/ung] | ||
ingang | ᛫ an entrance ᛫ an entryway ᛫ an admission ᛫ permission to enter ᛫ access ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ingle | ingel | ᛫ an angel ᛫ | N | engel | ME‹I‹H‹? | |
ingrave | ingrafe | ᛫ to engrave ᛫ to inscribe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
ingraving | ingrafing | ᛫ an engraving ᛫ an inscription ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
inhide | ᛫ thought ᛫ conscience ᛫ intent ᛫ intention ᛫ intentional purpose ᛫ | N | inihīd[ingehȳd] | ME | ||
inhold | ᛫ to contain ᛫ to possess ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
inholding | ᛫ content ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ink | ᛫ you two ( accusative ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | inc | ME | ||
inker | ᛫ your ( dual you two's ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | incer | OE | ||
inkers | ᛫ yours ( dual you two's ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | incer | OE | ||
inkhorn | ᛫ a fancy word borrowed into English though it is not needed ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(H+E) | ||
inkle | inkel | ᛫ to suspect ᛫ | N᛬V | inkling | NE | |
inkling | ᛫ suspicion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
inkselves | inkselfs | ᛫ you two's selves ᛫ | N(PRO) | inc seluen | ME | |
inlander | ᛫ a native ᛫ | N | inlenda | OE | ||
inlandish | inlandisc | ᛫ native ᛫ indigenous ᛫ | AJ | inlendisc | OE | |
inlay | ᛫ to ornament by embedding ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
inleek | ᛫ an Allium cepa plant ( an onion ) ᛫ | N | hinnelēac[ynnelēac] | ME | ||
inlet | ᛫ a small arm of the sea a lake or a river ᛫ a place or means of entry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
inlighten | inligten | ᛫ to enlighten ᛫ | V | ~[inlī̆ghtnen] | NE | |
inlightening | inligtening | ᛫ enlightenment ᛫ | N | inlighten+ing | ME+NE | |
innard | ᛫ an inner working of something ( such as an organ ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | from: inwards | |
inner | ᛫ internal ᛫ interior ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
innoth | ᛫ a womb ᛫ entrails ᛫ a gall bladder ᛫ inner workings ᛫ hidden causes ᛫ | N | innoth[innoþ] | ME | ||
input | ᛫ an insertion ᛬ to insert ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
inroad | ᛫ an advancement ᛫ an advance ᛫ an incursion ᛫ to invade ᛬ to invade ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
inrown | inrune | ᛫ to encrypt ᛫ | V | in+rown | NE×2 | calque: encrypt |
inruning | ᛫ encryption ᛫ | N | in+rown+ing | NE×3 | calque: encryption | |
inset | ᛫ to implant ᛫ | V | insetten | ME | ||
insight | insigt | ᛫ a deep and accurate understanding of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
insooth | ᛫ really ᛫ actually ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
instep | ᛫ an entrance ᛫ | N | instæpe | OE | ||
intangling | ᛫ entanglement ᛫ | N | in+tangle+ing | NE×3 | ||
inthrutch | inthruc | ᛫ an impression ᛫ | N | in+thrutch | NE+ME | calque: Eindruck; indruk |
inting | ᛫ a cause ( a reason something happens ) ᛫ | N | intinge&intinga | ME&OE | ||
inward | ᛫ internal ᛬ towards the inside ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
inwardly | ᛫ internal ᛬ internally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
inwid | ᛫ fraud ᛫ guile ᛫ deceit ᛫ a malicious trick ᛫ | N | inwid[inwit] | OE | ||
inwidful | ᛫ deceitful ᛫ guileful ᛫ malicious ᛫ evil ᛫ | AJ | inwitfull | OE | ||
inwit | ᛫ conscience ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
inwriting | ᛫ an inscription ᛫ | N | inwrītinge | ME | ||
inwrought | inwrougt | ᛫ established ᛫ ingrained ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Iraq | Irack | ᛫ Iraq ᛫ | N(P) | Iraq | NE‹O | |
Ires | ᛫ Irishmen ᛫ | N | irās | OE | singular form not attested? | |
iron cloth | ᛫ mail ᛫ chainmail ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ironclad | ᛫ covered or protected with iron ᛫ irrefutable ᛫ impossible to contradict ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ironroad | ᛫ a railway ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
irse | ᛫ to anger ᛫ to provoke ᛫ to be angry ᛫ to rage ᛫ | V | irsien[irsian] | ME | ||
irth | ᛫ ploughing ᛫ tilling ᛫ farming ᛫ produce of a farm ᛫ a crop ᛫ | N | irþ | OE | ||
irthland | ᛫ farmland ᛫ arable land ᛫ | N | irþland | OE | ||
irthling | ᛫ a plougher ᛫ a tiller ᛫ a farmer ᛫ | N | irþling | OE | ||
isel | ᛫ a spark ᛫ a cinder ᛫ an ember ᛫ ashes ᛫ ( when plural ) the ruins of a destroyed city ᛫ a cake or a pie baked under hot ashes ᛫ | N | īsel[ysle] | ME | survives as: aizle? | |
ish | isc | ᛫ -ian ᛫ -ic ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | |
islandish | ilandisc | ᛫ insular ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Israelish | Israelisc | ᛫ Israeli ᛫ Israelite ᛫ | AJ | Israēlisc | OE | |
ist | ᛫ a tempest ᛫ a hurricane [ᚹ] ᛫ a typhoon [ᚹ] ᛫ a cyclone [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ȳst | OE | ||
Ist | ᛫ one of the Aesti ᛫ | N(P) | Istum | OE | ||
Italish | Italisc | ᛫ Italian ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
itch | ic | ᛫ a poisonous frog ᛫ | N | iche[ȳce] | ME | |
ithand | ᛫ industrious ᛫ diligent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ithe | ᛫ a wave ᛫ | N | īthe&ȳþ | ME&OE | ||
ithelidder | ᛫ a wave traverser ᛫ ship ᛫ | N | ȳþlida | OE | ||
ithelode | ᛫ a way across the waves ᛫ a voyage ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | ȳþlād | OE | ||
ithing | ᛫ over-abundance ᛫ redundancy ᛫ an overflowing ᛫ | N | ȳþung | OE | ||
kale | ᛫ kale ᛫ | N | ~[cōl][cāl] | NE‹ME‹OE‹I | ||
kedlock | ᛫ a Sinapis alba plant ( white mustard ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
keel | ᛫ to cool ᛫ to chill ᛫ | V | ~[cēlan] | NE | kin: cool | |
keel | ᛫ to collapse ᛫ to faint ᛫ to fall ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹N | ||
keeling | ᛫ cooling ᛫ refreshment ᛫ | N | kẹ̄ling[cēling] | ME | ||
keep | ᛫ attention ᛫ notice ᛫ concern ᛫ protection ᛫ vigilance ᛫ a donjon ( a central tower of a castle ) ᛫ a rook ᚹ ᛬ to retain ᛫ to care for ᛫ | N᛬V | keep&kēp | NE&ME | ||
keeper | ᛫ a guardian ᛫ a custodian ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
keepsake | ᛫ a memento ᛫ a souvenir ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kemb | ᛫ to comb ᛫ to neaten ᛫ to tidy up ᛫ to card ( to clean with a comb ) ᛫ | V | kemben | ME | found in: unkempt ᛫ kin: comb | |
kemp | ᛫ a champion ᛫ a warrior ᛫ a fighter ᛬ to fight ᛫ | N᛬V | kemp&kempen | NE&ME | kin: champion | |
kemp | ᛫ facial hair ᛫ whiskers ᛫ bristles of hair ᛫ coarse hair ᛫ | N | kemp&cenep | NE&OE | ||
kempt | ᛫ maintained in a neat and clean condition ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ken | ᛫ to beget ᛫ | V | kennen[acennan] | ME | ||
ken | ᛫ one's knowledge , understanding , or sight ᛬ to know ᛫ to ascertain ᛫ to inform ᛫ to make known ᛫ to notify ᛫ | N᛬V | ken&kennen | NE&ME | ||
kenbook | ᛫ an encyclopedia ᛫ | N | ken+book | NE×2 | ||
kench | kenc | ᛫ to laugh aloud ᛫ to jeer ᛫ | V | chinken/kenchen | ME | |
kennend | ᛫ a parent ᛫ | N | cennend | OE | literally begetter | |
kenness | ᛫ one's nativity ᛫ | N | cenness | OE | ||
kenning | ᛫ birth ᛫ incarnation ᛫ | N | akennednesse | ME | ||
kenning | ᛫ a metaphor whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | example: brimhengest (sea horse) = ship | |
kenningstow | ᛫ a birthplace ᛫ | N | cenningstōw | OE | ||
kenningtide | ᛫ the time of birth ᛫ | N | cenningtīd | OE | ||
kerf | ᛫ the act of cutting ᛫ an incision ᛫ a niche ᛫ a notch ᛫ a slash ᛫ a tally ᛫ a level [ᚹ] ᛫ a degree in a ranking system [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | kerf&kirf[cyrf] | NE&ME | "tally" meaning inspired by German "Einkerbung" | |
kernel | ᛫ a nucleus of a nut , a seed , or a fruit stone ᛫ a nucleus [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kernel | ᛫ a gland ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
key | ᛫ a solution ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
keyboard | ᛫ a panel of keys that operate a computer typewriter or instrument ᛫ a piano [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
keyharp | ᛫ a clavichord ᛫ | N | key+harp | NE×2 | partial calque of clavichord, also by analogy of strikeharp | |
keystone | ᛫ a cornerstone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kickback | ᛫ a bribe ᛫ | N | kick-back, kickback | NE | ||
kidneyleech | kidneyleec | ᛫ a nephrologist ᛫ | N | kidney+leech | NE×2 | |
killer whale | hwale | ᛫ an Orca whale ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
kiln | ᛫ a furnace ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹ME‹OE‹I | ||
kimmen | ᛫ cumin ᛫ | N | cymen | OE‹I‹? | ||
kin | ᛫ royal ᛫ | AJ | kine[cyne] | ME | ||
kin | ᛫ regal- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | ME | ||
kin | ᛫ ( diminutive suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | from Dutch? | |
kin | ᛫ family members ᛫ a gender ( of nouns ) ᛫ | N | kin&cynn | NE&OE | ||
kinband | ᛫ a royal crown ᛫ | N | cynebænd | OE | ||
kinbarn | ᛫ a royal child ᛫ | N | kinebearn[cynebearn] | NE | ||
kinbench | kinbenc | ᛫ a throne ᛫ | N | kinebenche | ME | |
kinborn | ᛫ of royal birth ᛫ | AJ | kiniborne[cyneboren] | ME | ||
kinborough | kinboroug | ᛫ a royal city ᛫ | N | kineburh | ME | |
kind | ᛫ a type ᛫ a category ᛫ a sort ᛫ genre ᛫ a nature ( of something ) ᛫ nature ( the abstract domain of all that is natural ) ᛫ | N | kind&kind | NE&ME | ||
kind of | ᛫ sort of ᛫ to some extent ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
kind wit | ᛫ natural intelligence ( as in common sense ) ᛫ | N | Kynde Wit | ME | ||
Kindbook | ᛫ the book of Genesis ᛫ | N(P) | gecyndbōc | OE | ||
kindful | ᛫ natural ᛫ | AJ | kīndeful | ME | ||
kindle | kindel | ᛫ the offspring of any animal ᛫ | N | kindel | ME | kin: kind |
kindlimb | ᛫ a genital ᛫ | N | gecyndlim | OE | ||
kindliness | ᛫ naturalness ᛫ naturality ᛫ | N | kīndelīnesse | ME | ||
kindlore | ᛫ physics ( the study ) ᛫ | N | kind+lore | ME+NE | calque: natuurkunde ᛫ "kind" meant "nature" in Middle English | |
kindly | ᛫ natural ᛫ innate ᛫ intrinsic ᛬ naturally ᛬ please ᛫ | AJ᛬AV᛬I | kindly&kīndelī&ikīndelīch | NE&ME&ME | ||
kindness | ᛫ a kind deed ᛫ a favour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kindred | ᛫ related ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
kinfolk | ᛫ blood relations ᛫ relatives ᛫ family members ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kingdom | ᛫ a monarchy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kingkin | ᛫ a royal family ᛫ | N | cyningcynn | OE | ||
kinglax | ᛫ a chinook salmon ᛫ | N | king+lax | NE×2 | calque: king salmon | |
kingly | ᛫ royal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
kingmorth | ᛫ regicide ᛫ | N | king+morth | NE+ME | calque: Königsmord | |
kingrich | kingric | ᛫ a kingdom ᛫ | N | kingrīche | ME | |
kingsbloom | ᛫ a Paeonia plant ( a peony / a paeony ) ᛫ | N | kingsbloome | ME‹(E+E‹N) | or: kingsblossom | |
kingsevil | kingsefil | ᛫ scrofula ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
kingship | kingscip | ᛫ the state or position of being a king ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
kingslayer | ᛫ a regicide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kingsspear | ᛫ an Asphodelus plant ( asphodel ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kinhelm | ᛫ a crown ᛫ a diadem ᛫ a corona ᛫ | N | cynehelm | OE | ||
kinhome | ᛫ a royal residence ᛫ | N | cynehām | OE | ||
kinhove | kinhof | ᛫ a palace ᛫ | N | cynehof | OE | |
kink | ᛫ a twist ᛫ a curl ᛫ an eccentricity ᛫ a fetish ᛫ a paraphilia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹NL | ||
kinlore | ᛫ genealogy ( the study of families ) ᛫ | N | kin+lore | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes | |
kinly | ᛫ familial ᛫ | AJ | kin+ly | NE×2 | ||
kinmark | ᛫ a mark or sign of royalty ᛫ | N | kinemerk | NE | ||
kinmoot | ᛫ a royal council ᛫ | N | kinemote | ME | ||
kinrich | kinric | ᛫ a monarchy ᛫ | N | kinerīche | ME | |
kinright | kinrigt | ᛫ a royal right ᛫ | N | cyneriht | OE | |
kinsettle | kinsettel | ᛫ a throne ᛫ | N | kinesetle[cynesetl] | ME | |
kinship | kinscip | ᛫ relation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
kinshipwise | kinscipwise | ᛫ relative ᛫ | AJ | kinship+wise | NE×2 | |
kinshipwisely | kinscipwisely | ᛫ relatively ᛫ | AV | kinship+wise+ly | NE×3 | |
kinshroud | kinscrude | ᛫ royal clothing ᛫ royal robes ᛫ a king's raiment ᛫ | N | kinescrud | ME | |
kinslayer | ᛫ a parricide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kinsman | ᛫ a blood relation ᛫ a relative ᛫ | N | kinsman | NE | ||
kinstool | ᛫ a throne ᛫ | N | kinestol[cynestōl] | ME | ||
kinworth | ᛫ worthy of a king ᛫ regal ᛫ | AJ | kineworth[cynewyrþe] | ME | ||
kinyard | ᛫ a sceptre / a scepter ᛫ | N | kineȝerde[cynegyrd] | ME | ||
kir | ᛫ a choice ᛫ an option ᛫ a decision ᛫ a selection ᛫ | N | kī̆re[cyre/cire] | ME | or: chir; cur; chur | |
kirtle | kirtel | ᛫ a gown ᛫ | N | ~[cyrtel] | NE‹I? | from Latin "curtus"? |
kirvet | kirfet | ᛫ a gourd ᛫ | N | cyrfet/cyrfæt | OE‹I | or: curvet (curfet) |
kitch | kic | ᛫ a cake ᛫ a baked good ᛫ | N | kichel[cycel] | ME | |
kitchel | kicel | ᛫ a small cake ᛫ a cookie ᛫ | N | kichel[cycel] | ME | |
kitchen | kicen | ᛫ a room where food is prepared ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹Þ‹I | or: cookingroom |
kith | ᛫ an acquaintance ᛫ acquaintances ᛫ something one is familiar with ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kithe | ᛫ to make known ᛫ to exhibit ( a virtue vice quality ) ᛫ to demonstrate ᛫ | V | ~[kīthen][cȳþan] | NE | ||
kithey | ᛫ familiar ᛫ known ᛫ | AJ | cȳþig | OE | ||
kittle | kittel | ᛫ to tickle ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹N? | |
knack | ᛫ a talent for something ᛫ a disposition towards something ᛫ trick [ᚱ] ᛫ artifice [ᚱ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
knap | ᛫ a knob ᛫ a tassel ᛫ a button ᛫ a clasp ᛫ a fastener ᛫ a protuberance ᛫ a hilltop ᛫ | N | knap[cnæp] | ME | ||
knape | ᛫ a male infant ᛫ a boy ᛫ | N | ~[knāpe][cnapa] | NE | distantly akin to "knave"? | |
knapling | ᛫ a youth ᛫ an adolescent ᛫ a boy ᛫ | N | cnæpling | OE | ||
knave | knafe | ᛫ a boy ᛫ a servant boy ᛫ a scoundrel ᛫ a rogue ᛫ a jack ( playing cards ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
knavechild | knafecild | ᛫ a boy ᛫ | N | knavechild | ME | |
knavish | knafisc | ᛫ dishonest ᛫ unscrupulous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
kneat | ᛫ to argue ᛫ to dispute ᛫ to contend ᛫ | V | cnēatian | OE | ||
kneating | ᛫ an argument ᛫ a debate ᛫ a disputation ᛫ | N | cnēatung | OE | ||
knee | ᛫ a generation ᛫ a patella ( bone ) ᛫ | N | knẹ̄&cnēo{cnēores} | ME&OE | ||
kneebending | ᛫ genuflection ᛫ | N | knee+bending | NE×2 | see "cnēowbīging" | |
kneebone | ᛫ a patella ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: kneecap (cap is from Latin) | |
kneebook | ᛫ a book of genealogy ᛫ | N | cnēoresbōc | OE | ||
kneebour | kneebor | ᛫ a poleyn ᛫ | N | knee+beorg{healsbeorg} | NE+OE | |
kneeholm | ᛫ butcher's-broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
kneel | ᛫ to genuflect ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
knell | ᛫ a toll ᛫ a sign of the end of something ᛬ to toll ᛫ to announce or summon by tolling ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
knide | ᛫ to beat ? ᛫ | V | cnīdan | OE | ||
knifesmith | ᛫ a cutler ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
knight | knigt | ᛫ a warrior ᛫ a young servant ᛫ a military attendant ᛬ to confer knighthood upon ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
knightliness | knigtliness | ᛫ chivalry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
knightling | knigtling | ᛫ a small or petty knight ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
knightly | knigtly | ᛫ chivalrous ᛫ gallant and courtly ᛬ chivalrously ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
knightship | knigtscip | ᛫ a knighthood ᛫ honorific formal address to a knighted person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
kniss | ᛫ to trouble ᛫ | V | cnyssan | OE | ||
knit | ᛫ to fasten by rope or thread ᛫ to tie ᛫ to bind ᛫ to unite ᛫ to combine ᛫ to ally ᛫ | V | knit&knitten[cnyttan] | NE&ME | ||
knitch | knic | ᛫ a bundle ᛫ a faggot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
knittle | knittel | ᛫ knitting thread ᛫ | N | cnyttels | OE | |
knoll | ᛫ a small mound or rounded hill ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
knoller | ᛫ a sexton ᛫ a sacristan ᛫ a segstar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
knoosle | knoosel | ᛫ a progeny ᛫ a genus ᛫ | N | cnōsl | OE | |
knot | ᛫ node ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
knotty | ᛫ difficultly complex ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
knownothing | ᛫ an ignoramus ᛫ | N | knownothing | NE | ||
knucker | ᛫ a water monster ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | see "nicker" | |
knuckerhole | ᛫ a hole in which a knucker lives ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lackwit | ᛫ a fool ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lade | ᛫ to load ᛫ to burden ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PTCP: laden | |
laden | ᛫ loaded ᛫ weighed down ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Ladoga Mere | ᛫ Lake Ladoga ᛫ | N(P) | Ladoga+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
lady | ᛫ a mistress ᛫ a noblewoman ᛫ an adult human female ᛫ a female lord ᛫ | N | ~{hlāfdige/hlǣfdige} | NE | kin: lord; loaf | |
ladysfinger | ᛫ okra ᛫ | N | lady's-finger | NE | ||
lair | ᛫ a den ᛫ a refuge or place for hiding ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lairwite | ᛫ a penalty for adultery or fornication ᛫ | N | leirwīte | ME | ||
lait | ᛫ electricity ᛫ lightning ᛫ a flash of lightning ᛫ a flame ᛫ a burst of flame ᛫ a fire ᛫ | N | leit | ME | ||
lait | ᛫ to search for ᛫ to seek ᛫ to look for ᛫ to try to find ᛫ | V | ~[leiten][leita] | NE‹N | kin: wlātian ᛫ still alive in some dialects | |
lake | ᛫ amusement ᛫ diversion ᛫ sport ᛫ game ᛬ to play ᛫ to sport ᛫ to game ᛫ | N᛬V | leik&leiken | ME‹N? | ||
Lammas | ᛫ a holiday on the first of August which involves bringing bread to church ᛫ | N(P) | ~[hlāfmæsse] | NE | ||
landfolk | ᛫ inhabitants of a land ᛫ | N | londfolk | ME | ||
landfowl | landfule | ᛫ a Galliformes bird ᛫ | N | landfowl | NE | |
landimere | ᛫ a land boundary ᛫ | N | ~[OE landgemǣre] | NE | the ge- suffix survived, as also found in "handiwork/handicraft" | |
landlore | ᛫ geography ᛫ | N | land+lore | NE×2 | ||
landman | ᛫ a countryman ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
landseater | ᛫ a colonist ᛫ | N | landsǣta | OE | ||
landshape | landscape | ᛫ to landscape ᛫ to modify a piece of land ᛫ | V | land+shape | NE×2 | |
landship | landscip | ᛫ a tank ( as in the vehicle ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
landsid | ᛫ a custom of a country ᛫ | N | landsidu | OE | ||
landsman | ᛫ a compatriot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lane | ᛫ a course ᛫ a road ᛫ a street ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lank | ᛫ to make or become lank ᛬ slender ᛫ paltry ᛫ straight and limp ᛫ languid ᛫ drooping ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lanky | ᛫ tall slim and awkward ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lap | ᛫ the flat area between the waist and knees of a seated person ᛫ a lobe ( of an ear etc ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lapwing | ᛫ a Vanellinae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
larboard | ᛫ the lefthand side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow) ᛫ port ᛬ pertaining to the left side of a ship ᛫ port ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lark | ᛫ an Alaudidae birds ᛫ one who wakes early ᛫ | N | lark | NE | ||
lark | ᛫ something done for fun especially something mischievous or daring ᛫ an escapade ᛫ | N | ~[skylark] | NE | ||
lashdye | lascdye | ᛫ mascara ᛫ | N | lash+dye | NE×2 | |
last | ᛫ freight ᛫ cargo ᛫ | N | last[hlæst] | ME | ||
last | ᛫ to endure ᛫ to hold out ᛫ to perform ᛫ to follow ᛫ to accompany ᛫ | V | last&lǣstan | NE | ||
lastname | ᛫ a surname ᛫ | N | lastname | NE | ||
lat | ᛫ nausea ᛫ | N | wlǣta{wlatsome} | OE | ||
late | ᛫ a facial expression ᛫ an expression ᛫ a gesture ᛫ an utterance ( of humans or animals ) ᛫ | N | lōt/late | ME | or: loat; lote | |
lately | ᛫ recently ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
later | ᛫ one who is late or slow ᛫ | N | lata | OE | ||
lateward | ᛫ recently ᛫ | AV | lāteward | ME | ||
lath | ᛫ a thin narrow strip used for support in buildings ᛬ to cover or line with laths ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
lathe | ᛫ to invite ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
lathing | ᛫ an invitation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
latred | ᛫ slow ᛫ tardy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
latsome | latsum | ᛫ nauseous ᛫ disgusting ᛫ repulsive ᛫ repugnant ᛫ abominable ᛫ hateful ᛫ loathsome ᛫ | AJ | wlatsome | ME | |
latter | ᛫ recent ᛫ situated nearer to the end of something than its beginning ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
latterday | ᛫ modern ᛫ contemporary ᛫ | AJ | latterday | NE | ||
latterly | ᛫ recently ᛫ in the later stages of a period of time ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
lattew | ᛫ a guide ( a living one ) ᛫ | N | latteu/lattow[lādtēow] | ME | ||
laughingstock | laugingstock | ᛫ a person subjected to general mockery or ridicule ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
laughter | laugter | ᛫ a vice ᛫ an error ᛫ a mistake ᛫ | N | laughter[leahter] | ME | let's rhyme this word with "slaughter" ᛫ or: leighter (from variant form) |
laughtercraft | laugtercraft | ᛫ the art of comedy ᛫ | N | laughter+craft | NE×2 | |
laughtersmith | laugtersmith | ᛫ someone who causes laughter ᛫ a comedian ᛫ | N | hleahtorsmiþ | OE | |
lave | lafe | ᛫ rest ( as in remains ) ᛫ remnants ᛫ remains ᛫ survivors ᛫ | N | ~[lāf] | NE | |
lave | lafe | ᛫ to wash ᛫ to pour ᛫ to bathe ᛫ to bathe oneself ᛫ | V | ~[lafian] | NE | |
lavel | lafel | ᛫ a vessel ᛫ | N | lavel[læfel] | ME | |
lawbreaker | ᛫ a criminal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lawful | ᛫ legal ( as in "not illegal" ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lawlessness | ᛫ anarchy ᛫ political chaos ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E+E) | ||
lawmaker | ᛫ legislator ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lawman | ᛫ a law enforcement officer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lawwit | ᛫ one learned in the law ( such as a barrister a lawyer a paralegal or a judge ) ᛫ | N | lahwita | OE | ||
lax | ᛫ a salmon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
laxberry | ᛫ a salmonberry ᛫ | N | lax+berry | NE×2 | calque: salmonberry | |
lay | ᛫ a body of water ( such as a lake , a pond , a lagoon , or a loch ) | N | lai[lagu] | ME | ||
lay | ᛫ to blame ᛫ | V | lēan | OE | PST: lew ᛫ PP: lain ᛫ kin: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽; lá (Icelandic) | |
lay about | abute | ᛫ a lazy person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
layer | ᛫ level ᛫ tier ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | reek | |
layernaker | ᛫ exfoliator ᛫ | N | layer+nake+er | NE×3 | ||
layout | layute | ᛫ the overall design or structure of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
le | el | ᛫ ( suffix forming nouns from verbs denoting an instrument or means ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | els/el[else] | ME | example: reek+le = reekle (insense) |
le | el | ᛫ ( frequentative verbal suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | found in words like "bubble" |
lea | ᛫ a stretch of grassy or arable land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: leigh (leih) | |
leach | leac | ᛫ to remove or be removed from a substance by a percolating liquid ᛫ to percolate ᛫ | ~ | NE | kin: leak | |
leaden | ᛫ made of lead ᛫ lead coloured ᛫ oppressively heavy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
leading light | ligt | ᛫ a luminary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
leadpitch | leadpic | ᛫ a leading tone ( in music ) ᛫ | N | leading+pitch | NE×2 | calque: leading-tone |
leaf | ᛫ a leaf ᛫ a petal ᛫ a page ( of a book or a website ) ᛫ | N | leaf&lēf | NE&ME | ||
leaf folding | ᛫ origami ᛫ | N | leaf+folding | NE+NEᛣ | calque: 折り紙 origami | |
leafworm | ᛫ a caterpillar ᛫ | N | lēafwyrm | OE | ||
lean | ᛫ a loan ᛫ | N | lēn[lēan] | ME | kin: lend | |
leandom | ᛫ feudalism ᛫ | N | lean+dom | NE×2 | calque: Lehnswesen; Leenstelsel ᛫ or: loandom | |
leaning | ᛫ an inclination ᛫ a tendency ᛫ a partiality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
leanland | ᛫ leased land ᛫ feudal land ? ᛫ | N | lǣnland | OE | or: loanland (Norse influenced) | |
lear | ᛫ to teach ᛫ to teach oneself ᛫ to instruct ᛫ to educate ᛫ to cultivate ᛫ to train ᛫ | V | lēren[lǣran] | ME | ||
learer | ᛫ a teacher ᛫ a professor ᛫ | N | lērer | ME | ||
learned | ᛫ educated ᛫ scholarly ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
learninghouse | learninghuse | ᛫ a school ᛫ | N | leornunghus | OE | |
learningman | ᛫ a pupil ᛫ a student ᛫ a disciple ᛫ | N | leornungmann | OE | ||
lease | ᛫ a lie ᛫ falsehood ᛬ to lie ᛫ to slander ᛫ to calumniate ᛫ to malign ᛫ to slander ᛫ to traduce ᛬ false ᛫ deceptive ᛫ destitute ᛫ bereft ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[lēas&lēasian] | NE | ||
lease | ᛫ to collect ᛫ to glean ᛫ to gather ᛫ | V | ~[lēsen] | NE | rhyme: please | |
lease | ᛫ pseudo- ᛫ | PREFIX | leas | OE | ||
leasesawl | ᛫ mendacious ᛫ falsehood saying ᛫ | AJ | lēassagol{soþsawel} | OE | ||
leasespel | ᛫ a fable ᛫ a fiction ᛫ | N | lēasspell | OE | ||
leaseteeth | ᛫ false teeth ᛫ dentures ᛫ | N | lease+teeth | NE×2 | ||
leasow | ᛫ a pasture ᛬ to pasture ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[lǣswu] | NE | ||
leastwield | leastweeld | ᛫ minarchy ᛫ | N | least+wield | NE×2 | |
leat | ᛫ an artificial water trench ( especially one linked to a mill ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
leath | ᛫ odium ᛫ enmity ᛫ hatred ᛫ hostility ᛫ | N | lētthe&lǣþþ | ME&OE | kin: loathe? | |
leathern | ᛫ made of leather ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
leatherwright | leatherwrigt | ᛫ a currier ᛫ | N | leþerwyrhta | OE | |
leave | leaf | ᛫ permission ᛫ license ᛬ to permit ᛫ to allow ᛫ to authorize ᛫ to license ᛫ | N᛬V | leave&lēven | NE&ME | |
leaveful | leafful | ᛫ allowable ᛫ permissible ᛫ | AJ | lēfful | ME | |
leaveword | leafword | ᛫ a password ᛫ | N | lēafnesword | OE | literally: permission word |
ledge | lecg | ᛫ ( denotes being , becoming , and making ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | lǣcan | OE | example: rightledge = to righten; winterledge = to become winter |
ledger | lecger | ᛫ a book for keeping notes ᛫ A collection of credit and debit entries ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹NL | |
lee | ᛫ protection ᛫ shelter ᛫ a side facing away from the wind ᛬ sheltered from the wind ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lee | ᛫ a lion ᛫ | N | lēo | OE‹I | ||
leech | leec | ᛫ a physician ᛫ a doctor ᛬ to doctor ᛫ to cure ᛫ to treat ( in the medical sense ) ᛫ | N | leech&lẹ̄chen[lǣce] | NE&ME | |
leechbook | leecbook | ᛫ a medicine book ᛫ | N | lǣceboc | OE | |
leechcraft | leeccraft | ᛫ the medical craft and practice ᛫ | N | ~[lẹ̄che-craft] | NE | |
leechdom | leecdom | ᛫ a medicine ᛫ a remedy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
leechhouse | leechuse | ᛫ a hospital ᛫ | N | lǣcehus | OE | |
leechwort | leecwort | ᛫ a medicinal plant ᛫ | N | lǣcewyrt | OE | |
leed | ᛫ a person ᛫ | N | lēd[leod] | ME | PL: leeds ᛫ used to mean "people" | |
Leeden | ᛫ Latin speech ᛬ Latin ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | lēden[lǣden/lēden] | ME | ||
leedfrom | ᛫ a national founder ᛫ a founder of a people ᛫ | N | leodfruma | OE | ||
leedhate | ᛫ tyrant ᛫ | N | leodhata | OE | agent suffix likely would have dropped | |
leedshather | leedscather | ᛫ a public enemy ᛫ | N | lēodsceaþa | OE | literally people-scather |
leedward | ᛫ a government ᛫ | N | leodweard | OE | literally people-ward | |
leedy | ᛫ personal ᛫ | AJ | leed+y | ME+NE | calque: personal | |
leem | ᛫ a flame ᛫ a flash ᛫ a gleam ᛫ a ray ᛫ a radiance ᛬ to flame ᛫ to blaze ᛫ to flash ᛫ to glow ᛫ to shine ᛫ to radiate ᛫ to gleam ᛫ | N᛬V | lẹ̄m&lēmen | ME | ||
leep | ᛫ a basket ᛫ | N | lēp[lēap] | ME | ||
leer | ᛫ a cheek ᛫ a face ᛫ one's appearance ᛬ to sneakily look ᛫ | N᛬V | leer&lē̆r[hlēor] | NE&ME | ||
leery | ᛫ cautious ᛫ hesitant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
leese | ᛫ to release ᛫ to free ᛫ to loosen ᛫ to redeem ᛫ to deliver ( as in save ) ᛫ | V | lēsen | ME | or: aleese | |
leeselore | ᛫ soteriology ᛫ | N | aleese+lore | NE×2 | ||
leeser | ᛫ a liberator ᛫ a redeemer ᛫ | N | lēsen+er | ME+NE | ||
leet | ᛫ an intersection ᛫ a crossroads ᛫ | N | ~[lēte] | NE | ||
leet | ᛫ to cast lots ᛫ to obtain by lot ᛫ | V | hlēotan | OE | kin: hljóta (Icelandic) | |
leeth | ᛫ a relief from pain ᛫ peace ᛫ mercy ᛫ | N | lẹ̄th[hlēowþ] | ME | ||
leeth | ᛫ a poem ᛫ an ode ᛫ | N | lēth | ME | ||
leethcraft | ᛫ poetry ᛫ | N | lēoþcræft | OE | ||
leethe | ᛫ to free ᛫ to loose ᛫ to spare ᛫ | V | lēthen[leoþian] | ME | ||
leether | ᛫ a poet ᛫ | N | lēoþere | OE | ||
leethwork | ᛫ composition ᛫ poem writing ᛫ | N | lēoþweorc | OE | ||
leethy | ᛫ poetic ᛫ symbolic [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | lēoþlīc | OE | ||
leeway | ᛫ an amount of freedom or flexibility ᛫ the drift of a ship or plane in a leeward direction ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
leftover | leftofer | ᛫ a remnant ᛬ remaining ᛫ residual ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
leftwise | ᛫ counterclockwise ᛫ anticlockwise ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
leighton | leigton | ᛫ a garden ( especially a kitchen garden or a herb garden ) ᛫ | N | leightoun | ME | |
leman | ᛫ a paramour ᛫ a sweetheart ᛫ a mistress ᛫ a lover ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | equal to: lief+man | |
lench | lenc | ᛫ arrogance ᛫ haughtiness ᛫ insolence ᛫ magnificence ᛫ pomp ᛬ to take pride in ᛫ to pride oneself ᛫ | V | wlenchen&wlencu | ME&OE | |
lench | lenc | ᛫ a link ᛫ a chain ᛫ a coat of mail ᛫ | N | hlenca | OE | "link" is Norse |
lend | ᛫ a loin of humans ᛫ loins of humans ᛫ | N | lē̆nd | ME | PL: lends; lenden | |
lend | ᛫ to arrive ᛫ to reside ᛫ to inhabit ᛫ to remain ᛫ | V | lẹ̄nden[lendan] | ME | ||
lend | ᛫ to loan ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | "loan" is Norse | |
lendbone | ᛫ an ilium ᛫ | N | ~ | ME | ||
lendridgebone | lendricgbone | ᛫ a lumbar vertebra ᛫ | N | lend+ridgebone | ME+NE | |
lense | ᛫ to make lean ᛫ | V | lensen | ME | same suffix as in "cleanse" | |
lent | ᛫ the spring season ᛫ | N | lent/lenten | ME | or: lenten | |
lere | ᛫ empty ᛫ unoccupied ᛫ deserted ᛫ worthless ᛫ unnecessary ᛫ useless ᛫ | AJ | lere | ME | ||
lessen | ᛫ to reduce ᛫ to diminish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
lesser | ᛫ minor ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lesserape | ᛫ a gibbon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lesserhood | ᛫ a minority ᛫ | N | lesser+hood | NE×2 | calque: minderheid | |
lest | ᛫ -lessness ᛫ | SUFFIX | -lēste[lēast] | ME | example: orelest = honourlessness | |
lest | ᛫ for fear that ᛫ | C | ~[þȳ lǣs þe] | NE | ||
let | ᛫ an obstruction ᛫ a hindrance ᛫ an obstacle ᛫ an impediment ᛫ a speech impediment ᛫ | N | let[lette] | NE | ||
let down | dune | ᛫ a disappointment ᛬ to disappoint ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
letch | lec | ᛫ to be warm ᛫ to be lukewarm ᛫ to be tepid ᛫ | V | wlechen | ME | |
letdown | letdune | ᛫ a disappointment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
letgame | ᛫ a spoilsport ᛫ | N | lettegame | ME | "let" here means "obstruct" | |
Lett | ᛫ a Latvian ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹HG‹O | ||
Lettland | ᛫ Latvia ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹HG‹O | ||
Lettow | ᛫ Lithuania ? ᛫ | N(P) | Lettow | ME‹? | ||
letty | ᛫ preventive ᛫ obstructive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
letup | ᛫ to cease ᛫ to soften an attack or criticism ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
levin | lefin | ᛫ electricity [ᚹ] ᛫ lightning ᛫ a beam of light ᛫ a flame ᛬ to electrify [ᚹ] ᛫ to shoot out lightning ᛫ | N᛬V | levin&lēven&lēvenen | NE&ME&ME | rhyme: seven |
levinlore | lefinlore | ᛫ electronics ( the study of electrons ) ᛫ | N | levin+lore | ME+NE | rhyme: seven |
levinmote | lefinmote | ᛫ an electron ᛫ | N | levin+mote | ME+NE | rhyme: seven |
leviny | lefiny | ᛫ electric ᛫ electronic ᛫ | AJ | levin+y | ME+NE | rhyme: seveny |
lew | ᛫ -prone ᛫ | SUFFIX | -leu[-lǣw] | ME | example: drunklew = prone to drunkeness | |
lew | ᛫ tepid ᛫ unzealous ᛫ | AJ | ~[leu] | NE | "lukewarm" seems to be a corruption of "lewwarm" | |
lew | ᛫ a perna ᛫ | N | lēow | OE | kin: lår (Swedish)? | |
lewd | ᛫ sexually crude ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lewth | ᛫ shelter ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lib | ᛫ medicine ᛫ a drug ᛫ a potion ᛫ poison ᛫ | N | lib/lybb | NE&OE | survives in: cheeselip | |
libhouse | libhuse | ᛫ a pharmacy ᛫ a drugstore ᛫ a chemist's shop ᛫ an apothecary ᛫ | N | lib+house | OE+NE | |
liblock | ᛫ the art or crafting of medicine drugs or potions ( often with a negative connotation ) ᛫ | N | lyblāc | OE | ||
liblocker | ᛫ a magician skilled in drugs ᛫ | N | lyblǣca | OE | ||
libman | ᛫ a pharmacist ᛫ a druggist ᛫ a chemist ᛫ an apothecary ᛫ | N | lib+man | OE+NE | ||
libsen | ᛫ a charm ᛫ an amulet ᛫ | N | lybesn | OE | ||
libster | ᛫ a potion making woman ? ᛫ a witch ? ᛫ | N | lybbestre | OE | ||
lich | lic | ᛫ a corpse ᛫ a cadaver ᛫ an undead creature ( such as a zombie or ghoul ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lichame | licame | ᛫ a body ᛫ a corpse ᛫ | N | lichame | ME | equal to: lich hame (body covering) |
lichbour | licbor | ᛫ a sarcophagus ᛫ | N | līcbeorg | OE | |
lichet | licet | ᛫ to feign ᛫ to pretend ᛫ to profess falsely ᛫ to simulate ᛫ | V | līcettan | OE | or maybe it could be spelled "licket" or "liket" |
lichetter | licetter | ᛫ a feigner ᛫ a pretender ᛫ a hypocrite ᛫ a simulator ᛫ | N | līcettere | OE | |
lichetting | licetting | ᛫ feigning ᛫ pretence ᛫ false representation ᛫ simulation ᛫ hypocrisy ᛫ | N | līcettung | OE | |
lichhouse | lichuse | ᛫ a morgue ᛫ a mortuary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lichrest | licrest | ᛫ a tomb ᛫ a sepulcher ᛫ cemetery ᛫ | N | līcrest | OE | |
lichsong | licsong | ᛫ a funeral song ᛫ a dirge ᛫ | N | līcsang | OE | |
lichthroer | licthroer | ᛫ a leper ᛫ | N | līcþrowere | OE | literally: body sufferer |
lichway | licway | ᛫ the path by which the dead are carried to the grave ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
lichyard | licyard | ᛫ a cemetery ᛫ a graveyard ᛫ | N | lichyard | NE | |
lickspittle | lickspittel | ᛫ one who behaves obsequiously to those in power ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Lide | ᛫ March ᛫ | N(P) | Lide&Hlȳda | ME&OE | or: Reethmonth (Hrēþmōnaþ) | |
lief | leef | ᛫ a religious faith ᛫ a religion ᛫ a belief system ᛫ a creed ᛫ an ideology ᛫ | N | lēve{gelēafa} | ME | kin: belief |
lief | leef | ᛫ -ism ( but only for ideologies ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | lēve{gelēafa} | ME | |
lief | leef | ᛫ sir ( vocative ) ᛫ a beloved one ᛬ beloved ᛫ dear ᛬ why! ᛫ | N᛬AJ᛬I | lief&lēf[lēof] | NE&ME | |
liefly | leefly | ᛫ precious ᛫ valued ᛫ pleasant ᛫ pleasing ᛫ agreeable ᛫ delightful ᛫ loveable ᛬ willingly ᛫ gladly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | lẹ̄flī[lēoflīce] | ME | |
liefsome | leefsum | ᛫ agreeable ᛫ delightful ᛫ pleasing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
liever | leefer | ᛫ an ideologist ᛫ an ideologue ᛫ a religious person ᛫ | N | lēve+er | ME | |
liever | leefer | ᛫ -ist ( but only for adherents ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | lēve+er | ME+NE | |
life | ᛫ vitality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lifeblood | ᛫ blood needed for life ᛫ the essence or crux of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lifefrea | ᛫ lord of life ᛫ | N | liffrea | OE | ||
lifelode | ᛫ the course of someone's life ᛫ a lifetime ᛫ conduct of life ᛫ way of life ᛫ | N | līflōd[līflād] | ME | ||
lifelore | ᛫ biology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
liffet | ᛫ to flatter ᛫ to adulate ᛫ | V | lyffettan | OE | ||
liffeter | ᛫ a flatterer ᛫ an adulator ᛫ | N | lyffetere | OE | ||
liffeting | ᛫ flattery ᛫ adulation ᛫ | N | lyffetung | OE | ||
lift | ᛫ air ᛫ the sky ᛫ the heavens ᛫ an elevator ᛬ to elevate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[lyft] | NE | ||
lift | ᛫ aero- ᛫ | PREFIX | lyft | OE | ||
liften | ᛫ aerial ᛫ | AJ | lyften | OE | ||
liftfleet | ᛫ an air force ᛫ | N | lift+fleet | NE×2 | calque: luchtvloot | |
lifthaven | lifthafen | ᛫ an airport ᛫ | N | lift+haven | NE×2 | calque: luchthaven |
liftlore | ᛫ aerology ᛫ | N | lyft+lore | ME+NE | ||
liftshell | liftscell | ᛫ an atmosphere ᛫ | N | lyft+shell | ME+NE | |
liftship | liftscip | ᛫ an airship ᛫ | N | lift+ship | NE×2 | calque: luchtschip |
liggat | ᛫ a gate ( especially a swinging one ) ᛫ | N | ~[hlidgeat] | NE | ||
light | ligt | ᛫ to come upon ᛫ to discover by chance ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
light saregun | ligt | ᛫ a light machine gun ᛫ | N | light+searu+gun | NE+OE+NE‹N | calque: light machine gun |
Lightbearend | Ligtbearend | ᛫ Lucifer ᛫ | N | lēohtberend | OE | |
lightbere | ligtbere | ᛫ luminous ᛫ brilliant ᛫ splendid ᛫ lightbearing ᛫ | AJ | lēohtbǣre | OE | |
lighteared | ligteared | ᛫ credulous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | light-eared |
lighten | ligten | ᛫ to make or become lighter ᛫ to brighten ᛫ to enlighten ᛫ to flash with lightning ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
lightminded | ligtminded | ᛫ not given to heavy thoughts or thinking ᛫ frivolous ᛫ not serious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
lightmindedness | ligtmindedness | ᛫ lack of seriousness ᛫ frivolity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lightmood | ligtmood | ᛫ light-hearted ᛫ easy-tempered ᛫ | AJ | lēohtmōd | OE | |
lightmote | ligtmote | ᛫ a photon ᛫ | N | light+mote | NE×2 | |
lightsome | ligtsum | ᛫ lighthearted ᛫ airy ᛫ nimble ᛫ bright ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
lightvat | ligtfatt | ᛫ lamp ᛫ lantern ᛫ | N | leohtfæt | OE | |
likelihood | ᛫ probability ᛫ chance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
likely | ᛫ probable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
likely | ᛫ probably ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
liken | ᛫ to compare ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
likeness | ᛫ a resemblance ᛫ a photograph ᛫ | N | [gelicness] | NE | ||
likening | ᛫ a comparison ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
likesome | likesum | ᛫ agreeable ᛫ pleasant ᛫ likable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
likewise | ᛫ similarly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
likeworthy | ᛫ likeable ᛫ | AJ | likworthe | ME | ||
liking | ᛫ pleasure ᛫ enjoyment ᛫ delight ᛫ | N | liking&līking | NE&ME | ||
lim | ᛫ to sound ᛫ | V | hlimman | OE | ||
limbmeal | ᛫ limb from limb ᛫ in pieces ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
lime | ᛫ glue ᛫ mortar ᛫ cement ᛫ calcium oxide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
limp | ᛫ an event ᛫ a chance happening ᛬ to happen ᛫ to occur ᛫ | N᛬V | limp&gelimp | ME&ME | PST: lamp ᛫ PTCP: lump | |
lin | ᛫ to cease ᛫ to desist ᛫ to stop ᛫ | V | lin[linnen] | NE | ||
linch | linc | ᛫ a ledge ᛫ | N | ~[hlinc] | NE | |
lind | ᛫ a Tilia plant ( linden trees , basswood trees , and lime trees ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lind | ᛫ suet ᛫ lard ᛫ fat ᛫ | N | lynd/lind | OE | especially belly/loin fat? | |
line | ᛫ made of flax ᛫ | AJ | lī̆n | ME | ||
linen | ᛫ cloth woven from flax ᛬ made of flax ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ling | ᛫ ( diminutive suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
linking | ᛫ connecting ᛫ joining ᛫ copular ( like in linking verb ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lippen | ᛫ to rely on ᛫ to trust ᛫ to entrust ᛫ | V | ~[lipnen] | NE | "I lippen to your word" not "I lippen your word" | |
lippy | ᛫ labial ᛫ | AJ | lip+y | NE×2 | ||
lire | ᛫ flesh ᛫ meat ᛫ | N | lire&līre | NE&ME | ||
lise | ᛫ a report ᛫ fame ᛫ reputation ᛫ renown ᛬ to give credit ᛫ | N᛬V | hlīsa&hlīsan | OE | ||
liss | ᛫ contentment ᛫ relief ᛫ respite ᛬ to relieve ᛫ to assuage ᛫ | N᛬V | lis&lissen[lis] | ME | ||
lissome | lissum | ᛫ nimble ᛫ supple ᛫ agile ᛫ easily flexed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: lissom ᛫ equal to: lithe+some |
list | ᛫ an art ᛫ a craft ᛫ art ᛫ | N | list&list | ME&OE | ||
list | ᛫ desire ᛫ inclination ᛫ craving ᛫ enthusiasm ᛬ to desire ᛫ to crave ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[listen][lystan] | NE | ||
listener | ᛫ a microphone ᛫ | N | ~{speaker} | NE | ||
listful | ᛫ attentive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
listless | ᛫ desireless ᛫ lacking enthusiasm spirit and liveliness ᛫ apathetic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lite | ᛫ looks ( usually good looks ) ᛫ beauty ᛫ a countenance ᛫ an appearance ᛫ a style ᛫ an aesthetic ᛬ to look ᛫ to gaze ᛫ | N᛬V | wlite&wlītan{andwlita} | ME&OE | ||
liteful | ᛫ beautiful ᛫ handsome ᛫ comely ᛫ aesthetic [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | wlitefull | OE | ||
liteless | ᛫ hideous ᛫ without beauty ᛫ | AJ | wlitelēas | OE | ||
liteworth | ᛫ a ransom ᛫ | N | wliteweorþ | OE | ||
litey | ᛫ beautiful ᛫ comely ᛫ attractive ᛫ | AJ | wlitig | OE | ||
lith | ᛫ a slope ᛫ | N | lith[hliþ] | ME | ||
lith | ᛫ a limb ᛫ a joint ᛫ a segment ᛫ a member ( anatomy ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lithe | ᛫ to sail ᛫ to travel by sea ᛫ to travel ᛫ to journey ᛫ | V | līthen[līþan] | ME | ||
lithe | ᛫ flexible ᛫ limber ᛫ mellow ᛫ gentle ᛫ mild ᛫ | AJ | lithe&līthe | NE&ME | ||
lithe | ᛫ strong drink ᛫ wine ᛫ | N | līþ | OE | ||
litheby | ᛫ meek ᛫ compliant ᛫ obedient ᛫ | AJ | lethebei [liþebige] | ME | ||
lither | ᛫ base ᛫ vile ᛫ depraved ᛫ wicked ᛫ lewd ᛫ sordid ᛫ lazy ᛫ worthless ᛬ wickedly ᛫ treacherously ᛫ poorly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | lither[lyþre] | ME | rhyme: slither | |
lither | ᛫ a sling ᛫ a launcher ᛬ to sling ᛫ to launch ᛫ | N᛬V | lithere[liþere]&litheren | ME | ||
lithsew | ᛫ synovia ᛫ synovial fluid ᛫ | N | liþsēaw | OE | ||
litten | ᛫ a graveyard ᛫ a cemetery ᛫ | N | litton[litton][līctūn] | ME | ||
littiness | ᛫ slyness ᛫ craftiness ᛫ cunningness ᛫ astuteness ᛫ | N | lytigness | OE | ||
Little Dipper | Littel | ᛫ a bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky which is part of Ursa Minor ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | |
littlefinger | littelfinger | ᛫ the pinky ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
littlom | ᛫ gradually ᛫ | AV | litlum[lȳtlum] | ME | ||
live | lif | ᛫ to exist ( especially of animate things ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
livelihood | lifelihood | ᛫ a means of securing the necessities of life ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
livelong | liflong | ᛫ the orphine ( Hylotelephium telephium ) ᛬ whole ᛫ entire ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
liven | lifen | ᛫ to enliven ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
liveradle | liferadel | ᛫ a liver disease ᛫ | N | liferādl | OE | |
liverwort | liferwort | ᛫ a Marchantia polymorpha plant ᛫ | N | ~[liverwort][liferwyrt] | NE | |
livingroom | lifingroom | ᛫ a family room ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lix | ᛫ to flash ᛫ to glitter ᛫ | V | līxan | OE | ||
lo | ᛫ ( used to draw attention ) ᛫ | I | lo | NE | ||
load | ᛫ to charge ( with electricity ) ᛫ | V | load&laden | NE&FR | ||
load | ᛫ an exculpation ᛫ a purgation ᛫ an excuse ᛫ | N | lād | OE | ||
loadboard | ᛫ a pallet ( as in a portable platform for stacking goods ) ᛫ | N | load+board | NE×2 | calque: laadbord | |
loading | ᛫ an excuse ᛫ an exculpation ᛫ a defence ᛫ | N | lādung | OE | ||
loanwend | ᛫ a loan translation ( a calque ) ᛫ | N | loan+wend | NE‹N+ME | calque: loan translation ᛫ or: leanwend (loan is Norse) | |
loast | ᛫ a track ᛫ a footprint ᛫ a trace ᛫ a trail ᛬ to track ᛫ to trace ᛫ to trail ᛫ | N | lāst | OE | ||
loath | ᛫ averse ᛫ disinclined ᛫ reluctant ᛫ unwilling ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: loth | |
loathe | ᛫ to greatly hate ᛫ to detest ᛫ to revile ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
loathly | ᛫ loathsome ᛫ repulsive ᛬ reluctantly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~[lāþlic] | NE | ||
loathsome | loathsum | ᛫ repulsive ᛫ offensive ᛫ abominable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
loathspel | ᛫ a tragic story ᛫ an unpleasant story ᛫ | N | lāþspell | OE | ||
loave | loaf | ᛫ praise ᛫ good reputation ᛫ price ᛫ value ᛫ an offer for sale ᛬ to praise ᛫ to approve ᛫ to appraise ᛫ to set a price on ᛫ to offer for sale ᛫ | N | lōf&lō̆ven | ME&ME | |
loavebere | loafbere | ᛫ laudatory ᛫ | AJ | lōfbǣre | OE | |
loavedeed | loafdeed | ᛫ a praiseworthy deed ᛫ | N | lōfdǣd | OE | |
loaveful | loafful | ᛫ amorous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
loavely | loafly | ᛫ praiseworthy ᛫ laudable ᛫ honourable ᛫ | AJ | lōfli | ME | |
loavesome | loafsum | ᛫ deserving praise ᛫ excellent ᛫ noble ᛫ | AJ | lōfsum | OE | |
loavesong | loafsong | ᛫ a song of praise ᛫ a hymn ᛫ a psalm ᛫ | N | lōfsang | OE | |
lock | ᛫ a tuft of hair ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lock | ᛫ -ation ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
lock | ᛫ to allure ᛫ to entice ᛫ bait ᛫ | V | loccian | OE | kin: lokken (Dutch) | |
locker | ᛫ to curl ᛫ | V | ~[lokeren] | NE | ||
lockered | ᛫ curly ᛫ curled ᛫ tangled ᛫ matted ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lodder | ᛫ a poor person ᛫ a pauper ᛫ a worthless person ᛫ | N | loddere | OE | ||
loddering | ᛫ nonsense ᛫ rubbish ᛫ triviality ᛫ | N | lodrung | OE | ||
lode | ᛫ a deposit of ore ᛫ a resource ( especially ore ) ᛫ a supply ( especially of ore ) ᛫ a course ᛫ a journey ᛫ a voyage ᛫ | N | lode&lōd[lād] | NE&ME | kin: load | |
lodestar | ᛫ a guiding star ᛫ a tenet ᛫ a guiding principle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lodestone | ᛫ magnetite ᛫ a naturally occurring magnet ᛫ someone or something that is the focus of attention ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lofty | ᛫ elevated ( literally and figuratively ) ᛫ noble ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
logboat | ᛫ a dugout canoe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loke | ᛫ a private road ᛫ a blind alley ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loke | ᛫ to play ᛫ to wave or to swing about ᛫ | V | lācan | OE | ||
loken | ᛫ to heal ᛫ to cure ᛫ to treat a wound or illness ᛫ to tend to ᛫ to take care of ᛫ to dress a wound ᛫ | V | lācnian | OE | ||
lokening | ᛫ -therapy ᛫ | SUFFIX | lācnung | OE | ||
lokening | ᛫ healing ᛫ cure ᛫ remedy ᛫ medicine ᛫ | V | lācnung | OE | ||
Loller | ᛫ a Lollard ᛫ a protestant [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | loller | ME | SEE NOTE | |
Londonbury | ᛫ the City of London ᛫ | N | Lundenbyrig | OE | ||
lone | ᛫ solitary ᛫ isolated ᛫ sole ᛫ single ᛫ individual ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lonesome | lonesum | ᛫ solitary ᛫ lonely ᛫ unfrequented ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
long | ᛫ to have a strong wish or desire ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
long hundred | ᛫ 120 ᛫ | N | long hundred | ME | ||
long sweetening | ᛫ molasses ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | South & Midland US | |
Longbeard | ᛫ a Lombard ᛫ | N(P) | langbeard | OE | ||
longgun | ᛫ a gun with a long barrel ᛫ a cannon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
longminded | ᛫ longanimous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
longmindedness | ᛫ longanimousness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
longmood | ᛫ patient ᛫ | AJ | langmōd | OE | ||
longmoodly | ᛫ patiently ᛫ | AV | langmōdlīce | OE | ||
longmoodness | ᛫ patience ᛫ | N | langmōdness | OE | ||
longplayer | ᛫ a kind of vinyl record ᛫ an album of music which is full length ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "LP" for short | |
longsome | longsum | ᛫ tediously long ᛫ | AJ | ~[langsum] | NE | |
longwinded | ᛫ of continuing at tedious length ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lonk | ᛫ pride ᛫ arrogance ᛬ physically beautiful ᛫ graceful ᛫ noble ᛫ fine ᛫ splendid ᛫ majestic ᛫ arrogant ᛫ haughty ᛫ proud ᛫ pompous ᛫ | N | wlonk[wlanc] | ME | ||
lonkful | ᛫ arrogant ᛫ full of arrogance ᛫ | AJ | wlonkful | ME | ||
loof | ᛫ the palm of the hand ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
looking glass | ᛫ a mirror ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lookout | lookute | ᛫ an observation post ᛫ a sentinel ᛫ sentry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
looks | ᛫ one's physical appearance or attractiveness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loom | ᛫ an implement ᛫ a means ( figurative ) ᛫ a weaving machine ᛫ a device ᛫ a machine ᛫ | N | loom&lōme | NE&ME | ||
loose | ᛫ relaxed ᛫ unrestrained ᛫ unsecure ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹N | ||
lootby | ᛫ a concubine ᛫ a paramour ᛫ | N | loteby | ME | ||
looth | ᛫ booty ᛫ spoils ᛬ to take booty ᛫ | N᛬V | hlōþ&hlōþian | OE | ||
lop | ᛫ a spider ᛫ a flea ᛫ a fly ᛫ an insect [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | loppe | ME | ||
lord | ᛫ a master ᛫ a nobleman ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lordly | ᛫ noble ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lordship | lordscip | ᛫ dominion ᛫ authority ᛫ domain ᛫ jurisdiction ᛫ the state of being a lord ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lordswike | ᛫ a traitor to one's lord ᛫ | N | lordswike | ME | ||
lore | ᛫ a body of knowledge ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lore | ᛫ -ology ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
lorebisen | ᛫ a specimen ᛫ | N | lārbysn | OE | ||
loreboder | ᛫ a preacher ᛫ | N | lārbodung+er | OE+NE | ||
loreboding | ᛫ preaching ᛫ | V | lārbodung | OE | ||
lorebook | ᛫ a textbook ᛫ | N | lārbōc | OE | ||
lorefather | ᛫ a teacher ᛫ | N | lōrefader | ME | ||
lorehouse | lorehuse | ᛫ a school ᛫ a university ᛫ a college ᛫ | N | lārhūs | OE | |
lorel | ᛫ a rogue ᛫ a rascal ᛫ a scoundrel ᛫ a wretched person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loreless | ᛫ lacking learning or knowledge ᛫ ignorant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lorelest | ᛫ ignorance ᛫ educationlessness ᛫ | N | lārlēast | OE | ||
lorelistend | ᛫ one who listens to instruction ᛫ a catechumen ᛫ | N | lārhlystend | OE | ||
lorelship | lorelscip | ᛫ rascality ᛫ | N | lorelshipe | ME | |
lorely | ᛫ instructive ᛫ of or pertaining to lore ᛫ | AJ | lārlīc | OE | ||
lorequid | lorecwid | ᛫ a precept ᛫ a doctrine ᛫ | N | lārcwide | OE | |
loresman | ᛫ an instructor ᛫ an expert ᛫ a master of a field of knowledge ᛫ | N | loresman | ME | earthloresman = geologist" | |
loresmith | ᛫ a wise man ᛫ | N | lārsmiþ | OE | ||
lorespel | ᛫ a sermon ᛫ an epistle ᛫ a treatise ᛫ an essay ᛫ | N | lōrespel[lārspell] | ME | ||
loreswike | ᛫ false lore ᛫ pseudo-science ᛫ | N | lārswic | OE | ||
lorethew | ᛫ a teacher ᛫ an instructor ᛫ a preceptor ᛫ a professor [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | lorthew{lareow} | ME | or: larew (from ME lareow, a shortened version of the word) | |
lorewit | ᛫ a learned man ᛫ | N | lārwita | OE | ||
lorn | ᛫ doomed ᛫ lost ᛫ forlorn ᛫ desolate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
losel | ᛫ a worthless person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loseyns | ᛫ lasagna / lasagne ᛫ | N | loseyns | ME‹I | ||
loss | ᛫ a defeat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lot | ᛫ a large quantity ᛫ a bunch of people ᛫ a portion ᛫ an allotment ᛫ one's role in life ᛫ a role ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
loth | ᛫ a cloak ᛫ an upper garment ᛫ a mantle ᛫ | N | loþa | OE | maybe should be "lother"? | |
loud | lude | ᛫ a sound ᛫ a noise ᛬ to sound ᛫ | N᛬V | lūde[hlȳd]&hlȳdan | ME&OE | |
loudlore | ludelore | ᛫ acoustics ᛫ | N | lūde+lore | ME+NE | |
lough | luge | ᛫ a place ᛫ a stead ᛫ | N | logh[lōh] | ME | rhyme: tough or plough |
lough | luge | ᛫ a loch ᛫ | N | lough[luh] | ME‹OE‹C | rhyme: plough |
louk | look | ᛫ to close ᛫ to shut ᛫ to fasten ᛫ to lock up ᛫ to enclose ᛫ to surround ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | rhyme: luke; brook |
louse | luse | ᛫ an Anoplura insect ᛫ a Mallophaga insect ᛫ | N | louse | NE | PL: lice |
lousy | lusey | ᛫ full of lice ᛫ of low quality ᛫ contemptible ᛫ paltry ᛫ | AJ | lousy | NE | |
lout | lute | ᛫ to lurk ᛫ to lie hidden ᛫ | V | lǒuten[lūtian]{lōten} | ME | |
lout | lute | ᛫ an awkward brutish person ᛬ to bow in respect ᛫ to submit ᛫ to yield ᛫ | N᛬V | lout[louten] | NE | |
love | luf | ᛫ extreme affection ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
loveapple | lufappel | ᛫ a tomato ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
loveling | lufling | ᛫ a dear and lovely creature ᛫ a darling ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
lovelorn | luflorn | ᛫ without love ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
lovendly | lufendly | ᛫ adorable ᛫ lovable ᛫ | AJ | love+enlīc | NE+ME | |
lovered | lufred | ᛫ love ( opposite of hatred ) ᛫ | N | lovereden | ME | |
lovesome | lufsum | ᛫ affectionate ᛫ amorous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
lovetoken | luftoken | ᛫ something given as a sign or token of love ᛫ | N | love token | NE | |
loveworthy | lufworthy | ᛫ lovable ᛫ meriting love ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
low | ᛫ a mound ( especially a burial mount ? ) ᛫ a tumulus ᛫ | N | ~[hlǣw] | NE | rhyme: snow | |
low | ᛫ to moo ᛫ | V | ~[hlōwan] | NE | rhyme: snow | |
lowend | ᛫ of the lowest quality ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lower chavelbone | cafelbone | ᛫ a mandible ᛫ | N | lower+chavel+bone | NE‹N+ME+NE | or: nether chavelbone |
lower noseshell | nosescell | ᛫ an inferior nasal concha ᛫ | N | lower+nose+shell | NE‹N+NE×2 | or: nether noseshell ᛫ calque: onderste neusschelp |
lowkey | ᛫ subtle ᛬ subtly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lowland | ᛫ a stretch of low or unmountainous land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lowlife | ᛫ a despicable person ᛫ a scoundrel ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lowling | ᛫ a person of low status ᛫ a commoner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
lowminded | ᛫ inclined to vulgar or unworthy things ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(N+E+E) | ||
lox | ᛫ a lynx ᛫ | N | lox | OE | ||
Ludder | ᛫ a Luddite ᛫ one opposed to technological change ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: Ludd | |
lungwort | ᛫ a Helleborus niger plant ᛫ | N | lǒngwort[lungenwyrt] | ME | ||
lur | ᛫ destruction ᛫ perdition ᛫ damage ᛫ loss ᛫ | N | lire/lure[lyre] | ME | ||
lurk | ᛫ a method of fraud ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | from the verb "lurk" ᛫ slang | |
lurry | ᛫ destructive ᛫ | AJ | lure+y | ME+NE | ||
lust | ᛫ desire ᛫ appetite ᛫ craving ᛫ | N | lust&lust | NE&OE | ||
lustbere | ᛫ desirable ᛫ | AJ | lustbǣre | OE | ||
lustihood | ᛫ licentiousness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
lusty | ᛫ vigorous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
lutter | ᛫ clear ᛫ pure ᛫ unadulterated ᛫ innocent ᛫ sincere ᛫ authentic ᛫ | AJ | lutter[hlutor] | ME | ||
lutty | ᛫ sly ᛫ crafty ᛫ cunning ᛫ astute ᛫ | AJ | lutiȝ[lytig] | ME | ||
lye | ᛫ fire ᛫ lightning ᛫ plasma [ᚹ] ᛬ to blaze ᛫ | N᛬V | lei/lye&leien[līg] | ME&ME | ||
Lyor | ᛫ Loire ᛫ | N(P) | ligore | OE | ||
Mackedony | ᛫ Macedonia ᛫ Macedon ᛫ | N(P) | mæcedonie | OE | ||
mad | ᛫ insane ᛫ frenzied ᛫ crazy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
madapple | madappel | ᛫ an eggplant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "earliest use found in Henry Lyte (1529–1607)" - Lexico |
madden | ᛫ to derange ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
maddock | ᛫ an earthworm ᛫ a maggot ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | ||
madhouse | madhuse | ᛫ a psychiatric institution ᛫ a chaotic place ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
madness | ᛫ insanity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Maid | ᛫ Virgo ᛫ | PN | ~ | ENE | ||
maid | ᛫ a female domestic servant ᛫ a girl ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
maiden | ᛫ a girl ᛫ a young woman ᛫ an unmarried girl ᛫ an unmarried young woman ᛫ a virgin ᛫ | N | ~[mægden] | NE | ||
maidenhead | ᛫ the hymen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
maidenhood | ᛫ virginity or celibacy ( of both men and women ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
᛫ earnest ᛫ firm ᛫ strenuous ᛫ | AJ | meagol | OE | |||
mailness | ᛫ earnestness ᛫ | N | meagolness | OE | ||
maily | ᛫ earnestly ᛫ strenuously ᛫ | AV | meagollīce | OE | ||
main | ᛫ power ᛫ might ᛫ ability ᛫ efficacy ᛫ capacity ᛫ combat troops ᛫ military force ᛬ principle ᛫ prime ᛫ chief ᛬ very ᛫ | N᛬AJ᛬AV | main&main&mægen | NE&ME&OE | ||
mainframe | ᛫ a large powerful computer used to perform many simultaneous complex tasks ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mainful | ᛫ powerful ᛫ mighty ᛫ | AJ | mainful | ME | ||
mainhew | ᛫ a primary colour ᛫ | N | main+hue | NE×2 | ||
mainless | ᛫ weak ᛫ feeble ᛫ powerless ᛫ | AJ | mægenlēas | OE | ||
mainly | ᛫ principally ᛫ chiefly ᛫ mostly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
mainstay | ᛫ a chief support ᛫ a regular contributor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "stay" is a nautical word from Old English. | |
mainstream | ᛫ the ideas , attitudes , or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mair | ᛫ to macerate ᛬ meager ᛫ lean | V᛬AJ | mæger&mægerian | OE&OE | kin: meager | |
maith | ᛫ the Anthemis cotula plant ( stinking camomile ) ᛫ | N | maithe | ME | ||
maith | ᛫ a family ᛫ relatives ᛫ a tribe ᛫ a clan ᛫ | N | mæith&mǣgþ | ME&OE | ||
maith | ᛫ a girl ᛫ a maiden ᛫ a virgin ᛫ | N | mægþ | OE | ||
maithhood | ᛫ virginity ᛫ | N | mægþhad | OE | see: maidenhood | |
make | ᛫ a married couple ᛫ a couple ᛫ a mate ᛫ an equal ᛫ a peer ᛫ a rival ᛫ a counterpart ᛬ to mate with ᛫ to marry ᛫ to pair with ᛫ | N᛬V | māke[gemaca]&māken | ME&ME | ||
make up | ᛫ to invent ᛫ to fabricate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
makebelief | makebeleef | ᛫ the abstract quality of making believe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
makebelieve | makebeleef | ᛫ the act of pretending ᛬ to pretend ᛬ imaginary ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
makegame | ᛫ an object of ridicule ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
makeover | makeofer | ᛫ an overhaul of something's or someone's appearance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
maker | ᛫ a creator ᛫ a producer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
makeshift | makescift | ᛫ a usually crude and temporary expedient ᛬ impromptu ᛫ ad hoc ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
making | ᛫ cause ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Malawi Mere | Malawee | ᛫ Lake Malawi ᛫ | N(P) | Malawi+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
malm | ᛫ a soft crumbly chalky rock or the fertile loamy soil produced as it weathers ᛫ | N | ~[mealm] | NE | ||
malshave | malscafe | ᛫ a caterpillar ᛫ | N | malshave | ME | |
mammer | ᛫ to hesitate ᛫ to waver ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
mammer | ᛫ deep sleep ᛫ a sopor ᛫ | N | mamor | OE | ||
man | ᛫ a person ᛫ a human ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
man | ᛫ one ( generic pronoun ) ᛫ | N | man | OE | generic pronoun "one" influenced by French "on"? | |
man | ᛫ to admonish ᛫ exhort ᛫ | V | manian | OE | ||
manbane | ᛫ tobacco ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | slang? | |
mandeed | ᛫ an evil deed ᛫ a crime ᛫ a transgression ᛫ | N | māndǣd | OE | ||
manful | ᛫ brave and resolute ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
manibreed | ᛫ multifaceted ᛫ | AJ | manigbrǣde | OE | ||
manifold | ᛫ diverse ᛫ numerous ᛫ complicated ᛫ complex ᛫ plural ᛬ to multiply ᛬ repeatedly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | manifold&manigfildan | NE&OE | ||
manifoldness | ᛫ multiplicity ᛫ complexity ᛫ | N | ~[manigfealdness] | NE | ||
manikin | ᛫ all kinds of ᛫ various ᛫ | AJ | manikin | ME | ||
Manitoba Mere | ᛫ Lake Manitoba ᛫ | N(P) | Manitoba+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
mank | ᛫ to mutilate ᛫ to mangle ᛫ to maim ᛫ | V | manken | ME | ||
mankind | ᛫ humanity ᛫ humankind ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
manlike | ᛫ a human form ᛫ an image of a man ᛫ a humanoid [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | mannlīca | OE | ||
manmade | ᛫ made or caused by human beings ᛫ artificial ᛫ | AJ | manmade | NE | ||
Mannish | Mannisc | ᛫ Manx language ᛬ Manx ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Man+ish | NE‹C+NE | calque: Manx |
mannish | mannisc | ᛫ people ᛫ humanity ᛬ human ( of humans ) ᛫ | N᛬AJ | mannish{mennish} | ME | |
mannishly | manniscly | ᛫ humanly ᛫ | AV | mannisclīce | OE | |
mannishness | manniscness | ᛫ humanity ᛫ human nature ᛫ humaneness ᛫ | N | manniscness | OE | |
manoath | ᛫ perjury ᛫ | N | mānāþ | OE | ||
manqualm | mancwalm | ᛫ a plague of man ᛫ | N | manqualm | ME | |
manred | ᛫ homage ᛫ service ᛫ | N | mannrǣdenn | OE | ||
manse | ᛫ to excommunicate ᛫ to curse ᛫ to damn ᛫ | V | mansen/amansen | ME | ||
manship | manscip | ᛫ respect ᛫ dignity ᛫ gallantry ᛫ chivalry ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
manshiply | mansciply | ᛫ honourably ᛫ courteously ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
manslayer | ᛫ one who commits homicide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
manswear | ᛫ to swear falsely ᛫ to perjure ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
manytongued | manytunged | ᛫ polyglot ᛫ | AJ | many+tongue+ed | NE×3 | |
mar | ᛫ to spoil ᛫ to tarnish ᛫ to damage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
mardy | ᛫ spoiled ( as in " bratty " ) ᛫ | AJ | ~[marred] | NE | used in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire | |
mare | ᛫ a nightmare-causing entity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mareshalk | marescalk | ᛫ marshal ᛫ | N | mare+shalk | NE+ME | or: horsethane [horsþegn]? |
mark | ᛫ feature ᛫ characteristic ᛫ attribute ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
marked | ᛫ noticeable ᛫ conspicuous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
markedly | ᛫ noticeably ᛫ conspicuously ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
Markish | Markisc | ᛫ the Mercian tongue ᛬ Mercian ᛫ | N᛬AJ | Marchisce | ME | |
Markishman | Markiscman | ᛫ a Mercian ᛫ | N | Merces | ME | plural: Marks; Markishmen |
Marklaw | ᛫ the region in Britain which was governed by Mercian law ᛫ | N(P) | merchinelaga | OE | ||
markle | markel | ᛫ a target ( a mark to aim at ) ᛫ a signet ᛫ a seal ᛫ an ensign ᛫ | N | mircels | OE | |
Markrich | Markric | ᛫ Mercia ᛫ | N(P) | Merkyneriche[Miercna Rīce] | ME | or: Mark (ME Merce); March (ME Merce) |
markstead | ᛫ a borderland ᛫ | N | mearcstede | OE | ||
markworthy | ᛫ noteworthy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
marmstone | ᛫ marble ᛫ | N | marmestan[marmanstān] | ME | ||
marplot | ᛫ a person or thing which ruins a plan ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
marrow | ᛫ a courgette ᛫ a zucchini ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
marsh | marsc | ᛫ a stretch of unforested wetland ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
marth | ᛫ a marten ( a kind of weasel ) ᛫ | N | mearþ | OE | ||
mash | masc | ᛫ pulp ᛬ to crush or smash something to a pulp ᛫ to press forcefully ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
masker | ᛫ to wander aimlessly ᛫ to bewilder ᛫ to confuse ᛫ to bewitch ᛫ to fascinate ᛫ | V | masker&malskren | NE&ME | of note: malscrung | |
match | mac | ᛫ an equivalence ᛫ a parallel ᛫ a spouse ᛫ a mate ᛫ a pair ᛫ a couple ᛫ | N | match&gemæcca | NE&OE | kin: make |
math | ᛫ a mowing ᛫ that which is gathered by mowing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | found in "aftermath" | |
mathe | ᛫ a maggot ᛫ a grub ᛫ | N | māthe[maþa] | ME | ||
mathel | ᛫ to speak formally ᛫ to declaim ᛫ to declare ᛫ to give a speech ᛫ | V | mathelen | ME | ||
mathelstead | ᛫ a place of assembly ᛫ | N | mæþelstede | OE | ||
mathom | ᛫ a trinket ᛫ a knickknack ᛫ a treasure ᛫ | N | ~[māþum] | NE‹OE | revived by Tolkien | |
mathomhouse | mathomhuse | ᛫ a treasury ᛫ | N | māþumhūs | OE | |
mattock | ᛫ a farming tool with right angled blades like a pickaxe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
maw | ᛫ a mouth ᛫ a stomach ᛫ appetite ᛫ inclination ᛫ liking ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
maw | ᛫ a boy ᛫ a young adult human male ᛫ | N | magu | OE | ||
mawk | ᛫ a maggot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | kin: maddock | |
mawkish | mawkisc | ᛫ sentimental in an exaggerated or false way ᛫ sappy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹N | |
may | ᛫ a family member ᛫ a relative ᛫ a kins-person ᛫ a kinsman ᛫ a kinswoman ᛫ | N | mei&mai[mǣg][mæg] | ME&ME | merge of two related words | |
may | ᛫ to mix ᛫ to mash ᛫ to blend ᛫ | V | maȝcen&mecgan | ME&OE | ||
maybe | ᛫ possibly ᛫ perchance ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
mayhap | ᛫ perhaps ᛫ possibly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
mayheamed | ᛫ incest ᛫ | N | mæghǣmed | OE | ||
maywrit | ᛫ a writing containing a list of kinsmen ᛫ a genealogical table ᛫ pedigree ᛫ | N | mǣggewrit | OE | glossary word | |
maze | mase | ᛫ a labyrinth ᛬ to confuse ᛫ to confound ᛫ | N᛬V | maze&māsen | NE&ME | |
meadow | ᛫ a stretch of grassland ( especially one used for hay ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: mead | |
meadowsweet | ᛫ a Filipendula ulmaria plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
meal | ᛫ to stain ᛫ to spot ᛫ to mark ᛫ | V | ~[gemǣlan] | ENE | ||
meal | ᛫ a container ᛫ a basin ᛫ a bucket ᛫ a tub ᛫ a measure of time ᛫ | N | mēle[mēle/mǣle] | ME | ||
meal | ᛫ grain which has been turned into a powder ᛫ flour ᛫ | N | ~[mēle][melu/meolo] | NE | ||
mean | ᛫ common ᛫ general ᛫ rude ᛫ cruel ᛫ | AJ | ~[mǣne] | NE | "mean" as in average comes from "medianus" | |
mean | ᛫ to intend ᛫ | V | ~[mǣnan] | NE | ||
meaningly | ᛫ intentionally ᛫ purposely ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
meanly | ᛫ common ᛫ shared ᛫ | AJ | menelich | ME | ||
meanname | ᛫ a common noun ᛫ | N | mean+name | NE×2 | calque: common noun; gemǣnelīc nama | |
meanness | ᛫ a piece of commonly held land ᛫ communion ᛫ | N | mēnnesse | ME | Minnises of Kent may come from dialectal alteration of this word | |
meanwealth | ᛫ a republic ᛫ | N | mean+wealth | NE×2 | calque: commonwealth | |
mearth | ᛫ grandeur ᛫ a marvel ᛫ a glorious thing ᛫ | N | mērthe[mǣrþu] | ME | ||
meat | ᛫ ( shows the word pertains to food and culinary arts ) ᛫ | PREFIX | mete | OE | example: "meteswamb" means "edible mushroom" | |
meateater | ᛫ a carnivore ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
meatfettle | meatfettel | ᛫ a chest or a cupboard for storing food ᛫ a pantry ᛫ a larder ᛫ a butlery ᛫ | N | meatfittle | ENE | |
meatsax | ᛫ a food knife ᛫ | N | meteseax | OE | ||
meddem (middem?) | ᛫ common ᛫ average ᛫ mediocre ᛫ | AJ | medeme[medume] | ME | ||
medge | mecg | ᛫ an adult human male ᛫ | N | megge[mecg] | ME | |
meech | meec | ᛫ a sword ᛫ | N | meche[mēce] | ME | |
meechfish | meecfisc | ᛫ a mullet ( as in the fish ) ᛫ | N | mēcefisc | OE | |
meed | ᛫ a payment ᛫ a reward ᛫ an award ᛫ a bribe ᛫ merit ᛫ desert ᛬ to reward ᛫ to deserve ᛫ to merit ᛫ | N᛬V | mẹ̄de&mẹ̄den[mēd] | ME&ME | ||
meedful | ᛫ meritorious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
meel | ᛫ speech ᛬ to speak ᛫ | N᛬V | mēlen&mǣl&mǣlan | ME&OE&OE | kin: mal (N) | |
meer | ᛫ famous ᛫ renowned ᛫ illustrious ᛫ distinguished ᛫ celebrated ᛫ | AJ | mēr[mǣre] | ME | ||
meet | ᛫ to dream ᛫ to have a vision ᛫ | V | mēten[mǣtan] | ME | ||
meet | ᛫ suitable ᛫ fitting ᛫ proper ᛫ | AJ | ~[gemǣte] | NE | ||
meeth | ᛫ abstemiousness ᛫ self-restraint ᛫ self-imposed discipline ᛫ temperance ᛫ capacity ᛫ capability ᛫ | N | mēthe&mǣþ | ME&OE | ||
meeth | ᛫ exhausted ᛫ weary ᛫ | AJ | mēþe | OE | ||
meethful | ᛫ temperate ᛫ modest ᛫ undemanding ᛫ moderate ᛫ | AJ | mēthful[mǣþful] | ME | ||
meeting | ᛫ a dream ( especially prophetic or admonitory ) ᛫ a vision ᛫ | N | mētinge[mǣting] | ME | ||
meetly | ᛫ suitably ᛫ properly ᛫ | AV | meet+ly | NE×2 | ||
meld | ᛫ to fuse ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
mensk | ᛫ honour ᛫ an honoured state or condition ᛫ honourable ᛫ praiseworthy ᛫ | N᛬AJ | menske | ME‹N | ||
merch | merc | ᛫ an Apium graveolens plant ( celery ) ᛫ | N | merch[merece] | ME | |
mere | ᛫ a sea ᛫ a lake ᛫ a pond ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | found in: mermaid | |
mere | ᛫ a border ᛫ boundary ᛬ to set a border or boundary ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[mǣre] | NE | ||
mereing | ᛫ a written note on a map giving information about a boundary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mergroat | ᛫ a pearl ᛫ | N | mere+groat | NE×2 | based on a folk etymology of meregrot (margarita) | |
merrail | ᛫ a sail ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | merehrægel | OE | ||
merry | ᛫ cheerful and lively ᛫ festive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
merrymake | ᛫ to celebrate ᛫ to be festive ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
merrymaker | ᛫ a reveler ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
merrymaking | ᛫ festivity ᛫ conviviality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
merryman | ᛫ a jester ᛫ a buffoon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
merrymeeting | ᛫ a festive gathering ᛫ a festival [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
merse | mers | ᛫ to exalt ᛫ to glorify ᛫ to make known ᛫ | V | mǣrsian | OE | |
merswine | ᛫ a dolphin ᛫ | N | ~[mereswīn] | NE | ||
meshdoor | mescdoor | ᛫ a screen door ᛫ | N | mesh+door | NE×2 | |
mess | ᛫ to feed ᛫ to furnish with provisions ᛫ | V | metsian | OE | ||
mete | ᛫ to paint ᛫ to sculpt ᛫ | V | mẹ̄ten[mētan] | ME | ||
mete | ᛫ a measurement ᛫ a measure ᛫ a mood ( grammar ) ᛫ a measure ( music ) ᛬ to measure ᛫ to regulate ᛫ to moderate ᛫ | N᛬V | gemet&mete&metgian | OE&NE&OE | "mood" from Ælfric the grammarian | |
meted | ᛫ the Maker ᛫ God ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | metod/meodod | OE | ||
metekindly | ᛫ metrical ᛫ | AJ | metcundlic | OE | ||
meteledge | metelecg | ᛫ to moderate ᛫ | V | gemetlǣcan | OE | |
meteyard | ᛫ a measuring rod ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
methinks | ᛫ it seems to me ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
meting | ᛫ a measurement ᛫ an amount ᛫ measuring ᛫ dimensions ᛫ | N | meting&mēting | NE&ME | ||
meting | ᛫ -metry ᛫ | SUFFIX | mete+-ing | NE×2 | ||
meting | ᛫ a painting ᛫ a picture ᛫ a sculpture ᛫ an image [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | mēting | OE | ||
mew | ᛫ a gull ᛫ a seagull ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mewel | ᛫ a maiden ᛫ a damsel ᛫ | N | mēowle | OE | ||
Michigan Mere | Miscigan | ᛫ Lake Michigan ᛫ | N(P) | Michigan+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
mid | ᛫ with ( as in "together" never as in "against" ) ᛫ | P | ~ | ME | found in: midwife | |
mid | ᛫ co- ᛫ | PREFIX | mid | OE | ||
mid eld | ᛫ the middle ages ᛬ medieval ᛫ | N᛬AJ | mid+eld | NE+ME | calque | |
midbody | ᛫ the middle of the body ᛫ the torso ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
midbrain | ᛫ the mesencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
middaily | ᛫ meridian ᛫ | AJ | middæglīc | OE | ||
midday | ᛫ noon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "noon" comes from Latin | |
middenhead | ᛫ a dunghil's top ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
middenstead | ᛫ a dunghil ᛫ the site of a dunghill ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
middleground | middelgrund | ᛫ a compromise ᛫ | N | middle ground | NE | |
middleman | middelman | ᛫ intermediary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
middling | ᛫ average ᛫ moderate ᛫ mean ᛫ median ᛫ medium ᛫ mediocre ᛫ intermediate ᛬ fairly ᛫ moderately ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
midge | micg | ᛫ a mosquito [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
midgut | ᛫ the central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
midriff | ᛫ the midsection of the human torso ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
midthole | ᛫ to sympathize ᛫ | V | midþolian | OE | ||
midtholing | ᛫ compassion ᛫ | N | midtholinge | ME | ||
midwist | ᛫ the act of being with others ᛫ co-being ᛫ participation ᛫ | N | midwist | OE | ||
Midyard | ᛫ Earth ᛫ Midgard ᛫ Middle Earth ᛫ | N(P) | middangeard | OE | "Middle Earth" is a corruption of a corruption of Middangeard | |
mield | meeld | ᛫ to accuse ᛫ to tell on someone ᛫ to inform against ᛫ to inform ᛫ to report ᛫ to evince ᛫ to announce ᛫ | V | mẹ̄̆lden&meldian | ME&OE | vowel lengthened in ME? |
mielder | meelder | ᛫ a narrator ᛫ an informer ᛫ an announcer ᛫ | N | melda | OE | |
migh | mige | ᛫ to urinate ᛫ to piss ᛫ to pee ᛫ | V | mīȝen[migan] | ME | |
might | migt | ᛫ ability ᛫ capacity ᛫ power ᛫ | N | might&might | NE&ME | |
mighten | migten | ᛫ to enable ᛫ to empower ᛫ | V | might+en | NE×2 | |
mightened | migtened | ᛫ enabled ᛫ empowered ᛫ | AJ | might+en+ed | NE×3 | |
mighth | migth | ᛫ urine ᛫ pee ᛫ piss ᛫ | N | miȝethe | ME | rhyme: writhe |
mighthleech | migthleec | ᛫ a urologist ᛫ | N | miȝethe+leech | ME+NE | rhyme: writhe peach |
mightlihood | migtlihood | ᛫ a possibility ᛫ | N | mightly+hood | OE+NE | based on: likelihood |
mightly | migtly | ᛫ possible ᛫ | AJ | mihtlic/meahtelic | OE | |
milch | milc | ᛫ able to give milk ᛫ able to be milked ᛫ | AJ | milch | ME | |
milkcoffee | ᛫ latte ᛫ | N | milk+coffee | NE×2‹ | calque: caffè latte | |
milken | ᛫ lactael ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
milkhouse | milkhuse | ᛫ a dairy ᛫ a creamery ᛫ a cheesery ᛫ a lactarium ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
milklithe | ᛫ very soft ᛫ very gentle ᛫ soft as milk ᛫ | AJ | meolclīþe | OE | ||
milksop | ᛫ a feeble or ineffectual person ᛫ a coward ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
milksoppy | ᛫ timid ᛫ milquetoast ᛫ insipid ᛫ | ADJ | ~ | NE | ||
millbeetle | millbeetel | ᛫ a cockroach ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(I+E) | |
milse | ᛫ mercy ᛫ pardon ᛬ to be merciful to ᛫ to pardon ᛬ mercy me! ᛫ | N᛬V᛬I | milce&milcen | ME | ||
milsey | ᛫ a milk strainer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | from milk-sye, from Middle English mylke syhe (milk sieve) | |
milt | ᛫ spleen ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
milth | ᛫ mercy ᛫ | N | milthe | ME | kin: mild | |
mimmer | ᛫ to keep in memory ᛫ to remember ᛫ | V | mimorian | OE | ||
min | ᛫ memory ᛫ remembrance ᛫ | N | min | ME | ||
minchen | mincen | ᛫ a nun ᛫ a female monk ᛫ | N | minchen[mynecenu] | ME | should Munich be named this in Anglish? |
mindfarer | ᛫ a psychonaut ᛫ | N | mind+farer | NE×2 | ||
mindful | ᛫ having mental faculties not dulled by sleep faintness or stupor ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mindless | ᛫ senseless ᛫ stupid ᛫ heedless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mindlokening | ᛫ psychiatry ᛫ | N | mind+lācnung | NE+OE | ||
mindlore | ᛫ psychology ᛫ | N | mind+lore | NE | ||
mindly | ᛫ mental ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mindset | ᛫ a mentality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
minge | mincg | ᛫ to mix ᛫ to blend ᛫ to mingle ᛫ | V | mē̆nǧen | ME | rhyme: singe ᛫ kin: mingle |
mingle | mingel | ᛫ to mix ᛫ to associate ( especially at social functions ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
minse | ᛫ to diminish ᛫ to chop into bits ᛫ to mince ᛫ | V | minsian | OE | kin: mince | |
minster | ᛫ a monastery ᛫ | N | minster[mynster] | ME‹OE‹I | ||
mint | ᛫ an intent ᛫ an aiming ᛬ to intend ᛫ to aim ( with a weapon or otherwise ) ᛫ | N | minten[myntan] | ME | ||
mir | ᛫ myrrh ᛫ a Commiphora myrrha plant ᛫ | N | mirre/murre[myrra/myrre] | ME‹OE‹I‹H‹O | or: mur | |
mire | ᛫ a fen ᛫ a bog ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
mirth | ᛫ merriment ᛫ jollity ᛫ amusement ᛬ to amuse ᛫ to entertain ᛫ to cheer up ᛫ | N | mirth&mirthen | NE&ME | ||
misbegotten | ᛫ illegitimate ( born out of wedlock ) ᛫ ill-conceived ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
misbeholden | ᛫ disobliging ᛫ unbecoming ᛫ offensive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
misbelieve | misbeleef | ᛫ to disbelieve ᛫ to hold an erronious belief ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
misbid | ᛫ to abuse ᛫ to mistreat ᛫ | V | misbidden | ME | ||
misbirth | ᛫ a miscarriage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
misbrook | ᛫ to misuse ᛫ | V | mis+brook | NE×2 | ||
mischar | miscar | ᛫ to pervert ᛫ | V | miscyrran | OE | |
misdeed | ᛫ an offense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
misdeem | ᛫ to misjudge ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
misdoom | ᛫ a misjudgment / a misjudgement ᛫ | N | misdōm | ME | ||
misfall | ᛫ a mishap ᛫ misfortune ᛬ to suffer bad luck ᛫ to turn out badly ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
misfare | ᛫ an error ᛫ a transgression ᛫ a mishap ᛫ misfortune ᛫ ill fate ᛬ to err ᛫ to transgress ᛫ to go wrong or astray ᛫ to be unfortunate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
misgang | ᛫ a trespass ᛫ | N | misgang | ME | ||
misgiving | misgifing | ᛫ doubt ᛫ apprehension ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | usually used in its plural form: "misgivings" |
mish | misc | ᛫ to mix ᛫ | V | miscian | OE | |
mishap | miscap | ᛫ an unfortunate accident ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
mishappen | miscappen | ᛫ to occur by misfortune ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
mislike | ᛫ displease ᛫ dislike ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mislore | ᛫ evil teaching ᛫ misinformation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
misname | ᛫ a misnomer ᛬ to call by a wrong name ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
misnimming | ᛫ a mistake ᛫ an error ᛫ | N | misniminge | ME | ||
misput | ᛫ to misplace ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
misqueath | miscweath | ᛫ to slander ᛫ to calumniate ᛫ to malign ᛫ to slander ᛫ to traduce ᛫ | V | miscweþan | OE | |
misqueme | miscweem | ᛫ to displease ᛫ | V | miscwemen | ME | |
misread | ᛫ to misadvise ᛫ to misinterpret ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
misreckon | ᛫ to miscalculate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
misser | ᛫ a half-year ᛫ | N | missere | OE | ||
misshapen | misscapen | ᛫ deformed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
missliness | ᛫ variousness ᛫ diversity ᛫ variability ᛫ ununiformity ᛫ | N | mislīch+ness | ME+NE | ||
missly | ᛫ various ᛫ diverse ᛫ variable ᛫ ununiform ᛫ | AJ | mislīch | ME | ||
misspeak | ᛫ to mispronounce ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
mist | ᛫ fog ᛫ a cloud of smoke ᛫ vapour ( including aromatic vapour ) ᛫ a gas [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | mist&mist | NE&ME | ||
Mistassini Mere | ᛫ Lac Mistassini ᛫ | N(P) | Mistassini+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
misthee | ᛫ to fail to improve to degenerate ᛫ | V | misþēon | OE | ||
mistide | ᛫ to have bad luck ᛫ to turn out badly ᛫ | V | mistiden | ME | ||
mistihood | ᛫ a mystery ᛫ mystery ᛫ obscurity ᛫ | N | mistīhēd | ME | ||
mistiming | ᛫ an anachronism ᛫ | N | mis+timing | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes | |
mistle | mistel | ᛫ basil ᛫ mistletoe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
mistrust | ᛫ distrust ᛫ suspicion ᛬ to distrust ᛫ to have no confidence in ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
miswise | ᛫ to misguide ᛫ to misdirect ᛫ to misinstruction ᛫ | V | miswissian | OE | ||
miswrought | miswrougt | ᛫ poorly made ᛫ poorly worked ᛫ misworked ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
mithe | ᛫ to avoid ᛫ to conceal ᛫ to dissemble ᛫ to restrain oneself ᛫ to suppress one's feelings ᛫ | V | mithen&mīþan | ME&OE | ||
mixen | ᛫ a dung heap ᛫ a dunghill ᛫ odure ᛫ | N | ~[mixen]{meox} | NE | kin: "mix" | |
moddry | ᛫ an aunt ᛫ | N | moddri[mōdrige] | ME | ||
moddrydaughter | moddrydaugter | ᛫ a maternal female cousin ᛫ | N | moddri+daughter | ME+NE | built on analogy with "modry sune" ᛫ see "needmay" |
moddryson | moddrysun | ᛫ a maternal male cousin ᛫ | N | moddri sune | ME | see "needmay" |
mold | ᛫ the surface of the earth ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
molten | ᛫ liquefied by heat ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mond | ᛫ a basket ᛫ | N | mand/mond | OE | kin: maund | |
mone | ᛫ a companion ᛫ a partner ᛫ companionship ᛫ participation ᛫ assistance ᛫ sexual intercourse ᛫ | N | mōn | ME | ||
mone | ᛫ evil ᛫ wickedness falsehood ᛫ evil personified ᛫ the Devil ᛬ wicked ᛫ false ᛫ base ᛫ | N᛬AJ | mon/man/mone[mān] | ME&OE | ||
mong | ᛫ a mixture ᛬ to mix ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
mong | ᛫ to traffic (with) ᛫ to barter ᛫ | V | ~[monger] | NE | backformation of monger which came from mong | |
monger | ᛫ a dealer ᛫ a trader ᛫ | N | monger | NE‹Þ‹I‹H | ||
monkhouse | munkhuse | ᛫ a monastery ᛫ | N | monk house | NE‹OE‹(I+E) | |
monkly | munkly | ᛫ monastic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(O+E) | |
monkstow | munkstow | ᛫ a monastery ᛫ a hermitage ᛫ | N | munucstōw | OE‹I | |
Monnight | Monnigt | ᛫ the night following Monday's dusk ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | from mōnanniht or from Monday+night |
monthadle | monthadel | ᛫ menstruation ᛫ | N | mōnaþādl | OE | |
monthadly | ᛫ undergoing menstruation ᛫ | AJ | mōnaþādlig | OE | ||
monthblood | ᛫ menses ᛫ menstrual blood ᛫ | N | mōnaþblōd | OE | ||
mood | ᛫ courage ᛫ valor ᛫ a mental state ᛫ an emotional state ᛫ a state of mind ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
moodsick | ᛫ distressed ᛫ of troubled mind ᛫ | AJ | mōdsēoc | OE | ||
moodthrake | ᛫ impetuosity of mind ᛫ impetuous or daring courage ᛫ | N | mōdþracu | OE | ||
moonbone | ᛫ a lunate bone ᛫ | N | moon+bone | NE×2 | calque: maanbeen, Mondbein | |
moonling | ᛫ a lunatic ᛫ a crazy or insane person ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
moonly | ᛫ lunar ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
moonmadness | ᛫ lunacy ᛫ | N | moonmadness | NE | ||
moonrown | moonrune | ᛫ a Chinese character ᛫ any character inspired by Chinese characters ( such as those in kana and hangul ) ᛫ | N | moon+rown | NE×2 | potentially offensive ᛫ see: Hanrown |
moonscape | ᛫ a devastated land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
moonshine | moonscine | ᛫ illicitly distilled alcohol ᛫ nonsense ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
moonsick | ᛫ crazy ᛫ lunatic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
moonstruck | ᛫ insane ᛫ crazy ᛫ ludicrous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
moor | ᛫ a stretch of uncultivated highland characterized by low-growing vegetation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
moorfowl | moorfule | ᛫ the Lagopus scotica bird ᛫ | N | moorfowl | NE | |
Moorland | ᛫ Mauritania ᛫ | N(P) | Moor+land | NE‹O+NE | or: Mauritany | |
moorle | moorel | ᛫ a rope for mooring a ship ᛫ pronesium ᛫ | N | mǣrels | OE | |
moot | ᛫ an assembly ᛫ a council ᛬ to broach ᛫ to talk about ᛫ to debate ᛫ to argue ᛫ to dispute ᛬ no longer relevant ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
moothall | ᛫ a room or building in which a moot is held ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mooting | ᛫ conversation ᛫ discussion ᛫ discourse ᛫ debate ᛫ | N | mooting&motung | NE&OE | ||
mootstow | ᛫ a meeting place ᛫ a forum ᛫ | N | gemōtstōw | OE | ||
more | ᛫ an edible root ( like a carrot or parsnip ) ᛫ a root ᛫ an origin ᛬ to take root ᛫ to root ᛫ | N᛬V | more[more]&mōren | ME&ME | ||
morebeam | ᛫ a Morus plant ( a mulberry tree ) ᛫ | N | mōrbēam | ME‹OE‹I | ||
moreberry | ᛫ a mulberry ᛫ | N | morberi | OE‹I | ||
morecrop | ᛫ a Pimpinella plant ( a pimpernel ) ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | ||
moreness | ᛫ plurality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
morning beads | ᛫ matins ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Morningland | ᛫ the Orient ᛫ the Far East ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | poetic? | |
morrow | ᛫ the following day ᛫ the time following an event ᛫ the near future ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
morth | ᛫ murder ᛫ slaughter ᛫ | N | morth | ME | ||
mostlings | ᛫ for the most part ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
mot | ᛫ to be allowed ᛫ to be permitted ᛫ to be compelled ᛫ must ᛫ may ( subjunctive ) ᛫ | V | mọ̄ten | ME | modal verb ᛫ once the present tense of "must" ᛫ shortened ~1500 | |
mote | ᛫ a particle ᛫ an atom ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
motherland | ᛫ the land of one's ancestors or birth ᛫ the country which founded a colony ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
motherly | ᛫ maternal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mothermorth | ᛫ matricide ᛫ | N | mother+morth | NE+ME | calque: Muttermord | |
motherslayer | ᛫ a matricide ᛫ | N | mōdorslaga | OE | ||
mothertongue | mothertung | ᛫ one's native language ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
motherwit | ᛫ common sense ᛫ | N | mother wit | NE | ||
mothren | ᛫ maternal ᛫ | AJ | mēdren | OE | ||
mound | mund | ᛫ a hand ᛫ a hand ( a measurement ) ᛫ guardianship ᛫ protection ᛫ | N | mound[mund] | ME | |
moundbreach | mundbreac | ᛫ violation of security ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
mouser | muser | ᛫ an animal that catches mice ( especially a cat ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
mouthly | muthely | ᛫ oral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
mouthroof | mutheroof | ᛫ the palate ᛫ | N | mūþhrōf | OE | |
mouthroofy | mutheroofy | ᛫ palatal ᛫ | AJ | mūþhrōf+y | OE+NE | |
mow | muhe | ᛫ to be able to ᛫ to maybe be able to ᛫ to be permitted to ᛫ to be allowed to ᛫ | V | mouen | ME | PST: might ᛫ PTCP: ? ᛫ PRES: may ᛫ PPR: mowing ᛫ rhyme: how |
mowing | muing | ᛫ capable ᛫ able ᛫ | AJ | mouing{mouen} | ME | from the present participle of ME "mouen" |
much | muc | ᛫ large ᛫ big ᛫ | AJ | much/muchel | ME | |
muchel | mucel | ᛫ to increase ᛫ to magnify ᛫ | V | muchelen[miclian] | ME | or: mickle; much |
mug | ᛫ a cup ᛫ face ( colloquial ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
mugwort | ᛫ an Artemisia vulgaris plant ᛫ an Artemisia plant [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
mum | ᛫ silent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
mumble | mumbel | ᛫ a quiet and indistinct utterance ᛬ to murmur ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
mun | ᛫ to remember [ᚾ] ᛫ | V | imunen[gemunan] | ME | English also had a cognate from Old Norse, see "mǒnen" in ME | |
munworthy | ᛫ memorable ᛫ worthy of being remembered ᛫ | V | mun+worthy | OE+NE | ||
murk | ᛫ darkness or particles that make it hard to see ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
murky | ᛫ dark and gloomy ( especially due to thick mist ) ᛫ darkly vague ᛫ obscure ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
murther | ᛫ a murder ᛬ to murder ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | "murder" might have French influence | |
murthersome | murthersum | ᛫ murderous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
murthry | ᛫ muderous ᛫ | AJ | murther+y | NE×2 | ||
naft | ᛫ poverty ᛫ indigence ᛫ | N | næft | OE | literally: not-having? ᛫ see: haft | |
nafty | ᛫ poor ( unwealthy ) ᛫ indigent ᛫ | AJ | næftig | OE | ||
nag | ᛫ to niggle or to gripe continuously ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
nailkin | ᛫ a Dianthus plant ( a carnation ) ᛫ | N | nail+kin | NE+ME | calque: Nelke | |
nake | ᛫ to strip ᛫ to undress ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
nake | ᛫ a seacraft ᛫ | N | naca | OE | kin: navy | |
naked | ᛫ stripped ᛫ naked ᛫ undressed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
nakedness | ᛫ nudity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nam | ᛫ am not ᛫ | V | neom | OE | equal to: nay am | |
name | ᛫ a noun ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | calque: nōmen | |
namebook | ᛫ a register of names ᛫ | N | nambōc | OE | ||
namecouth | namecooth | ᛫ famous ᛫ well-known ᛫ of note ᛫ of renown ᛫ | AJ | namcūþ | OE | |
nameless | ᛫ anonymous ᛫ indefinable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
namelessness | ᛫ anonymity ᛫ indefinability ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
namesake | ᛫ one who is named after another or for whom another is named ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nameshunning | namescunning | ᛫ antonomasia ᛫ | N | name+shunning | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes |
naming | ᛫ nomination ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nana | ᛫ a grandmother ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nap | ᛫ a cup ᛫ a bowl ᛫ | N | nap[hnæp] | ME | ||
narrow | ᛫ a confinement ᛫ a durance ᛫ a strait ᛫ a difficulty ᛫ | N | nearu | OE | ||
nary | ᛫ never a ᛫ not a ᛫ not ᛫ neither ᛫ no ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | short for: ne'er a | |
nas | ᛫ not ᛫ | AV | næs | OE | equal to: nā (never) + ealles (completely) | |
natheless | ᛫ nevertheless ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
naught | naugt | ᛫ nothing ᛫ a zero ᛫ a null ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
naught but | naugt | ᛫ just ᛫ merely ᛫ nothing but ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
naughth | naugth | ᛫ zeroth ᛫ 0th | AJ | noughth | NE | found in: noughth week |
naughties | naugties | ᛫ the first decade of a century ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
naughty | naugty | ᛫ mischievous ᛫ risqué ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
nave | nafe | ᛫ to not have ᛫ | V | nabban | OE | rhyme: have |
navel | nafel | ᛫ an umbilicus ᛫ a belly button ᛫ the central point of a place ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
nay | ᛫ a negative answer ᛬ to reply negatively ᛬ no ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
nay | ᛫ to address ᛫ to accost ᛫ to speak to ᛫ to assail ᛫ | V | nǣgan&genǣgan | OE | ||
naying | ᛫ negative ᛫ | AJ | nay+ing | NE×2 | ||
nayword | ᛫ a term of negation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | coined by Ralph Lever | |
ne | ᛫ no ᛫ not ᛫ nay ᛫ nor ᛫ | AV&C | ne&ne | ME&OE | ||
neap | ᛫ to pluck off ᛫ | V | ahnēapan | OE | kin: 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐌷𐌽𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽; nypa (Swedish) | |
near | ᛫ to save ᛫ to rescue ᛫ | V | nerian&nerian | ME&OE | ||
nearness | ᛫ closeness ᛫ proximity ᛫ intimacy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
neat | ᛫ a peasant holding land from a lord ᛫ a companion ᛫ a comrade [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | nēt&genēat | ME&OE | ||
neat | ᛫ cattle ᛫ a cow ᛫ a bull ᛫ | N | neat&neat | NE&OE | ||
neath | ᛫ beneath ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
neatherd | ᛫ one who looks after neat ( cattle ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
neatland | ᛫ rented land ᛫ feudally owned land ᛫ | N | geneatland | OE | ||
neb | ᛫ a beak ᛫ a nose ᛫ a snout ᛫ a face ᛫ | N | neb&nebb | NE&OE | ||
neckrib | ᛫ a cervical rib ᛫ | N | neck+rib | NE×2 | ||
neckridgebone | neckricgbone | ᛫ a cervical vertebra ᛫ | N | neck+ridgebone | NE×2 | |
need | ᛫ a necessity ᛫ a requirement ᛬ to require ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
needful | ᛫ necessary ᛫ mandatory ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
needfully | ᛫ necessarily ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
needlefish | needelfisc | ᛫ a Belonidae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
needless | ᛫ unnecessary ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
needlework | needelwork | ᛫ embroidery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
needmay | ᛫ a close kinsman or kinswoman ᛫ a cousin ?᛫ | N | nīdmæge&nīdmāge | OE&OE | ||
neednot | ᛫ a superfluity ᛫ an unnecessary thing ᛫ | N | neednot | NE | ||
needs cost | ᛫ necessarily ᛫ | AV | nedes cost | ME | or: needs costs ᛫ this "cost" is not from French | |
needtharf | ᛫ necessary ᛫ | AJ | nẹ̄dtharf[nēdþearf] | ME | ||
needwise | ᛫ by necessity ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
neep | ᛫ a turnip ᛫ | N | ~[nẹ̄p][nǣp] | NE‹ME‹OE‹I | ||
neepseed | ᛫ rapeseed ᛫ | N | nǣpsǣd | OE‹I | ||
neer | ᛫ the kidney ᛫ | N | nēre | ME‹LG | ||
neese | ᛫ to inspect ᛫ to visit ᛫ | V | nēosian | OE | ||
neet | ᛫ to enjoy ( to make use of ) ᛫ | V | nēotan | OE | ||
neethe | ᛫ to risk ᛫ to venture ᛫ | V | nēþan | OE | ||
neeve | neef | ᛫ nephew ᛫ a grandson ᛫ | N | nēve[nefa] | ME | |
neigh | neig | ᛫ local- ᛫ | PREFIX | neigh&nēah | NE&OE | found in "neighbour" |
neighledge | neiglecg | ᛫ to approach ᛫ | V | neighlechen | ME | rhyme: day ledge |
neightheed | neigtheed | ᛫ a neighbouring people or nation ᛫ | N | nēahþēod | OE | rhyme: day weed |
neighwist | neigwist | ᛫ localness ᛫ nearness ᛫ presence ᛫ fellowship ᛫ | N | nēahwist | OE | |
neither | ᛫ neuter ( grammatical term ) ᛫ | AJ | naþor | OE | ||
nemmen | ᛫ to mention ᛫ to specify ᛫ to refer to ᛫ to designate ᛫ to name ᛫ | V | nemnen{nevenen} | ME | ||
nemmeningly | ᛫ nominative ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | nemnigendlīc | OE | ||
nerxenwong | ᛫ a paradise ᛫ | N | neorxenawang | OE | ||
nerxenwongly | ᛫ paradisiacal ᛫ | AJ | neorxnawanglic | OE | ||
nesh | nesc | ᛫ delicate ᛫ feeble ᛫ soft ᛫ delicate ᛫ tender ᛫ timid ᛫ dainty ᛫ | AJ | ~[hnesce/hnysce/hnæsce] | NE | |
neshen | nescen | ᛫ to make tender or soft ᛫ mollify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
neshly | nescly | ᛫ tenderly ᛫ | AV | n̄̆eshlī | ME | |
neshness | nescness | ᛫ docility ᛫ feebleness ᛫ weakness ᛫ softness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ness | ᛫ a headland ᛫ a promontory ᛫ a cape ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ness | ᛫ -ity ( abstract nominal suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
nestle | nestel | ᛫ to lie comfortably within or against something ᛫ to lie somewhat obscured ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
net | ᛫ cyber- ( but only in internet contexts ) ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | or: web- | |
nether | ᛫ lower ᛫ low ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Netherfrankish | Netherfrankisc | ᛫ Low Franconian ᛫ | N(P) | nether+Frank+ish | NE×3 | calque: Niederfränkisch |
nethergang | ᛫ a descent ᛫ | N | niþergang | OE | ||
netherhair | ᛫ pubic hair ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
netherhose | ᛫ underpants ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
Netherlander | ᛫ one from the Netherlands ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
Netherlandish | Netherlandisc | ᛫ the Dutch language ᛫ of the Dutch ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | ~ | NE | |
nethermind | ᛫ the subconscious ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
netherness | ᛫ inferiority ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
netherwear | ᛫ underwear ᛫ undergarments ᛫ lingerie ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Nettilling Mere | ᛫ Nettilling Lake ᛫ | N(P) | Nettilling+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
nettle | nettel | ᛫ an Urtica plant ᛬ to hit with nettles ᛫ to irritate ᛫ to annoy ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
nettlesome | nettelsum | ᛫ annoying ᛫ irritating ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
neveling | nefeling | ᛫ prone ᛫ face-down ᛫ supine ᛫ face-up ᛫ | AV | nevelinge | ME | |
neverending | neferending | ᛫ infinite ᛫ endless ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
neverland | neferland | ᛫ a utopia ᛫ | N | neverland | NE | |
new | ᛫ neo- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
new | ᛫ stingy ᛫ niggardly ᛫ miserly ᛫ | AJ | hnēaw | OE | kin: niggard | |
New English | Englisc | ᛫ Modern English ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | |
New Scotland | Skotland | ᛫ Nova Scotia ᛫ | N(P) | new+Scotland | NE×2 | calque: Nova Scotia |
newel | ᛫ a novelty ᛫ novelty itself ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
newel | ᛫ prone ᛫ prostrate ᛫ face-down ᛫ deep down ᛫ very low ᛫ | AJ | niwol[neowol] | OE | ||
newelness | ᛫ the abyss ᛫ | N | nielnesse | ME | ||
newen | ᛫ recently ᛫ | AV | neuen[nīwan/nēowan] | ME | ||
newlings | ᛫ recently ᛫ lately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
newsman | ᛫ a reporter ᛫ a journalist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nexttomorrow | ᛫ the day after tomorrow ᛫ overmorrow ᛫ | N᛬ADV | next tomorrow | NE | West African English | |
Nicaragua Mere | ᛫ Lake Nicaragua ᛫ | N(P) | Nicaragua+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
nich | nic | ᛫ not I ᛫ | N(PRO) | nich | ME | equal to: nay ich |
nick | ᛫ to deny ᛫ | V | nikken[niccan] | ME | supposedly comes from Old English "ne ic" (not I) | |
nicker | ᛫ a water spirit ᛫ a mermaid ᛫ a siren ᛫ | N | niker[nicor] | ME | see: knucker ᛫ kin: Nixe; nikker; nekker; nøkke; nøkken; näck | |
nift | ᛫ a niece ᛫ a granddaughter ᛫ | N | nifte&nift | ME&OE | ||
nigh | nige | ᛫ to approach ᛬ near ᛬ close to ᛫ | V᛬AJ᛬P | nigh&neighen | NE&ME | |
nigh on | nige | ᛫ just about ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
nighness | nigeness | ᛫ proximity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
nightganger | nigtganger | ᛫ a thing that goes about at night ᛫ a night monster ᛫ a hyena ? ᛫ | N | nihtgenga | OE | |
nightish | nigtisc | ᛫ nocturnal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
nightledge | nigtlecg | ᛫ to become night ᛫ | V | nichtlachen | ME | |
nightly | nigtly | ᛫ nocturnal ᛬ happening every night ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
nightrail | nigtrail | ᛫ a loose gown worn at night ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
nightshade | nigtscade | ᛫ a Solanum plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
nightsong | nigtsong | ᛫ compline ᛫ | N | night song[nihtsang] | NE | |
nill | ᛫ will not ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: nould | |
nim | ᛫ to take ᛫ to seize ᛫ to gain ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: num; nimmed ᛫ PTCP: num ᛫ kin: numb; nimble | |
nimble | nimbel | ᛫ agile ᛫ | AJ | ~[nē̆mel] | NE | kin: nim; numb |
nimmer | ᛫ a taker ᛫ a thief ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | dialectal | |
nimth | ᛫ unless ᛫ except ᛫ | C | nimþe/nemþe/nymþe | OE | ||
nine eyes | ᛫ a lamprey ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | analogy: Neunauge; negenoog; niøje; niauge | |
nip | ᛫ to become low ( such as the setting of the sun or the bowing of one's head ) ᛫ | V | nipen[hnipian] | ME | ||
nipe | ᛫ to become dark ᛫ | V | nīpan | OE | ||
Nipigon Mere | ᛫ Lake Nipigon ᛫ | N(P) | Nipigon+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
nis | ᛫ is not ᛫ | V | nis | OE | equal to: nay is | |
nite | ᛫ to clash ᛫ to butt against ᛫ | V | hnītan | OE | ||
nithe | ᛫ enmity ᛫ rancour ᛫ outcastdom ᛫ | N | ~[nīþ] | NE | to be in nithe was to be a nithing (social outcast)? | |
nither | ᛫ to debase ᛫ to humiliate ᛫ to blight ᛫ to blast (as in blight a plant) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
nithing | ᛫ a wretch ᛫ an outcast ᛫ a social reject ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
niths | ᛫ men ᛫ humans ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | niþþas | OE | ||
nitten | ᛫ ignorant ᛫ | AJ | nyten | OE | ||
nittenness | ᛫ ignorance ᛫ | N | nytennes | OE | ||
noll | ᛫ a crown of a head ᛫ a head ᛫ a nape ᛫ | N | nol[hnol] | ME | ||
nonce | nones | ᛫ a nonce word ᛫ one occasion ᛬ for one occasion ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
nooth | ᛫ boldness ᛫ daringness ᛫ temerity ᛫ | N | nōþ | OE | ||
Nornish | Nornisc | ᛫ the Norwegian language ᛬ Norwegian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Norenish/Nornisce{Noreine} | ME | |
Nornishman | Norniscman | ᛫ a Norwegian ᛫ | N(P) | Noreinisce men | ME | or: Norn (from backformation) |
northen | ᛫ from the north ᛫ | AV | norþan | OE | ||
northern lights | ligts | ᛫ the aurora borealis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Northish | Northisc | ᛫ Nordic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Northman | ᛫ a Norseman ( a Dane , a Swede , a Norwegian , an Icelander , &c ) ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
Northmannish | Northmannisc | ᛫ Norse language ᛬ Norse ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | ~ | NE | |
Northumber | ᛫ Northumbria ᛫ the Northumbrians ᛫ | N(P) | Norþhymbre | OE‹(E+C) | ||
Northumberrich | Northumberric | ᛫ the Kingdom of Northumbria ᛫ | N(P) | Norþanhymbra rīce | OE‹(E+C+C) | |
Northumbrish | Northumbrisc | ᛫ the Northumbrian tongue ᛬ Northumbrian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Norþhymbrisc | OE‹(E+C+E) | |
Norwales | ᛫ Wales ᛫ Cambria ᛫ Welshmen ᛫ | N(P) | norþwalas | OE | or: Cymru; Camberland (calque of Cambria) | |
Norway | ᛫ Norway ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
Norwelsh | Norwelsc | ᛫ Welsh language ᛬ Welsh ᛫ Cambrian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | norþwalas+ish | OE+NE | see: Welsh ᛫ or: Cymraeg |
nosebone | ᛫ a nasal bone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nosegristle | nosegristel | ᛫ a septum ᛫ nose cartilage ᛫ | N | næsgristle | OE | |
nosely | ᛫ nasal ᛬ nasally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
nostle | nostel | ᛫ a band or strip of material ᛫ a headband ᛫ a fillet ᛫ | N | nostle | OE | |
note | ᛫ benefit ᛫ usefulness ᛫ profit ᛫ advantage ᛬ to use ᛫ | N᛬V | nōte&nōten | ME&ME | ||
noteful | ᛫ useful ᛫ beneficial ᛫ profitable ᛫ advantageous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
notely | ᛫ beneficial ᛫ useful ᛫ advantageous ᛫ | AJ | nytlīc | OE | ||
nott | ᛫ polled ᛫ hornless ᛫ antlerless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
nottle | nottel | ᛫ useful ᛫ advantageous ᛫ beneficial ᛫ | N | nyttol | OE | |
notwithstanding | ᛫ in spite of this ᛬ despite ᛫ in spite of ᛬ in spite of the fact that ᛫ | AV᛬P᛬C | ~ | NE | ||
nough | noug | ᛫ bent down ᛫ low ᛫ lowly ᛫ humble ᛫ abject ᛫ mean ᛫ poor ᛫ | AJ | hnāh | OE | rhyme: dough |
nouth | nuthe | ᛫ just now ᛫ at present ᛫ in a moment ᛫ | AV | nouthe | ME | |
now and then | nue | ᛫ occasionally ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
nowend | ᛫ a sailor ᛫ a mariner ᛫ | N | nōwend | OE | kin: navy | |
nowhither | nohwither | ᛫ to nowhere ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
nowise | ᛫ in no way or manner ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
numb | ᛫ deprived of the power of feeling ᛫ | AJ | numb | NE | ||
nut | ᛫ a pancreas ( of an animal ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
nye | ᛫ to bend downwards ᛫ to curtsey ᛫ | V | hnīgan | OE | ||
o | ᛫ continually ᛫ always ᛬ aye ! ᛫ | AV᛬I | ō | ME | kin: aye | |
oad | ᛫ a funeral pyre ᛫ | N | ād | ME&OE | ||
oakwern | ᛫ a squirrel ᛫ | N | aquerne/okerne[ācwern] | ME | ||
oast | ᛫ a kiln ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oath | ᛫ a vow ᛫ a pledge ᛫ a sworn declaration ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oathbreach | oathbreac | ᛫ perjury ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
oathbreaker | ᛫ a perjurer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oathom | ᛫ a son-in-law ᛫ a brother-in-law ᛫ | N | āþum | OE | ||
oathworthy | ᛫ able to be trusted under oath ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ock | ᛫ ( diminutive suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | ||
oddness | ᛫ strangeness ᛫ oddity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
odds and ends | ᛫ miscellaneous things ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oddsmaker | ᛫ one who reckons betting odds ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
off the mark | ᛫ inaccurate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
offal | ᛫ garbage ᛫ trash ᛫ waste ᛫ internal organs which are to be discarded ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
offarm | ᛫ to pity ᛫ | V | ofearmian | OE | ||
offcome | offcum | ᛫ an excuse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
offdealing | ᛫ a department ᛫ a division ᛫ | N | off+deal+ing | NE×3 | calque: ôfdieling | |
offgalth | ᛫ a superstition ᛫ | N | æfgælþ | OE | what does "gælþ" mean? | |
offhand | ᛫ curt ᛫ abrupt ᛫ informal ( of words or actions ) ᛬ without forethought ᛫ extempore ᛫ extemporaneous ᛫ impromptu ᛫ unpremeditated ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
offhanded | ᛫ of an ungraciously nonchalant manner ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
offhandedly | ᛫ in an ungraciously nonchalant manner ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
offset | ᛫ to counteract ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
offshoot | offscoot | ᛫ a derivative ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
often | ᛫ frequent ᛬ frequently ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
oftenness | ᛫ frequency ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oftseen | ᛫ often seen ᛫ unrare ᛫ common ᛫ usual ᛫ | AJ | oft+seen{seldsēn} | NE×2 | ||
oldbaken | ᛫ stale ᛫ | AJ | ealdbacen | OE | Also used this way by Dutch and German | |
olden | ᛫ related to former times ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
oldfarrand | ᛫ old-fashioned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
oldmaidish | oldmaidisc | ᛫ prim ᛫ | AJ | oldmaidish | NE | |
olvend | olfend | ᛫ a camel ᛫ | N | olfend/olvend | ME‹I‹H‹O | |
on the mark | ᛫ accurate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
onalike | ᛫ resemblance ᛫ similarity ᛫ simile ᛫ similitude ᛬ similar ᛬ similarly ᛫ | N᛬AJ᛬AV | ongelīc | OE | ||
onalikeness | ᛫ a formula ᛫ a pattern ᛫ | N | ongelīcness | OE | ||
onboard | ᛫ in agreement ᛫ being a willing participant or supporter ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ond | ᛫ envy ᛫ | N | onde[anda/onda] | ME | ||
onday | ᛫ an appointed day ᛫ an appointment ᛬ to appoint a day ᛫ to appoint ᛫ | N᛬V | āndaga&āndagian | OE | ||
ondy | ᛫ envious ᛫ | AJ | andig | OE | ||
one | ᛫ to unify ᛫ to make one ᛫ | V | onen | ME | ||
one | ᛫ uni- ᛫ mono- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
one of a kind | ᛫ unique ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
oneberry | ᛫ a Paris quadrifolia plant ( paris ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
onedeal | ᛫ a one-piece swimsuit ᛫ | N | one+deal | NE×2 | calque: one-piece | |
onedom | ᛫ unity ᛫ | N | one+dom | NE×2 | ||
onefold | ᛫ simple ᛫ plain ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
onefoldly | ᛫ simply ᛫ plainly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
onefoldness | ᛫ oneness ᛫ unity ᛫ simplicity ᛫ singleness ᛫ | N | ānfealdnes | OE | ||
Onega Mere | ᛫ Lake Onega ᛫ | N(P) | Onega+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
oneganger | ᛫ a lone traveller ᛫ | N | āngenga | OE | ||
onehood | ᛫ unity ᛫ singularity ᛫ accord ᛫ concord ᛫ agreement ᛫ unanimity ᛫ consensus ᛫ | N | ō̆nhē̆d | ME | ||
onehorn | ᛫ a unicorn ᛫ | N | ānhorn | OE | ||
oneledge | onelecg | ᛫ to unite ᛫ | V | ānlǣcan | OE | |
oneleppy | ᛫ single ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ō̆nlẹ̄̆pī | ME | or: onleppy | |
onemood | ᛫ of one mind ᛫ unanimous ᛫ | AJ | ānmōd | OE | ||
onemoodly | ᛫ unanimously ᛫ | AV | ānmōdlīce | OE | ||
onemoodness | ᛫ unity ᛫ unanimity ᛫ | N | ānmōdnes | OE | ||
oneread | ᛫ agreed ᛫ resolute ᛫ unanimous ᛫ | AJ | ānrǣd | OE | ||
onereadly | ᛫ unanimously ᛫ resolutely ᛫ | AV | ānrǣdlīce | OE | ||
onereadness | ᛫ concord ᛫ constancy ᛫ agreement ᛫ | N | ānrǣdnes | OE | ||
onewield | oneweeld | ᛫ an autocracy ᛫ a monocracy ᛫ dictatorship ᛫ | N | ānweald | OE | |
onewielder | oneweelder | ᛫ an autocrat ᛫ a monarch ᛫ a dictator ᛫ | N | ānwealda | OE | |
onewye | ᛫ a duel ᛫ | N | ānwīg | OE | ||
onfall | ᛫ to attack ᛫ to assault ᛫ to fall upon ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
onfly | ᛫ infectious disease ᛫ | N | onflyge | OE | ||
onflyleech | onflyleec | ᛫ an infectious disease specialist ᛫ | N | onflyge+leech | ME+NE | |
ongoing | ᛫ continuing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
oning | ᛫ unification ᛫ a joining together ᛫ | N | oning | ME | rhyme: running | |
onmarking | ᛫ an inscription ᛫ | N | onmearcung | OE | ||
onnim | ᛫ to adopt ᛫ | V | on+nim | NE+ME | calque: oannimme ᛫ PST: onnum; onnimmed ᛫ PTCP: onnum | |
onset | ᛫ an initial phase ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
onslaught | onslaugt | ᛫ a fierce or destructive attack ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Ontario Mere | ᛫ Lake Ontario ᛫ | N(P) | Ontario+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
onyet | ᛫ to perceive ᛫ to comprehend ᛫ | V | onȝiten[ongietan] | ME | or: onget (Norse) | |
oom | ᛫ rust ᛫ | N | ōm | OE | ||
oose | ᛫ a god of the Germanic pantheon ᛫ | N | ōs | OE | PL: eese? | |
ooze | oos | ᛫ goo ᛫ juice sap ᛫ moisture ᛫ a secretion ᛬ to slowly secrete ᛫ | N᛬V | ooze&wōs | NE&OE | |
oozy | oosy | ᛫ juicy ᛫ succulent ᛫ | AJ | oozy&wōsig | NE&OE | |
openarse | ᛫ a medlar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | used by Chaucer and Shakespeare | |
openhearted | ᛫ frank ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
or | ᛫ proto- ᛫ | PREFIX | or | OE | ||
orchard | orcard | ᛫ a fruit tree garden ᛫ | N | ~[ortgeard] | NE‹(I?+E) | kin: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 |
orcheap | orceep | ᛫ gratis ᛫ gratuitously ᛫ without payment ᛫ | AV | orcēape | OE‹(E+I) | |
ord | ᛫ a point ( a tip ) ᛫ a point ( the meaning or indented function of something ) [ᚹ] ᛫ a point ( in scoring ) [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ord | ME | partial calque of "point" | |
ordeal | ᛫ a very unpleasant or dangerous prolonged experience ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ordeer | ᛫ a protozoan ᛫ a protozoon ᛫ | N | or+deer | ME+NE | calque: Urtier | |
ordfrom | ᛫ a source ᛫ an origin ᛫ an originator ᛫ an author ᛫ | N | ordgrumeªruma | ME&OE | ||
ore | ᛫ a messenger ᛫ a herald ᛫ an angel ᛫ an envoy ᛫ | N | ār | OE | kin: errand; árr (Norse); 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 | |
ore | ᛫ honour ᛫ a showing of favour ᛬ to honour ᛫ to show favour ᛫ | N᛬V | ore&āren[ār] | ME | ||
ore | ᛫ raw metal ᛫ mineral containing a valuable constituent ( such as metal ) ᛫ | N | ore&ōra | NE&OE | ||
orefast | ᛫ honourable ᛫ | AJ | ārfæst | OE | ||
oreful | ᛫ venerable ᛫ | AJ | ārful | OE | ||
oret | ᛫ to disgrace ᛫ put to shame ᛫ | V | orrettan | OE | ||
oretship | oretscip | ᛫ infamy ᛫ disgrace ᛫ | N | orretscipe | OE | |
oreworthy | ᛫ venerable ᛫ | AJ | ārweorþig | OE | ||
orf | ᛫ cattle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
orgel | ᛫ pride ᛫ haughtiness ᛬ proud ᛫ prideful ᛫ | N᛬AJ | orgel[orgol] | ME | kin: orgeuil (French) | |
orgle | orgel | ᛫ a pipe organ ᛫ | N | orgle | ME‹OE‹I | |
orground | orgrund | ᛫ a primal cause ᛫ the ultimate cosmic principle ᛫ | N | or+ground | OE+NE | calque: urgrund |
orlay | ᛫ fate ᛫ destiny ᛫ | N | orlæg | OE | ||
orlay | ᛫ strife ᛫ war ᛫ | N | orlege | OE | ||
ormete | ᛫ without measure ᛫ limitless ᛫ boundless ᛫ too big to measure ᛫ | AJ | ormete[ormǣte] | OE | ||
ormetly | ᛫ excessively ᛫ immensely ᛫ | AV | ormǣtlīce | OE | ||
ormetness | ᛫ excess ᛫ immensity ᛫ | N | ormǣtness | OE | ||
ormood | ᛫ hopeless ᛫ despairing ᛫ without courage ᛫ | AJ | ormōd | OE | ||
ormoodness | ᛫ despair ᛫ desperation ᛫ | N | ormōdness | OE | ||
orn | ᛫ excess ( in a bad way ) ᛬ excessive ᛫ | N᛬AJ | orne | OE | ||
orped | ᛫ stout-hearted ᛫ bold ᛫ valiant ᛫ strong in battle ᛫ splendid excellent ᛫ | AJ | orped | OE | ||
orping | ᛫ respiration ᛫ | N | orpung | OE | ||
orsin | ᛫ original sin ᛫ | N | or+sin | ME+NE | calque: Ursünde | |
orsorrow | ᛫ without sorrow ᛫ carefree ᛫ | AJ | orsorg | OE | ||
ort | ᛫ a remnant of a meal ᛫ a remnant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | usually found in its plural form: "orts" | |
orth | ᛫ breath ᛬ to breathe ᛫ to pant ᛫ | N | orþ/oroþ&orþian | OE&OE | ||
orthank | ᛫ intelligence ᛫ skill ᛫ cunning ᛬ skillful cunning ᛫ | N᛬AJ | orþanc | OE | ||
ortongue | ortung | ᛫ a proto-language ᛫ | N | or+tongue | ME+NE | |
ortroth | ᛫ distrust ᛫ suspicion ᛫ | N | ortrouthe | ME | ||
ortrow | ᛫ to be distrustful of ᛫ to have suspicions of ᛫ | V | ortrouen | ME | ||
orwold | ᛫ an old-growth forest ᛫ a primaeval forest ᛫ a jungle ᛫ | N | or+wōld | OE+ME | calque: Urwald; oerwoud | |
ost | ᛫ a tree knot ᛫ | N | ōst | OE | ||
oster | ᛫ an oyster ᛫ | N | ostre | OE‹I | oyster was a later borrowing from French | |
oth | ᛫ until ᛫ so much as ᛫ as far as ᛫ | C&P | oth&ōþ | ME&OE | ||
other | ᛫ second ( a second thing ) ᛬ second ( second place in a sequence ) ᛫ | N᛬AJ | other&ōþer | NE&OE | Germanic languages used to use "other" for "second" like this | |
other hoad | ᛫ second person ᛫ | N | ōþer hād | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
ought | ougt | ᛫ persecution ᛫ | N | ōht | OE | rhyme: bought ᛫ kin: ēhtan, Acht (HG) |
oughten | ugten | ᛫ the early morning ᛫ the period of twilight before dawn ᛫ | N | ūghten | ME | rhyme: shouten |
oure | ure | ᛫ an aurochs ᛫ | N | oure | ME | |
ourn | urn | ᛫ ours ᛫ | N(PRO) | ouren | ME | optional |
out | ute | ᛫ to exclude ᛫ to eject ᛫ to banish ᛫ to alienate ᛫ to expel ᛫ | V | geutian | OE | or: yout (if the prefix is kept) |
outbear | utebear | ᛫ to support ᛫ bear out ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
outbreathe | utebreathe | ᛫ to exhale ᛫ to expire ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
outcast | utecast | ᛫ a pariah ᛬ ostracized ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | |
outcome | utecum | ᛫ a result ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outdweller | utedweller | ᛫ one who lives outside a certain place ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outfare | utefare | ᛫ an expedition ᛫ a going out ᛫ | N | outfare | ME | |
outflow | uteflow | ᛫ an efflux ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outgang | utegang | ᛫ an exit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outgang | utegang | ᛫ fugitive ᛫ transitory ᛫ | AJ | ūþgenge | OE | |
outgo | utego | ᛫ the outlay of money ( opposite of income ) ᛬ to go faster than ᛫ to go more than ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
outgoer | utegoer | ᛫ an emigrant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outhwit | uthewit | ᛫ a scholar ᛫ a scribe ᛫ a philosopher ᛫ a specialist ᛫ an expert ᛫ | N | ūþwita | OE | |
outhwitly | uthewitly | ᛫ philosophical ᛫ academic ᛫ | AJ | ūþwitlīc | OE | |
outhwitting | uthewitting | ᛫ philosophy ᛫ academia ᛫ | N | ūþwitigung | OE | |
outland | uteland | ᛫ a foreign land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outlander | utelander | ᛫ a foreigner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outlandish | utelandisc | ᛫ foreign ᛫ bizarre and strange ᛫ unrealistic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
outlay | utelay | ᛫ an expenditure ᛫ a payment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outler | uteler | ᛫ an animal left unhoused over the winter ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outlook | utelook | ᛫ perspective ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outright | uterigt | ᛫ total ᛫ clear and undisputed ᛬ completely ᛫ not by degrees or instalments ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
outroot | uteroot | ᛫ to root out ᛫ to eradicate ᛫ to exterminate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
outrooting | uterooting | ᛫ eradication ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
outshut | utescut | ᛫ to shut out ᛫ to exclude ᛫ | V | ~ | ENE | |
outspeak | utespeak | ᛫ to pronounce ᛫ | V | out+speak | NE×2 | calque: uitspreken |
outspeech | utespeec | ᛫ pronunciation ᛫ | N | out+speech | NE×2 | calque: Aussprache |
outspoken | utespoken | ᛫ vocal ( as in willing to express one's ideas ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
outstanding | utestanding | ᛫ prominent ᛫ noticeable ᛫ excellent ᛫ unresolved ( often debtwise ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
outward | uteward | ᛫ external ᛫ superficial ᛬ towards the outside | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
outwardly | utewardly | ᛫ from the outside ᛫ on the surface ᛫ superficially ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
outwark | utewark | ᛫ dysentery ᛫ | N | ūtwærc | OE | |
outwear | utewear | ᛫ to deplete ᛫ to exhaust ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
outwelt | utewelt | ᛫ to roll out ᛫ | V | ǒutwelten | ME | poorly attested |
outworn | uteworn | ᛫ exhausted ᛫ outdated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
outwrest | utewrest | ᛫ to extort ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
ouzel | oosel | ᛫ a kind of blackbird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overall | oferall | ᛫ all around ᛬ generally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
overalls | oferalls | ᛫ a dungaree ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overbase | oferbase | ᛫ ultraviolet light ᛬ ultraviolet ᛫ | N᛬AJ | over+basu | NE+OE | |
overblow | oferblow | ᛫ to exaggerate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overblown | oferblown | ᛫ exaggerated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
overboard | oferboard | ᛫ excessive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
overbrim | oferbrim | ᛫ to overflow ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overbrimming | oferbrimming | ᛫ superfluous ᛫ | AJ | overbrim+ing | NE×2 | |
overcome | ofercum | ᛫ to prevail over ᛫ to win ᛫ to overwhelm with emotion ᛫ to overflow ᛫ to pass come or spread over ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overdo | oferdo | ᛫ to do to excess ᛫ to exaggerate ᛫ to overcook ᛫ | V | overdo | NE | |
overdone | oferdone | ᛫ overcooked ᛫ done to excess ᛫ exaggerated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
overdrive | oferdrife | ᛫ hyperdrive ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overfare | oferfare | ᛫ to traverse ᛫ to pass over ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overfat | oferfat | ᛫ obese ᛫ | AJ | oferfǣtt | OE | |
overfearful | oferfearful | ᛫ overly fearful ᛫ paranoid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
overfearfulness | oferfearfulness | ᛫ paranoia ᛫ | N | over-fearfulnesse | ENE | |
overflow | oferflow | ᛫ excess ᛫ spillage from an overflowing ᛬ to overflow ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
overflowing | oferflowing | ᛫ abundant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
overfrim | oferfrim | ᛫ bonus ᛫ | N | over+frim | NE+ME | |
overgo | ofergo | ᛫ to exceed ᛫ to surpass ᛫ to rise above ᛫ to traverse ᛫ cross ᛫ to pass by ᛫ to conquer ᛫ | V | overgōn[ofergān] | ME | PST: overwent; overyeed ᛫ PTCP: overgone |
overkind | oferkind | ᛫ a supercategory ᛫ | N | over+kind | NE×2 | by analogy with underkind |
overking | oferking | ᛫ an emperor ᛫ a king of kings ᛫ | N | overking | NE | |
overlay | oferlay | ᛫ to overcome ᛫ to defeat ᛫ to subdue ᛫ | V | overleien | ME | PST: overlaid ᛫ PTCP: overlaid |
overling | oferling | ᛫ a superior ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overlink | oferlink | ᛫ a hyperlink ᛫ | N | yond+link | NE×2 | |
overlive | oferlif | ᛫ to survive someone ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overlook | oferlook | ᛫ to supervise ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overly | oferly | ᛫ excessively ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
overman | oferman | ᛫ an Übermensch ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overmood | ofermood | ᛫ overconfidence ᛫ pride ᛫ hubris ᛫ | N | ofermōd | OE | |
overmoodly | ofermoodly | ᛫ proudly ᛫ arrogantly ᛫ | AV | ofermōdiglīce | OE | |
overmoody | ofermoody | ᛫ proud ᛫ arrogant ᛫ | AJ | ofermōdig | OE | |
overmorrow | ofermorrow | ᛫ the day after tomorrow ᛫ on the day after tomorrow ᛫ | N᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
overmuch | ofermuc | ᛫ excessively ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
overnim | ofernim | ᛫ to take by violence ᛫ to violate ᛫ to take away ᛫ to carry off ᛫ to overtake ᛫ | V | oferniman | OE | PST: overnum; overnimmed ᛫ PTCP: overnum |
override | oferride | ᛫ to annul ᛫ | V | oferrīdan | OE | |
oversee | ofersee | ᛫ to administer ᛫ to supervise ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overseer | oferseer | ᛫ a supervisor ( especially of workers ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overself | oferself | ᛫ a superego ᛫ | N | over+self | NE×2 | |
overset | oferset | ᛫ to assail ᛫ to vanquish in battle ᛫ to prevail over ᛫ to oppress ᛫ to tyrannize ᛫ | V | oversetten | ME | |
oversight | ofersigt | ᛫ an unintentional mistake ᛫ the action of overseeing something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
oversit | ofersit | ᛫ to neglect ᛫ to omit ᛫ to pass over ᛫ | V | oversitten | ME | |
overspeak | oferspeak | ᛫ to speak too much ᛫ to overstate ᛫ to exaggerate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overspeech | oferspeec | ᛫ excessive language ᛫ loquacity ᛫ exaggeration ᛫ | N | ofersprǣc | OE | |
overstep | oferstep | ᛫ to wrongly or illegally exceed a limit ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
oversty | ofersty | ᛫ to surmount ᛫ to surpass ᛫ to transcend ᛫ to surpass ᛫ | V | oferstīgan | OE | |
overtake | ofertake | ᛫ to pass a slower object ᛫ to become greater than something else ᛫ to occur unexpectedly ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overthrow | oferthrow | ᛫ to depose ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overthwart | oferthwart | ᛫ situated crosswise ᛫ lying across something ᛫ transverse ᛫ cross ( as in angry ) ᛫ contentious ᛫ rude ᛫ | AJ | overthwert | ME | |
overtread | ofertread | ᛫ to trespass ᛫ to interlope ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overtreader | ofertreader | ᛫ a trespasser ᛫ an interloper ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overwalt | oferwalt | ᛫ overturn ᛫ | V | overwalten | ME | |
overween | oferween | ᛫ to presume ᛫ to be over confident ᛫ | V | overwēnen | ME | |
overwhelm | oferhwelm | ᛫ to inundate ᛫ to have a strong emotional effect on ᛫ to defeat completely ᛫ to overpower ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
overwin | oferwin | ᛫ to conquer ᛫ to subdue ᛫ to overcome ᛫ | V | overwin&oferwinnan | NE&OE | PST&PTCP: overwon |
overword | oferword | ᛫ a refrain ( of a song ) ᛫ a chorus ( of a song ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
overwrit | oferwrit | ᛫ an epistle ᛫ | N | oferwrit | OE | |
overwrought | oferwrougt | ᛫ overly complicated ᛫ anxious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
ovest | ofest | ᛫ speed ᛫ haste ᛫ | N | ōfost | OE | seems to be "of"+"-est" ᛫ -est also shows up in earnest |
ovestly | ofestly | ᛫ hastily ᛫ speedily ᛫ | AV | ōfostlīce | OE | |
ovet | ofet | ᛫ a fruit ᛫ a legume ᛫ a pulse ( a kind of legume ) ᛫ | N | ovet | ME | |
owhere | ohwere | ᛫ anywhere ᛫ | AV | ōwhēr | ME | rhyme: nowhere |
owhither | ohwither | ᛫ to any place ᛫ anywhither ᛫ | AV | ōwhider | ME | |
owing to | ᛫ on account of ᛫ because of ᛫ | P | ~ | NE | ||
ownname | ᛫ a proper noun ᛫ | N | agen nama | OE | calque: nomen proprium | |
ownspeech | ownspeec | ᛫ an idiom ᛫ a peculiarity of a language ᛫ | N | āgensprǣc | OE | glossary word |
oxgang | ᛫ a measure of land consisting of around 8 to 30 acres ᛫ | N | oxgang | ME | ||
oxter | ᛫ armpit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
oxtongue | oxtung | ᛫ a Picris plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
oxtongue swamb | oxtung | ᛫ a Fistulina hepatica plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
pack | ᛫ a package ᛫ a multitude ᛫ a collective ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
panhandler | panhandeller | ᛫ a beggar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
parrock | ᛫ a small field ᛫ a small enclosure ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | "Park" is a kindred word which came from French | |
pat | ᛫ apt ᛫ contrived ᛫ trite ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
peabone | ᛫ a pisiform bone ᛫ | N | pea+bone | NE‹ME‹OE‹L | or: peasebone ᛫ calque: erwtenbein, Erbsenbein | |
peach | peac | ᛫ to deceive ᛫ | V | pǣcan | OE | |
pease | ᛫ a pea ᛫ | N | pēse{pease pudding} | ME‹I‹H | PL: peasen ᛫ this word is optional, the mistaken "pea" is fine too | |
pen | ᛫ a small enclosure ( especially for domestic animals ) ᛬ to put in a pen ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[penn] | NE | ||
penniless | ᛫ penurious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
pennywharver | pennyhwarfer | ᛫ a money-changer ᛫ | N | peninghwirfere | OE | |
pepon | ᛫ a melon ᛫ a gourd ᛫ a pumpkin ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹ME‹OE‹I | ||
Perse | ᛫ a Persian ᛫ | N(P) | Perse{Persēas} | OE | ||
Perseland | ᛫ Iran ᛫ Persia ᛫ | N(P) | Perselone | ME | ||
Persish | Persisc | ᛫ Persian ᛫ | AJ(P) | Persisc | OE | or: Persh (shortened) |
persock | ᛫ a peach ᛫ | N | persoc[persica] | OE‹I‹H | μῆλον περσικόν = Persian apple ᛫ "peach" is a cognate | |
petersilly | ᛫ parsley ᛫ | N | petersilige | OE‹I | ||
pichsmolt | picsmolt | ᛫ a mixture of grease and wood tar ᛫ | N | pichsmult | ME | found under "smolt" on MEC |
pickthank | ᛫ a sycophant ( especially a talebearing one ) ᛬ sycophantic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
pickup | ᛫ an anacrusis ( in music ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Pight | Pigt | ᛫ a Pict ᛫ | N(P) | peohtas | OE | |
pind | ᛫ to enclose ᛫ to pen ᛫ to impound ᛫ to cage ᛫ to imprison ᛫ to confine ᛫ to restrain ᛫ to limit ᛫ | V | pī̆nden | ME | ||
pine | ᛫ to suffer a mental and physical decline especially because of a broken heart ᛫ to miss or long for ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
pinenut | ᛫ a pinecone ᛫ | N | pīnnote[pīnhnutu] | ME | ||
pinfold | ᛫ a pound for stray animals ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: penfold? | |
pintle | pintel | ᛫ a penis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
pitch | pic | ᛫ a tone ( of sound ) ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[pich] | NE‹ME‹? | kin: prick?; pike? |
pitchladder | picladder | ᛫ a musical scale ᛫ | N | pitch+ladder | NE×2 | calque: Tonleiter; toonladder |
pith | ᛫ a tissue in the center of certain plant stems ᛫ the essence of something ᛫ a crux ᛫ a gist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
pithy | ᛫ concise ᛫ succinct ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
pitted | ᛫ pockmarked ᛫ alveolate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
plaily | ᛫ ludic ᛫ theatrical ᛫ | AJ | pleglīc | OE | ||
plash | plasc | ᛫ a pool of standing water ᛫ a marshy place ᛫ a shallow pond ᛫ | N | ~[plæsc] | NE | kin: splash? |
platch | plac | ᛫ an open space in a town ᛫ a square ᛫ a marketplace ᛫ a plaza ᛫ | N | plæce | OE‹I | "plætsa" is attested once? akin to German "Platz" |
playel | ᛫ playful ᛫ sportive ᛫ jocose ᛫ | AJ | plegol | OE | ||
playhouse | playhuse | ᛫ a theatre ᛫ a theater ᛫ a toy house for children to play in ᛫ | N | ~[pleghūs] | NE | |
playman | ᛫ an actor ᛫ | N | plegmann | OE | ||
playman | ᛫ a player ᛫ an athlete ᛫ a wrestler ᛫ a gymnast ᛫ | N | plegmann | OE | ||
playstow | ᛫ a gymnasium ᛫ a gym ᛫ | N | plegstōw | OE | ||
plaything | ᛫ a toy ᛫ | N | plaything | NE | ||
playwright | playwrigt | ᛫ a dramatist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
plee | ᛫ danger ᛫ peril ᛫ risk ᛬ to endanger ᛫ to risk ᛫ | N | pleoh&pleon | OE&OE | ||
pleely | ᛫ dangerous ᛫ perilous ᛫ hazardous ᛫ | AJ | plēolīc | OE | ||
plight | pligt | ᛫ risk ᛫ peril ᛫ hardship ᛫ responsibility ᛫ culpability ᛫ | N᛬V | plight&pliht | NE&OE | we have other words for "pledge" |
plitch | plic | ᛫ to pull ᛫ to pluck ᛫ | V | plicchen | ME | |
plot | ᛫ a piece of land ᛫ a graphic representation ( such as a chart , a diagram , or a map ) ᛫ the course of a story ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ploughsharebone | plugescarebone | ᛫ a vomer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
pluck | ᛫ bird guts ᛫ guts ( as in courage nerve or persistence ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
pluckharp | ᛫ a harpsichord ᛫ | N | pluck+harp | NE×2 | by analogy to strikeharp | |
plucky | ᛫ gutsy ᛫ spunky ᛫ feisty ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
poad | ᛫ a coat ᛫ | N | pād | OE | ||
pock | ᛫ a pus-filled swelling ᛫ a pit especially one formed as a scar ᛬ to scar with pits ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
pockmark | ᛫ mark or scar in skin caused by a pock ᛫ crater in seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
pockmarked | ᛫ having pockmarks ᛫ pitted or scarred with holes ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
pod | ᛫ a seed case for legumes ᛫ a small vehicle ᛫ a pouch ᛬ to bear pods ᛫ to swell or fill ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[pād]? | NE | ||
poll | ᛫ a survey of opinions ᛬ to conduct a survey of opinions ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹NL? | ||
pond duck | ᛫ an Anas platyrhynchos bird ( a mallard ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
popedom | ᛫ a papacy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(H+E) | ||
popingay | ᛫ a parrot ᛫ | N | papejai[papegai/papingai] | ME‹I | we assume English would have borrowed this word even without 1066 | |
poppy tears | ᛫ opium ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
popsaw | ᛫ a chainsaw ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | found in some dialects | |
pore | ᛫ to gaze intently ᛫ to read or study attentively ᛫ to think intently ᛫ to ponder ᛫ | V | ~[pouren] | NE | kin: spyrian? | |
portick | ᛫ a porch ᛫ a portico ᛫ a deck ᛫ a veranda ᛫ a piazza ᛫ | N | portic | OE‹I | ||
Portingale | ᛫ Portugal ᛫ | N(P) | Portingāle | ME‹I | ||
pose | ᛫ a head cold ᛫ catarrh ᛫ | N | ~[pōse][gepōs] | NE | ||
pote | ᛫ to poke ᛫ to push ᛫ to thrust ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
pothead whale | hwale | ᛫ a Globicephala cetacean ( a pilot whale ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
potsherd | potscerd | ᛫ a broken piece of ceramic material ( especially one found on an archaeological site ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
pough | puge | ᛫ a pouch ᛫ a poke ᛫ a sack ᛫ | N | poughe[pohha] | ME | rhyme: plough |
pounder | punder | ᛫ a pestle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Pounick | Punick | ᛫ a Carthaginian ᛫ | N(P) | Pūnice{φοῖνιξ} | OE | |
pox | ᛫ a disease with purulent skin eruptions ᛫ Syphilis ᛫ a curse ( figuratively ) ᛬ to infect with pox or Syphilis ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | plural of "pock" | |
prat | ᛫ a prank ᛫ a cunning or mischievous trick ᛬ to prank ᛫ to trick ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
preke | ᛫ an octopus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹? | ||
pretty | ᛫ attractive ᛫ appealing ᛫ clever ᛫ tricky ᛬ quite ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | originally meant "pratty", "tricky/clever" | |
pretty much | muc | ᛫ basically ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
pretty up | ᛫ to beautify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
prickle | prickel | ᛫ a tool for pricking or puncturing ᛫ a pricket ᛫ a spike ᛫ a barb ᛫ | N | prikel[pricels] | ME | |
priestshire | preestscire | ᛫ a parish ᛫ | N | prēostscīr | OE‹H+E | |
prod | ᛫ to probe ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
puck | ᛫ a mischievous spirit ᛫ an imp ᛫ a goblin ᛫ a hobgoblin ᛫ a fairy ᛫ a sprite ᛫ a gnome ᛫ a brownie ᛫ a kobold ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: puckle (diminutive) ᛫ kin: púki (Icelandic) | |
puckish | puckisc | ᛫ mischievous ᛫ demonic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
pung | ᛫ a purse ᛫ | N | pung[pung] | ME‹OE‹I | ||
purse | ᛫ a money bag ᛫ a fiscus ( whence comes " fiscal " ) ᛫ | N | purse&purs | ME&OE | ||
pursy | ᛫ fiscal ᛫ | AJ | purse+y | NE×2 | ||
put | ᛫ to emplace ᛫ to place ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
putch | puc | ᛫ a coup d'etat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹HG | |
quale | cwale | ᛫ death ᛫ a quelling ᛫ a plague ᛫ | N | quāl | ME | kin: quell |
qualm | cwalm | ᛫ a scruple ᛫ | N | qualm[cwealm] | NE | |
qualmish | cwalmisc | ᛫ nauseated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
qualmstow | cwalmstow | ᛫ an execution-place ᛫ | N | cwealmstow | OE | |
quartern | cwartern | ᛫ a prison ᛫ a gaol ᛫ a jail ᛫ a cell ᛫ | N | quartern[cweartern] | ME | |
quarternward | cwarternward | ᛫ a gaoler ᛫ a jailor ᛫ a prison warder ᛫ | N | cwearternweard | OE | |
quead | cwead | ᛫ evil ᛫ wickedness ᛬ evil ᛫ wicked ᛫ | N᛬AJ | quede | ME | |
queal | cweal | ᛫ to die ᛫ to perish ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: quole ᛫ PTCP: quolen ᛫ kin: kill |
queath | cweath | ᛫ to comment ᛫ to declare ᛫ to say ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: quoth / cwoþ ᛫ PTCP: queathen / cweaþen |
queddle | cweddel | ᛫ talkative ᛫ | AJ | cwedol | OE | |
queem | cweem | ᛫ pleasure ᛫ satisfaction ᛬ to please ᛫ to satisfy ᛫ to gratify ᛬ pleasant ᛫ agreeable ᛫ comfortable ᛫ | V᛬AJ | queme&quēm&quemen | NE&ME&ME | |
queemful | cweemful | ᛫ pleasing ᛫ satisfying ᛫ agreeable ᛫ | AJ | quēmful | ME | |
quell | cwell | ᛫ to kill ᛫ to snuff out ᛫ to put down ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
queller | cweller | ᛫ an executioner ᛫ a killer ᛫ | N | queller[cwellere] | ME | |
quench | cwenc | ᛫ to overcome ᛫ to subdue ᛫ to destroy ᛫ to relieve ᛫ to extinguish ᛫ to satisfy ᛫ | V | quench&aquenchen | NE&ME | |
quenchcoal | cwenccoal | ᛫ a person or thing that undermines zeal ( especially with respect to religion ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
quern | cwern | ᛫ a hand mill for grinding grain ( typically consisting of two circular stones ) ᛫ a mill [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
quetch | cwec | ᛫ to shake ᛫ to twitch ᛫ to flinch ᛫ to vibrate ᛫ | V | quetch&quecchen | NE&ME | |
quick | cwick | ᛫ conscious ᛫ alive ᛫ rapid ᛫ fast ᛫ | AJ | quick&cwic | NE&OE | |
quickbeam | cwickbeam | ᛫ the Genus Sorbus tree ( mountain ash ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
quickberry | cwickberry | ᛫ a juniper berry ᛫ | N | cuicbēam+berry | OE+NE | |
quicken | cwicken | ᛫ to resurrect ᛫ to rejuvenate ᛫ to animate ᛫ to revive ᛫ to germinate ᛫ to speed up ᛫ to ferment ᛫ | V | quicken&quiken[cwician] | NE&ME | |
quickfee | cwickfee | ᛫ living property ᛫ living wealth ᛫ cattle ᛫ | N | cwicfeoh | OE | |
quicklime | cwicklime | ᛫ calcium oxide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
quickness | cwickness | ᛫ consciousness ᛫ rapidity ᛫ | N | quick+ness | NE×2 | |
quicksilver | cwicksilfer | ᛫ mercury ( the metal ) ᛫ | N | quicksilver | NE | |
quid | cwid | ᛫ a sentence ᛫ a statement ᛫ a term ( as in a saying ) ᛬ to utter ᛫ to state ᛫ | N᛬V | quide[cwide]&quidden | ME&ME | |
quild | cwild | ᛫ a plague ᛫ a pestilence ᛫ a murrain ᛫ | N | cwyld/cwild | OE | |
quillpig | cwillpig | ᛫ a porcupine ᛫ | N | quill pig | NE | |
quillwort | cwillwort | ᛫ an Isoetes plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
quirk | cwirk | ᛫ an idiosyncrasy ᛫ | N | quirk | NE‹? | |
quitch | cwic | ᛫ a Elymus repens plant ( quack grass ) ᛫ | N | quitch | ME | |
quith | cwith | ᛫ a womb ᛫ a matrix ᛫ | N | cwiþ | OE | |
quithe | cwithe | ᛫ to mourn ᛫ to lament ᛫ to deplore ( as in bewail ) ᛫ | V | cwīþan | OE | |
quoon | cwoon | ᛫ to mourn ᛫ to lament ᛫ to deplore ( as in bewail ) ᛫ | V | cwānian | OE | |
quotha | cwotha | ᛫ ( used to express surprise or contempt ) ᛫ | I | quotha | NE | equal to "quoth he" |
rack | ᛫ a parrel ᛫ a parrel-rope ᛫ a rope for fastening the middle of a yard to the mast ᛫ | N | rak | ME | ||
rack | ᛫ a mass of high thick fast-moving clouds ᛫ | N | ~[racu?] | NE | ||
rackent | ᛫ a chain ᛫ | N | rakent | ME | ||
radich | radic | ᛫ a Raphanus sativus plant ᛫ | N | radich | ME | "radish" form may be influenced by "radise/radice", says etymonline |
rail | ᛫ a garment ᛫ raiment ᛫ an outfit ᛫ clothing ᛫ a cloth ᛫ a rag ᛫ | N | rail[hrægl/hrægel] | ME | ||
rain | ᛫ arch- ᛫ highest- ᛫ | PREFIX | regn | OE | ||
rain | ᛫ to prepare ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to regulate ᛫ | V | regnian | OE | ||
rainbow | ᛫ an iris ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rainbowgleam | ᛫ iridescence ᛫ | N | rainbow+gleam | NE×2 | ||
Rainsbury | ᛫ Regnesburg ᛫ | N | Regnesburh | OE | ||
rainshade | rainscade | ᛫ an umbrella ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
rainwold | ᛫ a rainforest ᛫ | N | rain+wold | NE+ME | calque: Regenwald ᛫ or: rainwood | |
rake | ᛫ a narrative ᛫ an account ᛫ an exposition ᛫ a treatise ᛫ | N | race&racu | ME&OE | ||
rake | ᛫ a track ᛫ a pass ᛬ to proceed ᛫ to take a course ᛫ | N᛬V | rāke&rāken[racian] | ME&OE | ||
raked | ᛫ a palace ᛫ | N | ræced | OE | ||
rakedly | ᛫ palatine ᛫ palatial ᛫ pertaining to a palace ᛫ | AJ | ræcedlic | OE | ||
rakehell | ᛫ a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits ᛫ a libertine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rakehelly | ᛫ libertine ᛫ | AJ | rakehell+y | NE×2 | ||
rakeshame | rakescame | ᛫ a disreputable or dissolute person ᛫ a rogue ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
ram | ᛫ a male sheep ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | opposite of: ewe | |
ram | ᛫ a cramp ᛫ a spasm ᛫ | N | hramma | OE | kin: hrammr (Icelandic) | |
Ram | ᛫ Aries ᛫ | N(P) | Ramm | OE | ||
ran | ᛫ a whale ᛫ | N | hran | OE | or: ron (from alternative hron) | |
rand | ᛫ a strip or border of land ᛫ a strip of meat ᛫ | N | rand | ME | ||
rank | ᛫ overgrown ᛫ smelly ᛫ virulent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ranroad | ᛫ the sea or ocean ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | hranrād | OE | ||
rare | ᛫ lightly cooked ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
raring | ᛫ eager ᛫ keen ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
rasen | ᛫ a beam used to support the timbers of a roof ᛫ a wall plate ᛫ a raising plate ᛫ | N | rēsen | ME | ||
rash | rasc | ᛫ overly hasty ᛫ headstrong ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
ratch | rac | ᛫ a dog that hunts by scent ᛫ | N | racch | ME | |
rathe | ᛫ eager ᛫ prompt ᛫ rash ᛫ early ᛫ too early ᛫ | AJ | rathe&rāthe&hræþ | NE&ME&OE | ||
ratheripe | ᛫ precocious ᛫ rareripe ᛫ | AJ | rathe-ripe | NE | ||
rathest | ᛫ soonest ᛫ earliest ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ratsbane | ᛫ rat poison ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ravenflint | rafenflint | ᛫ obsidian ᛫ | N | raven+flint | NE×2 | calque: hrafntinna |
raw | ᛫ carrion ᛬ uncooked ᛫ default ᛫ unmodified ᛫ | N᛬AJ | raw&hreaw | NE&OE | ||
raw | ᛫ lichen ᛫ | N | ragu | OE | ||
ray | ᛫ a wild she-goat ᛫ | N | rǣge | OE | ||
reacon | ᛫ apt ᛫ prompt ᛫ capable ᛫ qualified ᛫ | AJ | rēken[recen] | ME | ||
read | ᛫ a lesson ᛫ a reading ᛬ to interpret ᛫ | N᛬V | read&rǣdan&rǣde | NE&OE&OE | ||
reading | ᛫ an interpretation ᛫ interpretation itself ᛫ a lesson ᛫ | N | reading&rǣding | NE&OE | ||
readingbook | ᛫ a lesson book ᛫ a lectionary ᛫ | N | rǣdingbōc | OE | ||
ream | ᛫ to expand ( especially a hole ) ᛫ | V | ~[rȳman] | NE | ||
ream | ᛫ cream ᛫ a film or skin on the surface of milk ᛫ consecrated oil ᛫ oil ᛬ to cream forth ᛫ | N᛬V | ream&rēme[rēam] | NE&OE | ||
reap | ᛫ to gather a crop ᛫ to harvest ᛫ to receive something as a consequence ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
rear | ᛫ to raise ᛫ to erect something ᛫ to establish ᛫ to levy ᛫ to breed animals ᛫ to raise a child ᛫ | V | rear&arẹ̄ren | NE&ME | "raise" is Norse ᛫ kin: hræra (Icelandic) | |
reard | ᛫ a voice ( whether human or animal ) ᛫ a loud vocal outburst ᛫ a cry ᛫ a roar ᛫ | N | rerd&rērd/rearde[reord] | NE&ME | ||
reardbearer | ᛫ a bearer of speech or voice ᛫ a person ᛫ | N | reordberend | OE | ||
rearded | ᛫ voiced ( spoken with vibration of the vocal chords ) ᛫ | AJ | rērd+ed | ME+NE | calque: voiced | |
rearheadbone | ᛫ an occipital bone ᛫ | N | rear+headbone | NE×2 | calque: achterhoofdsbeen; Hinterhauptbein | |
rearhorse | ᛫ a praying mantis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rease | ᛫ a rush ᛫ a rash action ᛫ a race (contest of speed) [ᚹ] ᛬ to rush ᛫ to race ᛫ | N | rēs[rǣs] | ME | "race" is Norse | |
rease | ᛫ deliberation ᛫ | N | rǣs | OE | ||
reasow | ᛫ to suspect ᛫ to suppose ᛫ | V | rǣswan | OE | ||
reasower | ᛫ a counsellor ᛫ a chief ᛫ one who thinks for the public ᛫ | N | rǣswa | OE | ||
reasowing | ᛫ supposition ᛫ conjecture ᛫ | N | rǣswung | OE | ||
reat | ᛫ to lament or to wail in grief ᛫ | V | rēotan | OE | ||
reave | reaf | ᛫ to plunder ᛫ to rob ᛫ to pillage ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: reft ᛫ PTCP: reft |
reavedeer | reafdeer | ᛫ a carnivore ᛫ an animal of the order Carnivora ᛫ | N | reave+deer | NE×2 | calque: roofdier, Raubtier |
reaver | reafer | ᛫ a robber ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
rech | rec | ᛫ to explain ᛫ to expound ᛫ to describe ᛫ to interpret ᛫ | V | recchen&arecchen[reccan] | ME&ME | kin: reck; reckless; reckon |
recher | recer | ᛫ an explainer ᛫ an expounder ᛫ a descriptor ᛫ a theorist ᛫ an interpreter ᛫ | N | recchen+er | ME+NE | kin: reck; reckless; reckon |
reching | recing | ᛫ an explanation ᛫ an expounding ᛫ a description ᛫ a theory ᛫ an interpretation ᛫ | N | recchen+ing{arecchen} | ME+NE | kin: reck; reckless; reckon |
reck | ᛫ to heed ᛫ to consider ᛫ to be concerned with ᛫ | V | ~[recchen][reccan] | NE | PST: rought ᛫ PTCP: rought | |
reckful | ᛫ cautious ᛫ full of attention ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
recking | ᛫ concern ᛫ caution ᛫ | N | reck+ing | NE×2 | ||
reckless | ᛫ incautious ᛫ lacking attention ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
reckon | ᛫ to calculate ᛫ to suppose ᛫ to enumerate ᛫ to recite from a list ᛫ to list ᛫ | V | ~[rekenen][recenian] | NE | ||
reckoner | ᛫ a computer ᛫ a calculator ᛫ | N | reckon+er | NE×2 | ||
reckoning | ᛫ a supposition ᛫ a calculation ᛫ an estimation ᛫ an account ( such as a bank account ) ᛫ | N | reckoning&rekening | NE&ME | ||
red | ᛫ a communist ᛫ a socialist ᛬ communistic ᛫ socialistic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
red | ᛫ ( forms nouns showing a condition or a state ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~['-rēden/-rēden][-rǣden] | NE | found in: hatred; kindred | |
Red Russland | ᛫ Red Ruthenia ᛫ | N | red+russland | NE×2‹O | calque: Red Russia | |
redback | ᛫ a yuan ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
redbuck | ᛫ an impala ᛫ | N | red-buck | NE | based on: rooibok | |
redd | ᛫ to save ᛫ to rescue ᛫ to free from something unpleasant such as embarrassment ᛫ | V | redden[hreddan] | ME | ||
rede | ᛫ advice ᛫ counsel ᛬ to advise ᛫ to counsel ᛫ | N᛬V | rede&rēd | NE&ME | ||
redebaner | ᛫ one who advises murder but does not commit it ᛫ | N | rǣdbana | OE | ||
redeful | ᛫ wise ᛫ prudent ᛫ providing good counsel ᛫ | AJ | rēdful | ME | ||
redely | ᛫ promptly ᛫ expeditiously ᛫ vigorously ᛫ surely ᛫ certainly ᛫ explicitly ᛫ | AV | rēdelī[rǣdlīce] | ME | ||
redely | ᛫ advisable ᛫ | AJ | rǣdlīc | OE | ||
redesman | ᛫ an adviser ᛫ a counsellor ᛫ | N | rēdesman[rǣdesmann] | ME | ||
redeyift | ᛫ a senate ᛫ a consulate ᛫ | N | rǣdgift | OE | see: Rat (German) ᛫ or: redegift (Norse influenced) | |
redflag | ᛫ an indication that something's wrong ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
redstart | ᛫ a Phoenicurus bird ( and other kinds of birds too ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
reef | ᛫ robbery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: reave ᛫ or: reef; reif (Scottish) | |
reef | ᛫ to roof ᛫ to cover ᛫ | V | gehrēfan | OE | kin: roof | |
reek | ᛫ vapour ᛫ a strong bad smell ᛫ | N | ~[rēc] | NE | ||
reekle | reekel | ᛫ incense ᛬ to cense with incense ᛫ | N᛬V | rēkels&rēcelsian | ME&OE | |
reeklebook | reekelbook | ᛫ a bulging vessel for holding incense ᛫ | N | rēcelsbūc | OE | see: bouk |
reeklevat | reekelfatt | ᛫ a censer ( an ornamental container for burning incense ) ᛫ | N | rēcelsfæt | OE | |
reel | ᛫ a kind of spool ᛫ a spool machine ᛫ a kind of dance ᛫ a dance ᛬ to wind on a reel ᛫ to dance ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[rēol] | NE | ||
reese | ᛫ to tremble ᛫ to tremble with rage ᛫ to shudder ᛫ to quake ᛫ to shake ᛫ to rattle ᛫ to clatter ᛫ | V | rēsen | ME | rhyme: geese | |
reese | ᛫ violent motion ᛫ a rush ᛫ a rash action ᛫ a frenzy ᛫ an attack ᛫ a charge ᛫ an incursion ᛫ | N | rēs[rǣs] | ME | rhyme: geese | |
reet | ᛫ to cheer ᛫ to gladden ᛫ to comfort ᛫ | V | rētan | OE | kin: rōt | |
reeth | ᛫ fierce ᛫ cruel ᛫ wild ᛫ savage ᛫ | AJ | rēþe | ME | ||
reeth | ᛫ triumph ᛫ | N | hrēþ | OE | ||
reethness | ᛫ ferociousness ᛫ ruthlessness ᛫ mercilessness ᛫ cruelness ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
reethy | ᛫ triumphant ᛫ exultant ᛫ | AJ | hrēþig | OE | ||
reeve | reef | ᛫ a bailiff ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
reeveship | reefscip | ᛫ a bailiffship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
reigh | reig | ᛫ a Batoidea fish ( rays ) ᛫ | N | reihe[reohhe] | ME | |
reigh | reig | ᛫ fierce ᛫ tempestuous ᛫ | AJ | rẹ̄h&hrēoh | ME&OE | |
Reindeer Mere | ᛫ Reindeer Lake ᛫ | N(P) | reindeer+mere | NE‹N+NE | or: Roan Mere | |
reise | ᛫ a journey ᛫ a military expedition ᛫ | N | reis | ME‹NL | ||
rem | ᛫ to hinder ᛫ to block progress ᛫ to obstruct ᛫ to cumber ᛫ | V | hremman | OE | ||
remming | ᛫ a hindrance ᛫ an obstacle ᛫ an obstruction ᛫ | N | hremming | OE | ||
ren | ᛫ to coagulate ᛫ | V | gerennan | OE | kin: run | |
rend | ᛫ to tear into pieces ᛫ to wrench something violently ᛫ to cause great emotional pain to ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
rennet | ᛫ a cheeselib ( an enzyme used in making cheese ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
reremouse | reremuse | ᛫ a bat ( as in the animal ) ᛫ | N | ~[rẹ̄remǒus][hrēremūs] | NE | "bat" is Norse |
rest | ᛫ relief from exertion ᛫ sleep ᛫ inactivity ᛬ to take relief from exertion ᛫ to sleep ᛫ to become inactive ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
rest on | ᛫ to depend on ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
Restday | ᛫ the Hebrew Sabbath ( Saturday by extension ) ᛫ | N | restendæg | OE | ||
retch | rec | ᛫ to vomit ᛫ to puke ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
rib | ᛫ a joke ᛫ | N | ~[rib-tickle] | NE | ||
ribframe | ᛫ a rib cage ᛫ | N | rib+frame | NE×2 | ||
ric | ᛫ ( shows a jurisdiction dominion or rule over something ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE‹C | ||
rice | rise | ᛫ a twig ᛫ a stick ᛫ a bobbin ᛫ a spool ᛫ | N | ~[hrīs] | NE | |
rich | ric | ᛫ a dominion ᛫ a political entity ᛫ an empire ᛫ a state ᛫ a country ᛫ a nation ᛬ potent ᛫ powerful ᛫ wealthy ᛫ | N᛬AJ | rich&rīche[rīce/ᚱᛁᛁᚳᚾᚫ] | NE‹C&ME‹C | or: rike (northern variant) |
richen | ricen | ᛫ a female magnate ᛫ | N | rīcen | OE | |
richer | ricer | ᛫ a magnate ᛫ | N | rīca | OE | |
rick | ᛫ a stack ᛫ a stook ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rid | ᛫ to remove ᛫ to clear ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
ridding | ᛫ a removal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
riddle | riddel | ᛫ a coarse sieve ᛬ to screen ᛫ to permeate ᛫ to fill with holes ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
rideheer | ᛫ a troop of cavalry ᛫ | N | rīdehere | OE | ||
rider | ᛫ a passenger ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ridge | ricg | ᛫ a ridge ᛫ the back of a creature ᛫ ᛫ | N | ~[hrycg] | NE | |
ridgebone | ricgbone | ᛫ a backbone ᛫ a spine ᛫ a vertebra ᛫ | N | ~[riggebōn] | NE | |
ridgedeer | ricgdeer | ᛫ a vertebrate ᛫ | N | ridge+deer | NE×2 | inspired by "hryggdýr" |
riding | ᛫ a subdivision of a county ( traditionally ones which come in a group of three ) ᛫ an electoral district (Canada) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
rife | ᛫ common ᛫ widespread ᛫ abounding ᛫ plentiful ᛫ frequent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
riff | ᛫ a uterus ᛫ a belly ᛫ | N | hrif | OE | kin: midriff | |
rifle | rifel | ᛫ a long gun with a rifled barrel ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹I‹Þ? | |
rift | ᛫ a laena ᛫ cloak ᛫ | N | rift | ME | ||
right | rigt | ᛫ just ᛫ correct ᛬ just ᛫ correctly ᛫ exactly ᛫ precisely ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | right&right | NE&ME | |
right ago | rigt | ᛫ just now ᛫ | AV | right+ago | NE×2 | |
righten | rigten | ᛫ to rectify ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
rightframed | rigtframed | ᛫ rightly constituted ᛫ orthodox ᛫ | AJ | rihtgefremed | OE | |
rightful | rigtful | ᛫ having a legitimate right to something ᛫ legitimately claimed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
rightfully | rigtfully | ᛫ legitimately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
rightledge | rigtlecg | ᛫ to correct ᛫ to rectify ᛫ | V | rightlechen | ME | |
rightliefful | rigtleefful | ᛫ orthodox ᛫ | AJ | rihtgelēaffull | OE | |
rightlieffulness | rigtleeffulness | ᛫ orthodoxy ᛫ | N | rihtgelēaffulness | OE | |
rightly | rigtly | ᛫ correctly ᛫ justifiably ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
rightminded | rigtminded | ᛫ sane ᛫ decent ᛫ morally upright ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
rightwise | rigtwise | ᛫ sanctimonious ᛫ moral ᛫ righteous ᛫ just ᛫ clockwise ᛫ | AJ | righteous | NE | |
rightwiseness | rigtwiseness | ᛫ righteousness ᛫ justice ᛫ | N | rihtwīsness | OE | |
rightwising | rigtwising | ᛫ justification ᛫ | N | gerihtwīsung | OE | |
rim | ᛫ a border ᛫ | N | rim&rima | NE&OE | ||
rime | ᛫ to clear ᛫ to clear up ᛫ to clear away ᛫ to make room ᛫ to die ᛫ to depart ᛫ | V | rīmen[rȳman/rīman] | ME | ||
rime | ᛫ a number ᛬ to number ᛫ to count ᛫ | N᛬V | rime&rimen | ME&ME | ||
rime | ᛫ ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rimebook | ᛫ a calendar ᛫ | N | gerīmbōc | OE | ||
rimecraft | ᛫ arithmetic ᛫ mathematics ᛫ maths ᛫ math ᛫ | N | rimcræft | OE | ||
rimekeeping | ᛫ accounting ᛫ | N | rime+keep+ing | ME+NE×2 | ||
rimer | ᛫ a computer ᛫ a counter ᛫ a calculator ᛫ | N | rimere | OE | ||
rimple | rimpel | ᛫ to crease ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
rimth | ᛫ an extent ᛫ a space ᛫ a space of time ᛫ | N | rimth[rȳmþ] | ME | ||
rind | ᛫ crust ᛫ bark ᛬ to remove the rind from ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
Rine | ᛫ the Rhine river ᛫ | N | Rīne | ME | ||
rine | ᛫ a touch ᛫ an effect [ᚹ] ᛬ to touch ᛫ to affect [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬V | rīnen[hrīnan] | ME | ||
rinendly | ᛫ touchable ᛫ tangible ᛫ physical ᛫ | AJ | rinen+endlic | ME+OE | ||
ring | ᛫ a circle ᛫ a clique ᛫ a cabal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ringleader | ᛫ the leader of a clique or a cabal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Rinish | Rinisc | ᛫ Rhenish ᛫ | AJ | Rīnish | ME | |
rink | ᛫ a man ( especially a heroic one ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rinnel | ᛫ a courier ᛫ a runner ᛫ | N | rynel/renel | NE | ||
ripe | ᛫ mature ᛫ ready for use ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ripe | ᛫ to rob ᛫ to plunder ᛫ to ransack ᛫ to rifle through ᛫ to rummage ᛫ to search thoroughly ᛫ | V | ~[rīpen][rīpan] | NE | kin: reap | |
rise | ᛫ an upward movement ᛫ an increase ᛫ a raise ( a salary increase ) ᛬ to go up ᛫ to ascend ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
rissle | rissel | ᛫ soft fat ᛫ suet ᛫ axungia ᛫ | N | rysel | OE | |
rith | ᛫ a mastiff ᛫ a bloodhound ᛫ a large dog ᛫ | N | ryþþa | OE | ||
rithe | ᛫ a small stream ᛫ | N | ~[riþ] | NE | ||
rix | ᛫ to rule ᛫ to reign ᛫ to govern ᛫ | V | rixan{gerec?} | ME‹OE‹C | ||
rizzle | risel | ᛫ grease ᛫ | N | risel[rysel] | ME | |
road | ᛫ an arterial ᛫ a passage ᛫ an avenue ᛫ an expressway ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
roadness | ᛫ rhoticity ᛫ | N | road+ness | NE×2 | rho (Ρ) calqued as road (ᚱ) | |
roan | ᛫ a reindeer ᛫ | N | hrān | OE | ||
rochet | rocet | ᛫ to eructate ᛫ | V | rocettan | OE | |
rodden | ᛫ adorned ᛫ | AJ | geroden | OE | past participle of unattested Old English verb | |
rodder | ᛫ the firmament ᛫ outer space ᛫ aether ᛫ | N | rodor | OE | literally meant "wheel"? | |
rodder | ᛫ astro- ᛫ cosmo- ᛫ | PREFIX | rodor | OE | ||
roddercraft | ᛫ a spacecraft ᛫ a spaceship ᛫ | N | rodor+craft | OE+NE | ||
rodderfarer | ᛫ an astronaut ᛫ a cosmonaut ᛫ | N | rodder+farer | OE+NE | ||
rodderling | ᛫ a space alien ᛫ | N | rodor+ling | OE+NE | ||
rodderlore | ᛫ astronomy ( the scientific field dealing with celestial objects and space ) ᛫ | N | rodder+lore | OE+NE | ||
rodderly | ᛫ celestial ᛫ | AJ | rodorlic | OE | ||
rode | ᛫ reason ( as in rationality ) ᛬ rational ᛫ reasonable ᛫ | N᛬AJ | rōde&gerād{irā̆d} | ME&OE | SEE NOTE | |
roke | ᛫ expectoration ᛫ spittle ᛫ matter brought up when clearing the throat ᛫ | N | rōkinge&hrāca | ME&OE | ||
Ronding | ᛫ one of the Reudigni ᛫ | N(P) | Rondingum | OE | ||
Rone | ᛫ Rouen ( city in Normandy ) ᛫ | N | Rọ̄ne | ME | ||
rone | ᛫ a rain gutter ᛫ a gutter [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹? | ||
roo | ᛫ peace ᛫ stillness ᛫ quietness ᛫ silence ᛫ tranquillity ᛫ | N | rō/roo | ME | ||
rood | ᛫ a cross ᛫ a crucifix ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
roodfasten | ᛫ to crucify ᛫ | V | rodfæstnian | OE | ||
roodhang | ᛫ a crucifix ᛫ a crucifixion ᛫ | N | rōdehengen | ME | ||
roodsithe | ᛫ a cross-expedition ᛫ a crusade ᛫ | N | rood+sīth | NE+ME | ||
roodwye | ᛫ a crusade ᛫ | N | rood+wye | NE+ME | ||
roof | ᛫ vigorous ᛫ strong ᛫ valiant ᛫ | AJ | rof | OE | ||
roofbone | ᛫ a palatine bone ᛫ | N | roof+bone | NE×2 | as in palate (mouthroof) | |
rook | ᛫ a cheat ᛫ a swindler ᛫ a Corvus frugilegus bird ᛫ | N | ~[hrōc] | NE | ||
Room | ᛫ Rome ᛫ | N | Rōme/Room[Rōme] | ME | ||
room | ᛫ space ᛫ volume ᛫ a section of a building ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
room | ᛫ soot ᛫ | N | hrūm | OE | ||
Roomanish | Roomanisc | ᛫ Roman ᛫ | AJ(P) | Rōmānisc | OE | |
Roomany | ᛫ the Roman Empire ᛫ | N(P) | Rōmā̆nīe | ME | ||
Roomer | ᛫ a Roman ( one who lives in the city of Rome ) ᛫ | N | Rōmwaran | OE | ||
roomet | ᛫ extent ᛫ space ᛫ extension ᛫ clearance ᛫ | N | rīmet[rȳmet] | ME | ||
roomhearted | ᛫ generous ᛫ liberal hearted ᛫ | AJ | rūmheort | OE | ||
roomstead | ᛫ a compartment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
roomth | ᛫ capacity ᛫ volume ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
roomtime | ᛫ spacetime ᛫ | N | room+time | NE×2 | ||
roomy | ᛫ spacious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
roomy | ᛫ sooty ᛫ dirty ᛫ bedaubed ᛫ | AJ | hrūmig | OE | ||
roop | ᛫ a cry ᛬ to cry out ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
roor | ᛫ potent ᛫ vigorous ᛫ | AJ | hrōr | OE | rhyme: floor | |
root | ᛫ glad ᛫ cheerful ᛫ | AJ | rōt | OE | kin: rētan | |
rootfast | ᛫ firmly held by the roots ᛫ securely established ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
rop | ᛫ a colon ᛫ an intestine ᛫ intestines ᛫ entrails ᛫ guts ᛫ bowels ᛫ small intestines ᛫ | N | rop&ropp | ME&OE | ||
rose | ᛫ to explore ᛫ to journey ᛫ to adventure ᛫ | V | rāsian | OE | ||
roster | ᛫ a list of names ᛫ a muster roll ᛫ | N | ~[NL rooster] | NE‹NL | ||
rot | ᛫ thick fluid ᛫ scum ᛫ mucus ᛫ | N | hrot | OE | kin: Rotz (German) | |
rotgut | ᛫ low-quality alcoholic liquor ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Rothem | ᛫ Rouen ( city in Normandy ) ᛫ | N(P) | Roþem | OE | From the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, alternative to Rone | |
rother | ᛫ a bovine ᛫ | N | ~[rother][hrīþer/hrȳþer] | NE | rhyme: bother (see "rother beast" on Lexico) | |
rother | ᛫ comfort ᛫ solace ᛬ to comfort ᛫ to console ᛫ | N᛬V | hrōþor | OE | ||
rotheren | ᛫ of oxen ᛫ of cattle ᛫ | AJ | rotheren[hrīþeren/hrȳþeren] | ME | ||
rotherflesh | rotherflesc | ᛫ beef ᛫ | N | rother+flesh | NE×2 | or: rotheren flesh (attested as: reþeren flesche) |
rothhound | rothhund | ᛫ a mastiff ᛫ a molossus ᛫ a large dog ᛫ | N | roþhund | OE | |
row | ᛫ a series ᛫ a line ᛫ a line of words ᛫ succession ᛫ | N | row&reue | NE&ME | ||
rower | ᛫ a heron ᛫ an egret ᛫ | N | hrāgra | OE | ||
rown | rune | ᛫ crypto- ᛫ | PREFIX | rown | NE | |
rown | rune | ᛫ a mystery ᛫ a secret ᛫ hidden speech ᛫ a whisper ᛫ a rune ᛬ to whisper ᛫ | N᛬V | rown&roun&rūn{gerȳne} | NE&ME&OE | or: roun |
rowncraft | runecraft | ᛫ arcane knowledge or arts ᛫ | N | rūncræftige | OE | |
rowncrafty | runecrafty | ᛫ learned in arcane knowledge or arts ᛫ | AJ | rūncræftige | OE | |
rownish | runisc | ᛫ runic ᛫ | AJ | rown+ish | NE×2 | |
rownlore | runelore | ᛫ runology ᛫ | N | rown+lore | NE×2 | |
rownshat | runescat | ᛫ a unit of cryptocurrency ᛫ cryptocurrency ᛫ | N | rown+shat | NE+ME | |
rownstaff | runestaff | ᛫ a rune ( a runic character ) ᛫ | N | rūnstæf | OE | |
rowny | runey | ᛫ mystical ᛫ mysterious ᛫ | AJ | rūnlīc | OE | |
rud | ᛫ redness ᛫ blush ᛫ the Tagetes plant ( marigold ) ᛬ to redden ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
ruddle | ruddel | ᛫ red ochre ᛬ to mark with red ochre ᛫ to raddle or twist ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | or: reddle |
ruddock | ᛫ the Erithacus rubecula bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
ruddock | ᛫ a robin ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
rue | rew | ᛫ regret ᛫ remorse ᛬ to regret ᛫ to be penitent ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[reuen][hrēow] | NE | kin: ruth |
ruechary | rewcary | ᛫ troubled ᛫ anxious ᛫ sorrowful ᛫ | AJ | hrēowcearig | OE | |
rug | ᛫ a carpet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N? | ||
run in | ᛫ a disagreement or conflict ( especially with an established authority ) ᛫ | N | run-in | NE | ||
runaway | ᛫ an estray ᛬ unchecked ᛫ rampant ᛫ fugitive ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
rung | ᛫ a foot bar on a ladder ᛫ a level in a hierarchy ᛫ a rank ᛫ degree [ᚹ] ᛫ grade [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
runnel | ᛫ a rivulet ᛫ a rill ᛫ a gutter ᛫ | N | runnel | NE | ||
runningfowl | runningfule | ᛫ a Cursoriinae bird ᛫ a courser ᛫ | N | running+fowl | NE×2 | calque: renvogel; Rennvogel |
runninghand | runninghand | ᛫ cursive script ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
runthrough | runthruge | ᛫ a rehearsal ᛫ a brief outline or summary ᛫ | N | runthrough | NE | |
rus | ᛫ the crust or surface of the Earth ᛫ the ground ᛫ | N | hruse | OE | rhyme: does? ᛫ kin: crusta (Latin)? | |
rush | rusc | ᛫ a Juncus plant ᛫ | N | ~[risc/rysc] | NE | |
rushleek | ruscleek | ᛫ an Allium schoenoprasum plant ( chives ) ᛫ | N | ~[riscleac] | NE | |
Russland | ᛫ Russia ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹O | or: Russy; Muscovy | |
ruth | rewth | ᛫ pity ᛫ sympathy ᛫ mercy ᛫ remorse regret ᛫ | N | ~[reuth/rewth] | NE‹N | kin: rue |
ruthful | rewthful | ᛫ merciful ᛫ compassionate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
ruthless | rewthless | ᛫ remorseless ᛫ cruel ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sackful | ᛫ contentious ᛫ quarrelsome ᛫ | AJ | sacfull | OE | ||
sackless | ᛫ innocent ᛫ blameless ᛫ guiltless ᛫ free of legal charge ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | kin: sake | |
saddletree | saddeltree | ᛫ a Liriodendron tulipifera plant ( a tulip tree ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sade | ᛫ to become sated ᛫ to satisfy ᛫ to satiate ᛫ | V | sate&saden&sadian | NE&ME&OE | form with T apparently influenced by satiare/satiate | |
safin | ᛫ a Juniperus sabina plant ( savin ) ᛫ | N | safine | OE | rhyme: havin' | |
sailcloth | ᛫ canvas ( or other material used for making sails ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sailorly | sailerly | ᛫ nautical ( in some senses ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sain | ᛫ to make the sign of the cross on ᛫ to bless ᛫ | V | ~[segnian][signare] | NE | ||
sake | ᛫ one's behalf ᛫ a suit ( a lawsuit ) ᛫ contention ᛫ a lawsuit ᛬ to contend ᛫ to sue ᛫ to brawl ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | PST: sook ᛫ PTCP: saken | |
salework | ᛫ goods made for general use ( as opposed to goods made to order ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
sall | ᛫ the main hall of a palace castle or mansion ᛫ | N | sæl{sale} | OE | ||
sallow | ᛫ a pale yellow colour ᛫ a pale brown colour ᛫ a Salix plant ( pussy willow ) ᛫ a Xanthia insect ᛬ sallow in colour ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
saltern | ᛫ a building where salt is made by boiling or evaporation ᛫ | N | ~[sealtern] | NE | ||
salve | salf | ᛫ an ointment balm cream or paste used for medicinal reasons ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sam | ᛫ together ᛫ | AV | sammen | ME | ||
sam | ᛫ to assemble ᛫ to coagulate ᛫ | V | sam&samnen[samnian] | NE&ME | ||
sam | ᛫ half- ᛫ semi- ᛫ | PREFIX | sam | OE | ||
samblind | ᛫ half-blind ᛫ dim-sighted ᛫ | AJ | sandblind | NE | ||
samborn | ᛫ half-born ᛫ aborted ᛫ | AJ | samboren | OE | ||
sameblooded | ᛫ consanguineous ᛫ | AJ | sameblooded | NE | ||
samebloodedness | ᛫ consanguinity ᛫ | N | samebloodedness | NE | ||
samed | ᛫ simultaneously ᛫ together ᛬ together with ᛫ | AV᛬P | sā̆mod[samed/samod/somed] | ME | ||
samedsithe | ᛫ to accompany ᛫ to travel together ᛫ | V | samodsiþian | OE | ||
samedsweyend | ᛫ a consonant ᛫ | N | samodswēgende | OE | ||
sameness | ᛫ identicalness ᛫ similarity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
samewist | ᛫ cohabitation ᛫ | N | samwist | OE | ||
samey | ᛫ generic ᛫ monotonous ᛫ | AJ+AV | ~ | NE | ||
sameyness | ᛫ genericness ᛫ monotony ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sammer | ᛫ a collector ᛫ a gatherer ᛫ | N | samnere | OE | ||
samming | ᛫ an assembly ᛫ a council ᛫ | N | samnung | OE | ||
samsodden | ᛫ half-cooked ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
samwaxen | ᛫ half grown ᛫ | AJ | sāmweaxen | OE | ||
samwhole | samhwole | ᛫ not whole ᛫ in poor health ᛫ | AJ | samhal | OE | |
samwise | ᛫ half-wise ᛫ foolish ᛫ simple ᛫ | AJ | sāmwīs | OE | ||
samyoung | samyung | ᛫ an adolescent ᛬ adolescent ᛫ | N᛬AJ | samgeong | OE | |
sandglass | ᛫ an hourglass ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Saraken | ᛫ a Muslim ᛫ | N(P) | saracene | OE‹I‹H‹? | kin: Saracen | |
Sarakennish | Sarakennisc | ᛫ Muslim ᛫ | AJ(P) | saracenisc | OE‹I‹H‹? | |
Sardin | ᛫ a Sardinian ᛫ | N(P) | Sardinie | OE | ||
sare | ᛫ an artifice ᛫ a machination ᛫ a machine ᛫ a device ᛫ an engine ᛬ to act with artifice ᛫ to engineer [ᚹ] ᛫ | N᛬V | searu&searwian | OE&OE | ||
sarecraft | ᛫ stratagem ᛫ machination ᛫ engineering [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | searucræft | OE | ||
sarecrafty | ᛫ wily ᛫ cunning ᛫ | AJ | searucræftig | OE | ||
saregun | ᛫ a machinegun ᛫ | N | searu+gun | OE+NE‹N | calque: machinegun | |
sarely | ᛫ ingenious ᛫ artful ᛫ mechanical [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | searulīc | OE | ||
sareman | ᛫ one who makes machines , engines , or machinations ᛫ an engineer ᛫ | N | searu+man | OE+NE | ||
sarenet | ᛫ a net of guile ᛫ a snare ᛫ | N | searunet | OE | ||
sarethank | ᛫ a cunning thought device artifice or wile ᛫ | N | searuþanc | OE | ||
sarethankle | sarethankel | ᛫ cunning ᛫ sagacious ᛫ shrewd ᛫ | AJ | searuþancol | OE | |
sarewrench | sarewrenc | ᛫ a crafty trick ᛫ | N | searuwrenc | OE | |
sark | ᛫ a shirt ᛫ | N | ~[serc] | NE | ||
Sarmondish | Sarmondisc | ᛫ Sarmatian language ᛬ Sarmatian ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Sarmondisc | OE | |
Sarmondland | ᛫ Sarmatia ᛫ | N(P) | Sarmondisc+land | OE+NE | ||
Saturnight | Saturnigt | ᛫ the night following Saturday's dusk ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE‹(I+E) | |
Saudi Araby | ᛫ Saudi Arabia ᛫ | N(P) | Saudi+Arabī | NE‹O+ME‹O | ||
saught | saugt | ᛫ reconciliation ᛬ to be reconciled ᛫ to reconcile ᛫ to make peace ᛫ | N᛬V | saught&saughten[seaht] | ME&ME | |
saughten | saugten | ᛫ to make peace ᛫ to reconcile ᛫ | V | saughtenen | ME | |
saw | ᛫ a narrative ᛫ a saga ᛫ a story ᛫ a saying ᛫ a maxim ᛫ a proverb ᛫ a notion [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | saw&sau[sagu/saga] | NE&ME | see note | |
sawbill | ᛫ a Mergus bird ( a merganser ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sawbones | ᛫ a surgeon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sawer | ᛫ a sawyer ᛫ | N | sauer | ME | ||
sax | ᛫ a kind of short sword ᛫ a knife ᛫ a cutting tool ᛫ | N | sex/sax | ME | ||
sax | ᛫ a Saxophone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Sax | ᛫ a Saxon ᛫ | N(P) | Seaxe | OE | PL: Saxes; Saxen (older form) | |
Saxish | Saxisc | ᛫ Saxon language ᛬ of the Saxons ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~[Seaxisc] | ME | |
scalp | ᛫ a crown ( the top of a head ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
scaly anteater | ᛫ a pangolin ᛫ | N | scaly anteater | NE | ||
scathe | ᛫ to injure ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | see: shathe | |
scatheful | ᛫ causing harm or mischief ᛫ injurious ᛫ destructive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
scathefulness | ᛫ injuriousness ᛫ destructiveness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
scathel | ᛫ hurt ᛫ injury ᛬ harmful ᛫ noxious ᛫ injurious ᛫ mischievous ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
scathing | ᛫ harshly or bitterly critical ᛫ harmful or painful ᛫ acerbic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
scatterling | ᛫ a vagabond ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
schoolman | skoolman | ᛫ a professor ᛫ | N | [scolmann] | NE | |
sclair | ᛫ a veil ( worn on the head ) ᛫ | N | skleir/scleyre | ME | ||
Sclave | Sclafe | ᛫ a Slav ᛫ | N(P) | Sclā̆ve | ME‹I | "Slav" was a reborrowing? |
score | ᛫ the number of points goals runs etc achieved in a game ᛫ a set of twenty ᛬ to gain a point ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹N | ||
Scotland | ᛫ Scotland ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
scrawny | ᛫ thin malnourished and weak ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
screed | ᛫ a long speech or piece of writing ( typically regarded as tedious ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
scurf | ᛫ flakes on the surface of the skin that form as fresh skin develops below ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sea lily | ᛫ a stalked crinoid ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+E‹I) | ||
seabladder | ᛫ a Physalia physalis animal ( a Portuguese man-of-war ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seaborough | seaboroug | ᛫ a seaside settlement ᛫ | N | sǣburh | OE | |
seacow | seacue | ᛫ a manatee ᛫ a dugong ᛫ a Sirenia mammal ᛫ | N | sea cow | NE | |
seadeer | ᛫ a sea creature ᛫ | N | sǣdēor | OE | ||
seadevil | seadefil | ᛫ a manta ray ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
seaduck | ᛫ a Fuligulinae bird ( an eider , a scoter ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sea-ear | ᛫ a Haliotis mollusc ( an abalone , an ormer ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | also: ear shell | |
seaelfen | ᛫ a sea nymph ᛫ | N | sǣælfen | OE | ||
seafareld | ᛫ a sea passage ᛫ | N | sǣfæreld | OE | ||
seafarth | ᛫ the sea shore ( poetic ) ᛫ | N | sǣfaroþ | OE | ||
seafear | ᛫ thalassophobia ᛫ | N | sear+fear | NE | ||
seaganger | ᛫ a mariner ᛫ a vessel ᛫ | N | sǣgenga | OE | ||
seagreen | ᛫ a blueish green colour ᛫ of a blueish green colour ᛫ | N | sea-green | NE | ||
seahaven | seahafen | ᛫ a seaport ᛫ a town or city with a harbour for seagoing ships ᛫ | N | sea+haven | NE×2 | calque: zeehaven |
seahawk | ᛫ a Stercorarius bird ( a skua , a jaeger ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seahengest | seahencgest | ᛫ a hippopotamus ᛫ | N | sǣhengest | OE | literally sea-horse |
seahound | seahund | ᛫ a dogfish ᛫ a shark of the small bottom-dwelling variety ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sealeeth | ᛫ a sea shanty ᛫ | N | sǣlēoþ | OE | ||
sealithing | ᛫ seafaring ᛫ | AJ | sǣlīþende | OE | ||
sealore | ᛫ oceanography ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sealsmolt | ᛫ melted seal blubber ᛫ seal oil ᛫ | N | seilesmolt | ME | found under "smolt" on MEC | |
sealth | ᛫ happiness ᛫ fortune ᛫ prosperity ᛫ | N | sē̆lth[sǣlþ] | ME | ||
sealy | ᛫ marine ᛫ thalassic ᛫ oceanic ᛫ | AJ | sǣlīc | OE | ||
seamanship | seamanscip | ᛫ skill of sailing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
seamere | ᛫ a lagoon ᛫ an enclosed part of the sea ᛫ | N | sea+mere | NE×2 | calque: sea-lake | |
seaminnow | ᛫ an Engraulidae fish ᛫ an anchovy ᛫ | N | sea minnow | ENE | poorly attested | |
seamy | ᛫ sordid ᛫ disreputable ᛫ distasteful ᛫ ignoble ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
seanettle | seanettel | ᛫ the jellyfish ᛫ | N | sea nettle | NE | |
sear | ᛫ to burn ᛫ to scorch ᛫ to wither ᛫ to dry up ᛫ to mark permanently ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
searaven | searafen | ᛫ A Phalacrocoracidae bird ᛫ a cormorant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | essentially a calque of cormorant |
seareaver | seareafer | ᛫ a pirate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
seaswallow | ᛫ a Sterninae bird ( a tern ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seaswamb | ᛫ a seasponge ᛫ | N | sea+swamm | NE+ME | ||
seaswine | ᛫ the porpoise ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seat | ᛫ an ambush ᛬ to ambush ᛫ to lie in wait to ambush ᛫ | N᛬V | sǣt&sǣtian | OE&OE | ||
seatbone | ᛫ an ischium ᛫ | N | seat+bone | NE×2 | calque: zitbeen, Sitzbein | |
seater | ᛫ an insidiator ᛫ an ambusher ᛫ | N | sǣtere | OE | ||
seath | ᛫ a pit ᛫ a hole ᛫ | N | seaþ | OE | ||
seawarth | ᛫ the sea shore ᛫ | N | sǣwaroþ | OE | ||
seawight | seawigt | ᛫ a sea creature ᛫ | N | sǣwiht | OE | |
sedge | secg | ᛫ a man ᛫ | N | segge[secg] | ME | |
sedge | secg | ᛫ a Cyperaceae plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
see | ᛫ a pupil ( of the eye ) ᛫ | N | sēo | OE | ||
seech | seec | ᛫ to seek ᛫ to search ᛫ | V | sēchen{beseech} | ME | |
seed | ᛫ a purse ᛫ a money-bag ᛫ a coin-purse ᛫ a wallet ᛫ | N | seode&sēod | ME&OE | ||
seed | ᛫ semen ᛫ sperm ᛫ one's descendants ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seedly | ᛫ seminal ᛫ | AJ | sǣdlīc | OE | ||
seedtime | ᛫ the time to sow seeds ᛫ a time for new development ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seedy | ᛫ sleazy ᛫ untidy ᛫ full of seeds ᛫ infirm ᛫ suffering from a hangover ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
seek | ᛫ to search ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
seeksorrow | ᛫ a masochist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seel | ᛫ happiness ᛫ prosperity ᛫ a proper time ᛫ a good occasion ᛫ an opportunity ᛫ | N | sēle[sǣl] | ME | ||
seel | ᛫ happiness ᛫ prosperity ᛫ good fortune ᛫ luck ᛫ | N | sele | ME | ||
seel | ᛫ a large room ᛫ a hall ᛫ a large room for things like banquets ᛫ | N | sele{wunsēle} | OE | Finnish "sali" and OE rune poem used for definition | |
seely | ᛫ spiritually favored ᛫ happy ᛫ blissful ᛫ fortunate ᛫ lucky ᛫ auspicious ᛫ | AJ | sely | ME | doublet: silly | |
seem | ᛫ to bring to an agreement ᛫ to reconcile ᛫ | V | sẹ̄men[sēman] | ME | ||
seem | ᛫ to burden ᛫ to put a load on ᛫ | V | sēmen[sēman/sīman] | ME | ||
seeming | ᛫ apparent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
seemingly | ᛫ apparently ᛫ decorously ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
seendly | ᛫ visible ᛫ | AJ | see+end+ly | NE+ME+NE | ||
seer | ᛫ a person who sees something specified ᛫ a prophet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seethe | ᛫ to digest ᛫ | N | ME | |||
seethe | ᛫ to boil ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
seethe | ᛫ to declare true ᛫ to affirm ᛫ to attest ᛫ to testify ᛫ | V | sēþan | OE | ||
seether | ᛫ a boiler ᛫ | N | seethe+er | NE×2 | ||
seething | ᛫ an attestation ᛫ an affirmation ᛫ a proof ᛫ | N | sēþan+ing | OE+NE | ||
seethrough | seethruge | ᛫ transparent ᛫ translucent ᛫ | AJ | seethrough | NE | |
selcouth | selcooth | ᛫ strange ᛫ unusual ᛫ peculiar ᛫ marvellous ᛫ miraculous ᛫ preternatural ᛫ | AJ | selcouth&selcūþ | NE&OE | |
seld | ᛫ rare ᛫ infrequent ᛬ infrequently ᛫ rarely ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | selde | ME | ||
seld | ᛫ a chair ᛫ a seat ᛫ a throne ᛫ | N | sẹ̄lde[seld] | ME | or: sield? (vowel lengthened for at least some speakers) | |
seld | ᛫ rare- ᛫ | PREFIX | seld | OE | ||
seldom | ᛫ infrequent ᛫ rare ᛬ infrequently ᛫ rarely ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
seldomly | ᛫ rarely ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
seldomness | ᛫ rareness ᛫ rarity ᛫ uncommonness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
seldseen | ᛫ rarely seen ᛫ rare ᛫ uncommon ᛫ unusual ᛫ | AJ | seldsēn | ME | ||
selfeater | ᛫ a cannibal ᛫ | N | selfǣta | OE | ||
selfhood | ᛫ individuality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | [CED] | |
selfkill | ᛫ to kill oneself ( accidentally or intentionally ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
selfkiller | ᛫ one who has killed oneself ( accidentally or intentionally ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
selfly | ᛫ personal ᛫ voluntary ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
selfmurther | ᛫ to suicide ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
selfmurtherer | ᛫ a suicide ( one who kills oneself ) ᛫ | N | selfmurther+er | NE×2 | ||
selfnamed | ᛫ eponymous ᛫ | AJ | self-named | NE | ||
selfpitch | selfpic | ᛫ autotune ᛬ to autotune ᛫ | N᛬V | self+pitch{autotune} | NE×2 | calque: Autotune |
selfsame | ᛫ identical ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
selfsameness | ᛫ identity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
selfshrithe | selfscrithe | ᛫ to automatically act or move ᛫ to motivate oneself ᛫ | V | self+shrithe | NE+ME | |
selfshrithing | selfscrithing | ᛫ automatic ᛫ | AJ | self+shrithe+ing | NE+ME+NE | |
selfstanding | ᛫ independent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
selk | ᛫ to become sluggish ᛫ | V | āseolcan | OE | ||
sellsword | ᛫ mercenary ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
selly | ᛫ a marvel ᛫ a wonder ᛬ wonderful ᛫ admirable ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sem | ᛫ to remain suspended ᛫ | V | seomian | OE | ||
semp | ᛫ mustard ᛫ | N | senep | ME‹OE‹Þ‹I‹H | ||
sen | ᛫ very- ᛫ ever- ᛫ | PREFIX | sin | OE | survives in: sengreen | |
sench | senc | ᛫ to sink ᛫ to drown [ᛏ] ᛫ | V | senchen[sencan] | ME | |
sendforth | ᛫ a celebration or event to mark a person's departure ᛫ a send-off ᛫ | N | send-forth | NE | Nigerian English | |
sengreen | ᛫ the houseleek ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sennight | sennigt | ᛫ a week ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | from "seven nights" in Old English |
senshalk | senscalk | ᛫ seneschal ᛫ | N | sen+shalk | ME+ME | |
Serbish | Serbisc | ᛫ Serbian ᛫ | AJ | Serb+ish | NE×2 | |
sere | ᛫ different ᛫ various ᛫ diverse ᛫ several ᛫ multiple ᛫ | AJ | sẹ̄r | ME‹N | ||
sere | ᛫ dry ᛫ withered ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Sering | ᛫ a Chinese person ? ᛫ | N(P) | Seringum | OE‹I‹H | of note: Σῆρες; Serica | |
sess | ᛫ a seat ᛫ | N | ses/sæs/sesse | OE | kin: sess (Icelandic) | |
set | ᛫ a group ᛬ to place ᛫ to be located ᛫ to install ᛫ | N᛬V | ~{isetten} | NE | ||
setback | ᛫ a regression ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
setdeal | ᛫ a set piece ᛫ | N | set+deal | NE×2 | ||
setness | ᛫ a constitution ᛫ a statute ᛫ an ordinance ᛫ | N | setnes | ME | ||
setting | ᛫ a scenario ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
settingtoken | ᛫ an accidental ( in music ) ᛫ | N | setting+token | NE×2 | calque: Versetzungszeichen | |
settle | settel | ᛫ to solve ᛫ to come to rest ᛫ to colonize ᛫ to end a dispute or question ᛫ to resolve ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
settler | setteller | ᛫ a colonist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
settling | ᛫ a settlement ᛫ settlement ᛫ a colony ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
settlings | ᛫ sediment ᛫ dregs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Sevan Mere | Sefan | ᛫ Sevan Lake ᛫ | N(P) | Sevan+mere | NE‹O+NE | |
Seven Sisters | Sefen | ᛫ the Pleiades ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sevenleaf | sefenleaf | ᛫ a septfoil ᛫ | N | seofonlēafe | OE | |
sew | ᛫ juice ᛫ broth ᛫ sauce [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | sewe&sēaw | ME&OE | ||
shab | scab | ᛫ a scab ᛫ scabies ᛫ mange ᛫ | N | shab | ME | |
shade | scade | ᛫ a ghost ᛫ a spectre ᛫ a phantom ᛫ rephaite ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shaft | scaft | ᛫ ( element suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | shaft[gesceaft] | ME | |
shaft | scaft | ᛫ a creation ᛫ a creature ᛫ an element ᛫ a substance ᛫ | N | shaft/ishaft&gesceaft | ME&OE | |
shaftlore | scaftlore | ᛫ chemistry ( the study , not the mechanics) ᛫ | N | shaft+craft | ME+NE | |
shaftmote | scaftmote | ᛫ an element particle ( an atom ) ᛫ | N | shaft+mote | ME+NE | |
shag | scag | ᛫ A Phalacrocoracidae bird ᛫ a shag ᛫ a cormorant [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | of sketchy origin, possibly German or Norse |
shake | scake | ᛫ to quiver ᛫ to vibrate ᛫ to convulse ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
shaky | scaky | ᛫ trembling ᛫ unstable ᛫ precarious ᛫ unreliable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shale | scale | ᛫ a pod ᛫ a husk ᛫ a dish ᛫ a platter ᛫ a scale ( like of a fish ) ᛫ a weighing scale ᛫ | N | shale&shale&scealu | NE&ME&OE | |
shalk | scalk | ᛫ an adult male human ᛫ a person ? ᛫ | N | shalk[scealc] | ME | |
shallen | scallen | ᛫ testicles ᛫ | N | sceallan | OE | plural only |
shallow | scallow | ᛫ superficial ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sham | scam | ᛫ a fabrication ᛫ a counterfeit ᛬ fabricated ᛫ counterfeit ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~[shame?] | NE | |
shamble | scambel | ᛫ a stool ᛫ a bench ( especially for meat ) ᛫ a vendor's stall ( especially for meat ) ᛫ | N | ~[shā̆mel][sceamol] | NE‹‹OE‹I | in shambles = in great disorder ᛫ shambles = a meat market |
shamefast | scamefast | ᛫ bashful ᛫ modest ᛫ shy ᛫ shamefaced ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shand | scand | ᛫ a shame ᛫ a disgrace ᛫ infamy ᛫ ignominy ᛫ a scandal ᛫ | N | shand&scand | NE&OE | |
shandly | scandly | ᛫ disgraceful ᛫ infamous ᛫ shameful ᛫ scandalous ᛫ | AJ | shandly&scandlīc | NE&OE | |
shank | scank | ᛫ a leg ᛫ | N | shank[scanca] | NE | |
shape | scape | ᛫ a form ᛫ to form ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
shapeless | scapeless | ᛫ amorphous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shapely | scapely | ᛫ attractive in shape ᛫ well-shaped ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shapewhile | scapehwile | ᛫ a destined time ᛫ | N | gescæphwīl | OE | |
share | scare | ᛫ a groin ᛫ a pubic region ᛫ | N | shār[scearu/scaru] | ME | |
sharebone | scarebone | ᛫ a pubis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shareholder | scareholder | ᛫ one who owns shares in a corporation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sharn | scarn | ᛫ dung ᛫ manure ᛫ | N | sharn[scearn] | ME | |
sharp | scarp | ᛫ trenchant ᛫ acute ᛫ quick-witted ᛫ pungent ᛫ a semitone higher than the natural note ( music ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sharper | scarper | ᛫ a swindler ( especially in card games ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sharpshooter | scarpscooter | ᛫ a sniper ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | calque: Scharfschütze |
shat | scat | ᛫ a coin ᛫ money ᛫ currency ᛫ | N | shat/schat&sceatt | ME&OE | |
shathe | scathe | ᛫ a malefactor ᛫ harm ᛫ injury ᛬ to injure ᛫ to harm ᛫ to scathe ᛫ | V | shāthe&shāthien[sceaþian] | ME&ME | see: scathe |
shave | scafe | ᛫ a sharp tool used for cutting or scraping ᛫ | N | shāve[sceafa/scafa] | ME | |
shaw | scaw | ᛫ a grove ᛫ a copse ᛫ a thicket ᛫ | N | shaw&shau[sceaga] | NE&ME | |
sheaf | sceaf | ᛫ a bundle of objects of one kind ( especially paper ) ᛬ to bundle into sheaves ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
shear | scear | ᛫ to pare ᛫ to prune ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: shore ᛫ PTCP: shorn |
shears | scears | ᛫ scissors ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shearsax | scearsax | ᛫ a razor ᛫ | N | scearseax | OE | |
shearwater | scearwater | ᛫ a Procellariidae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sheath | sceath | ᛫ a scabbard ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sheathe | sceathe | ᛫ to put a weapon back into its sheath ᛫ to encase something in protective covering ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
shed | sced | ᛫ a distinction ᛫ a difference a dividing line ᛫ a division ᛫ a parting in head hair ᛬ to divide ᛫ to separate ᛫ to differentiate ᛫ to distinguish ᛫ | N᛬V | shed&shēd&ishēden[sceada] | NE&ME&ME | |
sheddy | sceddy | ᛫ distinctive ᛫ | AJ | shēd+y | ME+NE | |
Shedland | Scedland | ᛫ Scania ᛫ Scandinavia [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | Scedeland | OE | |
shedlore | scedlore | ᛫ chemistry ᛫ | N | shēd+lore | ME+NE | calque: scheikunde ᛫ based on purism invented by Simon Stevin |
shedmaking | scedmaking | ᛫ differentiation ᛫ discrimination ᛫ | N | shēd+make+ing | ME+NE×2 | calque: onderscheid maken ᛫ based on: lovemaking |
shedwise | scedwise | ᛫ discerning ᛫ | AJ | gescēadwīs | OE | |
shedwiseness | scedwiseness | ᛫ discretion ᛫ | N | scādwīsnesse[gescēadwīsnes] | ME | |
shee | scee | ᛫ to happen ᛫ to occur ᛫ | V | sēn&scēon | ME&OE | |
shee | scee | ᛫ to quickly fly or run off ᛫ to die ( poetic ) ᛫ | V | scēon | OE | |
sheen | sceen | ᛫ to fragment ᛫ to crack open an oyster ᛫ | N | shēnen[scǣnan] | ME | |
sheen | sceen | ᛫ an attractive gleam ᛬ to shine ᛫ to gleam ᛬ beautiful ᛫ attractive ᛫ radiant ᛫ shiny ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[scīene] | NE | |
sheepflesh | sceepflesc | ᛫ mutton ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sheepish | sceepisc | ᛫ meek ᛫ timid ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sheeply | sceeply | ᛫ ovine ᛫ | AJ | scēaplic | OE | |
sheer | sceer | ᛫ pure ᛫ unadulterated ᛫ pristine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
Sheer Thursday | Sceer Thursday | ᛫ Maundy Thursday ᛫ | N(P) | Sheer Thursday | NE | or: Sheer Thunderday |
sheerly | sceerly | ᛫ purely ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
sheerness | sceerness | ᛫ purity ᛫ | N | sheer+ness | NE×2 | |
sheet | sceet | ᛫ a broad thin piece of material ᛫ | N | ~{scēat} | NE | |
shelchen | scelcen | ᛫ a maidservant ᛫ a handmaid ᛫ | N | shelchene[scilcen] | ME | |
sheld | sceld | ᛫ variegated ᛫ | AJ | sheld | ME | |
sheldgoose | sceldgoos | ᛫ a Centrornis bird ᛫ a Chloephaga bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shelduck | scelduck | ᛫ any Tadorna bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shellhouse | scellhuse | ᛫ a grotto ( room ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shellpad | scellpad | ᛫ a turtle ᛫ a tortoise ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shelve | scelf | ᛫ to put something on a shelf ᛫ to put a project on hold indefinitely ᛫ to postpone indefinitely ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
shench | scenc | ᛫ a drink ᛫ a draught ᛫ a cup ᛬ Aquarius ᛬ to pour ᛫ to serve a drink ᛫ | N᛬N(P)᛬V | shenche&shenchen[scenc] | ME&ME | |
shend | scend | ᛫ to embarrass ᛫ to besmirch ᛫ to shame ᛫ | V | shend&shenden[scendan] | NE&ME | PST: shent ᛫ PTCP: shent |
shepherd | scepherd | ᛫ a sheep herder ᛫ a pastor ᛬ to tend sheep ᛫ to give guidance ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
shepherd leeth | scepherd leeth | ᛫ an eclogue ( a poem about life as a shepherd free from the complexity and corruption of city life ) ᛫ | N | shepherd+lēth | NE+ME | |
shepherdly | scepherdly | ᛫ pastoral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sheriff | sceriff | ᛫ an official of a shire ᛫ an elected officer responsible for keeping peace in a county ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sheriffdom | sceriffdom | ᛫ the office and domain of a sheriff ᛫ a shrievalty ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shewel | scewel | ᛫ a scarecrow ᛫ | N | sheueles | ME | |
shide | scide | ᛫ a piece of hewn timber ᛫ a plank ᛫ a small fragment of wood ᛫ a splinter ᛫ a chip ᛫ | N | shīd | ME | |
shidewall | scidewall | ᛫ a palisade ᛫ a stockade ᛫ | N | scid wal | ME | |
shieldend | sceeldend | ᛫ a protector ᛫ a guardian ᛫ a defender ᛫ | N | scildend | OE | |
shieldock | sceeldock | ᛫ a small shield ᛫ a buckler ᛫ | N | shield+ock | NE×2 | |
shieldtrum | sceeldtrum | ᛫ a compact body of troops forming a battle array shield wall or phalanx ᛫ | N | schiltron | NE | literally: shield troop |
shifty | scifty | ᛫ evasive ( in a dishonest way ) ᛫ dishonest ᛫ unreliable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shild | scild | ᛫ debt ᛫ fault ᛫ | N | shild | ME | |
shildy | scildy | ᛫ guilty ᛫ at fault ᛫ in debt ᛫ | AJ | shildī | ME | |
shill | scill | ᛫ to sound loudly ᛫ to resound ᛬ loud ᛫ resounding ᛫ shrill ᛫ audible ᛫ melodious ᛫ | V | shillen[scillan]&shil[scill] | ME&ME | |
shilling | scilling | ᛫ the standard unit in a system of currency ( a pound , a dollar , a solidus , a shekel , etc ) [ᚹ] | N | shilling&scilling | NE&OE | SEE NOTE |
shillyshally | scillyscally | ᛫ to fail to act resolutely or decisively ᛫ | V | shillyshally | NE | |
shinbone | scinbone | ᛫ a tibia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shinbour | scinbor | ᛫ a greave ᛫ | N | shin+beorg{healsbeorg} | NE+OE | |
shinecraft | scinecraft | ᛫ the art of show magic ? ᛫ | N | scīncræft | OE | |
shinecrafter | scinecrafter | ᛫ a show magician ? ᛫ | N | scīncræftiga | OE | |
shinedwale | scinedwale | ᛫ a delusion or illusion made by magic ᛫ | N | scīngedwola | OE | |
shinelock | scinelock | ᛫ magic ᛫ sorcery ᛫ fantasy ᛫ delusion superstition ᛫ a spectre ᛫ a phantom ᛫ an apparition ᛫ | N | scīnlāc | OE | |
shinelocker | scinelocker | ᛫ a magician ᛫ a sorcerer ᛫ a mage ᛫ | N | scīnlǣca | OE | |
shinely | scinely | ᛫ phantasmal ᛫ spectral ᛫ | AJ | scīnlīc | OE | |
ship | scip | ᛫ a condition ᛫ a position ( such as clerk ) ᛫ a stipend ᛫ | N | shipe[scipe] | ME | |
shipbone | scipbone | ᛫ a scaphoid bone ᛫ | N | ship+bone | NE×2 | calque: os scaphoidum |
shipbreach | scipbreac | ᛫ a shipwreck ᛫ | N | shipbreche | ME | |
shipferd | scipferd | ᛫ a naval force ᛫ | N | scipfird | OE | |
shipheer | scipheer | ᛫ a navy ᛫ | N | sciphere | OE | |
shiplord | sciplord | ᛫ a captain of a ship ᛫ | N | sciphlāford | OE | |
shiply | sciply | ᛫ naval ᛫ | AJ | sciplīc | OE | |
shipman | scipman | ᛫ a sailor ᛫ a seaman ᛫ | N | shipman | ME | |
shipper | scipper | ᛫ a sailor ᛫ a mariner ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shippon | scippon | ᛫ a cattle shed ᛫ | N | ~[scypen] | NE | |
shipshape | scipscape | ᛫ in good order ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shipwright | scipwrigt | ᛫ a builder of ships ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shire | scire | ᛫ a county ᛫ a prefecture ᛫ a region ᛫ a district ᛫ a province ᛫ | N | shire&shīre[scir] | NE&ME | |
shire | scire | ᛫ bright ᛫ sparkly ᛫ shiny ᛫ clear ᛫ pure ᛫ unadulterated ᛫ unmitigated ᛫ free from blemishes ᛫ | AJ | shīr[scīr/scȳr] | ME | |
shit | scit | ᛫ excrement ᛫ faeces ᛫ poop ᛫ crap ᛬ to excrete ᛫ to defecate ᛫ to poop ᛫ to crap ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | or: shite |
Shith | Scith | ᛫ a Scythian ᛫ an Ossetian ᛫ | N(P) | Sciþþeas | OE | |
Shithish | Scithisc | ᛫ Scythian language ( Ossetian language by extention ) ᛬ Scythian ( Ossetian by extention ) ᛫ | N(P)᛬AJ(P) | Sciþþisc | OE | |
shive | scife | ᛫ a slice ᛫ a disk [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: schijf |
shivel | scifel | ᛫ a woman's headscarf ᛫ | N | scyfel | OE | |
shiver | scifer | ᛫ to tremble ( especially from cold ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
shoal | scoal | ᛫ an area of shallow water ᛬ shallow ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
shoal | scoal | ᛫ a sandbar ᛫ a large group ᛬ to shallow ᛫ to school (as in fish) ᛬ shallow ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[scolu] | NE | kin: school |
shock | scock | ᛫ a jolt ᛬ to jolt ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹I‹? | |
shoemaker | scoemaker | ᛫ a cobbler ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shoestring | scoestring | ᛫ a shoelace ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Shooter | Scooter | ᛫ Sagittarius ᛫ | N(P) | shēter[scytta] | ME | |
shootingstar | scootingstar | ᛫ a meteor ᛫ | N | shooting star | NE | |
shop | scop | ᛫ a poet ᛫ | N | scop | ME | |
shoppy | scoppy | ᛫ poetic ᛫ figurative [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | scoplic | OE | |
shopsteward | scopsteward | ᛫ a union representative ᛫ | N | shop steward | NE | |
shore | score | ᛫ coast ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shorelark | scorelark | ᛫ the Eremophila alpestris bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: hornedlark |
short stop | scort stop | ᛫ comma ᛫ | N | short+stop | NE×2 | by analogy with: full stop |
shorthand | scorthand | ᛫ stenography ᛬ compendious ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
shorthander | scorthander | ᛫ a stenographer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | see: OED ᛫ also: shorthandman |
shortsweetening | scortsweetening | ᛫ sugar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | South & Midland US |
shot | scot | ᛫ a tax ᛫ | N | shot[scot] | ME | |
shotfree | scotfree | ᛫ free of tax ᛫ | AJ | scotfree | NE | |
shotgun | scotgun | ᛫ a smooth-bore close-range gun ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shoulderblade | scoulderblade | ᛫ a scapula ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: shoulderbone, bladebone |
shove | scuf | ᛫ a push ᛬ to push ᛫ to impel ᛫ to propel ᛫ | V | ~[shǒuven][scūfan] | NE | |
show up | scow | ᛫ to appear ( often when not expected or when in doubt ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
shower | scower | ᛫ one who shows ᛫ a revealer ᛫ a guide ᛫ mirror ᛫ | N | sheuer[scēawere] | ME | rhyme: blower |
showglass | scowglass | ᛫ a display case ᛫ a display cabinet ᛫ a showcase ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
showman | scowman | ᛫ a performer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
showmanship | scowmanscip | ᛫ skill of performing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shraff | scraff | ᛫ a cave ᛫ a cavern ᛫ a den ᛫ | N | shraf&scræf | ME&OE | plural: shraves (by analogy with "staves"); shraffs |
shrape | scrape | ᛫ to scrape ᛫ | V | shrāpen[scrapian] | ME | "scrape" might be Norse |
shree | scree | ᛫ to cry out ᛫ to shriek ᛫ | V | scrēon | OE | |
shreemark | screemark | ᛫ an exclamation point ( ! ) ᛫ | N | shriek-mark | NE | |
shrench | screnc | ᛫ to make shrivel ᛫ to make shrink ᛫ | V | shrenchen[gescrencan] | ME | causative of "shrink" |
shrench | screnc | ᛫ to decieve ᛫ to ensnare ᛫ | V | shrenchen[screncan] | ME | |
shrew | screw | ᛫ a Soricidae mammal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shrewd | screwd | ᛫ astute ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shrewish | screwisc | ᛫ ( of a woman ) bad-tempered or aggressively assertive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shride | scride | ᛫ to clothe ᛫ to dress ᛫ | V | shrīden | ME | or: shridefinn?; shrithefinn?; shrithfinn? |
Shridfinn | Scridfinn | ᛫ a Laplander ᛫ a Sami person ᛫ a Lapp ᛫ | N(P) | Scridefinnas | OE | |
shrift | scrift | ᛫ confession ( especially to a priest ) ᛫ absolution by a priest ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹Þ‹I | |
shriftfather | scriftfather | ᛫ a confessor ᛫ a priest who hears confessions ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shrike | scrike | ᛫ a Laniidae bird ᛫ a shriek ᛫ | N | ~{scriccettan} | NE | |
shrink | scrink | ᛫ a psychiatrist ᛫ a therapist ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shrithe | scrithe | ᛫ to move ( oneself ) ᛫ | V | scrīþan | OE | borrowed into New English by Kevin Crossley-Holland |
shrive | scrife | ᛫ to hear or give a confession ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹I | PT: shrove ᛫ PTCP: shriven |
shroud | scrude | ᛫ a cover ( especially clothing ) ᛬ to cover ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
shrubland | scrubland | ᛫ a brushland ᛫ a stretch of shrub-filled land ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shrutten | scrutten | ᛫ to scrutinize ᛫ | V | scrutnian/scrudnian | OE | |
shruttening | scruttening | ᛫ a scrutinizing ᛫ an investigation ᛫ an examination ᛫ | N | scrutnung | OE | |
shuck | scuck | ᛫ a demon ᛫ a devil ᛫ Satan ᛫ | N | shucke[scucca] | ME | |
shunworthy | scunworthy | ᛫ reproachable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
shurt | scurt | ᛫ to amuse oneself ᛫ to enjoy oneself ᛫ | V | shurten[scyrtan?] | ME | |
shuttle | scuttel | ᛫ a form of transport that travels regularly between two places ᛫ a bus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
shuttle | scuttel | ᛫ a shutting mechanism such as a bolt or a bar ᛫ | N | scyttels | OE | |
shy | scy | ᛫ to urge ᛫ to prompt ᛫ | V | scȳan | OE | |
sib | ᛫ official amity ᛫ official peace ᛫ familial relationship ᛫ a relative ᛫ relatives ᛬ related ᛫ | N᛬ADJ | sib&sibbe | NE&ME | ||
siblair | ᛫ incest ᛫ | N | sibleger | OE | ||
sibred | ᛫ relationship ( including by marriage ) ᛫ consanguinity ᛫ | N | sibrede | ME | ||
sibsome | sibsum | ᛫ peaceable ᛫ pacific ᛫ | AJ | isibsom | ME | |
sibword | ᛫ a cognate ᛫ | N | sib+word | OE+NE | ||
sick | ᛫ ill ᛫ unwell ᛫ morbid distasteful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | "ill" is from Norse | |
sicken | ᛫ to become or make sick or disgusted ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
sickening | ᛫ disgusting ᛫ revolting ᛫ repulsive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sicker | ᛫ to assure ᛫ to ensure ᛫ to confirm ᛬ dependable ᛫ safe ᛫ secure ᛫ stable ᛫ genuine ᛫ reliable ᛫ certain ᛫ | V᛬AJ | sikeren&sicker[sicor] | ME‹OE‹I | ||
sickerhood | ᛫ security ᛫ | N | sikerhēde | ME | ||
sickerly | ᛫ surely ᛫ certainly ᛫ indeed ᛫ | ADV | sikerlī | ME‹(I+E) | ||
sickerness | ᛫ certainty ᛫ assurance ᛫ security ᛫ | N | sikernes | ME | ||
sickhouse | sickhuse | ᛫ hospital ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Sickilish | Sickilisc | ᛫ Sicilian ᛫ | AJ | Sicilisc | OE | |
sickly | ᛫ often ill ᛫ indicative of poor health ᛫ nauseating ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sickness | ᛫ illness ailment disease ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sickwain | ᛫ an ambulance ᛫ | N | sick+wain | NE×2 | calque: ziekenwagen | |
sid | ᛫ good conduct ᛫ moral behaviour ᛫ modesty ᛫ morality ᛫ a custom ᛫ a manner ᛫ a practice ᛫ a habit ᛫ | N | sidu[sido] | OE | ||
sidden | ᛫ magical soothsaying ? ᛫ seiðr ? ᛫ necromancy ? ᛫ | N | ælfsidene/ælfsidenne | OE | see: sidesa | |
sideheadbone | ᛫ a parietal bone ᛫ | N | ~[sidebone] | NE | ||
sidekir | ᛫ an alternative ᛫ | N | side+kire | NE+ME | ||
sidekirry | ᛫ alternative ᛫ | AJ | side+kire+y | NE+ME+NE | ||
sidelings | ᛫ sideways ᛫ alongside ᛫ furtively ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
sidestand | ᛫ to parallel ᛫ | V | side+stand | NE×2 | ||
sidestander | ᛫ a parallel ᛫ | N | side+stand+er | NE×3 | ||
sidestep | ᛫ to bypass ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
sidewain | ᛫ a sidecar ᛫ | N | side+wain | NE×2 | calque: Seitenwagen | |
sidewalk | ᛫ pavement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sieve | sive (?) | ᛫ to sift ᛫ to strain ᛫ to temse ᛫ | V | ~[sife] | NE | rhyme: give |
sieve out | ute | ᛫ to remove unwanted items ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
sievebone | bone | ᛫ an ethmoid bone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sift | ᛫ to examine thoroughly so as to isolate that which is important or sought after ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
sight | sigt | ᛫ view ᛬ to observe ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
sighter | sigter | ᛫ a watery ditch ? ᛫ | N | seohtre | OE | |
sightfield | sigtfeeld | ᛫ a field of vision ᛫ a field of view ᛫ | N | sight+field | NE×2 | |
sightlore | sigtlore | ᛫ optometry ᛫ | N | sight+lore | NE×2 | |
sightly | sigtly | ᛫ pleasing to the eye ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sightseeing | sigtseeing | ᛫ tourism ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sike | ᛫ a small stream or rill ( typically one that flows through marshy ground and is often dry in summer ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sike | ᛫ to sigh ᛫ | V | sīken[sīcan] | ME | ||
sile | ᛫ a cruck ᛫ a curved support beam meant to meet up with a twin ᛫ | N | sīle[sȳl] | ME | ||
Sile | ᛫ the Sun ᛫ Sol ᛫ | N(P) | sigel | OE | ||
Sile | ᛫ ᛋ ᛫ | N(P) | sigel | OE | ||
Siler | ᛫ a Nubian ᛫ an Ethiopian ᛫ a Cushite ᛫ | N(P) | sigelwara | OE | ||
Silerland | ᛫ Nubia ᛫ Ethiopia ᛫ Cush ᛫ | N(P) | sigelwara+land | OE+NE | ||
silewharve | silehwarf | ᛫ a heliotrope flower ᛫ | N | sigelhweorfa | OE | |
sill | ᛫ a foundation beam ᛫ a slab at the foot of an opening ᛫ | N | sill&syll | NE&OE | found in "windowsill" | |
sillen | ᛫ a gift ᛫ a donation ᛫ | N | silen&selen/sylen | ME&OE | ||
silverking | silferking | ᛫ a Megalops fish ( a tarpon ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
silvern | silfern | ᛫ made of silver ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
silverside | silferside | ᛫ an Atheriniformes fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
silverthaw | silferthaw | ᛫ verglas ᛫ glaze ice ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
silverware | silferware | ᛫ dishes containers or cutlery made of or coated with silver ᛫ eating and serving utensils made of any material ᛫ cutlery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
simble | simbel | ᛫ continually ᛫ continuously ᛫ | AV | simble[simbel] | OE | |
simble | simbel | ᛫ a feast ᛫ a banquet ᛫ a festival ᛫ a symposium ᛫ a party [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | symbel | OE | kin: symposium (Greek)? |
simbleday | simbelday | ᛫ a feast day ᛫ a festival day ᛫ | N | symbeldæg | OE | |
simblely | simbely | ᛫ festive ᛫ | AJ | symbellīc | OE | |
simbleness | simbelness | ᛫ festivity ᛫ | N | symbelness | OE | |
simbletide | simbeltide | ᛫ a festival period ᛫ | N | symbeltīd | OE | |
sinboot | ᛫ amends for sin ᛫ penance ᛫ | N | synbōt | OE | ||
since | sins | ᛫ because ᛫ | C | ~ | NE | |
sind | ᛫ are ( plural only ) ᛫ | V | sind[sind] | ME | use not recommended | |
Sine | ᛫ Seine ( river in France ) ᛫ | N(P) | Sigen | OE | from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle | |
sine | ᛫ his ᛫ her ᛫ its ᛫ their ᛫ | N(PRO) | sīn | OE | optional pronoun | |
sinew | ᛫ a tendon ᛫ a nerve ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sinewy | ᛫ strong ᛫ muscular ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
singale | ᛫ continuous ᛫ continual ᛫ | AJ | singāle&singal | ME&OE | "sin-gale" not "sing-ale" | |
singaleness | ᛫ perseverance ᛫ constancy ᛫ | N | singalness | OE | ||
singe | sincg | ᛫ to slightly burn ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
singsong | ᛫ a simple and melodic verse ᛫ bad poetry or music ᛬ to make bad music or poetry ᛬ simple and melodic ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sink | ᛫ treasure ( like gold and jewels ) ᛫ | N | sinc | OE | ||
sinkroom | ᛫ a scullery ᛫ a back kitchen ᛫ | N | sink-room | NE | or: dishroom; washroom | |
sinkstone | ᛫ a jewel ᛫ | N | sincstān | OE | ||
sinkvat | sinkfatt | ᛫ a receptacle for treasure a casket ᛫ | N | sincfæt | OE | |
sinkyeaver | sinkyeafer | ᛫ treasure-giver ( a lord who rewards his thanes ) ᛫ | N | sincgiefa | OE | or: sinkgiver (Norse influenced) |
sinwelt | ᛫ round ᛫ circular ᛫ cylindrical ᛫ | AJ | sinewealt&seonuwealt | ME&OE | literally: ever-rolled? | |
sir | ᛫ to plan ᛫ to plot ᛫ to devise ᛫ to machinate ᛫ | V | sirwen&sirwan | ME&OE | kin: searu | |
siring | ᛫ buttermilk ᛫ | N | sȳring | OE | ||
sister | ᛫ a female member of a religious order ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sisterhood | ᛫ a sorority ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sisterly | ᛫ sororal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sitch | sic | ᛫ a stream ᛫ a ditch ᛫ the side of a field ᛫ | N | sī̆ch[sīc] | ME | or: sike (northern variant) |
sithe | ᛫ a journey ᛫ one's journey through life ᛫ an occasion ᛫ a point in time ᛬ to journey ᛫ to travel ᛫ | N᛬V | sīth | ME | ||
sithe | ᛫ after ᛫ | P&C | sīþ | OE | ||
sithefat | ᛫ a passage ᛫ a journey ᛫ a road ᛫ a path ᛫ a course ᛫ | N | siþfæt | OE | ||
sithen | ᛫ since then ᛫ after that ᛫ after then ᛫ | C | ~ | NE | or: sithens; sith ᛫ "since" is a short version of this word | |
sither | ᛫ a fellow ᛫ a companion ᛫ | N | gesīþa | OE | ||
sithes | ᛫ multiplied by ᛫ | P | sīthes | ME | kin: sīth | |
sitheship | sithescip | ᛫ a society ᛫ a fellowship ᛫ fellowship ᛫ companionship ᛫ | N | gesīþscipe | OE | |
sittingroom | ᛫ a parlour ᛫ a living room ᛫ | N | sitting-room | NE | ||
sivestone | sifestone | ᛫ tufa ᛫ | N | seive-stone | ENE | rhyme: give stone |
skeel | ᛫ a vessel such as a bucket , a tub , or a vat used to hold liquid ᛫ | N | skẹ̄le | ME‹N | kin: skjōla | |
skent | ᛫ to entertain ᛫ to amuse ᛫ | V | skenten | ME‹N | kin: skemmta (N) | |
skill | ᛫ to distinguish ᛫ | V | skillen | ME‹N | ||
skimp | ᛫ to economize ᛫ to be stingy ᛫ to be sparing of ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
skindeep | ᛫ superficial ᛫ | AJ | skindeep | NE‹(N+E) | or: hidedeep (skin is Norse) | |
skinflint | ᛫ a miser ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
skinship | skinscip | ᛫ bonding through physical contact ᛫ | N | skin+ship | NE‹N+NE | calque: スキンシップ |
skyline | ᛫ the horizon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
slack | ᛫ loose ᛫ sluggish ᛫ lazy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
slacken | ᛫ to make or become slack ᛫ to loosen ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
slade | ᛫ a dingle ᛫ a small valley ᛫ | N | ~[slā̆de][slæd] | NE | ||
slail | ᛫ a pick ( plectrum ) ᛫ | N | slegel | OE | ||
slake | ᛫ to slacken ᛫ to become less energetic ᛫ to weaken ᛫ to decrease ᛫ to become extinct ᛫ to quench ᛫ to cool with liquid ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
slaked lime | ᛫ calcium hydroxide ᛫ hydrated lime ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
slang | ᛫ jargon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
slaught | slaugt | ᛫ a slaughter ᛫ | N | slaught | ME | kin: slay ᛫ Slaughter is Norse |
slaughthouse | slaugthouse | ᛫ slaughterhouse ᛫ | N | slaught+house | NE×2 | |
slay | ᛫ to kill ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
slayer | ᛫ a killer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sleat | ᛫ to drive game ᛫ to chase down ᛫ | V | slēten[slǣtan] | ME | ||
sleave | sleaf | ᛫ to separate threads ᛫ to divide ᛫ | V | sleave[slǣfan] | NE | |
sledge | slecg | ᛫ a toboggan ᛫ a sleigh ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sleepern | ᛫ a dorter ᛫ a dormitory ᛫ | N | slǣpærn | OE | ||
sleeplessness | ᛫ insomnia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sleepy | ᛫ soporific ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sleevefish | sleeffisc | ᛫ a squid ᛫ | N | sleeve-fish | NE | or: seasleeve |
sleight | sleigt | ᛫ the use of dexterity or cunning ( especially so as to deceive ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | rhyme: bright |
sletch | slec | ᛫ to ease ᛫ to relieve ᛫ to relax ᛫ | V | slechen[gesleccan] | ME | |
slew | ᛫ a Mugilidae fish ( a mullet ) ᛫ | N | slīw | OE | ||
slick | ᛫ a film of oil ᛬ smooth wet and slippery ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
slicked | ᛫ lubricated ᛫ oiled ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
slidder | ᛫ slippery ᛫ uncertain ᛫ duplicitous ᛫ treacherous ᛫ | AJ | slider | ME | ||
slike | ᛫ to smoothen ᛫ to polish ᛫ to flatter ᛫ | V | slīke[slīcian] | ME | ||
slipup | ᛫ to err ᛫ to make a mistake ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
slite | ᛫ deterioration ᛫ | N | ~[slītan] | NE | ||
slithe | ᛫ dire ᛫ dangerous perilous ᛫ | AJ | slīþe | OE | ||
slive | slife | ᛫ to cut a sliver off something ᛫ to cut ᛫ to slice ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | rhyme: dive |
sliver | slifer | ᛫ a small slice ᛫ a small fraction of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sloom | ᛫ gentle sleep ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sloppy | ᛫ messy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
slot | ᛫ a musical clef [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹NL/LG | calque: Schlüssel; sleutel | |
sloth | ᛫ laziness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
slothful | ᛫ lazy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
slouch | sluce | ᛫ a lubber ᛫ a lout ᛫ a slacker ᛬ to walk in a stooping way ᛫ to pull one's hat or hood into one's face to conceal it ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
slough | sluge | ᛫ a swamp ᛫ a mire ᛫ | N | [slōh] | NE | rhyme: plough |
slough | sluge | ᛫ discarded skin ᛬ to shed skin ᛫ to shed ᛫ to discard ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | rhyme: tough |
slowheart | ᛫ bradycardia ᛫ | N | slow+heart | NE×2 | calque: bradycardia | |
slur | ᛫ an insult ᛬ to insult ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
smack | ᛫ heroin ᛫ | N | ~[schmeck] | NE‹HG | ||
smack | ᛫ a taste ᛬ to taste ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE‹NL? | see: smatch | |
smack of | ᛫ to taste of ᛫ to come across as ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹NL? | ||
smackbound | smackbund | ᛫ bound to taste or opinion ᛫ subjective ᛫ | AJ | smack+bound | NE | |
small | ᛫ miniature ᛫ diminutive ᛫ petite ᛫ unimportant ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | Needful to wend words like 'diminutive'. | |
smallminded | ᛫ petty ᛫ having narrow interests sympathies or outlook ᛫ narrow-minded ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
smart | ᛫ pain ᛬ to hurt ᛫ to pain ᛬ sharp ᛫ sharp minded ᛫ intelligent ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
smartful | ᛫ painful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
smarting | ᛫ suffering ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
smarts | ᛫ intelligence ᛫ know-how ᛫ a kind of cunning in a particular field ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
smatch | smac | ᛫ a taste ᛫ a slight trace ᛬ to taste ᛫ | N᛬V | smatch&smach&smacchen | NE&ME&ME | see: smack |
smatch of | smac | ᛫ to taste of ᛫ to come across as ᛫ | V | smacchen of | ME | |
smatter | ᛫ a slight superficial knowledge of subject ᛬ a small amount of something ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
smear | ᛫ to smear ᛫ to anoint ᛫ | V | smear&ismēren | NE&ME | ||
smearle | smearel | ᛫ ointment ᛫ lotion ᛫ | N | smēreles | ME | |
smeat | ᛫ refined ( of gold ) ᛫ refined ( by extension ) ᛫ | AJ | smeat/smēte | ME | ||
smeddum | ᛫ powder ( especially fine powder ) ᛫ fine flower ᛫ | N | ~[smeodoma] | NE | ||
smeech | smeec | ᛫ smoke ᛫ dense vapour ᛬ to emit smoke ᛫ to emit vapor ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
smeek | ᛫ to fumigate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | kin: smoke | |
smeeth | ᛫ to become smooth ᛫ to make smooth ᛫ to expedite [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | smethen | ME | kin: smooth | |
smellbrain | ᛫ the rhinencephalon ᛫ | N | smellbrain | NE | ||
smey | ᛫ to scrutinize ᛫ to meditate on ᛫ | V | smēȝen[smeagan] | ME | ||
smicker | ᛫ elegant ᛫ fine ᛫ beautiful ᛫ | AJ | ~[smiker][smicer] | NE | ||
smile | ᛫ a burrow ᛫ a hollow ᛫ a cuniculus ᛫ a place to creep into ᛫ a smial ( a Hobbit-hole ) ᛫ | N | smygel | OE | ||
smilt | ᛫ calm ᛫ serene ᛫ tranquil ᛫ placid ᛫ | AJ | smilte&smylte | ME&OE | ||
smiltness | ᛫ calmness ᛫ serenity ᛫ tranquillity ᛫ peace ᛫ | N | smyltness | OE | ||
smit | ᛫ to contaminate ᛫ to infect ᛫ to stain ᛫ to tarnish ᛫ to sully ᛫ | V | ~[smitten][smittian] | NE | ||
smite | ᛫ to strike hard ᛫ to defeat ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: smote ᛫ PTCP: smitten | |
smith | ᛫ a worker in metal ᛬ to treat metal by heating hammering and forging it ᛫ | N᛬V | smith | NE | ||
smithe | ᛫ a smithy ᛫ a blacksmith's workshop ᛫ | N | smithe[smiþþe] | ME | ||
smithy | ᛫ a forge ᛫ the workshop of a smith ᛫ | N | smithy | NE | ||
smitting | ᛫ infectious ᛫ contagious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
smittle | smittel | ᛫ infectious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | Scottish |
smock | ᛫ a chemise ᛫ a blouse ( especially a long one ) ᛫ a loose overall which protects one's clothes ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
smoke | ᛫ a cigar ᛫ a cigarette ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
smokestack | ᛫ a chimney ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
smolt | ᛫ lard ᛫ | N | smolt[smolt] | ME | ||
smolt | ᛫ serene ᛫ tranquil ᛫ | AJ | smolt | ME | ||
smore | ᛫ to suffocate ᛫ | V | smore&smorian | NE&OE | ||
smother | ᛫ a mass of something that stifles or obscures ᛬ to cover with a suffocating effect ᛫ to braise ( stove-top style ) ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
smow | smue | ᛫ to creep ᛫ to crawl ᛫ | V | smūȝen[smūgan] | OE | rhyme: now |
snake | ᛫ a serpent ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
snakefear | ᛫ ophidiophobia ᛫ | N | snake+fear | NE×2 | ||
snapshot | snapscot | ᛫ a picture ( especially when taken hastily ) ᛫ a glimpse ᛫ a brief portrayal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(NL+E) | or: shot (for short) |
snarch | snarc | ᛫ to shrivel ᛫ to dehydrate ᛫ | V | snarchen&sneorcan | ME&OE | |
snead | ᛫ a cut ᛫ a slice ᛫ a morsel ᛬ to cut to pieces ᛫ to slice to shreds ᛫ | N᛬V | snead&tọ̄̆snēden | NE&ME | ||
snead | ᛫ the handle of a scythe ᛫ | N | snǣd{snēde} | OE | ||
sneakers | ᛫ trainers ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sneem | ᛫ swiftly ᛫ rapidly ᛫ quickly ᛫ immediately ᛫ at once ᛫ | ADV | snēome | OE | ||
snell | ᛫ quick ᛫ fast ᛫ rapid ᛫ | AJ | ~[snel] | NE | ||
snid | ᛫ an incision ᛫ | N | snide | OE | ||
snide | ᛫ counterfeit ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
snidiron | ᛫ a lancet ᛫ | N | snidīsen | OE | means "incision iron"? | |
snike | ᛫ to crawl ᛫ to creep ᛫ to sneak ᛫ | V | snīcan | OE | possibly redundant | |
snit | ᛫ a fit of rage ᛫ a tantrum ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹? | ||
snite | ᛫ a snipe ᛫ a Gallinago gallinago bird ᛫ a Lymnocryptes minima bird ᛫ | N | snite[snīte/snyghte] | NE | ||
snite | ᛫ to blow one's nose ᛫ to blow or snuff out a candle ᛫ | V | snite&snīten[snȳtan] | NE&ME | ||
sniter | ᛫ a sniper ᛫ | N | snite+er | NE×2 | "snipe" is Norse | |
snithe | ᛫ to cut ᛫ to slice ᛫ to amputate ᛫ | V | snithe&snīþan | NE&OE | ||
snithy | ᛫ cutting ᛫ sharp ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
snitter | ᛫ prudence ᛫ sagacity ᛫ | N | snitere&snytro | ME&OE | ||
snood | ᛫ a band ribbon cap or hat for keeping hair in place ᛫ | N | ~[snōd] | NE | ||
snore | ᛫ daughter-in-law ᛫ a sister-in-law ᛫ | N | snore&snoru | ME&OE | ||
snoter | ᛫ prudent ᛫ sagacious ᛫ | AJ | snoter[snotor] | ME | ||
snoterly | ᛫ wise ᛫ prudent ᛫ philosophical ᛬ wisely ᛫ prudently ᛫ philosophically ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | snotorlīc&snotorlīce | OE | ||
snoterness | ᛫ wisdom ᛫ intelligence ᛫ spiritual enlightenment ᛫ | N | snoterness | ME | ||
snoud | snude | ᛫ quickly ᛫ swiftly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | snūde | OE | |
snowhen | ᛫ a Lagopus bird ( a ptarmigan ) ᛫ | N | snow+hen | NE×2 | calque: sneeuwhoen; Schneehuhn | |
snowslide | ᛫ an avalanche ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
snowstorm | ᛫ a blizzard ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
snowwold | ᛫ a stretch of taiga ᛫ | N | snow+wold | NE | or: snowwood | |
snug | ᛫ trim ᛫ close-fitting ᛫ comfortable ᛫ cozy ᛫ cosy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
so as to | ᛫ in order to ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
so say | ᛫ according to ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | "They're green, so says John." | |
soaksome | soaksum | ᛫ bibulous ᛫ | AJ | soak+some | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes |
soal | ᛫ a dirty pond ᛫ mire ᛫ mud ᛫ | N | sol | OE | ||
Soalmonth | ᛫ February ᛫ | N(P) | Solmonaþ | OE | of note: Sowlegrove | |
soapapple | soapappel | ᛫ a Chlorogalum pomeridianum plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sodden | ᛫ soaked ᛫ saturated with liquid ᛫ having drunk an excessive amount of something ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
softshaded | softscaded | ᛫ pastel ( of a soft and delicate shade of a colour ) ᛫ | AJ | soft+shade+ed | NE×3 | |
softship | softscip | ᛫ a situation marked by ease comfort or convenience ᛫ the opposite of hardship ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
software | ᛫ the programs and other operating information used by a computer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sokeman | ᛫ one who holds soken rights ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
soken | ᛫ a search ᛫ a search for levying fees and fines ᛫ a district under the jurisdiction of such searches ᛫ | N | soke&socn | NE&OE | or: soke | |
sole | ᛫ a rope or a wooden yoke ( especially one used to tether cattle ) ᛫ | N | sōl[sāl] | ME | ||
sole | ᛫ to soil ᛫ to dirty ᛫ to sully ᛬ soiled ᛫ dirty ᛫ sullied ᛫ | V᛬AJ | sōle&sole[sol] | ME&ME | ||
solken | ᛫ slothful ᛫ indolent ᛫ lazy ᛫ | AJ | āsolcen | OE | ||
some | sum | ᛫ -ous (suffix of characterization) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | |
somedeal | sumdeal | ᛫ partial ᛬ partly ᛫ partially ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | somedeal&somedel | NE&ME | |
somewhat | sumhwat | ᛫ to a degree ᛫ partially ᛫ quite ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
somewhy | sumhwy | ᛫ for some reason ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
sond | ᛫ a thing which is sent ᛫ a messenger ᛫ an envoy ᛫ a message ᛫ a serving of food ᛫ | N | sond[sand] | ME | ||
sondsman | ᛫ a messenger ᛫ | N | sondesman | ME | or: sondman | |
songbook | ᛫ a book of songs ( especially hymns ) ᛫ a collection of songs ᛫ a musical album [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
son-of-the-sun | sun-of-the-sun | ᛫ a Fregatidae bird ( a frigatebird ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sonsdaughter | sonsdaugter | ᛫ a paternal granddaughter ᛫ | N | son+daughter | NE×2 | based on: sunsunu; dohtorsunu |
sonson | ᛫ a paternal grandson ᛫ | N | sunsunu | OE | ||
sool | ᛫ the sun ᛫ | N | sōl | OE | ||
soom | ᛫ agreement ᛫ concord ᛫ | N | sōme[sōm] | ME | ||
soom | ᛫ united ᛫ unified ᛫ | AJ | gesōm | OE | ||
soon | ᛫ music ᛫ | N | sōn[I sonus] | OE‹I | ||
sooncraft | ᛫ the art of music ᛫ | N | sōncræft | OE‹(I+E) | ||
sooth | ᛫ truth ᛫ reality ᛬ real ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
soothbound | soothbund | ᛫ bound to fact ᛫ objective ᛫ | AJ | sooth+bound | NE×2 | |
soothe | ᛫ to gently calm ᛫ to relieve or ease pain ᛫ to verify ᛫ to prove ᛫ to confirm ᛫ | V | soothe&sōþian | NE&OE | ||
soother | ᛫ a pacifier ᛫ a verifier ᛫ a confirmer ᛫ | N | soothe&sōþian+er | NE&OE+NE | ||
soothfast | ᛫ real ᛫ actual ᛫ veracious ᛫ genuine ᛫ | AJ | soothfast&sōthfast | NE&ME | ||
soothing | ᛫ relaxing ᛫ calming ᛫ relieving ᛫ calmative ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
soothless | ᛫ false ᛫ unreliable ᛫ treacherous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
soothly | ᛫ truly ᛫ verily ᛫ actually ᛫ really ᛬ amen ᛫ | AV᛬I | ~[sōthlī] | NE | ||
soothquid | soothcwid | ᛫ a true saying ᛫ a fact ᛫ | N | sōþcwide | OE | |
soothsaw | ᛫ a true saying ᛫ a proverb ᛫ a maxim ᛫ | N | sothsau | ME | ||
soothsawl | ᛫ veracious ᛫ truth saying ᛫ | AJ | sọ̄thsawel/sọ̄thsagel | ME | ||
soothsay | ᛫ to predict ᛫ to prophesy ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
soothsayer | ᛫ a prophet ᛫ a prognosticator ᛫ the mantis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
soothspel | ᛫ a true story ᛫ history ᛫ | N | sōþspell | OE | ||
soothy | ᛫ sincere ᛫ authentic ᛫ actual ᛫ | AJ | sōþlic | OE | ||
sope | ᛫ a small amount of drink ᛫ | N | sope[sopa] | ME | ||
sorely | ᛫ very ( usually in a negative sense ) ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
sorry | ᛫ contrite ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sotship | sotscip | ᛫ folly ᛫ | N | sotship | ME | |
sough | suge | ᛫ a soft noise ᛬ to make a soft noise ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | rhyme: plough or tough |
sought | sugt | ᛫ sickness ᛫ | N | sought[suht] | ME | rhyme: pout |
soulkind | ᛫ spiritual ᛫ | AJ | sāwelcund | OE | ||
soullattew | ᛫ a psychopomp ( a spirit deity person etc who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife ) ᛫ | N | soul+lattew | NE×2 | equal to: soul-guide | |
sound | sund | ᛫ secure ᛫ healthy ᛫ valid ᛫ safe ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
sound | sund | ᛫ the power of swimming ᛫ a narrow inlet ᛫ a strait connecting two wider areas of water ᛫ | N | sound&sund | NE&OE | |
soundness | sundness | ᛫ security ᛫ safety ᛫ robustness ᛫ competence ᛫ reliability ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sour | sure | ᛫ acid ᛬ acidic ᛫ | N | zuur | NL | |
sourcole | surecole | ᛫ fermented cabbage ᛫ sauerkraut ᛫ | N | sour+cole | NE×2 | calque: Sauerkraut |
sourdock | suredock | ᛫ a Rumex acetosa plant ( sorrel ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
soursop | suresop | ᛫ the fruit of an Annona muricata tree ᛫ a guanabana ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
southen | suthen | ᛫ from the south ᛫ | AV | sūþan | OE | |
southern lights | ligts | ᛫ the aurora australis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Southumber | Suthumber | ᛫ Southumbria ᛫ the Southumbrians ᛫ | N(P) | Sūþanhymbre | OE‹(E+C) | |
Southumberrich | Suthumberric | ᛫ the Kingdom of Southumbria ( Mercia ? ) ᛫ | N(P) | Sūþanhymbre rīce | OE‹(E+C+C) | |
sow | sue | ᛫ to suffer ᛫ to make something suffer ᛫ | V | sǒuen | ME | |
sow | sue | ᛫ an adult female pig ᛫ a siege engine used to shelter wall miners ᛫ | N | sow&sǒue | NE&ME | second meaning is a calque of Latin |
sowel | ᛫ a pole ᛫ a post ᛫ | N | souel | ME | ||
sowl | sule | ᛫ something eaten with bread , such as meat , pottage , a sauce , etc ᛫ any topping or sauce that goes with bread ᛫ | N | sǒuel[sufel] | ME | |
spadefish | spadefisc | ᛫ a disc-shaped fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Spain | ᛫ Spain ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | or: Hispain (from ME Hispaigne) | |
span | ᛫ an extent ᛬ to extend ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
spane | ᛫ to allure ᛫ to lure ᛫ to entice ᛫ | V | spanan{forspannen} | OE | ||
spangle | spangel | ᛫ a sequin ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹NL? | |
spar | ᛫ a piece of timber used in building ᛫ a rafter ᛫ a beam ᛫ a pole or post used as a weapon or bar ᛬ to lock with a spar ᛫ | N᛬V | sparre | ME | ||
spare | ᛫ an extra ᛬ to refrain from killing or hurting ᛬ unoccupied ᛫ extra ᛫ | N᛬V᛬AJ | ~[spær] | NE | ||
sparhawk | ᛫ the Accipiter nisus bird ( Eurasian sparrowhawk ) ᛫ | N | sparhauk | ME | ||
sparling | ᛫ an Osmeridae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sparlire | ᛫ a calf ( of a leg ) ᛫ | N | sparlire | ME | ||
sparstone | ᛫ gypsum ᛫ hydrous calcium sulphate ᛫ | N | sparrestone[spærstān] | ME | ||
speakeath | ᛫ a speakeasy ᛫ | N | speak+eathe | NE+ME | calque: speakeasy | |
speakle | speakel | ᛫ talkative ᛫ loquacious ᛫ | AJ | sprecol | OE | |
speal | ᛫ to save ᛫ to reserve ᛫ to refrain from using or consuming ᛫ to relieve ᛫ to spare ᛫ | V | spēlen[spelian] | ME | ||
spearhalf | ᛫ the male line of descent ᛫ | N | sperehealf | OE | ||
speck | ᛫ a tiny spot ᛫ a tiny stain ᛫ a tiny particle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
speechcraft | speeccraft | ᛫ skill in speech ᛫ rhetoric ᛫ grammar ( especially spoken grammar as opposed to written ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
speechhouse | speechuse | ᛫ an auditorium ᛫ | N | sprǣchūs | OE | |
speechlore | speeclore | ᛫ linguistics ᛫ philology ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
speechly | speecly | ᛫ linguistic ᛫ | AJ | speech+ly | NE×2 | calque: sprachlich |
speed | ᛫ success ᛫ luck ᛫ | N | godspeed | NE | ||
speedful | ᛫ successful ᛫ prosperous ᛫ | AJ | spedeful | ME | ||
speedless | ᛫ without success ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
speld | ᛫ a splinter ᛫ a thin piece of wood used as a torch ᛫ a torch ᛫ | N | speld | OE | ||
spelk | ᛫ a splinter ᛬ to splinter ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | "splinter" is Dutch | |
spell | ᛫ a story ᛫ a narrative ᛫ speech with a magical effect ᛫ a state of enchantment ᛫ | N | ~[spell] | NE | ||
spell | ᛫ a short period ᛫ a period spent in an activity ᛬ to represent ᛫ to substitute ᛫ to relieve ( to take the place of ) ᛫ | N᛬V | spell&spelen&spelian | NE&ME&OE | ||
spellbind | ᛫ to fascinate ᛫ to hold the complete attention of someone as though by magic ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
spellbinding | ᛫ fascinating ᛫ engrossing ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
spellboder | ᛫ a messenger ᛫ | N | spellboda | OE | ||
spellbound | spellbund | ᛫ fascinated ᛫ entranced ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
speller | ᛫ a representative ᛫ a substitute ᛫ | N | spala{speliend/spāle} | OE | ||
spew | ᛫ vomit ᛫ puke ᛬ to vomit ᛫ to puke ᛫ to discharge violently ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
spiderfear | ᛫ arachnophobia ᛫ | N | spider+fear | NE×2 | ||
spild | ᛫ to destroy ᛫ | V | spildan | OE | ||
spill | ᛫ to play ᛫ to revel ᛫ | N᛬V | spilen&spilian | ME&OE | ||
spill | ᛫ a spill ᛬ to spill ᛫ to waste ᛫ | N᛬V | spill&spillan{aspillen} | NE&OE | ||
spiller | ᛫ a player ᛫ a jester ᛫ | N | spilere{spillend} | OE | ||
spilth | ᛫ spillage ᛫ material that is spilt ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
spind | ᛫ fat ᛫ | N | spind | OE | ||
spindle | spindel | ᛫ an axis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
spindlehalf | spindelhalf | ᛫ the female line of descent ᛫ | N | spinlehealf | OE | |
spindleshanks | spindelscanks | ᛫ a thin lanky person with long legs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
spinster | ᛫ a woman who spins cloth ᛫ an unmarried woman ( especially one beyond the usual age for marriage ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
spir | ᛫ to inquire ᛫ to interrogate ᛫ to investigate through inquiry ᛫ to check for something ᛫ | V | spiren[spyrian] | ME | or: speer (Scotland) | |
spird | ᛫ a stadium ᛫ a racetrack ᛫ a racecourse ᛫ | N | spyrd | OE | ||
spirglass | ᛫ a telescope ᛫ | N | spiren+glass | ME+NE | calque: spyglass | |
spit | ᛫ a dash ( — ) ᛫ a hyphen ( - ) ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | ||
spitbreed | ᛫ meat cooked on a spit ᛫ a kebab ᛫ | N | spit+brēd | NE+ME | calque: spitroast | |
spitch | spic | ᛫ bacon ᛫ | N | spich/spik | ME | kin: speck ᛫ or: spick |
spittle | spittel | ᛫ saliva ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
spittle | spittel | ᛫ a spadelike tool with two or more prongs ᛫ | N | spitel | ME | |
spokebone | ᛫ a radius ( bone ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: wandbone | |
spokesman | ᛫ a representative of a group or an individual ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
spore | ᛫ a track ᛫ a trace ᛫ a vestige ᛫ | N | spore&spor | ME&OE | ||
spot | ᛫ an area ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
spow | ᛫ to succeed ᛫ to be successful ᛫ | V | spōwan | OE | ||
sprank | ᛫ a shoot ᛫ a twig ᛫ a sprig ᛫ | N | spranc | OE | ||
sprat | ᛫ a Sprattus fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sprawl | ᛫ a disorganized unattractive expanse ᛬ spread out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~[spreawlian] | NE | ||
sprawling | ᛫ expansive ᛫ extensive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sprent | ᛫ sprinkled over ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sprind | ᛫ vigorous ᛫ active ᛫ | AJ | sprind[springd] | ME | ||
spring from | ᛫ to be caused by [ᛏ] ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
springe | sprincg | ᛫ to sprinkle ᛫ to scatter ᛫ to disperse ᛫ | V | sprengen | ME | |
springly | ᛫ vernal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
spry | ᛫ agile ᛫ featly ᛫ gracile ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
spur | ᛫ an incentive ᛬ to incentivize ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
spurn | ᛫ to reject with scorn ᛫ to kick away ᛫ to refuse or fail to use ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
spurrier | ᛫ a searcher ᛫ an explorer ᛫ an investigator ᛫ a spy [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | āspyrgend | OE | ||
squeezebox | scweesbox | ᛫ an accordion ᛫ a concertina ᛫ | N | squeeze-box | NE‹(E+H) | colloquial word |
squelch | scwelc | ᛫ to squash ᛫ to crush ᛫ to tread and make splashing sounds ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | or: quelch ᛫ first appears in Early Modern English |
squidflesh | scwidflesc | ᛫ calamari ᛫ | N | squid+flesh | NE | |
squirt | scwirt | ᛫ a syringe ᛫ liquid which is spirting ᛬ to spirt out a liquid ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[scqwyrt] | NE | first appears in Late Middle English |
staddle | staddel | ᛫ a foundation ᛫ a base ᛫ a prop ᛫ a support ᛬ to base ᛫ to prop ᛫ to support ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | or: stathel (older) |
staddlely | staddely | ᛫ fundamental ᛫ basic ᛫ | AJ | staddle+y | NE×2 | |
staddler | staddeller | ᛫ a founder ᛫ | N | staþoliend | OE | |
staff | ᛫ a letter ( like A B or C ) ᛫ a written character ᛫ | N | staf&stæf | ME&OE | ||
staffay | ᛫ a combination of letters which forms a syllable or a diphthong ᛫ | N | stæfgefēg | OE | ||
staffcraft | ᛫ grammar ( as in the art of letters spelling and punctuation ) ᛫ | N | stæfcræft | OE | ||
staffkind | ᛫ a font ᛫ a typeface ᛫ | N | staff+kind | NE×2 | ||
staffleighter | staffleigter | ᛫ a grammatical error ᛫ a typo ᛫ | N | stæfleahter | OE | |
stafflither | ᛫ a ballista ᛫ | N | stæfliþere | OE | ||
stafflore | ᛫ orthography ᛫ | N | staff+lore | NE×2 | ||
staffly | ᛫ literal ᛫ letter-like ᛬ literally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | stafī/staffliȝ[stæflīc] | ME | ||
staffrow | ᛫ an alphabet ᛫ | N | stæfrǣw | OE | ||
staffwise | ᛫ literate ᛫ lettered ᛫ | AJ | stæfwīs | OE | ||
staffword | ᛫ an acronym ᛫ | N | staf+word | ME+NE | calque: letterwoord | |
stag | ᛫ a male deer ᛫ | N | ~[stagge] | NE | ||
stake | ᛫ a post ᛫ a post on which a gambling wager is placed ᛫ a wager ᛫ a bet ᛬ to wager ᛫ to bet ᛫ | V | stake&stāke | NE&ME | ||
stal | ᛫ klepto- ᛫ | PREFIX | stæl | OE | stælhere = thieving army ? stælgiest = thieving ghost ? | |
stale | ᛫ a rung in a ladder ᛫ a position in a series ᛫ a tier ᛫ | N | stāle[stalu] | ME | ||
stalk | ᛫ a main stem of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stalk | ᛫ to pursue stealthily ᛫ | V | ~[stealcung] | NE | ||
stall | ᛫ a position ᛬ to keep in position ᛫ to delay ᛫ to hinder ᛫ | N᛬V | stall&steall | NE&OE | ||
stalworth | ᛫ brave ᛫ courageous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | or: stalwart | |
stand | ᛫ to exist ( especially of inanimate things ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
stand for | ᛫ to represent ᛫ to symbolize ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
standalone | ᛫ an independent thing ᛬ independent ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
standin | ᛫ a substitute ᛫ | N | stand-in | NE | ||
standoffish | standoffisc | ᛫ anti-social ᛫ unsociable ᛫ socially cold ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
stannel | ᛫ a kestrel ᛫ | N | ~[stāngella] | NE | ||
staple | stapel | ᛫ a bar or wire meant for holding things together through piercing and bending ᛫ a pillar ᛫ a column ᛫ a post ᛫ | N | staple&stapol | NE&OE | |
star | ᛫ an asterisk ( * ) ᛫ a celebrity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stardom | ᛫ celebrity ( as in the status ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stark | ᛫ stiff ᛫ rigid ᛫ solid ᛫ strong ᛫ severe ᛫ unpleasantly or sharply clear ᛫ severe or bare in appearance ᛫ | AJ | ~[stark] | NE | ||
starken | ᛫ to make unbending or inflexible ᛫ to stiffen ᛫ to make obstinate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
starly | ᛫ astral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
starship | starscip | ᛫ a spaceship ᛫ a spacecraft ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
starshower | starscower | ᛫ an astrologer ᛫ | N | steorscēawere | OE | |
start | ᛫ a tail ᛫ | N | stert[steort] | ME | ||
startail | ᛫ a Phaethon bird ( a tropicbird ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | also: boatswainbird | |
startoken | ᛫ a constellation ᛫ | N | star+token | NE×2 | ||
starving | starfing | ᛫ starvation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
starwatch | starwac | ᛫ an observatory ᛫ | N | star+watch | NE×2 | calque: sterrenwacht |
stath | ᛫ a bank ᛫ a shore ᛫ land bordering water ᛫ a wharf ᛫ | N | stath[stæþ] | ME | "wharf" meaning may be from Norse influence | |
stave off | stafe | ᛫ to prevent ᛫ to avert ᛫ to ward off ᛫ to keep away ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
stead | ᛫ a station ᛫ a place ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
steadfast | ᛫ steady ᛫ unmoving ᛫ loyal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
steadfastness | ᛫ loyalty ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
steady | ᛫ to stabilize ᛫ stable ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stealth | ᛫ acting in secrecy and cautiousness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | kin: "steal" | |
stealthy | ᛫ cautious and surreptitious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stean | ᛫ an earthenware container for liquids or foods ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
steap | ᛫ a stoup ᛫ a drinking vessel ᛫ a cup ᛫ a flagon ᛫ | N | stēap | OE | "stoup" is Norse | |
stear | ᛫ history ᛫ | N | stǣr{ἱστορία} | OE‹I‹H | or: yorelore | |
stearwit | ᛫ a historian ᛫ | N | stǣr+wite | OE‹I‹H+ME | or: yorewit | |
steed | ᛫ a horse being ridden or available for riding ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
steel bow | ᛫ a crossbow ᛫ an arbalest ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: stockbow | |
steen | ᛫ to groan or to rumble or to bellow or to bray loudly ᛫ | V | stēnan | OE | ||
steep | ᛫ to imbue ᛫ to soak ᛫ to fill with ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | "a city steeped in history" | |
steeple | steepel | ᛫ a tower ᛫ a church tower ᛫ a spire ᛫ | N | ~[stẹ̄pel][stīpel/stēpel] | NE | |
steer | ᛫ guidance ᛫ direction ᛫ a rule ᛫ a regulation ᛫ a restraint ᛫ a check ᛬ to direct ᛫ | N᛬V | steor&steoran | OE&OE | ||
steerer | ᛫ a director ᛫ a regulator ᛫ a moderator ᛫ | N | steorend | OE | ||
steet | ᛫ to strike ᛫ to thrust ᛫ to fall heavily ᛫ to push hard ᛫ | V | stē̆ten | ME | ||
stell | ᛫ to set up ᛫ to up-fix ᛫ to mount up ᛫ to place ᛫ to set ᛫ to put in place ᛫ | V | stellen | ME | ||
stem | ᛫ a branch in a family ᛬ to descend ᛫ to derive ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
stench | stenc | ᛫ malodorousness or acridness ( of smell ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
step | ᛫ stage ᛫ phase ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stepchild | stepcild | ᛫ an orphan ᛫ a stepchild ᛫ | N | ~ | ME&NE | orphan is the original meaning |
stepdown | stepdune | ᛫ to resign ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
stepwise | ᛫ gradual ᛬ gradually ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
ster | ᛫ ( agent suffix , formerly a feminine agent suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | could be reverted to its old role as the feminine agent suffix | |
stern | ᛫ serious ᛫ unfriendly ᛫ strict ᛫ severe ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
steven | stefen | ᛫ an appointed time ᛫ an appointment ᛫ a tryst ᛬ to set an appointment ᛫ to establish ᛫ to appoint ᛫ to institute ᛫ | N᛬V | steven&stevenen | ME&ME | rhyme: seven |
steven | stefen | ᛫ a voice ( whether human or animal ) ᛫ a voice ( grammatical term ) ᛫ a sung melody or tune ᛫ speech ᛬ to voice ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | rhyme: seven |
stevenmeal | stefenmeal | ᛫ by turns ᛫ alternatively ( as in alternating ) ᛫ | AV | stefnmǣlum | OE | rhyme: seven-peel |
stew | ᛫ to restrain ᛫ to check ᛫ | V | steuen | ME | ||
steward | ᛫ a supervisor ᛫ a seneschal ᛬ to supervise ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
stewardship | stewardscip | ᛫ supervision ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
stickle | stickel | ᛫ a rapid ᛬ steep ᛫ sloping ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | kin: stehhal (OHG) |
stickle | stickel | ᛫ to argue or contend stubbornly [ᚾ] ᛫ to raise objections ᛫ to scruple ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
stickleback | stickelback | ᛫ a Gasterosteidae fish [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~[stikel] | NE | |
stickler | stickeller | ᛫ a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
stiff | ᛫ rigid ᛫ | AJ | ~[stīf] | NE | ||
stiffness | ᛫ rigidity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stight | stigt | ᛫ to set in order ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to place ᛫ | V | stighten | ME | |
stightle | stigtel | ᛫ to direct ᛫ to ordain ᛫ to arrange ᛫ to array ᛫ to govern ᛫ to rule ᛫ to manage | V | stightelen[stihtan] | ME | |
stightler | stigteller | ᛫ a director ᛫ a manager ᛫ | N | stightelen+er | ME+NE | |
stile | ᛫ a structure for surmounting things ( usually fences and walls ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
still | ᛫ a photograph from a film ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stillness | ᛫ silence ᛫ absence of movement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stilly | ᛫ silent ᛫ calm ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stilt | ᛫ a Recurvirostridae bird ᛫ a stilt ᛫ an avocet [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stink | ᛫ to have a bad odour ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
stinkbird | ᛫ the Opisthocomus hoazin bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stinking nightshade | nigtscade | ᛫ henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
stinky | ᛫ malodorous odoriferous or acrid ( of smell ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stint | ᛫ an allotted period of time ( of work or prison time ) ᛫ a cessation ᛫ a pause ᛬ to cease ᛫ to pause ᛫ | N᛬V | stint&stinten[styntan] | NE&ME | ||
stir | ᛫ to incite to action ᛫ to disturb ᛫ to move ᛫ to move about ᛫ to become active ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
stirrup | ᛫ a stapes ( bone ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stitch | stic | ᛫ a piece ᛫ a fragment ᛫ a part ᛫ a section of a text ᛫ | N | stiche/stech[stycce] | ME | survives as: "steck" in Scots ᛫ kin: שטיק |
stitch | stic | ᛫ a thread or wire fastening ᛫ a stabbing pain ᛫ | N | ~[stice] | NE | |
stitchmeal | sticmeal | ᛫ piecemeal ᛬ piecemeal ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | styccemǣlum | OE | |
stithe | ᛫ hard ᛫ stiff ᛫ stubborn ᛫ | AJ | stīþ | OE | ||
stithy | ᛫ an anvil ᛫ | N | ~[stethi] | NE‹N | ||
stoat | ᛫ the Mustela erminea mammal ( a kind of weasel ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹? | ||
stock | ᛫ a supply ᛫ a store of something ᛬ to supply ᛫ to store ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
stock | ᛫ a stump ᛫ a tree trunk ᛫ a log ᛫ a block of wood ᛫ a post ᛫ a trestle ᛫ a handle ( like of a mace ) ᛫ a torso ᛫ a lineage ᛫ a race ᛫ a species ᛫ | N | stock&stok[stocc] | NE&ME | ||
stodge | stocg | ᛫ heavy , filling , starchy food ᛫ a boring thing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
stold | ᛫ a settled place ᛫ a station ᛫ an abode ᛫ | N | gesteald | OE | kin: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌽 | |
stonebaby | ᛫ a lithopedion / lithopaedion ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stonebow | ᛫ a natural stone arch ᛫ | N | stānboga | OE | ||
stonebuck | ᛫ an ibex ᛫ | N | stanbucca | OE | also exists as a calque of German | |
stonecoal | ᛫ anthracite ᛫ a hard variety of coal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stonecraft | ᛫ masonry ᛫ the art or skill of working with stone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stoned | ᛫ intoxicated ᛫ high on drugs ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stonedelf | ᛫ a quarry ᛫ | N | stāngedelf | OE | ||
stonedelve | stonedelf | ᛫ to mine for stone ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
stonefaw | ᛫ paved ᛫ paved with stone ᛫ | AJ | faw&stānfāh | NE&OE | ||
stonehawk | ᛫ a Falco columbarius bird ( a merlin ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stonelime | ᛫ cement ᛫ mortar ᛫ | N | stānlīm | OE | ||
stonemint | ᛫ a Cunila origanoides plant ( American dittany ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stonen | ᛫ made of stone ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | invented by William Barnes | |
stonen | ᛫ to petrify ᛫ | V | stone+en | NE×2 | ||
stoner | ᛫ one who stones ᛫ a machine to remove pits from fruit ᛫ a frequent user of cannabis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stonerock | ᛫ an obelisk ᛫ | N | stānrocc | OE | ||
stonewall | ᛫ an obstruction ᛫ a refusal to cooperate ᛬ to obstruct ᛫ to refuse to cooperate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
stonewalled | ᛫ surrounded or defined in size and shape by a wall of stone ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stonewright | stonewrigt | ᛫ a stonemason ᛫ | N | stānwryhta | OE | |
stony | ᛫ like stone ᛫ emotionless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
stoor | ᛫ powerful ᛫ fierce ᛫ cruel ᛫ severe ᛫ | AJ | stọ̄r | ME | ||
stoor | ᛫ incense ᛫ frankincense ᛫ | N | stōr[storax?] | ME‹I | ||
stoorvat | stoorfatt | ᛫ a censer ᛫ | N | stōrfat[stōrfæt] | ME | |
stopfire | ᛫ a ceasefire ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stopgap | ᛫ a short term solution ᛬ short-term ᛫ temporary ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
stound | stund | ᛫ a relatively short length of time ᛫ an hour [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | stound | NE | |
stoundmeal | stundmeal | ᛫ at intervals ᛫ alternatingly ᛫ | AV | stundmǣlum | OE | |
stour | sture | ᛫ a river ᛫ | N | stour[stūr] | ME | still found in a few names of rivers |
stoven | stofen | ᛫ a stump ᛫ | N | stō̆ven[stofn] | ME | rhyme: oven? |
stow | ᛫ a place ᛫ a location ᛬ to store ᛫ to lodge ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | /stoʊ/ | |
strackledwales | strackelledwales | ᛫ the Celts of Strathclyde ᛫ Strathclyde ᛫ | N(P) | stræcledwalas | OE | |
straid | ᛫ to strew ᛫ to scatter ᛫ to disperse ᛫ | V | stregdan | OE | ||
straightforward | straigtforward | ᛫ direct ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
strail | ᛫ a blanket ᛫ | N | strail[strǣl] | ME | ||
strake | ᛫ a stripe ᛫ a decorative streak ᛫ a beam of metal or timber ᛫ | N | strake&strāke | NE&ME | ||
strand | ᛫ a beach ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
streak | ᛫ a long thin line ᛫ a stroke ᛫ a series of successful deeds ᛫ | N | ~[strica] | NE | ||
streel | ᛫ an arrow ᛫ a round of ammunition [ᚹ] ᛬ to shoot ᛫ | N᛬V | strele&strǣlian[strǣl] | ME&OE | ||
streelbearer | ᛫ an archer ᛫ an arrow-bearer ᛫ | N | strǣlbora | OE | ||
streeling | ᛫ radiation ᛫ | N | strele+ing | ME+NE | calque: Strahlung | |
streen | ᛫ parturition ᛫ generation ᛫ procreation ᛫ propagation ᛫ a lineage ᛫ an ancestry ᛬ to procreate ᛫ to propagate ᛫ to generate ᛫ | N᛬V | strẹ̄n&strẹ̄nen[strēonan] | ME&ME | "strain" seems to have French influence | |
streen | ᛫ a couch ᛫ a sofa ᛫ a bed ᛫ a resting spot ᛫ | N | strēon/strēowen | OE | ||
streener | ᛫ a procreator ᛫ a generator ᛫ | N | strẹ̄nen+er | ME+NE | ||
streeningly | ᛫ genitive ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | gestrȳnedlīc{gestrēonan} | OE | ||
streeny | ᛫ genetic ᛫ genetical ᛫ | AJ | strain+y | NE×2 | ||
stretch | strec | ᛫ to extend ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
stretch | strec | ᛫ strict ᛫ severe ᛫ rigorous ᛫ stern ᛫ hard ᛫ | AJ | stræc{streche} | OE | PTCP: straught/stretched |
strew | ᛫ to distribute randomly ᛫ to spread abroad ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
strewn | ᛫ fragmented over an area ᛫ scattered ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
strike | ᛫ to hit ᛫ to attack ᛫ to delete ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: struck ᛫ PTCP: stricken | |
strikeharp | ᛫ a piano ᛫ | N | strike+harp | NE×2 | calque: slagharpa ᛫ or: slayharp (direct cognate calque) | |
strind | ᛫ a race ᛫ a clan ᛫ a lineage ᛫ a generation ᛫ | N | strīnde | ME | ||
string | ᛫ a series of things ᛫ a sequence ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
strite | ᛫ an ostrich ᛫ | N | strȳta | OE‹I? | ||
strongdrink | ᛫ liquor ᛫ | N | strong drink | NE | ||
stronghold | stronghold | ᛫ a fortress ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
strongman | ᛫ a leader who rules with threats force or violence ᛫ a tyrant ᛫ a dictator ᛫ a despot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
strongwater | ᛫ nitric acid ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
strothe | ᛫ marshy land overgrown with brushwood ᛫ | N | strothe[strōd] | ME | ||
stroud | strude | ᛫ to plunder ᛫ to pillage ᛫ to defraud ᛫ | V | strūdan | OE | |
strout | strute | ᛫ contention ᛫ an argument ᛫ | N | strǒut{strūtian} | ME | |
stuller | ᛫ furtive ᛫ | AJ | stulor | OE | ||
stun | ᛫ to clash ᛫ to crash ᛫ to dash ᛫ to strike ᛫ | V | stunian | OE | ||
stunt | ᛫ a daring or dangerous feat ᛫ skill ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
stunt | ᛫ a check in growth ᛫ a stunted being or thing ᛬ to hinder the growth of ᛫ to perform a stunt ᛫ to show off ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
stunted | ᛫ prevented from growing ᛫ shorter than usual for one's age ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sturry | ᛫ an Acipenseridae fish ( a sturgeon ) ᛫ | N | styria | OE | ||
sty | ᛫ a path ᛫ a lane ᛫ an approach to something ᛫ a way of conduct ᛫ a method ᛬ to ascend ᛫ to descend ᛫ | N᛬V | stīe&stīgen[stīg] | ME&ME | ||
suckerfish | suckerfisc | ᛫ an Echeneidae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
suckledeer | suckeldeer | ᛫ a mammal ᛫ | N | suckle+deer | NE×2 | calque: Säugetier; zoogdier |
sull | ᛫ to dirty ᛫ to corrupt ᛫ to taint ᛫ to soil ᛫ to desecrate ᛫ to sully ᛫ to pollute ᛫ to defile ᛫ | V | sulen[sylian] | ME | ||
sullow | ᛫ a plough ᛫ a plow ᛫ | N | sulou[sulh] | ME | ||
summer teal | ᛫ a Spatula querquedula bird ( a garganey ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
summerledge | summerlecg | ᛫ to become summer ᛫ | V | sumerlǣcan | OE | |
summerly | ᛫ estival ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sunbloom | ᛫ a Helianthus annuus plant ( sunflower ) ᛫ | N | sun+bloom | NE×2 | calque: sunflower | |
sundcorn | ᛫ a Saxifraga plant ᛫ | N | sundcorn | ME | ||
sunder | ᛫ to separate ᛫ to split ᛫ to vary ᛫ to differ ᛫ | V | sunder&sǒnderen | NE&ME | ||
sunder | ᛫ private- ᛫ special- ᛫ | PREFIX | sunder | OE | ||
sundercraft | ᛫ a special power ᛫ a special art ᛫ | N | sundorcræft | OE | ||
sunderfee | ᛫ private wealth ᛫ | N | sundorfeoh | OE | ||
Sunderhallow | ᛫ a Pharisee ᛫ | N | sundorhālga | OE | ||
sundering | ᛫ a separation ᛫ separation ᛫ diversity ᛫ variety ᛫ difference ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sunderledge | sunderlecg | ᛫ to privatize ᛫ | V | sunder+lǣcan | NE+OE | |
sunderly | ᛫ separate ᛫ distinct ᛫ different ᛫ unique ᛫ private ᛫ individual ᛫ especial ᛫ special ᛫ | AJ | sǒnderlī | ME | ||
sunderright | sunderrigt | ᛫ a privilege ᛫ a special right ᛫ | N | sunderriht | OE | |
sundrily | ᛫ variously ᛫ differently ᛫ separately ᛫ distinctively ᛫ distinctly ᛫ singly ᛫ individually ᛫ particularly ᛫ specially ᛫ specifically ᛫ privately ᛫ | AV | sundrily&sonderlī&syndriglic | NE&ME&OE | ||
sundriness | ᛫ diversity ᛫ specialness ᛫ independence ᛫ specialness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sundry | ᛫ various ᛫ different ᛫ separate ᛫ distinctive ᛫ distinct ᛫ single ᛫ individual ᛫ particular ᛫ special ᛫ specific ᛫ private ᛫ | AJ | sundry&sǒndrī&syndrig | NE&ME&OE | ||
sundryman | ᛫ a dealer of sundries ( miscellaneous items ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sunfast | ᛫ sun resistant ᛫ not liable to fade in sunlight ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Sunfield | Sunfeeld | ᛫ Elysium ᛫ | N(P) | sunnfeld | OE | |
sunfish | sunfisc | ᛫ a Molidae fish ᛫ a Centrarchidae fish ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sungang | ᛫ the course of the sun ᛫ | N | sungang | OE | ||
sunken | ᛫ submerged ᛫ depressed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
sunly | ᛫ solar ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Sunnight | Sunnigt | ᛫ the night following Sunday's dusk ᛫ | N(P) | ~[sunnanniht] | NE | |
sunshade | sunscade | ᛫ a parasol ᛫ an awning ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
sunspider | ᛫ a solifuge ᛫ a camel spider ᛫ a wind scorpion ᛫ | N | sun spider | NE | ||
sunstead | ᛫ a solstice ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Surry | ᛫ Syria ᛫ | N(P) | Surry/Sirie | ME‹O | ||
sussel | ᛫ torment ᛫ anguish ᛫ agony ᛫ | N | sūsl | OE | ||
susselstead | ᛫ a place of torment ᛫ hell ᛫ | N | sūslstede | OE | ||
suttle | suttel | ᛫ clear ᛫ manifest ᛫ obvious ᛫ evident ᛫ unambiguous ᛫ | AJ | sutel&sutelen[sweotol] | ME&ME | |
suttle | suttel | ᛫ to clarify ᛫ to denote ᛫ to make known ᛫ to show ᛫ | V | isutelen&geswutelian | ME&OE | |
suttleness | suttelness | ᛫ clarity ᛫ | N | sutel+ness | ME+NE | |
suttley | suttely | ᛫ manifest ᛫ | AJ | sutellī[sweotollīc] | ME | |
suttling | suttelling | ᛫ evidence ᛫ | N | sweotolung[swutel] | OE | |
swaddle | swaddel | ᛫ to wrap a baby in retraining material ᛫ to restrain ᛫ to restrict ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
swail | ᛫ heaven ᛫ the divine kingdom ᛫ the realm of the god or gods ᛫ | N | swegl | OE | kin: sun | |
swain | ᛫ a rustic ᛫ a peasant ᛫ a shepherd ᛫ a page ( an attendant upon a knight ) ᛫ a squire ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
swair | ᛫ a mother-in-law ᛫ | N | sweȝer&sweger | ME&OE | kin: שוויגער | |
swake | ᛫ feeble with age ᛫ | AJ | swāc[swæc] | ME | ||
swamb | ᛫ fungus ᛫ a mushroom ᛫ a sponge ᛫ | N | swam[swamm] | ME | ||
swamblore | ᛫ mycology ( the study of fungi ) ᛫ | N | swam+lore | ME+NE | ||
swamp | ᛫ a stretch of forested wetland ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swanker | ᛫ bending easily ᛫ pliable ᛫ flaccid ᛫ | AJ | swancor | OE | ||
swanling | ᛫ a cygnet ᛫ | N | swan+ling | NE×2 | ||
swansong | ᛫ a final performance or accomplishment ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | calque: Schwanengesang | |
swap | ᛫ to exchange ᛫ to trade ᛫ to switch ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swap out | ute | ᛫ to replace ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
sward | ᛫ the upper layer of soil ( especially when grassy ) ᛫ skin ( especially of pork ) ᛫ rind ᛫ a patch of calloused skin ᛫ | N | sward&sward | NE&ME | ||
swarf | ᛫ the bits that come from swarfing ( filings ) ᛬ to grind down ᛫ to file off ᛫ | V | swarf&gesweorfan | NE&OE | ||
swark | ᛫ a dark cloud ? ᛫ | N | swearc/gesweorc | OE | ||
swarken | ᛫ to darken ᛫ to becloud ᛫ | V | swurken[sweorcan] | ME | ||
swart | ᛫ the black hue ᛬ black ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
swarthy | ᛫ tawny dusky ᛫ dark ᛫ of dark complexioned ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
swath | ᛫ a broad area of something ᛫ | N | ~[swæþ] | NE | ||
swathe | ᛫ a long strip of something ( especially cloth ) ᛫ a bandage [ᚹ] ᛬ to bandage ᛫ to swaddle ᛫ to envelop ᛫ | N᛬V | ~{unswā̆then} | NE | ||
sway | ᛫ bias ᛫ impetus ( of motion ) ᛫ momentum ᛫ command ᛫ dominion ᛫ influence ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swayer | ᛫ an influencer ᛫ an influence ᛫ a factor ( a circumstance fact or influence that contributes to a result ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweal | ᛫ to be on fire ᛫ to burn ᛫ | V | swēlen[swelan] | ME | ||
sweam | ᛫ to grieve ᛫ | V | swēmen[swǣman] | ME | ||
swease | sweas | ᛫ one's own ᛫ dear ᛫ beloved ᛫ gracious ᛫ | AJ | swǣs | OE | kin: suēscō (Latin) |
sweaseledge | sweaslecg | ᛫ to flatter ᛫ | V | swǣslǣcan | OE | |
sweasely | sweasly | ᛫ kind ᛫ pleasant ᛫ agreeable ᛫ | AJ | swǣslīc | OE | |
sweasing | ᛫ food ᛫ victuals ᛫ refection ᛫ | N | swǣsende | OE | ||
sweatcloth | ᛫ a handkerchief ᛫ | N | swātclāþ | OE | ||
sweater | ᛫ a jumper ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweathole | ᛫ a pore for releasing sweat ᛫ | N | ~ | ENE | ||
Sweave | Sweaf | ᛫ a Swabian ᛫ an Alamanni ᛫ | N(P) | Swǣfas | OE | |
Sweaveland | Sweafland | ᛫ Swabia ᛫ Alamannia ᛫ Alemannia ᛫ | N(P) | Swǣfas+land | OE+NE | |
Sweeland | ᛫ Sweden ᛫ | N(P) | Sweoland | OE | ||
sweer | ᛫ a pillar ᛫ a column ᛫ | N | swēor[swēor] | ME | ||
sweer | ᛫ a father-in-law ᛫ | N | swēor | OE | ||
Sweerich | Sweeric | ᛫ Sweden ( the state not the land ) ᛫ | N(P) | Sweorice | OE | |
sweetbread | ᛫ a pancreas of an animal ᛫ a thymus gland of an animal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweeting | ᛫ a sweet kind of apple ᛫ a darling ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweets | ᛫ candy ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweetsop | ᛫ the fruit of an Anonna squamosa tree ᛫ a sugarapple ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
sweetwater | ᛫ perfume ᛫ fragrance ᛫ | N | sweet-water | NE | ||
sweetwood | ᛫ licorice / liquorice ᛫ a Glycyrrhiza glabra plant ᛫ | N | sweet+wood | NE×2 | calque: zoethout; Süßholz | |
sweeve | sweef | ᛫ to put to sleep ᛫ to make inactive ᛫ | V | swēven[swefen/swefn] | ME | |
sweight | sweigt | ᛫ momentum ᛫ | N | sweight | ME | equal to: sway+th |
swell | ᛫ to swell ᛬ nice ᛬ well ᛫ | V᛬AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
swelt | ᛫ to die ᛫ to become overcome with emotion or heat or such ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
swelter | ᛫ an uncomfortably hot atmosphere ᛬ to feel uncomfortably hot ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
sweltering | ᛫ uncomfortably hot ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
swench | swenc | ᛫ affliction ᛫ tribulation ᛫ distress ᛬ to afflict ᛫ to trouble ᛫ to distress ᛫ | N᛬V | swenc&swenchen[swencan] | OE&ME | |
swere | ᛫ heavy ᛫ grave ᛫ oppressive ᛫ | V | swēre[swǣr] | ME | ||
swerely | ᛫ heavily ᛫ grievously ᛫ oppressively ᛫ | AV | swǣrlīce | OE | ||
sweremood | ᛫ of an indolent sluggish disposition ᛫ | AJ | swǣrmōd | OE | ||
swetch | swec | ᛫ a taste ᛫ a flavour ᛫ an odour, a scent, smell ᛫ an aroma ᛫ | N | swecc | OE | |
swether | ᛫ to retire ᛫ to withdraw ᛫ to abate ᛫ to subside ᛫ | V | sweþrian | OE | ||
swevel | swefel | ᛫ sulphur ᛫ sulfur ᛫ brimstone ᛫ | N | swefel[swefel] | ME | |
swevelen | swefelen | ᛫ sulfurous ᛫ made of brimstone ᛫ | AJ | sweflene[sweflen] | ME | |
sweven | swefen | ᛫ a vision ᛫ a dream ᛬ to dream ᛫ | N | sweven&swē̆venen | NE&ME | rhyme: seven |
swevet | swefet | ᛫ sleep ᛫ | N | swevete[sweofot] | ME | |
swey | ᛫ a noise ᛫ a sound ᛬ to sound ᛫ to make noise ᛫ | N᛬V | swei&sweien[sweg/swegan] | ME&ME | or: sway | |
swike | ᛫ deceit ᛫ treachery ᛫ betrayal ᛫ a betrayer ᛫ a cheater ᛬ to deceive ᛫ to betray ᛫ to cheat ᛫ to cease ᛫ to desist ᛫ | N᛬V | swike&swiken[swīcan] | ME&ME | ||
swikedom | ᛫ treason ᛫ treachery ᛫ betrayal ᛫ | N | swikedom | ME | ||
swikel | ᛫ treacherous ᛫ | AJ | swicol | OE | ||
swiker | ᛫ a traitor ᛫ a deceiver ᛫ | N | swīca | OE | ||
swill | ᛫ low quality food or drink ᛬ to wash with water ᛫ | N᛬V | ~[swilian] | NE | ||
swime | ᛫ an unconscious state ᛫ a faint ᛫ | N | swīme | ME | ||
swimel | ᛫ an anesthetic ᛫ | N | swīme+le | ME+ME | ||
swimmingly | ᛫ splendidly ᛫ to happen well and without serious problems ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
swin | ᛫ a melody ᛫ | N | swinn | OE | ||
swind | ᛫ to vanish ᛫ to disappear ᛫ to waste away ᛫ to perish ᛫ | V | swinden | ME | rhyme: bind? | |
swine | ᛫ a pig ᛫ pigs ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swineflesh | swineflesc | ᛫ pork ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
swineherd | ᛫ a person who tends swine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swinely | ᛫ porcine ᛫ | AJ | swīnlic | OE | ||
swinge | swincg | ᛫ authority ᛫ influence ᛫ power ᛫ rule ᛫ sway ᛫ license ( as in artistic license ) ᛫ impetus ( of motion but also figuratively ) ᛫ impulse ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
swingeing | swincging | ᛫ drastic ᛫ severe ᛫ extreme ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
swingle | swingel | ᛫ a scutch ( a flax beating tool ) ᛬ to beat with a swingle ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
swinish | swinisc | ᛫ unpleasant ᛫ contemptible ᛫ pig-like ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
swink | ᛫ hard work ᛫ hard labour ᛫ toil ᛫ drudgery ᛬ to work hard ᛫ to labour hard ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | PST: swank ᛫ PTCP: swunk | |
swinker | ᛫ a toiler ᛫ a labourer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swinkful | ᛫ toilsome ᛫ laborious ᛫ | AJ | swincfull | OE | ||
swinse | swins | ᛫ to make melody or music ᛫ | V | swinsian | OE | same suffix as in "cleanse" |
swinsing | ᛫ melody making ᛫ | N | swinsung | OE | ||
swinsingcraft | ᛫ the art of making melodies or music ᛫ | N | swinsungcræft | OE | ||
swire | ᛫ a neck ( of any kind ) ᛫ a vale ᛫ a valley ᛫ | N | swīre | ME | ||
switchback | swicback | ᛫ a roller coaster ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | short for: switchback railway? |
swith | ᛫ swift ᛫ rapid ᛫ strong ᛫ excessive ᛫ great ᛬ swiftly ᛫ rapidly ᛫ strongly ᛫ very ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | swith&swīþ | NE&OE | although from "swīþ" the vowel seems to have shortened | |
swither | ᛫ right ( direction ) ᛫ | AJ | swither | ME | ||
swither | ᛫ more ᛫ greater ᛫ superior ᛫ | AV | swīþor | OE | swith+er | |
swithly | ᛫ great ᛫ magnificent ᛫ intense ᛫ | AJ | swīþlīc | OE | ||
Switsish | Switsisc | ᛫ Swiss ᛫ | AJ(P) | Switzer+ish | NE×2 | |
swive | swife | ᛫ to fuck ᛫ to copulate ᛫ to copulate with ᛫ to mate ᛫ to mate with ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | kin: swivel |
swivel | swifel | ᛫ a rotation ᛬ to rotate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
swizzle | swisel | ᛫ liquor ᛫ an alcoholic drink ᛫ | N | ~[switchel?] | NE | |
swizzled | swiseled | ᛫ mixed ᛫ intoxicated ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
swoom | ᛫ to become dark ᛫ | V | swāmian | OE | ||
swoon | ᛫ a swineherd ᛫ a swain ᛫ a peasant ᛫ a male servant ᛫ | N | swone[swān] | ME | ||
swoon | ᛫ an instance of fainting ᛬ to faint ᛫ to be infatuated with something ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
swordplay | ᛫ fencing ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
swot | ᛫ vigorous study ᛬ to study vigorously ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | kin: "sweat" | |
swy | ᛫ silence ᛬ to be silent ᛫ to become silent ᛫ | N᛬V | swiȝe&swige&swigian | ME&OE&OE | ||
sye | ᛫ victory ᛫ | N | siȝe/sy[sige] | ME | found in placenames like "Kinsye" | |
sye | ᛫ to drip ᛫ to strain ᛫ to sift ᛫ to purify ᛫ | V | sye&sīen | NE&ME | ||
sye | ᛫ to descend ᛫ | V | sye&sien | NE&ME | ||
syefast | ᛫ victorious ᛫ triumphant ᛫ | AJ | sigefæst | OE | ||
syekin | ᛫ the Seraphim ᛫ | N | sigorcynn | OE | ||
syeless | ᛫ without victory ᛫ defeated ᛫ | AJ | sigelēas | OE | ||
syely | ᛫ victorious ᛫ | AJ | sigelīc | OE | ||
syereeth | ᛫ triumph ᛫ | N | sigehrēþ | OE | ||
syereethy | ᛫ triumphant ᛫ | AJ | sigehreþig | OE | ||
Sypress | ᛫ Cyprus ᛫ | N(P) | Sypresse | ME‹H | ||
Tahoe Mere | ᛫ Lake Tahoe ᛫ | N(P) | Tahoe+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
tailbone | ᛫ a coccyx ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
takeover | takeofer | ᛫ a commandeering ᛫ a transfer of power ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: nimover (de-Norsed) |
tale | ᛫ a story ᛫ a number ᛫ a total ᛫ a tally ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
talecraft | ᛫ arithmetic ᛫ | N | tælcræft | OE | ||
talemark | ᛫ a date ( in the meaning related to time ) ᛫ | N | tælmearc | OE | ||
talemete | ᛫ a measure expressed by number ᛫ | N | tælmet | OE | ||
talesome | talesum | ᛫ numerous ᛫ | AJ | tælsum | OE | |
taleteller | ᛫ a storyteller ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
talewise | ᛫ talkative ᛫ tale-telling ᛫ gossipy ᛫ loquacious ᛫ garrulous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | ENE | ||
talking book | ᛫ an audio book ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tallow | ᛫ dye ᛫ hard fat or lard ᛬ to dye ᛫ | N᛬V | tallow&telg&telgian | NE&OE&OE | ||
talt | ᛫ unstable ᛫ evanescent ᛫ transitory ᛫ | AJ | tealte[tealt] | ME | ||
talter | ᛫ to shake ᛫ to totter ᛫ to stagger ᛫ to be unsteady ᛫ to be in an uncertain or a precarious condition ᛫ | V | tealtrian | OE | ||
tame | ᛫ to subdue ᛫ to domesticate ᛫ to cultivate ᛬ subdued ᛫ domesticated ᛫ cultivated ᛫ tractable ᛫ | V᛬AJ | tame&tāme[OE tam] | NE&ME | ||
Tanganyika Mere | ᛫ Lake Tanganyika ᛫ | N(P) | Tanganyika+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
tap | ᛫ a faucet ᛫ a spigot ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tap | ᛫ to draw liquid from a container ᛫ to exploit a resource or market ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
tape | ᛫ a videocassete ᛫ a cassette ᛫ a video ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
taper | ᛫ a candle ᛫ a slender candle ᛫ a gradual narrowing or decline ᛫ | N | tapor/taper/tapur/teaper | OE | ||
taphouse | taphuse | ᛫ a bar ᛫ a place where alcoholic drinks are sold ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tapper | ᛫ a barkeep ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
taproom | ᛫ a barroom ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tapster | ᛫ a person who draws and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tar | ᛫ tar ᛫ resin ᛫ gum ᛫ | N | teoru | OE | ||
tare | ᛫ a Vicia plant ( vetch plants ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tarn | ᛫ a steep banked mountain lake or pool ᛫ | N | ~{tjörn} | NE‹N? | ||
tarrow | ᛫ a small shield ᛫ | N | targe | OE | ||
tarry | ᛫ to be late or tardy ᛫ to linger wait or abide in expectancy ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
Tarse | ᛫ Tharsia ( roughly Turkestan , Transoxiana ) ᛫ | N | Tarse | ME‹I? | ||
tarse | ᛫ the penis ᛫ | N | ~[teors] | NE | ||
tart | ᛫ pungent sour or acidic ᛫ or sharp of taste ᛫ | AJ | ~[tart][teart] | NE | ||
tartree | ᛫ a Eucalyptus plant ᛫ | N | gum tree | NE | ||
tavel | tafel | ᛫ a gaming table ᛫ a boardgame ᛫ a die for gaming ? ᛫ | N | tæfl | OE‹I | kin: table (Latin); tafl (Icelandic) |
taw | ᛫ to prepare material ᛫ | V | taw&tawian | NE&OE | in Modern English this word only refers to tanning | |
teach | teac | ᛫ to educate ᛫ to indoctrinate ᛫ to instruct ᛫ to school ᛫ to train another ᛫ to tutor ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
teaching | teacing | ᛫ a doctrine ᛫ that which is taught ᛫ | N | tǣcing | OE | |
teal | ᛫ dark cyan ᛫ cyan ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | some use this word as a synonym for cyan | |
team | ᛫ a line ( often of animals ) ᛫ a line of descendants ᛫ offspring ᛫ a group who work towards the same goal ᛫ | N | team&tēam | NE&OE | ||
tearbone | ᛫ a lacrimal bone ᛫ | N | tear+bone | NE×2 | calque: traanbeen; Tränenbein | |
tee | ᛫ to extract ᛫ to tug ᛫ to convey ᛫ to train another ᛫ | V | tēn&atēon | ME&OE | ||
teel | ᛫ mocking speech ᛫ ridiculing speech ᛬ to mock ᛫ to ridicule ᛫ | N᛬V | tēl/tēlen[tǣl/tǣlan] | ME | ||
teeler | ᛫ a mocker ᛫ a ridiculer ᛫ | N | tǣlere | OE | ||
teelworthy | ᛫ blasphemous ᛫ calumnious ᛫ reprehensible ᛫ | AJ | tǣlwirþe | OE | ||
teely | ᛫ blasphemous ᛫ calumnious ᛫ reprehensible ᛫ | AJ | tǣllīc | OE | ||
teem | ᛫ to be prolific ᛫ to abound ᛫ to bring forth offspring ᛫ | V | teem&tīman | NE | ||
teeming | ᛫ abundantly filled ( especially with creatures ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
teen | ᛫ vexation ᛬ to vex ᛫ to irritate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
teenful | ᛫ troublesome ᛫ harmful ᛫ painful ᛫ full of suffering ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
teenle | teenel | ᛫ a wicker basket ᛫ | N | tēnel[tǣnel] | ME | |
teethstraightening | teethstraigtening | ᛫ orthodontics ᛫ | N | teeth+straightening | NE×2 | |
tell | ᛫ to count ( to tally ) ᛫ to recount ᛫ to enumerate ᛫ to pass information ᛫ | V | tell&tellen[tellan] | NE&ME | could this word mean count as in " to qualify "? | |
teller | ᛫ a counter (such as a bank teller ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
temse | ᛫ to sift ᛫ to strain ᛫ to sieve ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
tend | ᛫ to kindle ᛫ to ignite ᛫ to incite ᛫ to arouse ( lust anger etc ) ᛫ to inspire ᛫ | V | tē̆nden | ME | ||
tenpenny | ᛫ a dime [ᚹ] ᛬ ten cents ᛫ ten pence ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
termen | ᛫ a term ᛫ | N | termen | OE‹I | ||
tern | ᛫ a Sternidae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
tevel | tefel | ᛫ to gamble ᛫ | V | tevelen&tæflan | ME&OE | |
tew | ᛫ equipment ᛫ gear ᛫ instruments ᛫ | N | tew{getawa} | ME | kin: taw? | |
th | ᛫ -ity ( abstract nominal suffix ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | ~ | NE | becomes: -t after fricatives like /f/ ‹f› and /x/ ‹gh›? | |
thackboard | ᛫ a wooden roofing tile ᛫ a shingle ᛫ | N | thakborde | ME | ||
thacktile | ᛫ a roofing tile ᛫ | N | thack tile | NE | ||
thane | ᛫ to serve ᛫ to minister ᛫ | N᛬V | thein&theinen | ME&ME | ||
thanedom | ᛫ a barony ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thanen | ᛫ a female thane ᛫ a baroness ᛫ | N | þīnen | OE | ||
thankful | ᛫ grateful ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thankfulness | ᛫ gratitude ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thankle | thankel | ᛫ mindful ᛫ thoughtful ᛫ considerate ᛫ | AJ | geþancol | OE | |
thanksgive | thanksgif | ᛫ to give or dedicate in token of thanks ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
thanksgiving | thanksgifing | ᛫ an expression of gratitude ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thar | ᛫ to be necessary ᛫ to be required ᛫ to be obligatory ᛫ to be mandatory ᛫ | V | thurven/thar[þearfan] | ME | PST: thurt ᛫ see note for wider definition | |
tharf | ᛫ unleavened ᛫ uncontaminated ᛫ | AJ | therf[þeorf] | ME | ||
tharf | ᛫ a need ᛫ a requirement ᛫ a necessity ᛫ an obligation ᛬ needy ᛫ indigent ᛫ | N᛬AJ | tharf&tharf | ME&ME | ||
tharfy | ᛫ required ᛫ mandatory ᛫ obligatory ᛫ necessary ᛫ | AJ | tharf+y | ME+NE | ||
tharm | ᛫ an organ ( of a body) ᛫ an intestine ᛫ an entrail ᛫ a gut | N | tharm | ME | ||
thasledge | thaslecg | ᛫ to agree ᛫ to accord ᛫ to fit ᛫ | V | þæslǣcan | OE | |
thasly | ᛫ suitable ᛫ appropriate ᛫ seemly ᛫ comely ᛫ elegant ᛫ harmonious ᛬ suitably ᛫ appropriately ᛫ elegantly ᛫ harmoniously ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | thaslī&þæslīc | ME&OE | ||
that | ᛫ the letter eth ( Ð ð ) ᛫ | N | þet | ME | ||
thatch | thac | ᛫ to cover ᛫ | V | thatch&þeccean | NE&OE | |
thaught | thaugt | ᛫ a counsel ᛬ to take counsel ᛫ to consult ᛫ | N | þeaht&þeahtian | OE&OE | |
thaughter | thaugter | ᛫ a counsellor ᛫ | N | þeahtere | OE | |
thaughting | thaugting | ᛫ counsel ᛫ consultation ᛫ deliberation ᛫ agreement ᛫ concilium ᛫ consensus ᛫ | N | geþeahting | OE | |
thave | thafe | ᛫ to consent ᛫ to assent to ᛫ put up with ᛫ to tolerate ᛫ to permit ᛫ | V | thaven | ME | |
thaveless | thafeless | ᛫ ineffectual ᛫ feeble ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thaver | thafer | ᛫ a favourer ᛫ a supporter ᛫ a consenter ᛫ | N | geþafa | OE | |
thavesome | thafesum | ᛫ consenting ᛫ tolerating ᛫ | AJ | geþafsum | OE | |
thaving | thafing | ᛫ consent ᛫ toleration ᛫ permission ᛫ | N | þafung | OE | |
the all | ᛫ the universe ᛫ the cosmos ᛫ the macrocosm ᛫ | N᛬ | ~ | NE | ||
the anward | ᛫ the present [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | andweard | OE | ||
the bends | ᛫ decompression sickness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Black Sea | ᛫ the sea known to the Romans as Pontus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the British Sea | Britisc | ᛫ the English Channel ᛫ | N | Brittish se | ME | |
the clap | ᛫ Gonorrhea ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Dernwrits | ᛫ the Apocrypha ᛫ | N(P) | dirngewritu | OE | ||
the Dog Star | ᛫ Sirius ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the East | ᛫ the Orient ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the East Sea | ᛫ the Baltic ᛫ | N(P) | ōstsæ[ēst mere] | OE | kin: Oostzee (Dutch) | |
the endtime | ᛫ apocalypse ᛫ Armageddon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: the endtimes | |
the Faroe Islands | Ilands | ᛫ the Faroe Islands ᛫ | N(P) | Faroe Islands | NE | |
the Folkwandering Eld | ᛫ the Migration Period ᛫ | N | folk+wander+ing+eld | NE×4 | calque: Völkerwanderung | |
the forthwitten | ᛫ the past [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | forthwiten[forþgewiten] | ME | ||
the Great Dying | ᛫ the Permian–Triassic extinction event ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
the Great Eastern Sea | ᛫ the Pacific Ocean ᛫ | N(P) | great+eastern+sea | NE×3 | or: the Great Frithful Sea; the Great Frith Sea | |
the Great Indish Sea | Indisc | ᛫ the Indian Ocean ᛫ | N(P) | great+Ī̆ndish+sea | NE×3 | |
the Great Northern Sea | ᛫ the Arctic Ocean ᛫ | N(P) | great+northern+sea | NE×3 | ||
the Great Southern Sea | Suthern | ᛫ the Antarctic Ocean ᛫ | N(P) | great+southern+sea | NE×3 | |
the Great Western Sea | ᛫ the Atlantic Ocean ᛫ | N(P) | great+western+sea | NE×3 | calque: Great Western Ocean ᛫ or: the Great Atlantish Sea | |
the Healend | ᛫ a title of Jesus ( analyzable as " the healing one " ) ᛫ | N(P) | Hēlend[hǣlend] | ME | /hilɛnd/ or /hɛlɛnd/ or /hɛlnd/? | |
the Holy Ghost | Goast | ᛫ the Holy Spirit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
the Island of Man | Iland | ᛫ the Isle of Man ᛫ | N(P) | iland+of+man | NE×3 | or: Man |
the Morningstar | ᛫ planet Venus ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the net | ᛫ the internet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Netherlands | ᛫ the Netherlands ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
the Nornish Sea | Nornisc | ᛫ the Norwegian Sea ᛫ | N(P) | norenish+sea | ME+NE | calque: Norwegian Sea |
the Orchard of Liking | Orceard | ᛫ the Garden of Eden ᛫ | N(P) | Orchard of Liking | ME | |
the other way about | abute | ᛫ vice versa ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
the Quidbook | Cwidbook | ᛫ the Book of Proverbs ( Míshlê Shlomoh ) ᛫ | N | cwidbōc | OE | |
the Red Sea | ᛫ the sea between Arabia and Africa ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Shapend | the Scapend | ᛫ the Creator ᛫ | N | sceoppend | OE | |
the Shipstar | the Scipstar | ᛫ Polaris ᛫ | N(P) | scipsteorra | OE | |
the South Sea | Suthe | ᛫ the English Channel ᛫ | N(P) | sǒuth sē [suþsæ] | OE | |
the sticks | ᛫ a rural place ᛫ a countryside ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Stony Barrows | ᛫ the Rocky Mountains ᛫ | N(P) | ~ | NE | ||
the Tems | ᛫ the Thames ᛫ | N(P) | Temese/Temze | ME | ||
the toward | ᛫ future [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | toward&tōweard | NE&OE | ||
the web | ᛫ the internet ᛫ the World Wide Web ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the Welsh Sea | Welsc | ᛫ the Celtic Sea ᛫ | N(P) | Welsh+sea | NE×2 | calque: Celtic Sea |
the West | ᛫ the Occident ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
the White Sea | Hwite | ᛫ the sea between the Kola Peninsula and the rest of Russia ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
the Yellow Sea | ᛫ the sea between Korea and China ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thearl | ᛫ greatly ᛫ vigorously ᛫ harshly ᛫ severely ᛫ sorely ᛫ | AV | thearle&þearle | ME&OE | ||
theavethorn | theafthorn | ᛫ any of several types of prickly shrubs ᛫ a thornbush ᛫ a fruit or berry bearing thornbush ᛫ a gooseberry plant ᛫ a blackberry plants ᛫ | N | thẹ̄vethorn | ME | |
thechen | thecen | ᛫ a torch ᛫ | N | thechene{þæcele} | ME | |
thee | ᛫ you ( accusative case ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~[þē] | NE | ||
thee | ᛫ to prosper ᛫ to thrive ᛫ | V | ~[þēon] | NE | ||
theed | ᛫ a nation ᛫ a tribe ᛫ a clan ᛫ | N | thede | ENE | ||
theed | ᛫ to connect ᛫ to adhere ᛫ to associate ᛫ to join ᛫ to attach ᛫ | V | iþeoden&geþēodan/þēodan | ME&OE | ||
theed | ᛫ national- ᛫ public- ᛫ | PREFIX | þēod | OE | ||
theedbale | ᛫ a national disaster ᛫ | N | þēodbealu | OE | ||
theeden | ᛫ a leader of a people ᛫ a chieftain ᛫ | N | þēoden | OE | ||
theedenhold | ᛫ faithful to a lord ᛫ | AJ | þēodenhold | OE | ||
theedfeend | ᛫ a public enemy ᛫ | N | þēodfēond | OE | ||
theedheer | ᛫ a national army ᛫ | N | þēodhere | OE | ||
theedhood | ᛫ nationality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE×2 | ||
theedish | theedisc | ᛫ national ᛫ | AJ | þeodisce[þēodisc] | ME | some use " Theedish " to mean " Germanic " |
theedland | ᛫ an inhabited region ᛫ | N | þēodland | OE | ||
theedledge | theedlecg | ᛫ to nationalize ᛫ | V | thede+lǣcan | NE+OE | |
theedlove | theedluf | ᛫ patriotism ᛫ | N | thede+love | ME+NE | |
theedly | ᛫ gentile ᛫ | AJ | þēodlīc | OE | ||
theedness | ᛫ conjugation ᛫ | N | geþēodnes | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
theedship | theedscip | ᛫ a people ᛫ a fellowship ᛫ a nationality ᛫ | N | þēodscipe | OE | |
theedwit | ᛫ a senator ᛫ | N | þēodwita | OE | ||
theefshoal | theefscoal | ᛫ a band of thieves ᛫ | N | þēofscolu | OE | |
theenest | ᛫ service ᛫ | N | þēnest | OE | ||
theet | ᛫ a pipe ᛫ a tube ᛫ a channel for liquids ᛫ | N | thēote&þēote{wæterþēote} | ME&OE | ||
theet | ᛫ to howl like a wolf ᛫ | V | thēoten&þēotan | ME&OE | ||
theft | ᛫ thievery ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
then | ᛫ to extend ᛫ | V | thinnen&þennan | ME&OE | ||
thence | thens | ᛫ from that place ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
thenceforth | thensforth | ᛫ from there on out ᛫ from then on ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
thengle | thengel | ᛫ a prince ᛫ | N | þengel | OE | kin: þengill (Norse) |
ther | ᛫ -trum ᛫ -tron ᛫ ( shows a noun is a tool or instrument ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | þor/dor | OE | survives in: lather; rudder | |
thereby | ᛫ by this means ᛫ as a result of that ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
therewith | ᛫ in addition ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
thern | ᛫ a young woman ᛫ a girl ᛫ a female servant ᛫ a handmaid ᛫ | N | therne | ME | ||
thester | ᛫ darkness ᛬ dark ᛫ without light or happiness ᛫ | N᛬AJ | thester | OE | ||
thew | ᛫ a bondsman ᛫ a servant ᛫ a slave ᛬ to serve ᛫ | N᛬V | thew&theuien[þēow] | NE&ME | ||
thew | ᛫ conduct ᛫ manners ᛫ a moral character ᛫ a virtue ᛫ a vice ᛫ muscle ᛬ to discipline ᛫ | N᛬V | thew&theuen&þēaw | NE&ME&OE | good thew = virtue, bad thew = vice | |
thewborn | ᛫ born into servitude ᛫ | AJ | theuborne | ME | ||
thewdom | ᛫ servitude ᛫ serfdom ᛫ slavery ᛫ a state of bondage ᛫ | N | theudom | ME | ||
thewen | ᛫ a bondswoman ᛫ a female servant ᛫ a slave woman ᛫ | N | þēowen | OE | ||
thewet | ᛫ slavery ᛫ servitude ᛫ bondage ᛫ | N | þeowet | OE | ||
thewfast | ᛫ virtuous ᛫ moral ᛫ well mannered ᛫ | AJ | þēawfæst | OE | ||
thewfastness | ᛫ adherence to moral or expected behaviour ᛫ etiquette ᛫ | N | þēawfæstness | OE | ||
thewish | thewisc | ᛫ servile ᛫ | AJ | thew+ish | ME+NE | |
thewy | ᛫ muscular ᛫ brawny ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thicket | ᛫ a dense group of bushes or trees ᛫ | N | ~[thiccet] | NE | ||
thickness | ᛫ one of the three dimensions of a solid object , front to back ᛫ a diameter ᛫ viscosity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thie | ᛫ to ingest ᛫ to drink ᛫ to consume ᛫ to beg for food ᛫ to beg ᛫ to plead ᛫ to implore ᛫ | V | thiggen[þicgan] | ME | ||
thiefdom | theefdom | ᛫ kleptocracy ᛫ | N | thief+dom | NE×2 | |
thieve | theef | ᛫ to steal ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
thighbone | thigebone | ᛫ a femur ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thild | ᛫ patience ᛫ | N | þīld | ME | rhyme: wild | |
thildy | ᛫ patient ᛫ | AJ | geþyldig | OE | ||
Thile | ᛫ mythical land of Thule ᛫ | N | þȳle | OE | ||
thilk | ᛫ that same ᛫ the very thing ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~ | NE | ||
thill | ᛫ an orator ᛫ a spokesman ᛫ | N | þyle | OE | ||
thill | ᛫ a plank ᛫ boarding ᛬ to plank ᛫ to lay boards ᛫ | N | þille&þilian | OE&OE | ||
thillcraft | ᛫ elocution ᛫ rhetoric ᛫ | N | þylcræft | OE | ||
thilling | ᛫ plank flooring ᛫ boarding ᛫ a deck of a ship ᛫ | N | þiling | OE | ||
thind | ᛫ to swell ᛫ to swell with pride ᛫ | V | þindan | OE | ||
thine | ᛫ yours ᛫ your ( when before a vowel sound ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~ | NE | ||
thing | ᛫ to plea ᛫ to plead ᛫ to advocate ᛫ to intercede ᛫ to make terms ᛫ settle a legal issue ᛫ | V | thingen | ME | ||
thinger | ᛫ an advocate ᛫ an intercessor ᛫ a pleader ᛫ | N | þingere{þingestre} | OE | ||
thingstead | ᛫ an assembly place ᛫ a forum ᛫ | N | thingstead | NE | ||
thinker | ᛫ an intellectual ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thir | ᛫ dry ᛫ arid ᛫ | AJ | þyrre | OE | ||
third hoad | ᛫ third person | N | þridda hād | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
thirl | ᛫ a hole ᛬ to pierce ᛫ to penetrate ᛫ to drill ᛫ to bore ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | becomes: tril in compounds | |
thirst | ᛫ a strong desire ( especially for drink ) ᛬ to desire ( especially drink ) ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
thirsty | ᛫ avid ᛫ parched ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thirth | ᛫ power ᛫ vigour ᛫ rigour ᛫ | N | thirth[þrȳþ] | ME | ||
thither | ᛫ to that place ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
thitherto | ᛫ up to that time ᛫ until then ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
thixel | ᛫ a pole ᛫ a beam ᛫ | N | þīxl | OE | ||
thode | ᛫ a strong wind ᛫ a violent wind ᛫ a whirlwind ᛫ a gale ᛫ | N | ~{þoden} | NE | ||
thoft | ᛫ a rowing bench ᛫ | N | ~[þoft] | NE | ||
thoft | ᛫ an ally ᛫ an associate ᛫ a fellow ᛫ a comrade ᛫ | N | geþofta | OE | ||
thoft | ᛫ to associate ᛫ to ally with ᛫ | V | geþoftian | OE | ||
thoftship | thoftscip | ᛫ a fellowship ᛫ an alliance [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | þoftscipe | OE | |
thole | ᛫ to endure ( to suffer through ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
tholemood | ᛫ patient ᛫ | AJ | þolemōd | OE | ||
tholesome | tholesum | ᛫ patient ᛫ | AJ | thole+some | NE×2 | |
thone | ᛫ to moisten ᛬ moist ᛫ | V᛬AJ | þān&þānian | OE&OE | or: thoan | |
thong | ᛫ a strip of leather or fabric ᛫ a g-string ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thorn | ᛫ an annoyance ᛫ a discomfort ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thorn | ᛫ the letter thorn ( Þ þ ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thorny | ᛫ annoying ᛫ uncomfortable ᛫ problematic ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thorny anteater | ᛫ an echidna ᛫ | N | spiny anteater | NE | ||
thorough | thoroug | ᛫ complete ᛫ detailed ᛫ more than adequate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thoroughbred | thorougbred | ᛫ a purebred horse ᛫ a well-bred person ᛫ an athletic person ᛬ purebred ᛫ well-bred ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | |
thoroughfare | thorougfare | ᛫ a route ᛫ a main road in a town ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thoroughgoing | thorouggoing | ᛫ complete ᛫ thorough ᛫ with great attention to detail ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thoroughlight | thorougligt | ᛫ a light that passes through ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thoroughlights | thorougligts | ᛫ windows on opposite sides of a room ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thoroughly | thorougly | ᛫ extensively ᛫ completely ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
thoroughsped | thorougsped | ᛫ fully accomplished ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thorp | ᛫ a village ᛫ a hamlet ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thorpsman | ᛫ a villager ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thost | ᛫ dung ᛫ manure ᛫ excrement ᛫ faeces ᛫ poop ᛫ crap ᛫ shit ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thother | ᛫ a sphere ᛫ a globe [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | þōþer | OE | rhyme: brother? | |
thou | thue | ᛫ you ( nominative ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~ | NE | |
though | thuge | ᛫ clay ᛫ | N | þōhe | OE | rhyme: plough? |
thoughtache | thougtake | ᛫ angst ᛫ existential dread ᛫ cognitive dissonance ᛫ | N | thoughtache | NE | |
thoughtfand | thougtfand | ᛫ a thought experiment ᛫ | N | thought+fand | NE+ME | |
thoughtful | thougtful | ᛫ considerate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thoughtless | thougtless | ᛫ inconsiderate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
thousand thousand | thusand | ᛫ a million ᛫ | N | þusend þusend | OE | |
thousandlegs | thusandlegs | ᛫ a millipede ᛫ | N | thousand-legs | NE‹(E+N) | or: thousandshanks |
thove | thofe | ᛫ tufted ᛫ bushy ᛫ tufty ᛫ leafy ᛫ | AJ | thūfe&þūfe | ME&OE | rhyme: shove? |
Thrace | Thrase | ᛫ Thrace ᛫ | N(P) | ~[Thrācia] | NE‹O | |
thrake | ᛫ power ᛫ force ᛫ | N | þracu{threken} | OE | ||
thrakefield | thrakefeeld | ᛫ a force field ᛫ | N | thrake+field | NE×2 | |
thrall | ᛫ slave ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹N | ||
thralldom | ᛫ subjugation ᛫ slavery ᛫ bondage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(N+E) | ||
thrave | thrafe | ᛫ to urge ᛫ to reprove ᛫ to rebuke ᛫ | V | þrafian | OE | |
thrax | ᛫ caries ( the rot of bone and teeth ) ᛫ | N | þreax | OE | ||
thray | ᛫ to rebuke ᛫ to reproach ᛫ to chastise ᛫ | V | thraien[þrēagan] | ME | ||
threa | ᛫ a punishment ᛫ punishment ᛫ an infliction ᛫ | N | þrēa{thrē?} | OE | ||
threadbare | ᛫ shabby ᛫ frayed ᛫ unoriginal ᛫ bland ᛫ cliche ᛫ banal ᛫ trite ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
threaden | ᛫ textile ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thred | ᛫ to deliberate ᛫ | V | þreodian | OE | ||
threding | ᛫ deliberation ᛫ | N | þreodung | OE | ||
threeawn | ᛫ an Aristida plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
threedealed | ᛫ having three parts ᛫ tripartite ᛫ | AJ | þridǣled | OE | ||
threefold | ᛫ triple ᛫ having three parts ᛬ triply ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
threehead | ᛫ the triceps ᛫ | N | þrihēafdede | OE | ||
threehirn | ᛫ a triangle ᛫ | N | þrihyrne | OE | ||
threehirned | ᛫ triangular ᛫ | AJ | þrihyrnede | OE | ||
threep | ᛫ an altercation ᛫ a quarrel ᛫ an argument ᛫ contention ᛬ to quarrel ᛫ to argue ᛫ to contend ᛫ | N᛬V | þrēpe[þrēap]&þrēpen | ME&ME | ||
threesheet | threesceet | ᛫ triangular ᛫ three-cornered ᛫ | AJ | þriscīte{shēte} | OE | |
threeside | ᛫ a triangle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
threesided | ᛫ triangular ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
threewheeler | threehweeler | ᛫ any three-wheeled vehicle ᛫ a tricyle ᛫ a tuk-tuk ᛫ a rickshaw ᛫ an auto-rickshaw ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thresh | thresc | ᛫ to move violently ᛫ to thrash ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
threshold | threscold | ᛫ the bottom of a doorway ᛫ a limit before something happens ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
threst | ᛫ to press ᛫ to press together ᛫ to apply downward pressure ᛫ to pressure [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | ithrē̆sten[geþrǣstan] | ME | ||
thriddendeal | ᛫ a unit of liquid measure , often equivalent to one-third of a gallon ᛫ | N | thridden-dē̆l | ME | ||
thrift | ᛫ prudence of money or resources ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thrifty | ᛫ prudent with money or resources ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
thril | ᛫ a hole ᛫ an opening ᛫ an aperture ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
thrilap | ᛫ a trilobite ᛫ | N | thri+lap | NE×2 | ||
thrileaf | ᛫ a trefoil ᛫ | N | þrilēafe | OE | ||
thrill | ᛫ a trembling from emotion ᛫ a cause of sudden excitement ᛬ to suddenly excite ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
thrilly | ᛫ exciting ᛫ producing a thrill ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Thrimilk | ᛫ May ᛫ | N(P) | þrimilce | OE | or: thirmilk (by analogy with thirteen) | |
thriness | ᛫ a trinity ᛫ the Holy Trinity ᛫ | N | thrinnes[þrinness] | ME | ||
thring | ᛫ to press ᛫ to push ᛫ to crowd ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: thrang ᛫ PTCP: thrung | |
thringing | ᛫ urgent ᛫ pressing ᛫ pressure ᛫ | AJ | thring+ing | ME+NE | ||
thrinter | ᛫ a three-year-old animal ᛫ something three years old [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | thrintǒur[þriwintre] | ME | equal to: three + winter | |
thrist | ᛫ courageous ᛫ audacious ᛫ presumptuous ᛫ bold ᛫ rash ᛫ | AJ | thrīst[þrīst] | ME | rhyme: Christ | |
thristledge | thristlecg | ᛫ to become presumptuous ᛫ to presume ᛫ | V | þrīstlǣcan | OE | |
thrithe | ᛫ forces ( as in armies ) ᛫ | N | thrith&þrȳþ | ME&OE | "the word seems to occur only in the plural" | |
thritheful | ᛫ mighty ᛫ powerful ᛫ strong ᛫ | AJ | þrȳþfull | OE | ||
thritongued | thritunged | ᛫ trilingual ᛫ | AJ | thri+tongue+ed | NE×3 | |
thrive | thrife | ᛫ to flourish ᛫ to prosper ᛫ to grow ᛫ to be successful over a relatively long period ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
throatball | ᛫ an Adam's apple ᛫ | N | thrōtebolle | ME | ||
throatwort | ᛫ a Campanula trachelium plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
throe | ᛫ a pang ᛫ a spasm ᛬ to suffer ᛫ to pain ᛫ to suffer martyrdom ᛫ | N᛬V | throe&þrowian | NE&OE | ||
throer | ᛫ a sufferer ᛫ a martyr ᛫ | N | þrowere | OE | ||
throng | ᛫ a crowd ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
throngfear | ᛫ agoraphobia ᛫ | N | throng+fear | NE×2 | ||
throsomy | ᛫ smoky ᛫ vaporous ᛫ | AJ | þrosmig | OE | ||
throssom | ᛫ smoke ᛫ vapor ᛫ | N | þrosm | OE | ||
throstle | throstel | ᛫ a Turdus philomelos bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
throttle | throttel | ᛫ a throat ᛫ a larynx ᛫ a throttle-valve ᛫ a throttle-control ᛬ to choke ᛫ to strangle [ᛏ] ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
through | thruge | ᛫ a coffin ᛫ a sarcophagus ᛫ a sarcophagus slab ᛫ a mausoleum ᛫ | N | thrūgh[þrūh] | ME | rhyme: plough |
throughbore | thrugebore | ᛫ to bore through ᛫ to perforate ᛫ to transfix ᛫ | V | thurghbōren | ME | |
throughbraid | thrugebraid | ᛫ to transport ᛫ | V | þurhbregdan | OE | |
throughfasten | thrugefasten | ᛫ to transfix ᛫ | V | þurhfæstnian | OE | |
throughshine | thrugescine | ᛫ transparent ᛫ | AJ | throughshine | NE | |
throughsmow | thrugesmue | ᛫ to creep through ᛫ to pour over ᛫ | V | þurhsmūgan | OE | |
throughstand | thrugestand | ᛫ to persist ᛫ | V | þurhstandan | OE | |
throughtee | througtee | ᛫ to carry through ᛫ to achieve ᛫ to accomplish ᛫ | V | þurhtēon | OE | |
throw | ᛫ an occasion ᛫ a circumstance ᛫ a relatively short period of time ᛫ an instant ᛫ a moment ᛫ | N | throu[þrāg/þrāh] | ME | ||
throwend | ᛫ a scorpion ᛫ | N | þrowend | OE | ||
Throwend | ᛫ one of the Tronds ( a Norse people-group ) ? ᛫ | N(P) | þrowende | OE | kin: Trondheim? | |
Throwend | ᛫ Scorpio ᛫ | PN | þrowend | OE | ||
thrum | ᛫ a company of men ᛫ a host of men ᛫ a troop of men ᛫ grandeur ᛫ splendor ᛫ glory ᛫ | N | thrum[þrymm] | ME | ||
thrumfast | ᛫ glorious ᛫ majestic ᛫ illustrious ᛫ mighty ᛫ | AJ | þrymfæst | OE | ||
thrumfull | ᛫ glorious ᛫ majestic ᛫ illustrious ᛫ mighty ᛫ | AJ | þrymfull | OE | ||
thrumly | ᛫ magnificent ᛫ splendid ᛫ glorious ᛬ magnificently ᛫ splendidly ᛫ gloriously ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | þrymlīc&þrumlīce | OE | ||
thrumsettle | thrumsettel | ᛫ a throne ᛫ | N | thrumsetle[þrymsetl] | ME | |
thrush | thrusc | ᛫ a Turdidae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
thrutch | thruc | ᛫ to push ᛫ to squeeze out ᛫ to pressure ᛫ to force ᛫ to press forward ᛫ to print [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | thricchen[þryccan/þrican] | ME | |
thuften | ᛫ a handmaiden ᛫ a female servant ᛫ | N | thuften[þyften] | ME | ||
Thunder | ᛫ ( an English god equivalent to Thor and equated with Jupiter ) ᛫ the planet Jupiter [ᚹ] ᛫ | N(P) | þunor[þuner] | OE | kin: "thunder" | |
Thunderday | ᛫ Thursday ᛫ | N(P) | þundurday/þunresdæi | ME | SEE NOTE | |
thunderfear | ᛫ astraphobia ᛫ | N | thunder+fear | NE×2 | ||
Thunderly | ᛫ Jovian ᛫ | AJ | þunor+ly | OE+NE | ||
Thundernight | Thundernigt | ᛫ the night following Thursday's dusk ᛫ Thursnight ᛫ | N(P) | þunresniht | OE | |
thung | ᛫ any of several poisonous plants ᛫ | N | thung[þung] | ME | ||
thungen | ᛫ grown ᛫ thriven ᛫ advanced ( in quality ) ᛫ | AJ | geþungen | OE | ||
thunwang | ᛫ a temple ( anatomy ) ᛫ | N | thunwonge[þunwang] | ME | ||
thunwangbone | ᛫ a temporal bone ᛫ | N | thunwang+bone | ME+NE | ||
Thuring | ᛫ one of the Thuringii ᛫ | N(P) | Þyringum | OE | ||
Thuringland | ᛫ Thuringia ᛫ | N(P) | Þyringum+land | OE+NE | ||
thurrock | ᛫ a hold ( of a ship ) ᛫ a bilge ( of a ship ) ᛫ | N | thurrok[þurruc] | ME | ||
thurse | ᛫ a kind of giant-like creature from Germanic mythology ᛫ a giant ᛫ a cyclops ᛫ an ogre ᛫ | N | thurs&þyrs | ME&OE | ||
thus | ᛫ in the manner now being indicated ᛫ accordingly ᛫ consequently ᛫ | AV | thus&thus | NE&ME | ||
thwack | ᛫ a sharp blow ᛬ to strike forcefully with a sharp blow ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
thwares | ᛫ across ᛫ thwart ᛫ athwart ᛫ transversely ᛫ | P | þweores | OE | ||
thwart | ᛫ to prevent an accomplishment ᛬ across ᛫ | V᛬AV&P | ~[thwert] | NE‹N | see: thwares (for native alternative) | |
thwartsome | thwartsum | ᛫ adversative ᛫ | AJ | thwart+some | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes |
thway | ᛫ to wash ᛫ | V | þwēan | OE | ||
thweal | ᛫ a towel ᛫ | N | þwǣle | OE | kin: towel; þwēan; Zwehle | |
thwean | ᛫ to soften with moisture ᛫ | V | þwǣnan | OE | ||
thwear | ᛫ to agree [ᚹ] ᛫ to make accordant ᛫ to become in accord ᛫ to make harmonious ᛬ agreeable ᛫ harmonious ᛫ compatible [ᚹ] ᛫ | V᛬AJ | geþwǣrian&þwǣre | OE&OE | ||
thwearhue | thwearhew | ᛫ a complementary colour ᛫ | N | þwǣre+hue | OE+NE | literally: harmonious-hue |
thwearledge | thwearlecg | ᛫ to become in harmony with ᛫ to become compatible [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | ithwǣrlēchen | ME | |
thwearness | ᛫ agreement ᛫ harmony ᛫ peace ᛫ consonnance [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | geþwǣrnes | OE | ||
thwire | ᛫ obstinate ᛫ perverse ᛫ cross ( as in crooked or bitter ) ᛫ | AJ | thwīre[þwīr]{þweorh} | ME | ||
thwoast | ᛫ to murmur ᛫ | V | þwāstrian | OE | ||
thy | ᛫ your ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~ | NE | ||
thyself | ᛫ yourself ᛫ | N(PRO) | ~ | NE | ||
tich | tic | ᛫ a kid ( a young goat ) ᛫ | N | tiche | ME | |
tid | ᛫ tender ᛫ soft ᛫ nice ᛫ | AJ | tidbit | NE | ||
tidbit | ᛫ a small piece of tasty food ᛫ a small and interesting item of information or gossip ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tidder | ᛫ to treat with tenderness to fondle ᛬ frail ᛫ | V᛬AJ | tidder&tȳdre | NE&OE | ||
tidderness | ᛫ frailty ᛫ | N | tīderness | OE | ||
tide | ᛫ a time ᛫ a period ᛫ a tense ( grammatical term ) ᛬ to happen ᛫ to befall ᛫ to betide ᛫ | N᛬V | tide&tīd&&tīdan | NE&NE&OE | ||
tideghost | tidegoast | ᛫ a zeitgeist ᛫ an ethos of an age ᛫ | N | tide+ghost | NE×2 | calque: Zeitgeist |
tidely | ᛫ temporal ᛫ chronological ᛫ temporary ᛫ | AJ | tide+ly | NE×2 | calque: zeitlich | |
tider | ᛫ to have offspring ᛫ to beget offspring ᛫ to multiply ᛫ | V | tidren | ME | kin: tūdor | |
tidewave | tidewafe | ᛫ a tsunami ᛫ | N | tide+wave | NE×2 | calque: tidal wave |
tideword | ᛫ a verb ᛫ | N | tide+word | NE×2 | calque: tiidwurd | |
tidewrit | ᛫ a magazine ᛫ | N | tide+writ | NE×2 | calque: tijdschrift | |
tidewriter | ᛫ a chronicler ᛫ an annalist ᛫ | N | tīdwrītere | OE | ||
tidings | ᛫ news ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tidy | ᛫ neat ᛫ timely ᛫ seasonable ᛫ opportune ᛫ orderly ᛫ ordered ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
tie | ᛫ a link ᛫ a connection ᛬ to link ᛫ to connect ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
tield | teeld | ᛫ a tent ᛫ a canopy or an awning over a boat ᛬ to pitch a tent ᛫ to set a trap ᛫ to erect something ᛫ | N᛬V | tē̆ld&tē̆lden | ME&ME | |
tigercat | ᛫ any variegated wildcat ᛫ a serval ᛫ an ocelot ᛫ an oncilla ᛫ a margay ᛫ a quoll ᛫ | N | tiger cat | NE‹(E‹I+E) | ||
tight | tigt | ᛫ a practice ᛫ a way of conduct ᛫ | N | tight[tyht] | ME | kin: tee |
tights | tigts | ᛫ pantyhose ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tile | ᛫ a brick ᛫ a tile ᛫ | N | tigel | OE‹I | ||
till | ᛫ to prepare and cultivate land for crops ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
till | ᛫ apt ᛫ suitable ᛫ adequate ᛫ appropriate ᛫ | AJ | til | OE | ||
till | ᛫ a fixed point ᛫ station ᛫ | N | till | OE | ||
tillman | ᛫ a husbandman ᛫ a farmer ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tillmoody | ᛫ noble-minded ᛫ | AJ | tilmōdig | OE | ||
tilth | ᛫ agriculture ᛫ cultivation ᛫ tillage ᛫ prepared surface soil ᛫ culture [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | tilth&tilth | NE&ME | ||
timber | ᛫ wood for construction ᛬ to construct ᛫ | N᛬V | timber&timbran | NE&OE | ||
timeframe | ᛫ a period of time ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
timekeeper | ᛫ a timepiece ( such as a clock or a watch ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
timelore | ᛫ chronology ᛫ | N | time+lore | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes | |
timely | ᛫ at a favourable time ᛫ opportune ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
timesare | ᛫ a time machine ᛫ | N | time+searu | NE+OE | calque: time machine | |
timetoken | ᛫ a time signature ᛫ | N | time+token | NE×2 | calque: Taktbezeichnung | |
timewise | ᛫ temporal ᛫ chronological ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
tind | ᛫ to set on fire ᛫ to kindle ᛫ to ignite ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | Related to "tinder". | |
tinderbox | ᛫ a potentially dangerous place or situation ᛫ a crisis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tine | ᛫ a point ᛫ a spike ᛫ | N | ~[tind] | NE | ||
tine | ᛫ to enclose ᛫ | V | tine[tun] | OE | ||
tinglass | ᛫ bismuth ( element ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tinmouth | tinmuthe | ᛫ a Pomoxys annularis fish ( a crappie ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tinstone | ᛫ cassiterite ᛫ native tin dioxide ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tintrey | ᛫ torment ᛫ torture ᛫ | N | tintreg | OE | point-agony (tind-treg)? extend-agony (tinnan+treg)? | |
tire | ᛫ glory ᛫ | N | tīr[tīr] | ME | ||
tire | ᛫ to feel or make weary ᛫ to lose interest in ᛫ to bore ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
tiresome | tiresum | ᛫ boring ᛫ tedious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
tish | tisc | ᛫ a buzzard ᛫ | N | tysca | OE | or: tisk? |
tit | ᛫ a teat ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | teat is Frankish | |
titch | tic | ᛫ a young goat ᛫ | N | tiche | ME | |
tithe | ᛫ a tenth ᛬ to give a tithe of something ᛫ to decimate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
tithing | ᛫ an administrative region below hundreds ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
Titicaca Mere | ᛫ Lake Titicaca ᛫ | N(P) | Titicaca+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
titling | ᛫ an Anthus pratensis plant ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
titmouse | titmuse | ᛫ a Paridae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tiver | tifer | ᛫ cinnabar ᛫ the orange red hue of cinnabar [ᚹ] ᛬ to paint ( with cinnabar ? ) ᛫ | N᛬V | teafur[tēafor]&atiefran | ME | |
tiver | tifer | ᛫ a sacrifice ᛫ an offering ᛫ a victim ᛫ | N | tiber[tifer] | OE | |
tivering | tifering | ᛫ painting ᛫ | N | tīfrung | OE | |
to boot | ᛫ in addition ᛫ as well ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
to wit | ᛫ that is to say ᛫ namely ᛫ specifically ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | originally: that is to wit | |
toadstool | ᛫ mushroom ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
toady | ᛫ a sycophant ᛫ a charlatan's assistant ᛬ to engage in sycophancy ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | or: toadeater (original) | |
toaker | ᛫ one's husband's brother ᛫ | N | tācor | OE | ||
Toba Mere | ᛫ Lake Toba ᛫ | N(P) | Toba+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
toburst | ᛫ to rupture ᛫ | V | toborstennisse | ME | ||
toburstenness | ᛫ a rupture ᛫ | N | toborstennisse | ME | ||
tocome | tocum | ᛫ an arrival ᛫ a coming ᛫ the future ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
todeal | ᛫ to divide ᛫ to distribute ᛫ to part ᛫ to separate ᛫ | N᛬V | tōdǣlan | OE | ||
todealedness | ᛫ a division ᛫ a distinction ᛫ a separation ᛫ | N | tōdǣledness | OE | ||
todo | ᛫ a commotion ᛫ a fuss ᛫ | N | todo | NE | ||
todrive | ᛫ to drive in different directions ᛫ to drive away ᛫ | V | tōdrīfan | OE | ||
toebone | ᛫ a phalanx of a toe ( anatomy ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tofall | ᛫ an incident ᛫ a befalling ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tofall | ᛫ a coincidence ᛫ | N | to+fall | NE×2 | calque: toeval; Zufall | |
tofare | ᛫ to go in different directions ᛫ to go off separately ᛫ to part ways ᛫ | V | tōfaran | OE | ||
tofloat | ᛫ to float in different directions ᛫ to be dispersed by water ᛫ | V | tōflēotan | OE | ||
togang | ᛫ access ᛫ admission ᛫ | N | to+gang | NE×2 | calque: tagang | |
token | ᛫ sign ᛫ badge ᛫ marking ᛫ mark ᛫ symbol ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tokenbearer | ᛫ a signifier ᛫ a standard bearer ᛫ | N | tācnberend | OE | ||
tokening | ᛫ a representation ᛫ an indication of something's true condition ᛫ evidence ᛫ gesturing ᛫ a memorial ᛫ a memento ᛫ | N | tōkning | ME | ||
toknow | ᛫ to discern ᛫ to distinguish ᛫ to know the difference between ᛫ | V | tọ̄̆knouen&tōcnāwan | ME&OE | ||
tolimb | ᛫ to dismember ᛫ to remove a limb ᛫ | V | tọ̄̆limen | ME | ||
tolithe | ᛫ to dismember ᛫ | V | tolithen [tōliþian] | ME | ||
toll | ᛫ tax ᛫ assessment ᛫ fee ᛫ | N | toln | ME | ||
toller | ᛫ a toll-taker ᛫ tax-gatherer ᛫ | N | tollere | OE | ||
toname | ᛫ a surname ᛫ a nickname ᛫ epithet ᛫ | N | toname | ME | ||
tone | ᛫ a twig ᛫ a twig or piece of wood used in augury divination or casting lots ᛫ | N | tān | OE | survives in: mistletoe | |
tonglings | ᛫ forceps ᛫ | N | tong+ling+s | NE×3 | invented by William Barnes | |
tongue | tung | ᛫ a lingua ᛫ a language ᛫ an odontophore ᛫ a proboscis ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tonguebone | tungbone | ᛫ a hyoid bone ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tonguefall | tungfall | ᛫ an accent ( in speech ) ᛫ | N | tongue+fall | NE×2 | calque: tongval |
tonguely | tungly | ᛫ lingual ᛬ lingually ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
tool | ᛫ an instrument ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tooler | ᛫ a mechanic ᛫ a technician ᛫ | N | tool+er | NE×2 | ||
toolfall | ᛫ the instrumental case ᛫ | N | tool+fyll | NE+OE | ||
toom | ᛫ empty ᛫ | AJ | ~[tōm] | NE | ||
toot | ᛫ to pry ᛫ to spy ᛫ to peep ᛫ to peek ᛫ to peer ᛫ | V | tōten[tōtian] | ME | ||
tooth | ᛫ to indent ᛫ to serrate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
toothed | ᛫ dentate ᛫ indented ᛫ jagged ᛫ serrated ᛫ cogged ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
toothleech | toothleec | ᛫ a dentist ᛫ | N | tooth+leech | NE×2 | |
toothless | ᛫ ineffectual ᛫ lacking in means to enforce something ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
toothly | ᛫ dental ᛫ dentally ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
toothsome | toothsum | ᛫ delicious ᛫ scrumptious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
topside | ᛫ the upper outer surface of the ship above the waterline ᛬ above decks such as on the bridge ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
topsyturviness | topsyturfiness | ᛫ chaos ᛫ disorder ᛫ | N | topsyturviness | NE | |
topsyturvy | topsyturfy | ᛫ backwards ᛫ upside-down ᛫ chaotic ᛬ backwards ᛫ upside-down ᛫ chaotically ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | topsyturvy | NE | |
torght | torgt | ᛫ to make clear ᛬ bright ᛫ splendid ᛫ beautiful ᛫ clear ᛬ beautifully ᛫ clearly ᛫ splendidly ᛫ | V᛬AJ᛬AV | torhte&torht&torhtian | ME&OE&OE | |
torghtly | torgtly | ᛫ splendid ᛬ splendidly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | torhtlīc&torhtlīce | OE | |
torghtness | torgtness | ᛫ glory ᛫ splendour ᛫ | N | torhtness | OE | |
torn | ᛫ anger ᛫ wrath ᛫ trouble ᛬ bitter ᛫ | N᛬AJ | torn | OE | ||
tornquid | torncwid | ᛫ an utterance that causes grief ᛫ bitter grievous or distressing words ᛫ | N | torncwide | OE | |
torve | torf | ᛫ to throw ᛫ to pelt ᛫ | V | torven[torfian] | ME | |
toshrithe | toscrithe | ᛫ to split apart ᛫ | V | tọ̄̆shrīthen[tōscrīþan] | ME | |
touder | tuder | ᛫ offspring ᛫ progeny ᛫ a foetus ᛫ a fetus ᛫ a race ᛫ a breed ᛫ product ᛫ | N | tūder&tūdor | ME&OE | |
tout | tute | ᛫ to promote ᛫ to publicize ᛫ to advertize ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
toward | ᛫ future ᛫ approaching ᛫ promising ᛫ docile ᛫ obedient ᛫ cooperative ᛬ towards ᛫ | AJ᛬P | toward&tōweard | NE&OE | ||
toward tide | ᛫ the future tense ᛬ of the future tense ᛫ | N᛬AJ | toward tīd | OE | ||
towardness | ᛫ the future ᛫ | N | tōweardness | OE | ||
toyear | ᛫ this year ᛫ | N&AV | to-year | NE | ||
toyen | ᛫ in defence against ᛫ in moral opposition to ᛫ | P | toyēn | ME | ||
traughten | traugten | ᛫ to expound ᛫ to explain ᛫ | V | trahtnen[trahtnian] | ME | |
tread | ᛫ to walk upon ᛫ to walk along ᛫ to trot ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: trod ᛫ PTCP: trodden; treaded | |
treadle | treadel | ᛫ a pedal ᛫ a foot lever ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
treehoney | treehunny | ᛫ syrup ᛫ treacle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | poorly attested |
treely | ᛫ arboreal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
treen | ᛫ small domestic wooden objects ( especially antiques ) ᛬ made of tree ᛫ wooden ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
treewright | treewrigt | ᛫ a carpenter ᛫ | N | trēowwyrhta | OE | |
trend | ᛫ a general direction of a change or a development ᛫ a fashion ᛬ to bend or to change in a specific direction ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
trendle | trendel | ᛫ an orb ᛫ a sphere ᛫ | N | trendel[trendel] | ME | |
trendsetter | ᛫ A fashionista ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
trendy | ᛫ fashionable ( often in the short term only ) ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
trey | ᛫ affliction ᛫ suffering ᛫ pain ᛫ vexation ᛫ grievance ᛬ to afflict ᛫ to vex ᛫ to annoy ᛫ to irritate ᛫ to bother ᛫ | N | treien[trega/tregian] | ME | ||
trim | ᛫ to remove excess ᛫ to shorten something's length ᛬ neat ᛫ in shape ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ~[trimmen][trymman] | NE | ||
trimmer | ᛫ a political pragmatist ᛫ a political opportunist ᛫ a political moderate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
trind | ᛫ a ball ?᛫ | N | trinda | OE | ||
trod | ᛫ a track ᛫ a foot print ᛫ a trace ᛫ | N | trod | ME | ||
troth | ᛫ faith ᛫ a religion ᛫ a creed ᛫ a doctrine ᛫ loyalty ᛫ fidelity ᛫ allegiance ᛫ adherence to one's oaths ᛫ | N | troth&treuth | NE&ME | ||
troth | ᛫ ( denotes allegiance ) ᛫ | SUFFIX | troth&treuth | NE&ME | ||
trothful | ᛫ faithful ᛫ loyal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
trothless | ᛫ unfaithful ᛫ disloyal ᛫ impious ᛫ undevout ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
trothplight | trothpligt | ᛫ a betrothal ᛬ to betroth ᛬ betrothed ᛬ engaged ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
trough | troug | ᛫ a duct ᛫ a minimum ( mathematics ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | rhyme: scoff |
trouth | truthe | ᛫ a trumpeter ᛫ | N | trūþ | OE | |
trow | ᛫ to trust ᛫ to believe in ᛫ to have faith in ᛫ | V | [trēowan] | NE | rhyme: grow | |
trowfast | ᛫ loyal ᛫ faithful ᛫ | AJ | trēowfæst | OE | ||
trowless | ᛫ faithless ᛫ infidel ᛫ | AJ | trēowlēas | OE | ||
truce | trews | ᛫ a pledge ᛫ a treaty ᛫ an armistice ᛬ to pledge ᛫ | N᛬V | truce&getrȳwþ | NE&OE | |
truck | ᛫ to fail ( at something ) ᛫ to fail ( a duty ) ᛫ to be insufficient ᛫ to be deficient ᛫ | V | truken&trucian | ME&OE | ||
true aloe | trew | ᛫ an Aloe vera plant ᛫ | N | true aloe | NE | |
trum | ᛫ firm ᛫ safeguarded ᛫ | AJ | trum&trum | ME&OE | kin: trim | |
trum | ᛫ a troop of soldiers ᛫ an army ᛫ forces ( as in armies ) ᛫ a company ᛫ a military array ᛫ | N | trume&truma | ME&OE | kin: sheltron | |
trundle | trundel | ᛫ to move or cause to move slowly and heavily typically in a noisy or uneven way ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
truse | trews | ᛫ to swear to the truth of ᛫ to guarantee [ᚹ] ᛫ | V | treousen[trēowsian/trȳwsian] | ME | |
trustworthy | ᛫ reliable ᛫ dependable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
trusty | ᛫ reliable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
truthful | trewthful | ᛫ honest ᛫ sincere ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
truthfulness | trewthfulness | ᛫ honesty ᛫ sincerity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
Tuesday | Tewsday | ᛫ Tuesday ᛫ | N(P) | ~{tisday/tisdæi/tyseday} | NE | or: Tyesday |
Tuesnight | Tewsnigt | ᛫ the night following Tuesday's dusk ᛫ | N(P) | ~[tīwesniht] | NE | or: Tyesnight |
tugwain | ᛫ a train ᛫ | N | tug+wain | NE+ME | semi-calque of Zug (German) | |
tumb | ᛫ to dance ᛫ to jump ᛫ to dance and jump about ᛫ | V | tumben[tumbian] | ME | kin: "tumble" | |
tun | ᛫ a large cask ᛫ a fermenting vat ᛫ 2240 pounds ( by extension an indefinite large quantity ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | not the same as "tonne" | |
tunereeve | tunereef | ᛫ a praetor ᛫ a bailiff ᛫ | N | tūngerēfa | OE | |
tungle | tungel | ᛫ a planet ᛫ a moon ᛫ | N | tungol | ME | meaning has been narrowed |
tunglecraft | tungelcraft | ᛫ planetology ᛫ | N | tungolcræfte | ME | meaning has been modernised |
tungler | tungeller | ᛫ an astronomer ᛫ | N | tunglere | OE | |
tunsingwort | ᛫ a Veratrum album plant ( white hellebore ) | N | tunsingwurt | ME | ||
turd | ᛫ a piece of solid faeces ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
turdle | turdel | ᛫ a pellet of faeces ( like that of a sheep ) ᛫ | N | tirdel[tyrdlu] | ME | |
turf | ᛫ territory ᛫ an area of influence ᛫ the top layer of Earth with grass ᛫ sod ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
turfen | ᛫ made of turf ᛫ covered with turf ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
Turkana Mere | ᛫ Lake Turkana ᛫ | N(P) | Turkana+mere | NE‹O+NE | ||
tusk | ᛫ a tenon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: tush (from a Middle English alternative) | |
twain | ᛫ two ᛬ to split into two ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
twaincloud | twainclude | ᛫ cumulostratus ᛫ | N | twain cloud | NE | |
tweak | ᛫ modification ᛬ to modify ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
tweam | ᛫ to divide ᛫ to separate ᛫ to cause dissent among ᛫ to estrange ᛫ | V | twēmen/tweamen&twǣman | ME&OE | ||
tweaming | ᛫ a division ᛫ a separation ᛫ a distinction ᛫ | N | twǣming | OE | ||
twee | ᛫ doubt ᛫ ambiguity ᛫ uncertainty ᛬ to doubt ᛫ | N᛬V | twēo&twēogan{twēon} | OE | ||
tweely | ᛫ doubtful ᛫ | AJ | twēolic | OE | ||
tweenbrain | ᛫ the diencephalon ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tweeworthy | ᛫ questionable ᛫ doubtful ᛫ dubious ᛫ | N | twēo+worthy | OE+NE | ||
Twelve Tokens | Twelf | ᛫ the Zodiac ᛫ | N | twelf tacna | OE | |
twi | ᛫ duo- ᛫ bi- ᛫ do- ᛫ double- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
twibill | ᛫ an axe , halberd , or mattock which is double bladed ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | equivalent to twi-bill | |
twichore | twicore | ᛫ a double duty ᛬ double duty ᛫ | N᛬AJ | twi+chore | NE×2 | |
twiddle | twiddel | ᛫ a tilde ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | name used in mathematics ᛫ or: squiggle |
twifoldly | ᛫ double ᛫ dual ᛫ | AJ | twīfoldlī | ME | ||
twig | ᛫ a branch ( especially a small one ) ᛫ | N | twig&twig | NE&OE | ||
twiganger | ᛫ Doppelgänger ᛫ | N | twi+gang+er | NE×3 | calque: Doppelgänger | |
twihorned | ᛫ bicornous ᛫ | AJ | twi+horned | NE×2 | invented by William Barnes | |
twill | ᛫ a fabric with a twill weave ᛬ to weave such a pattern ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
twin | ᛫ a double ᛬ double ᛫ dual ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
twinay | ᛫ double negative ᛫ | N | twi+nay | NE×2 | ||
twine | ᛫ a string of two or more strands twisted together ᛫ a twist ᛫ a convolution ᛬ to twist ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
twinge | twincg | ᛫ a sharp pain ᛫ a pang ᛬ to pinch ᛫ to cause a sharp pain ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
twinter | ᛫ a two year old creature ᛫ | N | twinter | ME | equal to: twi-winter | |
twinword | ᛫ a doublet word ᛫ | N | twin+word | NE×2 | ||
twispeech | twispeec | ᛫ deceit ᛫ slander ᛫ | N | twispeche | ME | |
twissel | ᛫ a double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree ᛫ a junction ᛫ a road or river fork ᛬ double ᛫ twofold ᛫ | N᛬AJ | twissel&twisla[twis] | NE&OE | ||
twist | ᛫ to writhe ᛫ to contort ᛫ to twine ᛫ to coil ᛫ to turn ᛫ to sprain ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
twister | ᛫ a tornado ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
twiteethed | ᛫ bidental ᛫ | AJ | twi+teethed | NE×2 | ||
twitongued | twitunged | ᛫ bilingual ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
twiway | ᛫ a place where two roads meet ᛫ | N | twiweg | OE | ||
twiway | ᛫ a crossroads of two roads ᛫ | N | twiweg | OE | ||
twiwield | twiweeld | ᛫ dyarchy / diarchy ᛫ | N | twi+wield | NE | |
twodeal | ᛫ a two-piece swimsuit ( a bikini ) ᛫ | N | two-piece | NE‹(E+I) | ||
twofold | ᛫ double ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
twofooted | ᛫ bipedal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
twoness | ᛫ duality ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
twosided | ᛫ bilateral ᛫ | AJ | two+sided | NE×2 | ||
twosome | twosum | ᛫ a couple ᛫ a pair ᛫ a duo ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
twoth | ᛫ second ( a second thing ) ᛬ second ( second place in a sequence ) ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | this word has an analogy with Dutch's "tweede" | |
twowheeler | twohweeler | ᛫ a bicycle ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
tye | ᛫ a box of small size ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
tye | ᛫ a piece of enclosed land ᛫ a pasture ᛫ a common ᛫ | N | tye&tye[tīg] | NE&ME | kin: zīh (OHG)?; teigur (Icelandic)? | |
tye | ᛫ a pull ᛫ a tug ᛫ | N | tyge | OE | ||
Tye | ᛫ an English god equivalent to Norse Tyr ᛫ the planet Mars ᛫ | N(P) | tī{tig/tiig?} | OE | or: Tew (Cotton MS Cleopatra A III f.64r) ᛫ kin: Tuesday | |
Tyeling | ᛫ a Martian ᛫ an inhabitant of Mars ᛫ | N | tī+ling{earthling} | OE+NE | analogy: Earthling ᛫ or: Tyeman (analogy: Earthman) | |
Tyely | ᛫ Martian ᛫ | AJ | tī+ly | OE+NE | ||
Ukraine | Ucraine | ᛫ Ukraine ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹O | or: Ocraine ᛫ IPA: /ʊkɹeɪn/ or /ukɹeɪn/ (see note) |
umb | ᛫ around ( both locational and temporal ) ᛫ concerning ᛫ regarding ᛫ after ( temporal ) ᛫ | P | umbe | ME | ||
umb | ᛫ circum- ᛫ | PREFIX | umb[ymb] | ME | ||
umbecast | ᛫ to travel around ᛫ to explore ᛫ to cast about ᛫ to ponder ᛫ | V | umbecasten | ME | ||
umbeight | umbeigt | ᛫ a collection ᛫ a combination ᛫ a collation ᛫ | N | ymbeaht | OE | |
umbethink | ᛫ to remind oneself ᛫ to consider [ᛏ] ᛫ to remember ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | umb-be-think | |
umbfang | ᛫ to circumscribe ᛫ to encompass ᛫ to surround ᛫ | V | unymbfangen/umbfōn | OE | ||
umbfare | ᛫ a circuit ᛫ a going around ᛫ | N | ymbfær | OE | ||
umbflow | ᛫ a circulation of fluid ᛫ | N | umb+flow | NE×2 | ||
umbgang | ᛫ a circling ᛫ a circuit ᛫ a circumference ᛫ | N | ymbgang | OE | ||
umbgo | ᛫ to encompass ᛫ to surround ᛫ | V | umbegon | ME | ||
umbhang | ᛫ to hang round with clothing or ornament ᛫ to drape ᛫ to deck ᛫ | V | ymbhōn | OE | ||
umbhow | ᛫ solicitude ᛫ anxiety ᛬ solicitous ᛫ anxious ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ymbhoga | OE | ||
umblithe | ᛫ to circumnavigate ᛫ | V | ymblīþan | OE | ||
umbloater | ᛫ a spectator ᛫ an observer ᛫ | N | ymbwlātend | OE | ||
umbloud | umblude | ᛫ an umlaut ᛫ | N | umb+loud | ME+NE | calque: Umlaut |
umbset | ᛫ to siege ᛫ to blockade ᛬ set around ᛫ | AJ&P | ymbset&ymbgesett | OE&OE | ||
umbsnithe | ᛫ to circumcise ᛫ | V | ymbsnīþan | OE | ||
umbspeak | ᛫ to discuss ᛫ | V | ymbsprecan | OE | ||
umbspeech | umbspeec | ᛫ discussion ᛫ | N | umbsprǣc | OE | |
umbstandness | ᛫ circumstances ᛫ | N | ymbstandenness | OE | ||
umbtrim | ᛫ to fortify ᛫ to protect ᛫ to safeguard ᛫ | V | ymbtrymian | OE | ||
umbtrimming | ᛫ fortification ᛫ | N | ymbtrymming | OE | ||
umbwend | ᛫ to transform ᛫ to convert ᛫ | N | ymbwendan | OE | ||
umbwharft | umbhwarft | ᛫ a circle ᛫ an orbit ᛫ | N | ymbhwyrft | OE | |
umbwharve | umbhwarf | ᛫ to revolve around ᛫ to orbit around ᛫ | V | ymbhweorfan | OE | |
unache | unake | ᛫ to relieve from pain ᛫ soothe ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
unakin | ᛫ unrelated ᛫ dissimilar ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unalike | ᛫ different ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unalikeness | ᛫ difference ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unanswering | ᛫ unresponsive ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unanyetty | ᛫ nonsensical ᛫ | AJ | un+andȝet+y | NE+ME+NE | ||
unathelness | ᛫ ignobility ᛫ | N | unæþelness | OE | ||
unbelief | unbeleef | ᛫ disbelief ᛫ an absence of religious belief ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
unbeliever | unbeleefer | ᛫ a nonbeliever ᛫ a heretic ᛫ a heathen ᛫ | N | unbeliever | NE | |
unbidden | ᛫ uninvited ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unbiseny | ᛫ irregular ᛫ unruly ᛫ | AJ | un+bīsen+y | NE+ME+NE | ||
unblithe | ᛫ melancholic ᛫ | AJ | unblithe | ME | ||
unbodied | ᛫ incorporeal ᛫ formless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unbodily | ᛫ incorporeal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unbootly | ᛫ irremediable ᛫ without remedy ᛫ | AJ | unbotelich | ME | ||
unbraid | ᛫ to disentangle ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unbuild | ᛫ to deconstruct ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unburden | ᛫ to exonerate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
uncanny | ᛫ strange in an unsettling way ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unchurch | uncirc | ᛫ to excommunicate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹(E+H) | |
unclothe | ᛫ to undress ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
uncouth | uncooth | ᛫ clumsy ᛫ awkward ᛫ crude ᛫ rude ᛫ unrefined ᛫ unfamiliar ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
uncouthness | uncoothness | ᛫ unfamiliarity ᛫ crudeness ᛫ impoliteness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
undear | ᛫ cheap ᛫ disesteemed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
undeathshildiness | undeathscildiness | ᛫ immortality ᛫ | N | undethshildiȝnesse | ME | |
undeed | ᛫ an ill deed ᛫ an evil action ᛫ a crime ᛫ a misdeed ᛫ | N | undǣd | OE | ||
under | ᛫ sub- ᛫ | PREFIX | ~ | NE | ||
underbear | ᛫ to support ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
underborough | underboroug | ᛫ a suburb ᛫ | N | underburh | OE | |
underborougher | underborouger | ᛫ an inhabitant of a suburb ᛫ | N | underburhware | OE | |
underbow | ᛫ to submit ᛫ | V | underbugan | OE | ||
undercome | undercum | ᛫ to be affected by ᛫ to undergo ᛫ to submit ᛫ to come through ᛫ to come under ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
undercut | ᛫ to offer goods or services at a lower price than a competitor ᛫ to undermine ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
underdelve | underdelf | ᛫ to undermine ᛫ | V | underdelven[underdelfan] | ME | |
underfang | ᛫ to receive ᛫ to accept ᛫ to assume ( a position or office ) ᛫ | V | underfongen | ME | ||
undergo | ᛫ to experience ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | PST: underwent; underyede ᛫ PTCP: undergone | |
underground | undergrund | ᛫ subterranean ᛬ beneath the ground's surface ᛫ in secrecy ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | |
underhanded | ᛫ clandestine ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
underking | ᛫ a viceroy ᛫ a petty king ᛫ a tribal ruler ᛫ | N | underking | ME | ||
underlet | ᛫ to sublet ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
underlie | ᛫ to be the basis foundation or cause of something ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
underling | ᛫ a subordinate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
underly | ᛫ inferior ᛬ at a lower level ᛫ insufficiently ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
underlying | ᛫ implicit ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
undermakeup | ᛫ primer ( makeup ) ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
undermeaning | ᛫ a connotation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
undern | ᛫ 9 AM ᛫ the time between 9 AM and 10 AM ᛫ tierce ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
undernim | ᛫ to rebuke ᛫ to reprove ᛫ to censure ᛫ to find fault with ᛫ to criticize ᛫ | V | undernimen | ME | PST: undernum; undernimmed ᛫ PTCP: undernum | |
undernye | ᛫ to go under ᛫ to succumb to ᛫ to under go something bad ᛫ | V | underhnīgan | OE | ||
underpin | ᛫ to give support, strength, or a basic structure to something ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
underred | ᛫ infrared light ᛬ infrared ᛫ | N᛬AJ | under+red | NE×2 | ||
underroom | ᛫ a basement or a cellar ( if it's comprised of only one room otherwise use "underrooms" ) ᛫ | N | under+room | NE×2 | ||
undersaregun | ᛫ a submachine gun ᛫ | N | under+searu+gun | NE+OE+NE‹N | calque: submachine gun | |
underscore | underskore | ᛫ to point up ᛫ to emphasize ᛫ to reinforce a point ᛫ | V | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | |
underseek | ᛫ to investigate ᛫ | V | undersēchen | ME | ||
underseeking | ᛫ investigation ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
understand | ᛫ to comprehend ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
undertaker | ᛫ a funeral director ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
undertaking | ᛫ a project ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
undertheed | ᛫ to subject ᛫ to subjugate ᛫ | V | underthẹ̄den[underþeodan] | ME | ||
undertheedingly | ᛫ subjunctive ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | underþēodendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
undertilth | ᛫ a subculture ᛫ | N | under+tilth | NE×2 | ||
undertongue | undertung | ᛫ a sublingua ᛫ | N | undertunge | OE | |
underwater | ᛫ subaqueous ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
underway | ᛫ in progress ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
underwend | ᛫ to subvert ᛫ | V | underwendan | OE | glossary word | |
underwood | ᛫ understorey ᛫ boskage ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | aka: undergrowth | |
underwrite | ᛫ to subscribe ᛫ | V | underwrītan | OE | ||
underyet | ᛫ to notice ᛫ to realize ᛫ to make an observation ᛫ to discover ᛫ | V | underyēten | ME | PST: underyat ᛫ PTCP: underyetten | |
underyoke | ᛫ to subjugate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
undo | ᛫ to unfasten ᛫ to cancel ᛫ to reverse ᛫ to destroy to cause the downfall of ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
undought | undugt | ᛫ cowardice ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
undoughty | undugty | ᛫ uncourageous ᛫ unvaliant ᛫ cowardly ᛫ | AJ | undoughti | ME | |
undouth | unduthe | ᛫ vice ᛫ | N | un+douth | NE+ME | |
undrunken | ᛫ sober ᛫ | AJ | undrunken | ME | ||
undying | ᛫ immortal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unearth | ᛫ to find in the ground by digging ᛫ to discover something hidden through investigation ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
uneath | ᛫ uneasy ᛫ difficult ᛫ hard ᛬ uneasily ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
unendingly | ᛫ infinitive ( grammar ) ᛫ | AJ | ungeendiendlīc | OE | from Ælfric's Grammar | |
unendly | ᛫ infinite ᛫ endless ᛬ infinitely ᛫ unendingly ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ~ | NE | ||
uneven | unefen | ᛫ unequal ᛫ unequally balanced ᛫ not level or smooth ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unevenhood | unefenhood | ᛫ inequality ᛫ | N | un+even+hood | NE×3 | calque: ongelijkheid |
unfair | ᛫ unjust ᛫ inequitable ᛫ unsporting ᛫ unattractive ᛫ ugly ᛫ | AJ | unfair&unfair | NE&ME | ||
unfairness | ᛫ injustice ᛫ inequity ᛫ unattractiveness ᛫ ugliness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unfetter | ᛫ to release from restraint or inhibition ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unfettered | ᛫ unrestrained ᛫ laissez-faire ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | "unfettered capitalism" | |
unfledged | unflecged | ᛫ inexperienced ᛫ novice ᛫ not yet mature ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unfold | ᛫ to develop ᛫ to come undone ᛫ to become revealed ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unfolk | ᛫ to depopulate ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | coined by William Barnes | |
unfriend | unfreend | ᛫ to defriend ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
unfrith | ᛫ unpeace ᛫ strife ᛫ discord ᛫ dissension ᛫ | N | unfrith | ME | ||
unfrost | ᛫ to defrost ᛫ | V | un+frost | NE | ||
ungainly | ᛫ clumsy ᛫ unwieldy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ungodly | ᛫ impious ᛫ sinful ᛫ immoral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
ungraith | ᛫ unprepared ᛫ unready ᛫ | AJ | ungreith | ME‹N | ||
ungraithly | ᛫ unpreparedly ᛫ unreadily ᛫ | AV | ungreithlī | ME‹N | ||
unhallow | ᛫ to make profane ᛫ to desecrate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unhealth | ᛫ infirmity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unhealthful | ᛫ insalubrious ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unhearsome | unhearsum | ᛫ disobedient ᛫ | AJ | unhersum | ME | |
unhearsomeness | unhearsumness | ᛫ disobedience ᛫ | N | unhersumnesse | ME | |
unheed | ᛫ to ignore ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unheel | ᛫ to uncover ᛫ to reveal ᛫ to expose ᛫ | V | ~{hēlen} | NE | ||
unhinge | unhincg | ᛫ to derange ᛫ to make mentally unbalanced ᛫ to bereave of stability ᛫ to throw into disorder ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
unhinged | unhincged | ᛫ mentally unbalanced ᛫ deranged ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unk | ᛫ us two ( accusative ) ᛫ | N(PRO) | unc | ME | ||
unkempt | ᛫ having an untidy or dishevelled appearance ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unker | ᛫ my and your ᛫ | N(PRO) | unker | ME | ||
unkers | ᛫ mine and yours ᛫ | N(PRO) | unker+s | OE+NE | ||
unkinly | ᛫ unsuitable ᛫ improper ᛫ | AJ | uncynlīc | OE | ||
unknowledge | unknowlecg | ᛫ ignorance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
unkselves | unkselfs | ᛫ we two's selves ᛫ | N(PRO) | unke seoluen | ME | |
unlaw | ᛫ a crime ᛫ lawlessness ᛫ a fine for the breaking of a law ᛫ | N | ~ | NE‹(E+N) | ||
unlawful | ᛫ illegal ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE‹(E+N+E) | ||
unleed | ᛫ wretched ᛫ miserable ᛫ | AJ | unlēde | ME | ||
unlib | ᛫ poison ( especially when used in witchcraft and sorcery ) ᛫ | N | unlybba | OE | ||
unlibwright | unlibwrigt | ᛫ a maker of poisons ( especially a witch or sorcerer ) ᛫ | N | unlybwyrhta | OE | |
unlift | ᛫ bad air ᛫ malaria ᛫ | N | unlyft | OE | ||
unlike | ᛫ different ᛬ different from ᛫ in contrast to ᛫ uncharacteristic of someone ᛫ | AJ᛬P | ~ | NE | ||
unlikeness | ᛫ a difference ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unlikeworthy | ᛫ unlikable ᛫ unworthy of like ᛫ | AJ | unlīcwirþe | OE | ||
unlittiness | ᛫ ugliness ᛫ disfigurement ᛫ | N | unwlitigness | OE | ||
unlitting | ᛫ disfiguring ᛫ | N | unwlitigung | OE | ||
unlitty | ᛫ to make or become ugly ᛫ to disfigure ᛬ ugly ᛫ | V᛬AJ | unwlitig&unwlitigian | OE | ||
unluck | ᛫ bad fortune ᛫ misfortune ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unmake | ᛫ to disassemble ᛫ to destroy ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unmannish | unmannisc | ᛫ inhuman ᛫ inhumane ᛫ | AJ | un+mannish | NE+ME | |
unmeet | ᛫ improper ᛫ unsuitable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unmerry | ᛫ unpleasant ᛫ unfair ᛫ | AJ | unmyrige | OE | ||
unmight | unmigt | ᛫ weakness ᛫ lack of strength ᛫ feebleness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
unmighten | unmigten | ᛫ to disempower ᛫ to disable ᛫ | V | un+might+en | NE×3 | |
unmightly | unmigtly | ᛫ impossible ᛫ | AJ | unmeahtelīc | OE | |
unmighty | unmigty | ᛫ weak ᛫ feeble ᛫ powerless ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unmilse | ᛫ sternness ᛫ wrath ᛫ | N | unmilts | OE | ||
unmilsendly | ᛫ unpardonable ᛫ | AJ | unmiltsigendlīc | OE | ||
unmilsing | ᛫ want of consideration ᛫ impiety towards God ᛫ pitilessness towards men ᛫ | N | unmiltsung | OE | ||
unmingle | unmingel | ᛫ to separate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
unmirth | ᛫ sadness ᛫ misery ᛫ | N | unmyrhþ | OE | ||
unmood | ᛫ despondency ᛫ dejection ᛫ | N | unmōd | OE | ||
unmoody | ᛫ fainthearted ᛫ humble ᛫ | AJ | unmōdig | OE | ||
unn | ᛫ to grant ᛫ to allow ᛫ to permit ᛫ | V | unnan | OE | look up "the three-letter rule" | |
unnithing | ᛫ an honest person ᛫ one accepted by their community ᛫ | N | unnīþing | OE | ||
unoften | ᛫ infrequently ᛫ seldom ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
unorn | ᛫ simple ᛫ plain ᛫ unexcessive ᛫ modest ᛫ humble ᛫ unelaborate ᛫ | AJ | unorne | ME | ||
unready | ᛫ unprepared ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unrearded | ᛫ voiceless ( spoken without vibration of the vocal chords ) ᛫ | AJ | un+rērd+ed | NE+ME+NE | ||
unrede | ᛫ bad advice ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unriddle | unriddel | ᛫ to solve ( to figure out ) ᛫ to explain ( to make understandable ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | |
unride | ᛫ unrestrained ᛫ uncontrolled ᛫ excessive ᛫ inordinately great ᛫ unmitigated ᛫ immoderate ᛫ | AJ | unrīde[ungerȳde] | ME | ||
unrightful | unrigtful | ᛫ illegitimate ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unrightfully | unrigtfully | ᛫ illegitimately ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
unrightly | unrigtly | ᛫ incorrectly ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | |
unroadness | ᛫ non-rhoticity ᛫ | N | road+less+ness | NE×3 | ||
unrode | ᛫ unreasonable ᛫ unwise ᛫ irrational ᛫ | AJ | ungerād | OE | ||
unroot | ᛫ sad ᛫ sorrowful ᛫ distressed ᛫ displeased ᛫ | AJ | unrọ̄t&unrōt | ME&OE | kin: rōt | |
unrown | unrune | ᛫ to decrypt ᛫ to unencrypt ᛫ | V | un+rown | NE+ME | |
unrowned | unruned | ᛫ decrypted ᛫ unencrypted ᛫ | N | un+rown+ed | NE+ME+NE | |
unseely | ᛫ unhappy ᛫ miserable ᛫ unfortunate ᛫ unlucky ᛫ wretched ᛫ | AJ | unsely | ME | ||
unseemly | ᛫ inappropriate ᛫ indecent ᛫ | AD | ~ | NE | ||
unseendly | ᛫ invisible ᛫ | AJ | un+see+end+ly | NE×2+ME+NE | ||
unseenly | ᛫ invisible ᛫ | AJ | unsēnelī | ME | ||
unsefful | ᛫ senseless ᛫ | AJ | unseffull | OE | ||
unset | ᛫ to depose ᛫ to displace ᛫ | V | unsettan | OE | ||
unsettling | ᛫ disquieting ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unsheer | unsceer | ᛫ impure ᛫ | AJ | un + sheer | NE×2 | |
unshod | unscod | ᛫ bare-footed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unsidey | ᛫ neutral ᛫ | AJ | un+side+y | NE×3 | calque: ûnsidich | |
unsightly | unsigtly | ᛫ ugly ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unsooth | ᛫ untruth ᛫ falsehood ᛫ | N | unsōþ | OE | ||
unstaffwise | ᛫ illiterate ᛫ | AJ | unstæfwīs | OE | ||
unstill | ᛫ to disturb ᛫ to disquiet ᛫ | V | unstillen | ME | ||
unsunderendly | ᛫ inseparable ᛫ indivisible ᛫ | AJ | unasundrodlic | OE | ||
unsung | ᛫ something which has not been lauded or appreciated ᛫ not sung about ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unsuttle | unsuttel | ᛫ vague ᛫ unclear ᛫ | AJ | un+sutel | NE+ME | |
unsuttleness | unsuttelness | ᛫ ambiguity ᛫ vagueness ᛫ unclearness ᛫ | N | un+sutel+ness | NE+ME+NE | |
unsweven | unswefen | ᛫ a bad vision ᛫ a bad dream ᛫ a nightmare ᛫ | N | unswefen | OE | |
unsyefast | ᛫ unvictorious ᛫ untriumphant ᛫ not successful ᛫ | AJ | unsigefæst | OE | ||
untellendly | ᛫ indescribable ᛫ | AJ | untellendlīce | ME | ||
unthank | ᛫ ingratitude ᛫ harm ᛫ injury misfortune ᛫ thanklessness ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unthatch | unthac | ᛫ to uncover ᛫ | V | unþeccan | OE | |
unthrift | ᛫ wastefulness ᛫ extravagance ᛫ a spendthrift ᛫ a prodigal ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unthrifty | ᛫ prodigal ᛫ wasteful ᛫ ( of plants or livestock ) not strong or healthy ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unthrutchen | unthrucen | ᛫ to depressurise ᛫ | V | un+thrutch+en | NE×3 | |
unthwear | ᛫ to disagree ᛬ discordant ᛫ not in agreement ᛫ not in harmony ᛫ dissonant [ᚹ] ᛫ | V᛬AJ | ungeþwǣr | OE | ||
unthwearness | ᛫ discord ᛫ disagreement ᛫ disharmony ᛫ dissonance [ᚹ] ᛫ | N | ungeþwǣrness | OE | ||
untime | ᛫ an inappropriate or an improper time for something ᛫ | N | untime | ME | ||
untine | ᛫ to free ᛫ to unbind ᛫ to unenclose ᛫ | V | untynan | OE | ||
untold | ᛫ not narrated ᛫ not recounted ᛫ too great to be recounted or numbered ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
untoward | ᛫ unruly ᛫ unlucky ᛫ adverse ᛫ unpropitious ᛫ improper ᛫ indecorous ᛫ unmanageable ᛫ froward ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
untrum | ᛫ unfirm ᛫ sick ᛫ sickly ᛫ infirm ᛫ ill ᛫ | AJ | untrum | ME | ||
untruth | untrewth | ᛫ falsehood ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
untruthful | untrewthful | ᛫ dishonest ᛫ insincere ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
untruthfulness | untrewthfulness | ᛫ dishonesty ᛫ insincerity ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | |
untwee | ᛫ certainty ᛫ no doubt ᛫ | N | untwēo | OE | ||
unwaxen | ᛫ ungrown ᛫ prepubescent [ᚹ] ᛫ | AJ | unweaxen | OE | ||
unwealthiness | ᛫ poverty ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unwealthy | ᛫ poor ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unweapon | ᛫ to disarm ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unweather | ᛫ bad weather ᛫ a storm ᛫ a tempest ᛫ | N | unweder | OE | ||
unwed | ᛫ unmarried ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwemmed | ᛫ untainted ᛫ pure ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwieldy | unweeldy | ᛫ difficult to handle because of its size shape or weight ᛫ too big or disorganized to manage well ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unwight | unwigt | ᛫ an evil spirit ᛫ a monster ᛫ | N | unwight{uvættr} | ME | |
unwin | ᛫ an unfriend ᛫ a foe ᛫ an enemy ᛫ an adversary ᛫ | N | unwin | ME | ||
unwind | ᛫ to relax ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unwinsome | unwinsum | ᛫ unpleasant ᛫ disagreeable ᛫ | AJ | unwynsum | OE | |
unwisdom | ᛫ folly ᛫ lack of wisdom ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
unwise | ᛫ foolish ᛫ insensible ᛫ imprudent ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwist | ᛫ unknown ᛫ unrecognized ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwit | ᛫ to derange ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unwitting | ᛫ unaware ᛫ unintentional ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwold | ᛫ to deforest ᛫ | V | un+wold | NE×2 | ||
unwolding | ᛫ deforestation ᛫ | N | un+wold+ing | NE×3 | ||
unwont | ᛫ not used to ᛫ unaccustomed ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unworship | unworscip | ᛫ irreverence ᛬ to dishonour ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | |
unworthy | ᛫ unsuitable ᛫ undeserving ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
unwry | ᛫ to uncover ᛫ expose ᛫ take off ᛫ untie ᛫ behold ᛫ perceive ᛫ | V | unwrīen | ME | ||
unyielding | unyeelding | ᛫ constant ᛫ ceaseless ᛫ stubborn ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
unyoke | ᛫ to remove a yoke ᛫ to free from oppression ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
unyore | ᛫ unprepared ᛬ recently ᛫ soon ᛫ | AJ᛬AV | ungēara | OE | ||
upbeat | ᛫ an unaccented beat in a musical measure ᛬ lively and positive ᛫ sanguine ( as in optimistic ) ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~ | NE | ||
upbraid | ᛫ the act of reproaching ᛫ contumely ᛬ to severely criticize ᛫ to treat with contempt ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
upbrook | ᛫ to deplete ᛫ to use up ᛫ | V | up+brook | NE×2 | ||
upend | ᛫ to tip over ᛫ to ruin ᛫ to invalidate ᛫ to overthrow ᛫ to throw out ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
upgang | ᛫ a climb ᛫ an ascent ᛫ a way up ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
upheaving | upheafing | ᛫ a bouleversement ᛫ a cataclysm ᛫ a paroxysm ᛫ a tumult ᛫ a turmoil ᛫ an upheaval ᛫ | N | ~{upheaval} | NE | |
uphold | ᛫ to support ᛫ to maintain ᛫ to confirm ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
upkeep | ᛫ maintenance ᛬ to maintain ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
upland | ᛫ a rural area ᛫ the country ᛬ rural ᛫ rustic ᛫ country ᛫ pastoral ᛫ bucolic ᛫ | N᛬AJ | ~{uplō̆ndish} | NE | last attested: 1522 (noun); 1670 (adjective) | |
uplift | ᛫ to give someone encouragement ᛫ to lift one's spirits ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
uplink | ᛫ a transmission or link to an airborne terminal like a satellite ᛬ to transmit by means of an uplink ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
upnimming | ᛫ an undertaking ᛫ an enterprise ᛫ a project ᛫ | N | upniminge | ME | "take" is from Norse | |
upper chavelbone | cafelbone | ᛫ a maxilla ᛫ | N | upper+chafel+bone | NE+ME+NE | calque: bovenkaakbeen |
upper noseshell | nosescell | ᛫ a superior nasal concha ᛫ | N | upper+nose+shell | NE×3 | calque: oderste neusschelp |
upperhand | ᛫ advantage or control ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
upright | uprigt | ᛫ vertical ᛫ honourable ᛫ moral ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
uprising | ᛫ insurrection ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
uproot | ᛫ to extirpate ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
upshot | upscot | ᛫ the final or eventual outcome or conclusion of a discussion action or series of events ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | |
upside | ᛫ a pro ᛫ a positive feature of something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
upsodown | upsodune | ᛫ upside down ᛫ inverted ᛫ inside out ᛫ everted ᛫ | AV | up-sō̆-dǒun | ME | or: upsadown; upsedown; upsedone ᛫ begat: upside down |
upspring | ᛫ origin ᛬ to originate ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | PST: upsprung/upsprang ᛫ PTCP: upsprung | |
upstand | ᛫ a roof section that turns up against something ᛬ to stand up ᛫ arise ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
upstander | ᛫ one who stands up for something ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
upstanding | ᛫ reputable ᛫ standing up ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
upstir | ᛫ a commotion ᛫ a disturbance ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
uptake | ᛫ absorption or occupation of a limited resource ᛫ a ventilation pipe ᛬ to take up ᛫ to expend or to occupy a limited resource ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | ||
upwind | ᛫ to wind upwards ᛫ to wind up ( a device ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
utmost | ᛫ ultimate ᛫ the most extreme ᛫ farthest ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
utter | ᛫ to state ᛫ to say ᛫ to display goods ᛫ to put goods up for sale ᛫ to release ( for sale ) ᛫ | V | utter&outren | NE&ME | ||
uttering | ᛫ statement ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | ||
utterless | ᛫ ineffable ᛫ | AJ | ~ | NE | ||
utterly | ᛫ completely ᛫ absolutely ᛫ | AV | ~ | NE | ||
vat | fatt | ᛫ a vessel ᛫ a jug ᛫ a tub ᛫ a cask ᛫ a barrel ᛫ | N | ~[fā̆t][fæt] | NE | or: fatt |
vattle | fattel | ᛫ a container or a receptacle ( especially for liquids or food ) ᛫ a large container ( vats , ships , etc ) ᛫ | N | fētles | ME | |
vixen | fixen | ᛫ a female fox ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | remnant of the original feminine ending |
wad | ᛫ shallow water ᛫ a ford ᛫ | N | wæd | OE | or: wade (from ME wā̆de)? | |
wade | ᛫ to walk ( generally through liquid ) ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
wagtail | ᛫ a Motacillidae bird ᛫ | N | ~ | NE | or: wagstart | |
wail | ᛫ to lament ᛫ to deplore ᛫ to grieve bitterly ᛫ | V | ~ | NE | ||
wain | ᛫ wagon ᛫ cart ᛫ car ᛫ automobile ᛫ vehicle ᛬ to transport by vehicle ᛫ | N᛬V | ~ | NE | "wagon" is Dutch | |
wainer | ᛫ a driver of a vehicle ᛫ | N | wægnere | OE | ||
wainreeve | wainreef | ᛫ one who has charge of vehicles ᛫ | N | wægngerēfa | OE | |
wainshed | wainsced | ᛫ a garage ᛫ | N | wain+shed | NE×2 | |
wainway | ᛫ a road for vehicles ᛫ | N | wægnweg | OE | ||
wainwright | wainwrigt | ᛫ a builder of vehicles ᛫ | N |