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Revision as of 19:00, 22 November 2020
Staff C of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
- OE = Old English
- ME = Middle English
- SC = Scots
- WF = West Frish
- NF = North Frish
- SF = Saterlandish Frish
- WLG = West Low Theech
- ELG = East Low Theech
- NL = Netherlandish
- NHG = New High Theech
- IC = Icelandish
- HIC = High Icelandish
- NO = Nornish
- SW = Swedish
- DN = Danish
- MLG = Middle Low Theech
- MNL = Middle Netherlandish
- MHG = Middle High Theech
- OF = Old Frish
- OS = Old Saxish
- OHG = Old High Theech
- ON = Old Norse
- GO = Gottish
- PWG = Or-West-Theedish
- PG = Or-Theedish
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |
Attested | Unattested | ||
cabal | n | - | backroom-dealings |
cabaret | n | club, nightspot, roadhouse, nightclub | - |
cabbage | n | cole | - |
cabinet | n | hutch, sideboard, locker | mugboard, hoarding office: ambight, redeship |
cable | n | wire, rope, lead | ropewire |
caboose | n | - | ward wain, aftwain |
cacao | n | - | brownbean, muckbean |
cache | n | hoard | putstow, bike |
cacophony | n | rattle, roar, din | |
cactus | n | - | fat-thistle, mickle-prickle |
cadaver | n | shell, framework, body, dead body slang: stiff |
boneshaft |
cadaverous | adj | deathly, wan, bloodless, ashen, hollow-eyed | - |
cadet | n | - | forefighter |
cadmium | n | - | Wodanstuff |
cafe | n | tearoom (<note: Non-English), roadhouse; taproom, watering hole |
coffeehouse (German: Kaffeehaus), coffeeinn (German: Kaffeeschenke) |
cafeteria | n | food hall, eating hall | - |
cage | n | bower (cf. NHG Bauer, Dn. bur) | - |
cajole | vb | soft-soap, sweettalk, wheedle |
- |
calamari | n | cuttlefish | - |
calcaneüs | n | heelbone | - |
calcium | n | - | milkstuff, limemote (W.Fris. koalsoere kalk) |
calcium carbonate | n | - | coalsour lime |
calculate | vb | reckon, work out | - |
calculation | n | tale, reckoning | - |
calculator | n | - | handreckoner, rimereckoner, scorer |
calculus | n | reckoning | flowreckoning, riming, telgrinding (<OE rim, tal 'number') |
calendar | n | daybook | timetale |
calisthenics | n | drills | |
to be called (<ON) | vb | hote, hight and hoten (<OE hātan and <ME hoten) | |
calligraphy | n | longhand | pretty writing, litwriting |
calligraphy pen | n | name | longhandwritingise/-iron (longhand + OE wrītungīsen, "style pen"), wlitwritingise/-iron (compound of "wlitwriting"+ OE wrītingīsen) |
callous | adj | hardened, cold-hearted, flint-hearted, heartless, soulless, stony, stony-hearted, steely, thick-skinned, uncaring, cold, hard, as hard as nails, hard-hearted, with a heart of stone, hard-bitten, cold-blooded, ruthless | - |
calm | adj | lown, flack, still | roolie (Eng., Du. rolig, Ic. roleg, NHG ruhig), roo |
calm | vb | lull, settle, soothe, still | beroolie (cf. NHG. beruhigen) |
caluminate | vb | grime, sully, betell | forwray (<OE forwregan) |
calque | n | loanshift, loanword, borrowing | loan oversetting (cf. NHG Lehnübersetzung) |
caluminator | n | - | backbiter |
calyx | n | - | bloomleaf |
camel | n | - | olvend (<OE olfend), twohump, drylander |
camera | n | shooter | bildfanger, bildtaker, bilthcraft(er) / bildcraft(er) / beeldcraft(er) |
camouflage | n | dapple, (dappling, dappleshell, dapplehide, dappleclad, dappleteld), dazzle-painting | derning (<OE diernan, cf. NHG Tarnung) |
camomile | n | - | maylix |
camp | n | - | lair (OE.), haltstead
enemies': fiendwick of an army (own): herewick |
camping ground | n | bed ground | . |
campaign | n | bandwagon, drive, struggle | military: axfare (<OE æxfaru), fieldtought (<Du.), bandwain |
campaign | vb | take the stump, barnstorm, run, run for, fight, warfare, struggle | - |
campus | n | yard, loreyard, field | lorefield, bittle (<OE gebytlu) |
canal | n | leat, ditch, waterway | fahrt (German); gracht (Dutch) |
cancel | v | stop, hold, end, leave, kill, scrub, scrap, break off, call off | - |
cancer | n | Old English, from Latin, "crab or creeping ulcer," translating Greek karkinos, said to have been applied to such tumors because the swollen veins around them resembled the limbs of a crab. Canker was the usual form until the 17th century. growth, overgrowth, lump zodiac: Crab |
disease: deathlump, deathgrowth, Mireless Thrimfold ~ MTF (Unlimited Tissue Multiplication), crabgrowth |
candelabrum | n | - | glimtree |
candidate | n | hopeful, runner | - |
candied | adj | sweetened | - |
candy | n | sweets | sweetiness |
canine | adj | doggy, houndlike, doglike, doggish |
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canine | n | hound, dog | |
cannon | n | gun, thunder gun | dunspar (contr. of dun and spear), fallbuss (cf. Ic. fallbyssa), gonne/gunne/gon/gounne(<ME) |
cannonball | n | thunderball | gunstone (obsolete), gunstane (<SC; obsolete), gun ball |
cannibal | n | maneater | self-eater (<OE selfæta) |
canoe | n | dugout | slimboat |
cantaloupe | n | - | rockmug, wintermug; netrindberry, netshellberry, netbarkberry (calque of Finnish verkkomeloni) |
canvas | n | hemp | hempcloth |
canyon | n | gulch, slade | - |
capable | adj | - | fitworthy |
capacitor | n | - | bearer (oversetting of "capacitor" into English), tightener (oversetting of "condenser" into English) |
capacity | n | room, berth, strength, gift, readiness | heldth, skillness (German: Fähigkeit) |
cape | n | mantle, sleeveless coat geography: ness, foreland, headland |
ness (On) |
capita | n | head | |
capital | n/adj | wealth, means, wherewithal; sterling; foremost |
letter (ABC): greatbookstave (cf. NHG Großbuchstabe) |
capital city | n | - | headburg, reevetown, kinesettle (<OE cynesetl), headstead |
capitalism | n | - | wealthwield, meanswield |
capitalist | n/adj | silk stocking | meanswielder, meanswieldly |
capitalization | n | - | blockwrit, block writing |
capitate bone | n | - | headbone. head wristbone |
capricious | adj | fickle | nickfull (<Sw, cf. Du. nikkig) |
capsize | vb | keel, upset, overwend | wemmel |
captain | n | headman, leader | shipper (<M Du. scipper and Eng. skipper), shiplord |
caption | n | - |
underwrit (cf. Du. underschrift, NHG bildunterschrift) |
captivate | vb | wile | witch |
captive | n/adj | penned, locked up, trapped | n: haftling (<OE haftling)
adj: hafted |
captivity | n | trap | haftedness (<OE gehæftednes) |
capture | vb | nail, take, kidnap, steal, swipe, nab, trap | latch, awin (<OE āwinnan and <OE awinnen) |
car | n | slang: wheels, ride, hot rod, roadster |
wain, wagon, horseless buggy (obsolete), buggy, selfbeweigher (calque of automobile), farecart, rumblewagon, thunderwagon, purrwagon |
caravan | n | tradewagon | kinwain, housewain (cf. Sw. husvagn) |
carbon | n | chark, soot | coalstuff, coalmote, lifemote |
carbon dioxide | n | blackdamp (mining term for CO2) | wortloft |
caramel | n | - | tagger (from Icelandic: Töggur) |
carburetor | n | - | forelofter |
carcass | n | bones, stiff, lich | - |
card | n | sheet, board | - |
cardboard | n | headboard | boardsheet |
cardiac arrest | n | heartstop | - |
cardinal | n | bird: redbird |
bird: redfinch |
cardiology | n | heartlore | |
career | n | calling, game (inf.), walk of life | - |
caress | vb | fondle, stroke | - |
cargo | n | draft, freight, haul, loading, weight | fraught (for + aught, cf. Eng freight) |
cargo ship | n | freighter | fraughter |
caribou | n | reindeer | - |
carnal | adj | fleshly | - |
carnation | n | - | nailling, nailken (cf. NHG Nelke), nailbloom |
carnivore | n | meat-eater, flesh-eater | - |
carouse | vb | birl | - |
carousel | n | - | merry-wend, merry-go-about (cf. Eng. merry-go-round) |
carpal bone | n | - | wristbone |
carpenter | n | woodworker | woodsmith, woodcraftsman, treewright (<OE trēowwyrhta), timberworker (cf. Du timmerwerk) + er |
carpentry | n | woodcraft, becraftliness, craftliness | treewrighting, timberwork (cf. Du timmerwerk) |
carpet | n | - | stepcloth, floorcloth, groundcloth |
carriage | n | bearing | wain, wagon |
carrot | n | more (<OE moru and akin to NHG Möhre) | - |
carry | vb | bear, weigh, ferry, take | - |
carte blanche | n | utter freedom | white sheet |
cartilage | n | grissel | crackbone (cf. Du. kraakbeen) |
cartilaginous fish | n | - | grisselfish, crackbonefish (cf. Du. kraakbeenvis) |
cartouche | n | - | deckwrit |
cartridge | n | bag, load, holder | - |
case | n | hull, husk, pod, sheath, shell, box
in case: lest, by fear of, if... should, befall |
grammar: fall
in case: fall case: fall |
cashew | n | - | kidneyapple |
cashewnut | n | - | kidneynut |
casing | n | shell, brass | - |
casino | n | - | bethall, bethouse, gaming house |
cast away | vb | - | anbewarp (<OE anbeweorpan) |
castigate | vb | beswing (<ME biswingen) | |
castle | n | burg, stronghold
innermost keep |
stronghouse, fastenwork (<OE "fæsten" + "weorc", cf German "Festung"), chestel (<Latinate OE "ċeastel") |
castrate | vb | geld, clip | (<OE fýran or a-fýran) |
casual | adj | breezy, blithe, light-hearted | - |
catalog | n | list | |
catapult | n | - | gunne (<ME), slaught gearwork, stonehauler. slaught stonehauler, great stonesling |
catch | vb | snare, snarl, snag, latch, fang, nab | - |
catechism | n | - | frodleering (cf. Ic. Trúfræðslurit) |
catechize | vb | grill, sweat slang | frain |
categorize | vb | - | fade (<OE fadian) |
caterpillar | n | - | cawlworm (<OE cawelwyrm), leafworm (<OE leafwyrm), mealshave (<OE mælsceafa) |
cathedral | n | headchurch | Roufrithsoned Engliſh: nighſetting (loanſhift from Engliſh nigh 'near' and set + -ing) |
catheter | n | - | leat |
cathode | n | - | downway |
catholic | adj | - | broadchurch |
catkin | n | - | bloomtail |
cattle | n | cows, livestock, kine, nowt, fee, neat | rother, standstills |
Caucasian (race) | n | white | Caucasish, Caucaser |
cauldron | n | kettle | - |
cauliflower | n | - | bloomcole |
cause | n | bring-about, let-on, wherefrom | frum (<OE fruma), onlet, orsake (calque from many Germanic languages) |
cause | vb | beget, breed, drive, make, work, yield | fuse (<ME fusen), fororsake (calque of many Germanic languages) |
casue, without | adv | - | hoolings (<OE holunga) |
caustic | adj | burning | - |
cautery | n | - | tharm tool |
caution | n | wariness, forewit, care, reck, heeding, beware, warning | - |
cautious | adj | Chary (< arch.Mod.E) | |
cavalier | n | horseman | king-follower (Charles II) |
cavalry | n | horsemen, riders | rideware (cf. NHG Reiterei) |
cave | n | - | hidles (pl. hidleses), cleave (<OE cleofa), delve |
cave(wo)man | n | - | hidles(wo)man, cleave(wo)man |
caviar | n | - | stoorroe (roe of the sturgeon) |
cavil | vb | carp | - |
cavity | n | dint, hollow, pit | - |
cease | vb | stop, lay off, halt, give up, leave off, blin | - |
ceasefire | n | truce | weaponsstandstill (cf. Du. wapenstilstand, NHG. Waffenstillstand) |
cecum | n | blind gut | blindtharm, blindgut |
cecograph | n | - | blindwriter |
cede | vb | yield, hand over, give up, bequeath, overgive (Eng., NHG übergeben, Du overgeven) | orgive, oryeve |
cedilla | n | - | zedling, zeeling |
ceiling | n | firstroof, highroof, loftroof | - |
celebrate | vb | - | frealse (<OE freolsian) |
celebration | n | - | frealsing |
celery | n | - | fenroot |
celestial | adj | heavenly | skily (sky + -ly) |
celestial bow | n | rainbow, heaven's bow | - |
celestial sphere | n | - | rother (<OE rodor) |
cell | n | hole, room | frum (cf. Ic. fruma), lifebrock |
cell division | n | - | frumcleaving |
cellar | n | - | clove (<OE cleofa); undercroft |
cellulose | n | - | treestand, frumsweet (calque) |
Celtic | adj | Celtish | - |
cemetery | n | graveyard, boneyard, burying-ground | church-litten, lich-rest, lichburg, lichtown, buryingstow, endrest, still-hill (slang) |
censorship | n | - | cleaning |
censure | vb | chide, upbraid | - |
census | n | tale | marking (cf. OE tomearcodnes), folkscoring |
cent | n | penny, hundredth | - |
centaur | n | - | horsemennish (cf. Du. paardmens)
manhorse, halfhorse |
centimeter | n | - | hundredthmete |
centipede | n | - | thousandfoot (cf. Du. duizendpoot; NHG Tausendfüße) |
center | n/vb | n: kernel, heart; middle, midst
vb: spotlight |
place for event/function: mid (cf. NHG Mitte), midstod (Icelandic:miðstöðin), stätte (German) |
central | adj | location: middle, mean, midway, midmost, middle-of-the-road
importance: main, key, leading, ruling |
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centurion | n | - | hundfrea (<OE hundfrēa) |
century | n | yearhundred, (<NHG. Jahrhundert) | year-fivescore/yearfivescore (literally means a year and five twenties), hundredyear, fivescore (five twenties), hundrise (<PG hundarisan) |
cereal | n | - | morningcorn (cf. Ic. morgunkorn) |
certain | adj | wis | sicker (Eng., calque Ger. speeches)
specific: bestevened (cf. NHG bestimmt) (see steven) |
certainly | adv | wisly | sickerly, soothly, iwis |
certainty | n | - | wishood (cf. NHG Gewissheit), soothness |
certificate | n | - | beshining (cf. NHG bescheinigung), witnessword, sickering |
certify | v | witness | beshine (calque of Ger. speeches) confirm: besteady (calque of Ger. speeches) |
cerulean | adj | - | swail blue |
cerumen | n | earwax | - |
Cesar | n | overlord, high-king, kaiser |
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cesium | n | - | silverwhite, lightbrick mote, andgull (<New High Icelandic) |
chain | n | shackle, fetter | - |
chair | n | seat, stool | settle |
chaise-longue | n | - | longseat, longsettle |
chalice | n | bowl | way(e) (<OE wæge) |
chalk | n | limestone | limestonestick |
challenge | vb | knot, dare, becall, beclepe challenge oneself (with, by, to): undertake (something, to do something) |
beclepe (<OE beclipian - to challenge), upcall, upstart, uprise (cf. Du. uitdagen), outask (cf. NHG herausfordern), upfight (cf. NHG anfechten) |
challenge | n | knot, dare, threat challenge oneself, undertake: undertaking |
becalling, becleping (<OE beclipian - to challenge), upcall, upstarting, outtasking (cf. NHG herausforderung), upfight (cf. NHG anfechtung) |
chamber | n | room, bay (enclosed space) | - |
chamber of commerce | n | business council | Handelsrat |
chameleon | n | - | fayingask (<OE fágian 'to change in color, vary, be variegated')
wristlehueask |
chance | n | luck, opening | by chance: faringly (<OE færinga) |
chancellor | n | gatekeeper | - |
change | vb/n | shift, switch, makeover, dough (cash), warp | frother (for- + other; cf. Fr. feroaring, Du. veranderen, NHG. verändern)
wend, char, wristle (<OE wrixlian) |
channel | n | fairway, race, ford | sound (<OE sund 'long narrow inlet) |
chaos | n | mess | dwolm (<OW dwolma) |
Charlemagne | n | Carl/Charles the Great | - |
character | n |
clay, selfhood, self, shtick, player (mainly in a game) |
in a story: hoad (<OE hād) feature: folklihood (cf. Du. persoonlijkheid) moral strength: wilstrength (will + strength) (cf. Du. viljestyrke) symbol: token (cf. NHG Zeichen, Dn. tegn) |
chard | n | - | fow-leaf, fow-stalk, fow-stem (Fow <OE meaning "colored") |
charge | n | fill, load, outlay, lading | uplast, onlast
military: ongripe, forthlout legal: booking |
charge | vb | fill, load, outlay, lade | uplast, onlast
military: ongripe, forthlout (<OE to fall forth), onrush, hildrass/rush/rash (<OE), wite, onwite, astal/astale (<OE astlaen) legal: book |
charged | adj | owing, laden (electric) | - |
charitable | adj | kind, freehanded, freehearted, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting | chisty (<OE cystig), almsful (<OE ælmesful and <ME almesful) |
charity | n | help, gift, hand-out, goodness, goodwill, fellow feeling, alms, dole, ruth, brotherhood | kistiness |
charity (organization) | n | bedehouse | almshouse |
charlatan | n | swindler | - |
charm | n | spell, dangle | libsen (<OE lybesn) |
charming | adj | friendly, lovely, winsome, comely | - |
charter | n | - | rightsledging; booking (from OE book -- "assignment of land by charter") |
chase | vb | hotfoot, put to flight, wathe/wothe (<OE wáth), adrive (<OE), hunt | - |
chasten, castigate, chastise/chastize | vb | wreak, smite | inwreak, bewreak, insmite, besmite |
chastize | vb | chew out, chide, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, ream out, tongue-lash, upbraid | threap |
chauffeur | n | driver | - |
cheat | n/vb |
shark, bilk, do in, nobble, rip off, rig, swindle; shark, dodger, swindler, lirt, belirt, threap |
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check | vb | - | oversoothe (cf. NHG überprüfen) |
check | n | - | ávísun (Icelandic: "the act of pointing to, referring to") |
checkers (game) | n | drafts (from Norman spelling draughts) | - |
cheer | n | glee, merriness, mirthfulness | - |
cheer | vb | gladden, root, hearten, perk up, blithen |
bemirth |
cheese | n | - | milkcurd |
chef d'oeuvre | n | masterwork | reevework, mastersteck (cf. Du. meesterstuk) |
chemistry | n | - | blendlore, splitlore (cf. Du scheikunde) |
cherish | vb | hold dear, cleave to, care for, love, look after, shelter; harbor |
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cherry | n | - | chirsh (<OE ciris; cf. Du. kers; NHG Kirsche) |
chess | n | - | - |
chestplate (armor, see tunic) | n | chesthelm, breasthelm | - |
chez _____ | prp | at _____'s | - |
chic | adj | fancy, dapper, natty | - |
chief | n | ringleader | - |
chieftain | n | - | heretough (<OE heretoha)
headling (cf. NHG Häuptling) |
chikungunya | n | - | upbend driff |
chili | n | - | hotcride |
chimpanzee | n | - | mockman (calque of a Bantu language ci-mpenzi) |
China | n | - | Midric (cf. H. Ic. Miðríki) |
Chinese Characters | n | - | midricrunes/-rouns (calque), midricwrit (calque) |
Chirology | n | handlore | |
chivalrous | n | big, greathearted, high-minded, lofty, lordly |
hovely |
chivalry | n | knightliness | lordlihood, kindhood, riderliness (for sake of "knight" meaning servant, NHG "Ritter") |
chlorine | n | - | bleachstuff, yellowgreenmote |
chlorophyll | n | leafgreen | - |
chocolate | adj/n | - | muckeats/muckfood (cf. H. Ic. mógæti) |
chocolate milk | n | - | muckeatsmilk, muckmilk |
choice | n | choosing, picking, wale. | kire (cf. ME kire), chosen (noun form) |
cholesterol | n | - | gallvat |
chrestomathy | n | - | nuttlecouthness (calque of Gk. compound, nuttle <OE nyttol 'useful' for 'chresto-' + couthness <OE cuþnes 'knowledge' for '-mathy') |
Christian | adj | Christen, Christly | Christish |
Christian | n | Christen, Christer | - |
Christianity | n | Christendom | Christenhood (German: Christenheit) |
Christmas | n | Yule | - |
chromosome | n | - | lifepith, huebody (calque of original Greek) |
chromatid | n | - | lifepithhalf |
chromium | n | shinestuff | |
chronic | adj | ||
chronicle | n | ledger, tale, saga | saw |
chronology | n | timeline | timeflow |
chrysanthemum | n | - | goldbloom |
church (early Greek borrowing into PG) | n | - | holihouse, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: etheldom (cf. Ancient Greek κυριακόν "a lord's house; an ethel" + "-dom"), Roufrithsoned Engliſh: ethelſtead (cf. Ancient Greek 'κυριακόν "a lord's house; an ethel" + "ſtead"; literally a "church building") God's house, god's box |
cider | n | apple wine | - |
cigar | n | smoke | smokelog, smokewrap, windle (calque of Icelandic vindill) |
cigarette | n | smoke, butt. | windling, in-and-out (slang), death stick (slang) |
cinema | n | - | bilths, filmhouse, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: filmingſtow |
cinquefoil | n | - | fiffinger |
cipher | n | dern | homewrit (cf. Dutch geheimschrift)
riddlewrit |
circa | prep | about | umb/umbe (<OE ymbe cf, NHG um) |
circle | n | ring, loop, wreath, trindle, trundle | trind |
circuit | n | ringway | - |
circulate | vb | flow; broadcast | umflow |
circulation | n | flow | umbfaring, forfaring, umbflow, umbrunning |
circulatory system | n | bloodstream | - |
circum-/circul- | pfx | - | um-/umb- |
circumcise | vb | cut, unhood, unforeskin | rend, umcut, umsnithe (<OE ymbsniðan), besnithe (cf. NHG beschneiden) |
circumference | n | rim, outring | rimlength, rimreach, rimspan, umgang or umbgang (Eng.) |
circumflex | n | - | stavehat |
circumnavigate | vb | - | umship (cf. NHG umschiffen) |
circumspect | adj | careful, watchful | - |
circumstance | n | doom, hap, luck | umstand or umbstand (<OE ), befalling, umstalling |
circumvent | vb | shortcut, sidestep; girdle, ring | umwork |
circus | n | big top | - |
cirrocumulus | n | - | curlcloud |
citizen | n | townsman, burgher | boroughman, boroughlede (<OE burglēod), ethelman, riker (<OE ríce) |
citizenship | n | - | boroughership (Eng., cf. NHG bürgerschaft, Du. burgerschap), rikership (<OE ríce) |
citroen | n | sourapple | - |
city | n | stead, borough, burgh, town | - |
citywide | adj | - | steadwide (cf. NHG stadweit) |
civet cat | n | - | slipcat |
civil | adj | folk | - |
civil law | n | - | folklaw |
civilian | n | - | meanfolk, hovelman |
civility | n | - | hoveliness |
clade | n | - | bough (branch) |
cladogram | n | - | boughbilth, boughwrit |
clairvoyance | n | - | throughsight |
claim | n | call, dibs, right; share, stake | forehold |
clamor | n | din | greeding |
clan | n | body, crowd, network, ring, set, blood, folks, house, kindred, line, set | - |
clarify | vb | shed light on | swuttle (<ME swutel, <OE sweotol), sweetle |
clarinet | n | silver-sucker (slang) | |
classic | adj | token | mean; highflack (flack <Du. vlak 'level') |
classical | adj | - | tokenly
music: everswin |
classification | n | tagging, branding | fading (<OE fadung) |
classify | vb | tag, brand | fade (<OE fadian) |
claustrophobia | n | - | narrowfear, tightnessfear |
clavicle | n | - | keybone (cf. NHG Schlüsselbein) |
clear | adj/vb | adj: sharp; lily-white, sheer
n: sharpen |
sweetle (<OE sweotol, M. Eng. swutel), rithe/ruthe (<OE geryddan; cf. NHG roden; Ic. ryðja) |
clearing | n | glade | rithing/ruthing (<OE geryddan) |
clearly | adv | sheerly | - |
clergy | n | church, cloth | - |
clergyman | n | churchman, father, shepherd of men, man of the cloth, man of the book | godsmith, soul-carer, heaven-reacher, sin-buster, make-god, sin-shifter, soul-whisperer, bodiend, speliend, white-choker. |
cliche | n/adj | hackneyed, moth-eaten; n: groaner | - |
climate | n | - | loftlay (cf. Ic. loftslag), ethem-hung, lofthelm-hung, loft-ihung, welkin-hung (OE ge-hong - inclination to, tendency), welkinwist, worldwist, leanset, leansettle, leanship, leanward, leanwist, atlean
leantrend, leanlay [politics, etc.] |
cloaca | n | cloäke | aldrain (all + drain), alclosethew (all + closethew (sphincter)) |
clock | n | timer | daymale, stounder, logger, daymeal |
clockwise | adj | sunwise | - |
clone | n/vb | twin | - |
close | vb | shut, narrow | - |
close | adj | near, narrow, nearby, nigh | - |
co- | pref | fellow-, by-, i-, even- | - |
coagulate | vb | clot | arun (cf. NHG gerinnen), rennen (<ME rennen, <OE rennan/rennian) |
coalition | n | - | block (see Italian "blocco") |
coast | n | seaboard, strand. | sea rim, sea strand, sea wang, warth |
coastline | n | shoreline, | - |
coat of arms | n | - | kinshield, wappen |
cocaine | n | slangs: blow, snow dust, snow, white, white lady, slim, snuff. | - |
coccyx | n | tailbone | - |
cochlea | n | - | hearsnail (cf. NHG Hörschnecke) |
cockroach | n | - | shave (cf. NHG Schrabe) |
cocoa (bean) | n | - | mucknut, muckbean, muckseed, bitternut, bitterbean, bitterseed |
cocoa (drink) | n | - | muckbrew, bitterbrew |
coconut | n | - | skulnut (skull + nut; coco comes from Span./Port. for skull) |
code | n |
software: backend |
riddlewrit |
coeval | n/adj | - | evenold |
coffee | n | brew | beanbrew |
coffer | n | - | hoardvat (<OE hordfæt) |
coffin | n | - | pine box, meat box, deadchest, (cf. Du. doodkist), through (O.E.) |
cognate | n | - | kinword |
cognizant | adj | aware | rathe |
cohabit | vb | live together | bylive |
coherence | n | - | weenness, withspeakfreedom (NHG. widerspruchsfreiheit) |
coin | n | - | mint (<OE mynet, cf. NHG Münze) |
coincide | vb | - | inbefall, atbefall, atfall |
coincidence | n | happen-so (in OED, US regional colloq.) | likehappening, tofall (calque of all Ger. speeches) |
coitus | n | - | swiving, heamedlock (<OE hæmedlac), bysleep (<NHG Beischlaf) |
cojones | n | balls, guts | - |
colic | n | - | bellyharm |
collapse | n/vb | downfall, infall, swooning | vb: cleave in |
colleague | vb | workmate, fellow worker | - |
collect | vb | gather | sam (<OE samnian) |
collection | n | gathering, thingstock, set | samming (cf. NHG Sammlung) |
colonize | vb | settle, take over, spread through(out) |
- |
colony | n | - | settling |
color | n | hue, cast, blee, light wavelength | farb or farve (<OE færbu, cf. NHG Farbe), dye (<OE deah; noun form obsolete), hue |
color | vb | hue, dye, shade, blee | farb |
column | n | upright | sile |
combat | n | fight, hild | gouth |
combination | n | binding, tying, knotting, fastening, gathering | forbinding (cf. NHG Verbindung) |
combine | vb | bind, tie, knot, fasten, gather, put together | gatherbind, withbind, forbind (cf. NHG verbinden) |
combustible | n/adj | adj: fiery n: tinder |
adj: fireworthy (may also mean non-combustible)
n: tinderkin (<OE tyndercyn) |
comedian | n | funnyman | funspeller, lustspeller, laughtersmith |
comedy | n | - | funplay, lustplay (cf. NHG Lustspiel) |
comestible | n | eatings | chewings |
comestible | adj | eating | eatworthy |
comet | n | shooting star | strealer, faxed-star (resemblance to hair flowing in the breeze), tailstar |
comfort | n | - | fastness, bulwark; bliss, frover; weem, alne (OED strength, comfort) |
comfort | vb | strengthen; soothe, brighten, shed/cast light on, lighten up, light up | frofrenn (<OE frêfran), frofer/frover; also frother (<ME frofer; <OE frōfor); alne (OED strengthen, comfort) |
comfortable | adj | soft, lithe, snug | queem (<Scots, cf. NHG bequem), froverly/-some |
comic | n | strip, stripbook | - |
comic | adj | funny; laughing | - |
command | n | behest, bidding
military: headship |
hight |
command | vb | bid, lead, behest; spearhead | sway, yebe, hote, hight, befeal (<OE bifelhan and akin to NHG befehlen) |
commander | n | head, leader | campelder (<OE campealdor), bebeedend (<OE bebēodend), herreaswer (<OE heraræswa), hildwiser (<OE hildewīsa), hertow (<OE heratoga), wield (<OE walda) |
commandment | n | behest; (Torah) teachings | bodeword, mustsaying |
commemorate | vb | mind | umbethink |
commemoration | n | minding, umbethinking | bethoughtening |
commence | vb | begin, start | - |
commensurate | adj | fitting | - |
comment | n | - | bemark |
commentary | n | input, feedback | upmarking (cf. Du opmerking) |
commenting | n | - | bemarking |
commerce | n | business, trade; dealings | chapstow |
commercial | n | businesswise | tradewise |
commissioner | n | - | intrustee, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: intruſtee |
commit | vb | do, betake, plight | forove (cf. NHG verüben), theen (<OE ġeþēon) |
common | adj | shared; household: cut-and-fry, workaday; broad-brush, overall; shared; middling; lowbrow; everyday, wonted, widespread
peasants: churlish |
mean (<OE gemæne, cf. NHG. Gemein). alt variants include Roufrithsoned Engliſh: imean (<ME imene, ȝemǣne 'common, general, universal'; cf. OE gemæne), mean, or amean; allshare, withmean, wonesome (<OE wune 'custom') |
CE (Common Era) | n | In the year of Our Lord (Dionysian) | YL, GÆ (Dionysian), Mean Eld (ME), Nowen Eld (NE); do not confuse for language abbreviations |
commonly | adv | meanly, often | imeanly, ymeanly, ameanly, wonesomely, |
commonwealth | n | - | meanwealth, folksrike, rike, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: imeanwealth |
commotion | n | unrest | stirness (<OE styrenes) |
communicate | v | share, talk; spread, brainstorm, bespeak, tell, make known, oversend, share, utter, say, word, give | outthrutch, outthrust, outsend, outspeak (cf. Du. uitdrukken, NHG ausdrücken), betwixtsend, crosstalk |
communicative | adj | chatty | speakle (<OE sprecol), speakly |
communion | n | fellowship, share, sharing | - |
communism | n | thralldom; churlishness | rikeownership; allownership (the state owns all means of production and private property is counterrevolutionary); worldrike, wieldworld, wieldall, oneworldreevedom (cf. international, global); allbinding, manbinding; “manbinding by the thralls, bindwield of the churls, worldreevedom of the knaves” (< ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’) |
communist | adj | red; churlish, knavish (cf. proletarian) | rikeowned |
community | n | shire, fellowship | meanship or ameanship (<OE ġemǣnsċipe and akin to NHG Gemeinschaft), folkship. |
compact | adj | deal, hard, stiff, unyielding, crowded, packed, thick, tight, thumbnail (expression) | withfasted, withfied |
companion | n | fellow (<ON), mate (<Middle Low German), gesith (historical title) | feer (<OE ġefēre), sithe (<OE ġesīþ) |
company | n | business, outfit, brotherhood, fellowship (<ON) | ship, sitheship (<OE ġesīþsċipe) |
comparative | n | - | overlikening (e.g. bodylore 'anatomy') |
compare | vb | liken, stack up | aliken (<OE anlician), withmete, withput, withlay |
comparable | adj | alike | akind, samekind |
compass | n | - | magnetic: eighttoken (cf. Ic. áttaviti)
pair of: ringupspurrer (cf. Ic. hringfari) |
compassion | n | feeling, kindness, ruth, goodwill | milts, evensorrow |
compassionate | adj | kind, feeling, ruthful | - |
compatible | adj | kindred | samehaft (cf. Ic. samhæft) |
compatriot | n | kinsman | landsman (<OE landesmann), fellow-land(wo)man |
compel | vb | fordrive, strong-arm, make-to | thring, bede (<OE ġebædan) |
compensation | n | meed, bote | forgooding, frover (<OE frōfor) |
competent | adj | fit, good; fair, right | - |
compete | vb | match up | wedbewharve (grounded on NHG. wettbewerb stehen) gaintussle (gain+tussle) |
competition | n | bidding | wedbewharve (<NHG wettbewerb) gaintussling (gain+tussling)
more new: wedbestriding (the wedding of bestriding) see bestride |
compile | vb | put together | - |
complain | vb | whine, bitch, caterwaul, moan, gripe, whinge |
cher (<OE ceorian) |
complete | adj | full, whole, done, over, through, up; in depth, thorough, all-out, downright, flat-out, sheer, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, utter; out-and-out, skillful,full-standing, thoroughgoing | - |
complete | vb | fulfill, end, overcome | fuldo (<OE fuldōn and <ME fuldon) |
completely | adv | outright, fully, utterly, thoroughly, through and through, inside-out, to the hilt, altogether, deeply, soundly, |
throughgroundy (cf. Du. doorgrondig) |
complex | adj | manifold, knotted, snarled | - |
complexion | n | hue, look, blee, ilk, kind, suchness, way, outlook | skin-look, skin-hue |
compliant | adj | toward, abiding | followsome, bowsome (<OE buxum) |
complicate |
vb/adj |
- | maze, intangle, manifold |
complicated | adj | knotty, tangled | manifold (<OE) |
compliment | n/vb | flatter | n: sweaseness (<OE geswæsnys)
vb: swease (<OE swæs) n/vb: love (<OE lof, cf. NHG Lob) (rhymes with stove) |
complimentary | adj | - | sweasely (<OE swæs + -lic), loving (rhymes with roving) |
compline | n | - | nightsong (<OE nihtsang, akin to "evensong") |
component | n | - | underdeal (cf. Du. onderdeel), makebit, inbit, gatherbit, wholebit |
compose | vb | make, put together | glinge, (<OE - to adorn, set in order, compose), adight (<OE), asing (<OE), awrite (<OE), samen (<OE), fay (<OE), withput |
composer | n | - | swinsmith, leethwriter |
composition | n | layout
Isetness (<OE) |
swincraft |
compound | n | cocktail, meld, mix | forbinding (cf. NHG Verbindung) |
comprehensive | adj | all-in, thorough, whole, all-out adv: fully, inside-out, through and through, understandbere, forstandbere |
begriping (calque), invatting (<OE fæt 'vessel'; calque) |
comprise | vb | make up | inhold, invat (cf. Du. omvatten) |
compromise | vb/n | tradeoff, deal
vb: meet halfway |
- |
compunction | n | qualm, misgiving | - |
computation | n | reckoning | - |
compute(r) | n/vb | vb: reckon, arime (<OE) ithink (<OE)
n: circlewyrd, circleweird (OE circolwyrde: computer, mathematician. However, circle is an early Germanic borrowing from Greek via Latin) |
reckoner, uprimer, upthinker, upreckoner, alderrime, alderrimer, alderreckoner, endberder, endberdend, enberdend (calque, based on French and Spanish Ordinateur/Ordenador), fade-sare (fade < OE to arrange. sare < OE device, craft, machine) reckonsare, rimesare |
comrade | n | fellow, friend | gade (<OE gada), sithe (<OE ġesīð)
faithful: trewpoft (<OE trēowġepofta) |
concatenat | - | therbinding | |
conceal | vb | hide, shroud, overshadow | mithe |
concealment | n | hiding, hideaway, lair, nest | dern, hidlock |
conceivable | adj | thoughtworthy | - |
conceive | vb | beget, dream, make out, twig | knit, forseed, ken (<OE cennan) |
concentrate | vb | meet, cluster, gather; fasten, lump, build up, strengthen, mind | bemiddlen, ibemiddlen |
concentrated | adj | crammed, clustered, gathered, lumped together, built up, minded on | - |
concentration camp | n | - | shandstead |
concentric | adj | ringed, overlapping | middlesharing |
concern | n | care, worry, reck | yeam (<OE ġīeme) |
concerned | adj | chary | |
concerning | prep | as for, as far as, on, toward, anent | - |
concert | n | - | ileethering, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: ileeðering |
concept | n | mind's eye | begripe (<ME begripen <OE begrīpan, cf. Du begrip, NHG Begriff) |
conception | n | mind's eye, thought | bilth; of child: beseeding |
conclude |
vb | end, wind up, wrap up, break up, leave off, let up, wind up, wink out, name, settle upon, gather, make out | - |
conclusion |
n | ending, finding(s), endgame | endsay |
concrete | n/adj | beton, hard | gainstandly (NHG. gegenständlich) |
concurrently | prep | meanwhile, all-the-while, all along |
- |
concussion | n | shell shock | - |
condemn | vb | doom, put down | fordeem, forordeal (cf. Du. veroordelen) |
condemned, the | n | doomed | beforeordealt (from forordeal, via Du. veroordeel) |
condemner, the | n | deemster | forordealer (from forordeal, via Du. veroordeel); doomer |
condescend | vb | belittle, stoop, talk down, lower |
- |
condition | n | onlay, fettle, iting (<OE), readen, burdness (<OE), cost (<OE), areadness (<OE araednis) | foreworth (cf. Du. voorwaarde) |
condom | n | warding, rubber, scumbag | - |
condominium | n | housetown | political entity: wholelordship/whole-lordship (cf. NHG Gesamtherrschaft), wield, reevedom |
conduct | vb | lead, drive, beload (<OE), Ioad (<OE) | - |
cone | n | taper (< OE) | keggle (cf. Du. kegel, NHG Kegel, Dan. kegle), ringwedge |
confectionary | n | sweets, sweetmeat, sweet-shop | - |
confederacy | n | deal (treaty or constitution—cf. Lat foedus); binding; bond, tightbond (Lat. con- is an intensifier, marking a strong treaty or bond) | rikesband (band of states), rikesdeal (covenant between states, cf. Lat. foedus), landsband, landsdeal; rickship, loosebind |
confederate | adj/n | friend, buddy, henchman; bonded, bound | agade (<OE gegada) |
confederation | n | bond, binding | rikesband, rickship, loosebind |
confer | vb | bestow, lend, give over | - |
conference | n | meeting, gathering | instelling (W. Fris. ynstelling, Du. instelling, Eng. in + Eng. stell + -ing) |
confess | vb | acknowledge, own up | shrive, beken (Eng., cf. NHG/Du. bekennen), andet (<ME andetten), det |
confession | n | acknowledging, shrift | andetness (<OE andetnes) |
confidence | n | belief, hope, troth | can-do-feeling |
configuration | n | setting, set up
of elements: layout, shape |
instelling (cf. Du instelling) |
confine | vb | lock in, keep, trap, fetter, bind, latch, grasp, abed (by illness), bedrid | bemire (pref. be-, <OE mære) |
confirm | vb | strengthen, starken, acknowledge | besteady (cf. NHG bestätigen) |
confirmation | n | strengthening, starkening | besteadying (cf. NHG bestätigung) |
confiscate | vb | filch | beslay (cf. Du. beslag) |
conflagration | n | fire | - |
conflict | vb/n | fight | - |
confluence | n | - | eameet |
conform | vb | dovetail, blend, groove, key, withshape | evenlike (<OE efenlician) |
conformism | n | - | evenlyinghood |
conformity | n | - | evenlying |
confound | vb | befuddle, bewilder, addle | - |
confront | vb | take on, come at, be up against | - |
confuse | vb | befuddel, mistake, ravel, bewilder, muddel, mangel, addel | ablend, forwrixle (cf. NHG verwechseln) |
confusing | adj | manifold, bewildering, muddlesome, misleading | - |
confusion | n | muddling, bewildering, mishmash | ablending |
confute | vb | overstale (<OE Ofer-staélan - to confute, to convict, to convince) | - |
congregate | v | forgather | |
congress | n | gathering, moot | |
conics | n | - | kegglelore |
conjecture | vb | aread (<OE ārǣdan,<ME areden and akin to NHG erratten) | |
conjugate | vb | bend | forbow (cf. Du. verbuigen, NHG. verbeugen) |
conjunction | n | linking word | linkword, bindword, yokeword |
conjure | vb | - | beswear (cf. NHG beschören) |
connect | vb | link, fit, tie-in, bind, link | forbind (<OE forbindan) |
connotation | n | undermeaning | |
conquer | vb | do down, overcome, upend, worst, overwin (<OE/ME/Arch.E) | aover (calque of many Germanic languages)
overwin (<OE oferwinnan and <ME overwinnen) |
conquered | adj | overwon | |
conquerer | n | overwinner | aoverer (cf. NHG Eroberer) |
conquest | n | overwin | - |
consanguinity | n | kinship | - |
conscience | n | - | thewing, inwit |
conscious | adj | aware, mindful, heedful | - |
consciousness | n | awareness, mindfulness, heedfulness, wake | inwit |
conscript | vb | draft, call-up | - |
consecrate | vb | bless, hallow, behallow, bename | - |
consecutive(ly) | adj/adv | straight, running, unbroken; one after the other, right after | |
consent | n/vb | leave | thaving, thwaring
vb: thwarelalk (<OE þwærlælcan) |
conservation | n | - | orholding (cf. NHG Erhaltung), bewaring (cf. Du. bewaren) |
conserve | n | - | orhold, beware |
consequence | n | aftermath, backwash, outcome, upshot, wightiness | offleading (cf. Ic. af-leiðing) |
consequently | adv | hence, thereby, thereupon, thus, wherefore, sithence (obsolete) | forfollowingly |
consider | vb |
heed, bethink, think about, |
hie, hedge (<OE hycgan 'bear in mind, confide, trust'; compare lie < OE licgan, buy <OE bycgan), awene (<OE awenan) behawe (<OE behawian 'to see clearly, take care'), rase (<OE ræswan 'to think suppose suspect consider conjecture'), smigh (<OE smēagan 'consider think about mediate examine scrutinize'), yondthink (<OE geondþencan 'to reflect upon'), hiler (<OE aheolorian 'weigh, balance, Latin equivalent: librare, trutinare), beshow (cf. Du. beschouwen), umbthink (<OE ymbþencan), aweigh (cf. NHG erwägen) |
consideration | n | thought | - |
consist of | vb | be made up of | bestand of (cf. NHG bestehen aus) |
consistency | n | - | weenness, withspeakfreedom (NHG. widerspruchsfreiheit) |
consistent | adj | - | weenly (<OE wénlic), withspeakless (NHG. widerspruchslos) |
console | vb | frover, soothe, allay sorrow, share grief, give strength and hope |
befreefern |
consolation | n | - | froverness, freefernes (<OE fréfernes), frover (<OE frōfor) |
consonant | n | - | withlide, midloud (<NHG Mitlaut), midclinker (Du. medeklinker), samedswaying, sameswaying (<Elfric's OE samodswegend) |
conspicuous | adj | sightly | forthsighly (<OE forþgesýne), kenspeckle |
conspiracy | n | plot | - |
conspiracy research | n | - | plotlore |
conspiracy theorist | n | - | plot-beholder |
conspiracy theory | n | - | plotbeholding |
conspire | vb | plot | - |
constant | adj | ongoing, abiding, steadfast, steady, singal (<OE sin-gal - perpetual, Everlasting) | onwherft, simble (<OE simbel)
resistant: bestandy/bestanding (NHG. beständig) |
constitution | n | clay, self; build, lawbook, frame, shape, law |
forfastening (cf. NHG Verfassung) |
constraint | n | - | thwing (<OE geþwing) |
constrict | vb | tighten | intighten, betighten |
consulation | n | - | bereading (cf. NHG Beratung) |
consult | vb | see with | - |
consume | vb | eat (up), drain, spend, intake | forbrook (cf. verbrauchen) |
consumerism | n | - | intakerhood |
consummate | adj | crack, good, great, skilled; blooming, straight-out; utmost | - |
consumption | n | intaking | - |
contact | vb | get, reach | fay, rine, forthreach |
contain | vb | hold, inhold, have in itself | - |
contaminate | vb | befoul | smittle |
contemplate | vb | - | yondthink (<OE geondþencan) |
contemplation | n | thought | yondthinking (<OE geondþencan + -ing) |
contemporary | adj | today's | new-timey, tidely, fellow-timed, like-timed |
contempt | n | loathing, hatred | - |
contemptuous | adj | - | shanding |
contend | n | set to | - |
contend (argue) | vb | flite, hold | - |
content | n/vb | vb: gladden | inning (<OE innung), inhold (calque from NHG 'Inhalt')
of one's character: inwit of one's moodstathel |
content | adj | happy, gladdened, gruntled | fained, list |
contention | n | wrangling | - |
contest | n | match | witherwin (<OE wiðerwinn) |
context | n | light, framework, ins and outs, layout, basis: underlay |
umbrealm, underlyings, |
contiguous | adj | abutting | - |
continent | n | mainland | worlddeal (<OE worulddǣl), greatland, landstretch, fastland |
continuation | n | astandendness, astandingness (<OE) | - |
continue | vb | go on, abide, keep on, keep at transitive: let something go on, forlong |
ongo, forthgo (cf. NHG fortgehen), forthset (cf. Du. voortzetten), throughgo (cf. Du. doorgaan), singel (<OE ġesingalian) |
continuing | adj | - | on running |
continuous | adj | unbroken, ongoing | forthgoing, forthset, simble (<OE) |
contort | vb | writhe | - |
contract | n | bond, deal | handfast, writdeal |
contradict | vb | gainsay, withsay, withspeak | witherspeak (cf. NHG widersprechen), andwitness (cf. Ic. and-vitni), witherqued, anspeak (<OE ġēansprecan) |
contradiction | n | gainsaying | withspeech (NHG. Widerspruch), witherquedding (<OE wiðercwedung), anspeech |
contrarian | n | aginner | - |
contrary | adv | against | witherward (<OE wiðerweard), witherto, withershins |
contrast | n | againstness, otherness, unlikeness, cleaveness, sunderness | shedspan, undershed, witherputting |
contrast | vb | sunder, cleave, shed, tell asunder | undershed (cf. NHG unterscheiden, Du onderscheiden), witherstand (calque), offstand, witherstack, offstack (cf. Du. afsteken), witherput |
controversy | n | - | gainwending (lone translation from Latin) |
contribute | vb | pitch in | bypull, bydraw/drag (cf. Du bijdragen) |
contribution | n | input, giving | - |
contrite | adj | sheepish | nust or anust (<OE gehnyst), thrasted (<OE geþræsted) |
contrition | n | sorrow, guilt, ruth | - |
control | n | hands, oversight, running, stewardship, arm, grip, hold, sway, steering | bridling |
control | vb | lead, bridle, hold, steer, keep, tame, steward | sway |
conundrum | n | riddle | - |
conurbation | n | - | towncluster(ing) |
convect | vb | ibear, imbbear, iferry, awaybear (all < OE) | - |
convenient | adj | comely (<OE cȳmlīċ) | |
convent | n | - | nunring |
convention | n | - | acoming (cf. "a-", cognate of "com-" + "come" < OE cuman, cognate of "venio" + "-ing")
law: wonelaw (cognate of wone <OE wuna, "custom, habit, practice, rite" + law), sidelaw (cognate of side <OE sidu, "custom, note, manner" + law) |
convergence | n | meeting | - |
conversation | n | talk, mailing | underholding (cf. NHG Unterhaltung) |
converse | vb | speak, talk | - |
conversely |
adv/ |
on the other hand, otherwise | - |
conversion | n | umbuild (cf. NHG Umbau) | |
convert | vb | wend, make over | turn over: bewharve (<OE behwierfan, behweorfan) turn around: bewend (<OE bewendan), forwandle |
convertible | n | drophead, soft-top, hard-top | - |
convey | vb | give, spread; bear, ferry, deed, make over | inway |
convict | n | lag | overstale (<OE Ofer-staélan - to confute, to convict, to convince), haftling (<OE hæftling, cf. NHG Häftling), overstell |
convince | vb | wheedle, talk round, talk into, win over | overtalk (<OE oferreccan, cf. NHG. überreden) |
convoy | n | - | wain row |
cooperate | vb | work together | evenwork (<OE efenweorcan), getherwork (<Fr gearwurkje), midwork, samework (cf. Norw. samevirk) |
cooperative | n | - | neatship, aneatship (cf. NHG genossenschaft), sameworklow, sameworklowship (cf. Norw. samevirk, samevirklag) |
cop | vb | nab | - |
cop | n | hound, pig (slang, slightly vulgar) | frith wike (peace officer) |
cope | vb | deal | - |
copious | adj | beteeming | - |
copper | n | - | ar (<OE ar) |
coppern | adj | - | arn (cf. Eng. gold -> golden) |
coppery | adj | - | ary |
copse | n | thicket, shaw | - |
copy | n | - | twin |
copy | vb | imitate: ape | twin, eftyield, andwrite imitate: evenledge (<OE efenlæcan) |
copy & paste | vb | - | twin & tack |
coral | n/adj | - | limeshaft; yellowpink |
cord | n | line, rope, string, wire | tew, rib-cloth |
cord | vb | fasten | - |
cordial | adj | friendly, hearty, warm | - |
cords | n | - | manstows |
corduroy | n | ribbed cloth | rib-cloth, manstow (manchester) |
core | n | kernel, heart, yolk, innermost being | - |
coriander | n | - | cloveleaf, clovelobedleaf, broadlobedleaf/bradlobleaf (based on description of leaf) |
cormorant | n | sea raven | shrab or shrave (<OE scræb), coal-goose |
cornea | n | - | hornweb, hornflesh |
corner | n | nook, winkle, hirn, edge | - |
coronation | n | - | kinehelming (<OE cynehelmung), wreathing |
corpor(e)al | adj | bodily | bodisome |
corporation | n | - | businessbody |
corpse | n | body, dead body | lich, nee (<OE nēo), likam |
corpus | n | body | likam |
Corpus Christi | pn | - | Wistforwandering Day |
correct | adv/adj | right, aright, befitting | - |
correct | vb | right, righten, mark | berighten (cf. NHG. berichtigen) |
correction | n | righting | punishment: threal (<OE þrēal), berightening (cf. NHG. Berichtigung) |
correction fluid | n | whiteout | - |
correspond | v | match, match up, link, link up, be alike, meet | onspeak (cf. NHG entsprechen) |
corridor | n | hallway | - |
corroborate | vb | bear out | - |
corrode | vb | gnaw | forrot (<OE forrotian), begnaw (<OE begnagan) |
corrugated | adj | - | wrizzled |
corrupt | adj/adv | crooked, bent, rot | forrot |
corslet | n | byrnie | - |
corvée-work | n | - | workrede (<OE weorcræden) |
cosmetics | n | fard | - |
cosmolabe | n | - | tungleheight meter |
cosmopolitan | n | - | worldsman |
cosmopolitan | adj | worldly | - |
cost | n | outlay, worth | - |
costly | adj | dear | - |
Costa Rica | pn | - | Rich Shore |
costume | n | outfit, get-up, fake dress | derning |
Côte d'Ivoire | n | - | Windward Shore, Tusk Shore, Elpbone Shore |
cottage | n | hut, cote | sheel |
cottager | n | - | cotsettle |
cotton | n | - | seedwool, treewool (calque) |
council | n | gathering, huddle, board, brotherhood, fellowship, thingstead (<OE þingstede), thingstow (<OE þingstōw) | rede, redemoot, redebody |
counsel | n/vb | lead, shepherd | rede, law-erne (legal-eagle) |
counselor | n | alder(wo)man | rede(wo)man, redegiver, theagher (<OE þeahere/ġeþeahere) |
count | vb | tell, reckon | arime |
count | n | earl | - |
countenance | n | cast | - |
counter- | prefix | with-, gain-, wither- | - |
counterbalance | n | offset | - |
counterclockwise | adj | withershins | withersunwise |
counterculture | n | - | otherway, witherkithship |
counterfeit goods | n | - | apeware, openware |
counterpart | n | match | witherdeal, evenbilth (cf. NHG Ebenbild) equivalent: gainsteck (cf. NHG gegenstück) |
countersign | n | - | gaintoken(ing) (cf. NHG. gegenziechnung) |
countersign | v | - | gaintoken (cf. NHG gegenziechnen) |
counterstroke | n | - | witherclap |
country | n | land, weald, upland (countryside), kith, fatherland, homeland, motherland, rike | native: ethel (<OE æþel), folkland, erd (<ME), ethelric, etheldom |
county | n | shire, ethel, earldom, wapentake, erd, fold | reveship |
countrywide | adj | landwide | |
county council | n | thing (<ON þing), folkmoot (<OE folcgemōt), folksmoot (<ME folkesmōt/folkesmot) | shiremoot |
coup | vb | strike | putsch (<German) |
coup d'état | n | rikestrike | - |
coup de grâce | n | topper | lithing, miltstroke |
coupling (train/carriage) | n | thill | - |
coupon | n | - | deemslip |
courage | n | mettle, boldness, fearlessness, heart, heartiness, daring, backbone | beld/bield (<OE bieldu), noth (<OE noþ) |
courageous | adj | bold, daring, doughty, fearless,full-hearted, unfrightened, stouthearted | moody (cf. NHG mutig) |
course | n | line, pathway | lode, begang/bigong, ierning/running (<OE ierning, whence running), shrithe (<OE), yong (<OE Geong), rin/rine, rune [< OE Ryne, course, rush] |
course (academic) | n | learnset, loregang, lorestream | |
court | n/vb | hof | vb: splunt (<Scots) |
courteous | adj | fairspoken | hovely |
courtyard | n | - | hallyard, boroughyard (<OE burggeard) |
cousin | n | kins(wo)man | nearkin, farsib,
swoor (<OE gesweór "cousin") |
coven | n | - | witchring |
covenant | n | oath, deal, bond, binding | - |
cover | n | holster, sheath | heling, helm, thacking, taching, decking, beweave (<OE bewǣfan and <ME biwēven) |
cover | vb | thatch/thack, overlay, hide, deck, overspread | hele (Eng. dialectal), helm, bewreen (OE bewrēon) |
coverage | n | - | yondfetching, overthetching, overthatching, overhealing, yondhealing |
covered area | n | deck, roofed deck | heling (ME hillet), helm (<OE helmian) |
covering | n | skin, feathers, hackles | heling, overwrigels (<OE oferwrigels) |
cover with | vb | lay on | - |
covert | adj | hidden, shrouded, stealthy, under wraps, | heled |
cover-up | n | whitewash, hush-work | shroudening |
covet | vb | crave, want, hunger after, thirst after, cast greedy eyes upon | - |
covetous | adj | greedy, graspy, grabby, hoggish, wanting | - |
COVID | n | - | GABAS (garlandbane ſickneſs) |
coward | n | wimp, woos, fearer, nithing | arg, flytail, feyling (cf. NHG Feigling) |
cowardice | n | argth (<OE iergþ) | |
cowardly | adj | gutless, thewless, woosy, fearful | fey/fay (<OE fæge, cf. NHG feige) |
coworker | n | by-worker, fellow worker, workmate | - |
CPU (Central Processing Unit) | n | main chip | - |
cranium | n | skull | head-bowl (OE heafod - bolla) |
crater | n | - | bowl (calque), barrowbowl |
cravat | n | necktie, neckcloth | - |
crayon | n | - | waxlimestone |
cream | n | salve, ream, milk's head | - |
crease | n/vb | wrinkle, rumple, rimple, runkle | - |
create | vb | beget, build, craft, make, set up, shape, hatch | ashapen |
creation | n | brainchild, wrinke; world, rise | shaping, ashapenning, fromship |
creative | adj | - | shaperly, makerly (cf. NHG schöpferisch), thoughtrich |
creator | n | maker, crafter | ashapenner |
creature | n | wight | making (horrible creature, monster), awe-grimer, aies-grimer, allwight, edshaft, shape, forthshaft (all <OE), eges-grime (a horrible mask; a creature with horrible form) |
credence | n | belief | - |
credibility | n | - | liefworthiness, beliefworthiness, beliefworthihood (cf. NHG glaubtwürdigkeit) |
credible | adj | - | liefworthy, beliefworthy (cf. NHG glaubtwürdig), oathworthy, intrusty, inliefsome |
credit | n | hail, acknowledging | inlief, intrust, forthtrust, oathworth, borrowworth |
creed | n | belief | - |
cremate | vb | bale | - |
creme de la creme | n | bee's knees, dog's bollocks, best of the best, fat of the land, best | - |
crepuscular | adj | twilighty | - |
crepuscule | n | twilight, darkfall, dusk, nightfall, gloaming, evenfall, eventide, sundown | downset |
crescent | n | moonsickle | - |
crest | n | ridge, noon, top, high-water mark | ris, comb |
cretaceous | adj | - | chalken, chalkish, chalky, limestonish, limestony |
cretin | n | blighter; nit | - |
crevasse | n | cleft | - |
crevice | n | cleft, gap, hole | - |
crewel | n | wool-yarn | |
crime | n | lawbreaking, shame, sin, wrongdoing, misdeed | shild (<OE scyld), gilt (<OE ġylt), forwrought (<OS farwurht) |
criminal | n | crook, outlaw, lawbreaker | sinner: guiltend (<OE ġyltend) |
crimson | n | - | deep red |
crisis | n | - | needtime |
criterion | n | yardstick, hallmark, need | deemrimmer |
critic | n | scather, blaster | - |
critical | adj | weighty, key, scathing | - |
criticize | vb | slag, knock, brand, upbraid, flak | - |
criticism | n | scathing | - |
crocodile | n | - | nicker (<OE nicor, cf. OHG nihhus), pebbleworm (calque), waterdrake (coined by Old English wikipedia) |
croissant | n | - | moonbread |
cross (<ON) | n | - | rood, syebeam (<OE sigebēam) |
cross (<ON) | vb | - | thwarse, stride over |
crossing | n | overgang (cf. NHG Übergang) | |
crown | n | kine-helm | - |
crown | vb | - | kinehelm, wreathe |
crucifix | n | rood (archaic) | roodfastening, onrooding |
crucify | vb | - | roodfasten, onrood |
crucifixion | n | - | onrood, onrooding, onroodness |
crude | adj | rough, raw | - |
cruel | adj | harsh, mean, ruthless, cold, unfeeling | reethe (<OE réðe), slithen (<OE slīþene) |
cruelty | n | meanness, harshness, ruthlessness | moanbale (<OE mānbealu), slithenness |
cruise | vb | - | thwarse (lit. to cross) |
cruiser | n | - | thwarser, thwarseship |
crusade | n | krosscampagne | roodfirding |
crust | n | - | rind (<OE rind) |
crustacean | n | crab, (US regional variants): crawfish, crayfish, crawdad | shelldeer (cf. NHG Schalentier), crabkin, nookmig |
cry | n | roop, yell, shout, whine, wail, moan | lide, liding (<OE ge-hlȳd; cf. NHG Lied) |
cry | vb | weep, shout, wail, yell, howl, sob, roup, cleep, wail | chy (<OE cigan) |
cryogenic | adj | - | coldly |
cryotherapy | n | - | coldbehandling |
crypt | n | - | thesterlock, thestercove, lich-keep, undercroft |
cryptocurrency | n | - | keepminthood, hidden minthood |
cryptography | n | - | hidden writing |
crystal | n | - | hurst (<OE hyrst) |
crystal | adj | - | hursten (cf. Eng. golden) |
crystalline | adj | - | hursty |
cub | n | - | whelp |
cube | n | - | worvel (cf. NHG Würfel) |
cuckoo | n | - | yeke, gawk |
cucumber | n | - | greenpod, earthapple (<OE eorþæppel) |
cuisine | n | cooking | foodcraft |
cull | vb | choose, pick, pick out, pitch on, pitch upon, sift, winnow, gather, pluck, pickup | - |
cull | n | pickings, siftings | - |
cul de sac | n | dead end | sackbackstreet, stitchstreet (German: Sackgasse, Stichstraße) |
culminate | vb | - | nib |
cultivate | vb | till, harvest, work | - |
culture | n | couth, folklore, way of life | ways, menning (cf. Ic. menning), kithship, kithlike (German: Kegelheit) |
culvert | n | - | leat, ditch |
cumbersome | adj | clumsy, burdensome, unwieldy, awkward | - |
cuneiform bones | n | - | wedgebones |
cuneiform writing | n | - | wedge-shaped writing |
cup | n | - | nap or nep (<OE hnæpp) |
cure | vb | heal | - |
curiosity | n | witfire | newsgreed, newsgreediness, knowkeen |
curious | adj | - | newsyearny, newsgreedy, knowkeen |
curious | vb | funny, odd, weird | frimdy (<OE frymdig) |
curlew | n | whaup | whilpe (<OE hwilpe) |
currency | n | - | minthood unit: mintwhit, minonehood (cf. Du. munteenheid |
current | adj | nowaday, today's, now's, nowadays', running | nowen, tidegang/tidegeng (<OE), evenrunning, eventime |
current | n | run, drift, leaning, tide, wind, now | brimstream (<OE), eystream (<OE iegstream), streamfare, waystream (<OE) Electricity, water, etc.: instream, inrun, flowbore, runbore |
currently | adv | as of yet, now, nowenly | - |
curriculum | n | - | learnplot |
curriculum vitae | n | - | smithsyore |
cursive | adj | handwritten | flow-staved |
cursor | n | runner | - |
curtail | vb | cutback, forshorten, foreshorten, clip | - |
curtain | n | - | hanger, hangcloth, forehang |
curve | n | bow, bend, wind | bendle |
custody | n | hold, hands | warding |
custard | n | vla, stich | |
custom | adj | bespoken | thew, folkway |
custom | n | wone, wont, business, trade | side, toln (<OE) |
customary | adj | - | wonely |
customization | n | - | besunderledge (from Minecraft) |
cutaneous | adj | skin, hide | hidish, hidely |
cutaneous disease | n | tetter, scurf, scurvy | - |
cute | adj | pretty, sweet, lief | goldy (cf. NHG goldig), sooth |
cutlass | n | backsword | - |
cutlery | n | silverware | - |
cycad | n | - | firtapfolm (cf. Sw. kottepalmer) |
cyclist | n | biker | wheeler |
cyclone | n | - | whirlwind |
cygnet |
n | swanling | - |
cylinder | n | - | rollshape |
cynical | adj | sneering | - |
cynology | n | doglore | |
cynosure | n | - | hoardvat (<OE hordfæt) |
czar | n | - | Russlander king/highking |