User blog comment:Eðkee/Anglish word for orphan./@comment-1045231-20180414034201/@comment-1045231-20180414221123

No P-G root seems to stand. It must have been a later making that didn't come to the Angles in time. What's wrong with a poetic word? Making meldwords like that seems to be rather Theech. I can try to make less poetic meldwords: lonechild, sunderchild, loneling, sunderling?

As for excuse, maybe guiltshifting? Unshilding, unguilting, unwiting (calque from Entschuldigung, verontschuldiging (NL))? Other calques from Rhinish don't seem great: outspeech, outtalking (Ausrede), forewall (Vorwand), outflight, outfleeing (Ausflucht)?

For challenge, upcalling, upstarting, uprising (or wither-? shooting to calque from NL uitdagen)? Witherbidding or upbidding (calque (aside from the "her") from herausforderung)? Netherlandish and Rhinish seem to like out- (not up-) for those, but doesn't seem to give the right feeling. Or maybe fightcall(ing)? "Becalling" seems to have lived until Middle English, but seems to have the meaning more of challenging someone's words or deeds. "Undertaking" or can work for the other meaning (wonder if there's anything else good for that). Becleping is on the wordbook, and could meet the first meaning.