English Wordbook/D

Staff D 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.

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Da

Chancery English	Class	Anglish/English
		Attested	Unattested
dairy	n	milkhouse	deyhouse
damage	n	scathe, harm, wound, marring, loss, wound; fee	-
damage	vb	scathe, harm, wound, mar, break, bruise, forspill	fordo, shend
damaged	adj	scathed, broken, marred, dented, bruised, harmed, unsound	-
damaging	adj	bad, baleful, baneful, harmful	scathful (<Scots)
damn	adj	all-out, flat-out, out-and-out	-
damn	v	(phrases) send __ to hell, to hell with __	bedoom (cf. Danish bedømme), telwith (Shortening of "To Hell with")
damned	adj	hexed, lost, swizzled	-
damnation	n	hell, hellfire	ordeal (cf. NHG Urteil)
damsel	n	maid, maiden, lass, wench	-
dance (Frankish origin)	n/vb	step; flicker, flutter	frike (<ME friken, frikien <OE frīcian), tumb, wirl, glithe (glee(music)+ shrithe(move))
dandelion	n	-	horsebloom (cf. Du. paardenbloem), leetooth (cf. NHG Löwenzahn)
danger	n	plight, threat	freech (<OE fréĉen), fear (meant "danger" in OE), derf (attested in the sense "trouble, tribulation") or "darf" (unattested, as far as I know) <OE deorf
dangerous	adj	plightful, threatening	freehful (<OE fréĉenful)
dart	n	-	darth (<OE daraþ)
data	n	rawput, worth(s)	ongift(s), meteworth(s) givele, metele, metebit givens (calque, Latin data < datum, plural pp. of 'to give' )
database	n	-	fading (<OE fadung)
date	n	-	dealmark (<OE tælmearc) talemark
date-fruit	n	-	palmapple (<OE palmæppel)
dative (case)	n	-	forgivingly, giver namefall, (to) whomfall (refer to German "Wemfall")
daub	vb	befoul, sully; besmear	smite
day of tribulation	n	-	arvethday, arveth-day (<OE earfoðdæg; c.f. ME arveþ-sīþ)

De

de-	pref	un-	and- (<OE and-, cf. Fr. and-)
deacidify	vb		unsour (cf. NHG säuern)
deacidification	n		unsouring
deactivate	vb	switch off	-
debate	vb	moot	-
debatable	adj	moot, mootish, mootsome, mootworthy	-
debitter (foreign prefix)	vb		unbitter (cf. NHG entbittern)
debris	n	trash, chaff, leavings, odds and ends, dreggs, draff, scrap, clutter, wreckage, deadwood, dross, spilth	floatings (calque of flotsam), grouts (archaic)
debt	n		Shild (<Eng./NHG. Schuld/Du.Schuld) (calque of many Germanic tongues), owings
debut	n	beginning, birth, dawn, kickoff, morning, onset, start, threshold	fanding (<OE fandian 'to try, experience')
decade	n	-	yearten (cf. Du. jaartien, NHG Jahrzehnt)
decapitate	vb	behead	-
decarbonise	vb		uncoal (cf. NHG entkohlen)
decarbonisation	n		uncoaling (cf. NHG Entkohlung)
decay	vb	foul, rot; sink, worsen; waste away	abreet (<OE abreotan)
deceased	adj	breathless, fallen, gone, dead, lifeless	fordeaden (cf. NHG verstorben); death-smitten, late, forheawen (<OE forheawen)
deceit	n	misleading, outwitting	lease (<OE léas "falsehood, untruth")
deceive	vb	swike, mislead, forlead, fop, outwit, outsmart, snooker	beswike peech (<OE pǣċan)
December	n	-	Ereyule (<OE Ærraġēola), Yulemonth (<OE Ġēolmōnaþ), Midwintermonth (<OE Midwintermōnaþ)
decent	adj	good, upstanding, befitting	daven, douth, thewly
decentralization	n	-	outkerneling
deception	n	cheating, crookery, foxiness	dwild, adwild (<OE ġedwild)
decide	vb	choose, name, settle (up)on, fix, set, nail, doom (archaic/obsolete), deem (obsolete)	betake, beshut (cf. Du. besluiten)
deciduous	adj	-	leaf-shedding, leafsome, fallsome
decision	n	call	beshut, throughshut
decisive	adj	all-out, out-and-out, outright, straight-out, hell-bent	-
declaration	n	boding, forthspeaking	forthspell (<OE forþspell) atueness (<OE ætywnys), matheling, quething
declare	vb	bode, swear, set forth, quethe, forthspeak, besheer	mathel (<OE maþelian), spell out
declination	n	dwining, dwindling	forbowing
decline	vb	dwindle, wane, fordwine, slump, lessen, weaken, flag, sink	nether off forbow (<OE forbugan)
decline (not accept)	vb	forbear	offlean or lean off (cf. NHG ablehnen)
decoction	n	-	mixling
decorate	vb	bedeck, trim, gild, behang	-
decrease	vb	shrink, lower, wane, lessen; dwindle; dwine, fordwine ( > OE dwínan) (archaic)	-
decree	n/vb	behest	astight (<OE ástihtan), law-bode
decrepit	vb	timeworn	-
dedicate	vb	earmark, set by, give up to	beteach (<OE betǽcan)
deer (originally meant animal)	n		hart (<OE heorot)
de facto	adj/adv	true, in truth, truly. truthful	in deed
defame	vb	file, shend, besmirch, befile	unbreme
default	n	flaw	-
defeat	n	loss, licking, drubbing	netherlay, netherthrow
defeat	vb	beat, overcome, overrun, overwhelm, overthrow, bedrive	besye (cf. NHG besiegen), betwing or twing (cf. NHG bezwingen)
defecate	vb	drite, shit, shite (obscene)	-
defect	n	blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark	asprungness (<OE)
defend	vb	bulwark, ward, keep, shield; uphold, helmstand, beshield, enshield, forfight	fasten
defenestrate	vb	-	outwindow
defense	n	shield, ward, shelter	weir, forswer, forswear (cf. Dan. forsvar), forteddy, forteddying (cf. NHG verteidigung) lewth, lewing (<OE hlēowung, "shelter, protection, favour")
deficiency	n	dearth, drought, lack, want (borrowed from Scandinavian)	-
deficient	adj	wanting, missing, lacking	-
deficit	n	shortfall, dearth, drought, lack, want	-
defile	vb	befile, besmite, befoul, sully	andhallow, wleat (<OE ġewlætan)
define	vb	mark off, lay out	-
definitely	adv	markedly, throughout, fully, thoroughly	wisly (Eng. wis), sickerly (Eng. sicker)
definition	n	-	wordmark (<OE wordgemearc)
deflect	vb	-	drive off, bounce off
deforest	vb	-	unwold (cf. NHG entwalden)
deforestation	n	-	unwolding (cf. NHG Entwaldung)
deforested	adj	-	unwolded
deform	vb	misshape, unshape	-
deformed	adj	misshapen, shapeless	thrawn (Scots)
deformity	n	blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark	misshapenness
defragment	vb	cleave, misbreak	-
defraud	vb	swindle, get, beswindle	-
defrost (foreign suffix)	vb	thaw, unfreeze	unfrost (cf. NHG entfrosten)
defy	vb	flout (Dutch: fluiten)	-
degenerate	adj	rotten	misthriveen, backbuilded
degeneration	n	rot, rotting	misthriving
degrade	vb	bemean, nether, beneathen, below	-
degree	n	cut, inch, peg, step	flak ('level' cf. Fr. flak, Du. vlak)
dehortative	adj		forbidly (<OE forbēodlic)
dehydrate	vb	-	unwater (cf. NHG entwassern)
dehydration	n	-	unwatering (cf. NHG Entwasserung)
deify	vb	begod	-
deity	n	god	oos(e), ooce (<OE ós; c.f. goose < OE gós)
Deism	n	-	Godtroth
delay	n	lag, holdup, frist	-
de jure	adj/adv	lawfully, by law	-
déjà vu	n	foreseen	-
dejected	adj	beaten down	-
delay	vb	stall, forestall, tarry, frist, belate	-
delete	vb/n	get rid of, strike, cross out, forget	unmark, forwipe (calque)
deliberate	adj	weighed, thought out; set, willed	hillered
deliberate	vb/n	think about, think over	hiler (<OE heolorian)
delicacy	n	-	-
delicious	adj	smakely, dainty, lush, toothsome, mouthwatering, lickerish, winly	-
delight	n	gladness, lust	fain, list, queemness,  itheness (<OE īeðnes)
delightful	adj	sweet, darling, pleasing, heavenly, winsome	faining, listing, queemful
delimit	vb	-	mire (<OE mære)
delirious	adj	bewildered, mind-wandering, dwale	-
deliver	vb	bear, free	alease (<OE aliesan, alýsan, alésan)
deliverer	n	-	aleasand (<OE aliesend)
delivery	n	childbirth, birth	-
delude	vb	mislead	-
deluge	n	flood, rainstorm, cloudburst, overflowing, drenching	The Deluge: The Flood
delusion	n	misbelief	-
demeanour	n	jib	-
dementia	n	madness, mindloss	-
demilitarized	adj	unweaponed	-
demise	n	downfall	hengang (< OE hingang 'a going hence, departure, death')
Demiurge	n	Craftsman, "god of this world"	-
democracy	n	shire, township (< δῆμος [1]), shirefolk (cf. LoR)	churlrich, shiremight (calque of Gk δῆμος ‘rural district’ + κράτος ‘might’), folkdom, folkshire, folkswald, shirewield, folkswield, folksreevedom; folkship (<OE folkscipe); shiredom, shirerich (which would mean something like ‘democratic-republic.’)
demodulation	n	-	backrighting
demograph	n	-	folk outline
demolish	vb	tear down, forspill, wreak, break	forswerve (<OE forsweorfan)
demolition	n	wipeout	-
demon	n	fiend, hellfiend, mare	hellwight, hellghost, ork (<OE orc)
demonstrate	vb	show	-
dendrite	n	-	sinewtwig
dendrochronology	n	-	treering-timetelling (cf. Ic. trjáhringjatímatal)
dendrology	n		treelore
dengue	n	-	breakbone driff (cf. Eng. breakbone fever)
denial	n	naysay, forsaking, forswearing	forswearhood
denigrate	vb	slighten, belittle, downcast	beswart, blackwash
denomination	n	-	benaming, offshedding (Du. afscheiding)
denote	n	betoken, mean	-
denouement	n	unravelling	-
dense	adj	thick, heavy, tight	-
density	n	thickness, slowness, tightness crowd: huddle	-
dental	adj	-	toothly
dentist	n	-	toothleech (cf. Dn. tandlæge); teethhealer; gum-digger
denude	vb	strip, unclothe, bare, lay bare	-
deny	vb	gainsay, withsay, naysay; withhold, forswear, forsake	-
deodorant	n	-	unsmeller, reekkiller
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)	n	-	unasourseedsweetkernly sour; lifetwine
depart	vb	book slang, cut off, dig out, peel off, run along, step along, walk out, leave	ago (<OE agōn)
departing/departure	n/adj	farewell, leav(ing), walking out	afaring, witing death: hingang (<OE)
department	n	-	ambight, offdealing, bedealing
depend	vb	hang, hinge on, rest on, trust in, lean on	onhang, onhinge, offhang/hang off of (NHG. abhängen)
dependence	n	-	onhanginess, offhanginess (NHG. abhängigkeit)
dependent	adj	-	hingey, offhangy (NHG. abhängig)
depict	vb	show	-
depreciate	vb	cheapen, lessen, write off	underworthen
depressed	adj	beaten down	-
depression	n	blues, downer, downheartedness, downbeat, glumness, listlessness, sunkenness, woefulness	moodsink, yomerness (<OE geom), unmood (<OE unmōd)
deprivation	n	lack, want; bereaving	-
deprive (of)	vb	bereave, strip	benim; beshear, latch (in OED;<ME lacchen, <OE læccan)
deputy	n	-	outfader (cf. NHG Abgeordneter)
deracinate	vb	uproot	-
deranged	adj	crazed, mad, moonstruck, unhinged	wood
deregulation	n	-	unreding
derivative	n	-	upleading, leading-up (cf. NHG Ableitung)
derive	vb	come from, bring from, spring from, stem from, draw off from	ord from
derived	adj	forthbrought, brought forth from	-
dermatology	n	-	hidelore, skinlore
dermis	n	hide, rind, hackle	-
derogatory	adj	-	aworthly
desacralize	vb	-	unhallow
desalinate	vb		unsalt (cf. NHG entsalzen)
desalination	n		unsalting (cf. NHG Entsalzung)
descend	vb	fall, slope, bear	nethergo, asink (<OE āsincan and <ME asinken)
descendant	n	offspring, kid	afterbear (by analogy to forebear), aftercomer, afterling, ofcomeling (cf. NHG)
descent	n	downcoming, downgoing	nethergang
describe	vb	draw out, outline, set out, betell, bewrite, put out	meal out
description	n	bewriting, tale, inwording, drawing	bemealing
desecrate	vb	unhallow, befoul	-
desk	n	-	writboard (cf. Du. schrijfberd), writbeed (cf. Du. schrijftafel, NHG Schreibtisch)
desert	vb	leave, forsake	military: hereflight
desert	n	dustbowl, dryland	westen (<OE wésten, cf. NHG Wüste, Du. woestijn), weste land, drought
deserter	n	-	herflighter (<OE hereflýma)
deserving	adj	meedful, worthy	-
desiccate	vb	drain	unwater (cf. NHG entwässern)
design	vb/n	lay out, draft, outline, set out, craft	-
designate	vb	betoken, mark, earmark, show, call, name	-
desinfectant	n	-	withersmite
desire	vb/n	crave, wish, lust, yearn, long, hanker (for, after), list	wilne (<OE), freck (<OE frician and <OE frec)
desirous	adj	wishful, longing	weening (<OE wenan)
desist	v	leave off
desolate	adj	barren	unbeheld
desolation	n	-	aweestness (<OE áwéstnes)
despair	n	hopelessness	wanhope, forthought
despair	vb	(phrases) give way, lose heart, lose hope, give up, give up hope	forlorn, hope-yearn, forthink (< OE), ortrow/ortrew (OE <ortreowe), orween (OE < orwen)
desperate	adj	hopeless, forlorn	hope-yearn(ing/ful), ortrowly/ortrowly (OE - see 'despair'), unweenly (OE < unwen)
despondency	n	-	atsprungness (<OE ætsprungnes)
despise	vb	hate, behate, loathe	forthink
despite	prep	although, notwithstanding	-
dessert	n	afters, pudding, sweet	-
destination	n	-	goalspot, goalstead
destine	vb	tee, set up to happen, foredoom, weird	-
destiny	n	lot, doom, foredoom, the stars, weird	eld-orlay (<OE ealdorlæg), orlay (<OE orlæg)
destone (foreign prefix)	vb	-	unstone (cf. NHG entsteinen)
destroy	vb	fordo, toshend, do in, pull down, shatter, tear down, unmake, break down	shend, dilghe
destruction	n	breakdown, downfall, undoing, unmaking	downbusting, fornaughting (cf. NHG vernichtung), forweird (<ME forwī̆rd)
detail	n	-	meal (<OE mál), speckmark
detain	v	hold
detach	v	unlink, unbind, unstick
detective	n	sleuth, bloodhound	-
deteriorate	vb	worsen, grow worse	-
determine	vb	name, settle; root out	besteven (cf. NHG bestimmen) see steven, aread (<OE ārǣdan, <ME areden and akin to NHG erratten)
detest	vb	hate, loathe	-
detracting	n	back-biting
detractor	n	back-biter	-
detrimental	n	harmful, scatheful	-
Deus vult/Deus lo vult	interj	God wills it	-
Devail/Devil	n	fiend, our foe/Foe; Liar; ettin (OED, ‘Titan’), Woden (‘maddening one, Devil’)	Os (< OE ‘spirit, demon, devil’)
devalue	vb	cheapen, lessen	downworthen, unworth(en)
devastate	vb	ransack, wreck, reave, undo, toshend	fordo
devastation	n	Def 1: wreckage, breakdown Def 2: shock, grief	Def 2: Norn
develop	vb	grow, build, unfold, unwrap, foster	forblow, unwick (cf. NHG entwickeln)
developed, poorly	adj	wan-thriven	unwicked
development(al)	n/adj	growth; upshot; ripening, fostering	forblowing, unwickly
device	n	tool, hardware, gadget (etymology uncertain)	-
devious	adj	shrewd, wily	-
devise	vb	think up, think of; leave in a will	afind (<OE āfindan and akin to.NHG erfinden)
devolve	vb	-	netherwind
devote	vb	earmark, set by	wigh (cf. Du. wijden)
devour	vb	fret, gulp (up), raven, wolf	forswallow (<OE forswelgan)
devout	adj	down-the-line, fast, good, steady, true-blue	-
dexterity	n	deftness, nimbleness	handwitness
dexterous	adj	deft, nimble	handwit, handskillful, handcrafty

Di

di-	pfx	-	twi-
diabetes	n	sweethurstsickness	-
diabetic	adj	sweethurstsickened	-
diabolic	n	fiendish	-
diacritic	n	mark	-
diæresis/diëresis	n	break	breakmark
diagonal	adj	leaning, sloping, slanted	-
dialect	n	street-talk (sometimes)	byleid (<Scots), folktongue/folktung, landspeech (cf. NHG. Landessprache), tongfall/tonguefall (<Dutch)
diameter	n	bore	straightspan, wreathwidth, ringwidth
diameter, inner	n	inner: bore; outer: girth	-
diamond	n	-	hardore, toughhurst (calque)
diaphanous	adj	sheer	-
diaphragm	n	-	midrith (<OE midhriðre)
diarrhoea	n	skitter, the runs	fallthrough (cf. NHG Durchfall)
diary	n	daybook	-
diaspora	n	yondseeding	outscattering, the wanderings, yondscattering (calque from Greek dia + speirein), scatterdom
dichotomy	n	-	twidealing (cf. Du. tweedeling; NHG Zweiteilung)
dictator	n	‘king’	fulldighter, dighter (<OE dihtan "direct, arrange")
dictatorship	n	Fulldightership
dictionary	n	wordbook	-
die (Theedish)	n	-	wirple
diet	n	-	foodline
differ	v	-	undershed (calque of Ger. speech. NHG Unterschieden, Du. onderscheiden)
difference	n	otherness, anotherness, unlikeness	dealing, shedding, sunderness, undershed (cf. NHG Unterschied/Du. onderscheiden) diversity: fayness (<OE fægnys)
different	adj	unlike, unsame, sundry, sunder, sundered	missen (<OE), shedded, undershedly (NHG. unterschiedlich)
different	adv	other, otherwise	sunderly, sheddedly; forsplit (cf. NHG verschieden)
differentiation (mathematics)	n	-	beshedding; forsplitly (cf. NHG verschiedenlich)
differently	adv	otherwise, sunderly	-
difficult	adj	pick-and-shovel, uphill, hard	sweer (<OE swær), grinding, uneath (<OE unēaþe)
difficulty	n	hardship, struggle	hardput
diffident	adj	withdrawn	-
digit	n	finger, toe	-
digital	adj	scorely, chip-driven	bitly
dignity	n	worth, selfworth	wirthe (<OE wirþu, cf. NHG Würde)
digraph	n	-	twiwrit (calque)
digress	n	-	umsweep (<OE ymbswæpe)
dilapidated	adj	threadbare, timeworn, rundown	-
dilate	vb	-	abreethe (<OE abreoþan)
diligent	adj	tied-up, working	knerd/knard (<OE cneord), heedfast
diminish	vb	lessen, lower, wane, dwindle, dwine	- fordwine
dimension	n	breadth	-
dilletante	n	short thinker: one who thoughts don't carry far into a subject.	-
diminish	vb	lessen, lower, wane, dwindle, dwine	fordwine
diminutation	n	-	inlessness
diminutive	adj	tiny, impish, small, little	-
dimorphism	n	-	twoshapenness
diningroom	n	eatingroom	buttern, beetern (<OE beotern 'table-room')
dinner	n	evening meal, mese (obsolete) fr. OE: (table, that which is set on a table, dish, food, meal)	eveneats (cf. D. avondeten, NHG Avondessen), rearding (OE reord 'to feast'), evenmeal
dinosaur	n	-	dreadask, dreadathex (calque from Greek), dreadwight, bulkwight, forebird
diocese	n	-	bedereve shire
diphthong	n	-	twithedin (calque)
diploma	n	-	douth writ
direct	adj	rode, straight, straightforward, unbending, head-on, forthright, open, outspoken	-
direct	vb	lead, steer, beward, beright, right	wees (<OE wisian)
direction	n	heading, wending, warding	-
direct object (grammar)	n	-	openware, straight mark (straightmark)
directory	n	-	threadlist
dis-	pref	mis-, un-	and- (<OE; cf. NHG ent-...)
disability	n	-	behindering (cf. NHG Behinderung)
disable	vb	cripple, lame, hamstring	-
disabled	adj	lame, halt	-
disadvantage	n	afterdeal, drawback, downside	-
disadvantaged	adj	hindered	-
disappear	vb	flee, melt, sink, go missing	fordwine, forswind (<OHG farswindan; cf. NHG verschwinden), swind (<OE swindan) forfly (cf. NHG verfliegen)
disappoint	vb	let down	-
disarm	vb	-	andweapon, unweapon
disarrange	vb	rumple, tousle	-
disaster	n	shipwreck, fizzle, washout	ill-hap, grimming, harrow-hap, wipe-out
disastrous	adj	baneful, deadly, dreadful, black, hapless, harmful, doomfull, wrackful	-
discalced	adj	barefoot, barefooted	-
discard	vb	get rid of, deep-six, to rid	awayen, forthrow (Eng., cf. NHG verwerfen)
discharge	n/vb	unload	-
disciple	n	-	loreknight (<OE larcniht)
discipline	n/vb	?school, field; rear up, upbraid, steadfastness	thewfastness
disclaim	vb	foreswear, forego	mishold, unhold
disclaimer	n	forsaker, yielder	-
disclose	vb	bare, show, tell	-
disconcert	vb	-	taken aback
disconcerting	adj	offputting, upsetting.	-
discontinue	vb	cut, end	-
discount	n	-	fall-off (cf. Ic. af-fall)
discourse	n	chat, speak	rearding, wordling (<OE wordlung)
discourse	vb	talk, speak, mouth out	wordle
discover	vb/phr	find out, get on, hear, learn, wise up; dig out, dredge up, hit on, nose out, root out; bare, unbosom, unfold	onfind, unthatch/unthack, unmesh, befind (cf. NHG befinded, Du. bevinded), undeck
discovery	n	finding, unearthing	befinding, onfinding, undecking
discredit	vb	s(mirch	-
discriminate	n	treat unfairly	beshed (<OE bescéadan), unfairse (unfair + se as in cleanse and bless)
discuss	vb	talk about, talk over, talk through	wordwrestle
disease	n	addle, cothe, sickness, illness, wanhaleness	-
disease, skin	n	tetter	skinaddle
disempower	vb	-	unmight(en) (cf. NHG entmachten)
disfigure	vb	mar, misshape	-
disgrace	n	shendship	shand (<OE sċand)
disgrace	vb	shend (conjugated as the vb "to send")	-
disgrace(ful)	n/vb	shame, shend	shendful (<ME shendful)
disgusting	adj	loathely, wlatsome, foul, pukening, gruesome, ghastly, rank, icky	witherly (NHG. Widerlich) witherward (NHG. Widerwärtig)
dishevelled	adj	cluttered, tousled, untidy	-
dishonourable	adj	-	arless, heanful, heanlike (OE heanlic)
disinclined	adj	loath	-
disinfect	vb	-	unsmittle, smallifekill
disinfectant	adj	-	unsmittling, smallifekilling
disinfectant	n	-	unsmittler, smallifekiller
disk	n	-	flat, trind
dislike	vb	mislike	-
dislocate	vb	-	unstead
disloyal	adj	-	fickle (<OE ficol)
dismember	vb	-	alithe, unlimb
dismiss	vb	snub, slight, sack, fire	-
disobedience	n	-	overhearness (<OE oferhirness)
disobedient	adj	unhold, unhearsome, hardheaded, stubborn, wayward	-
disorder	n		unfettle
disordered	adj	unsided, throughanother	-
dispatch	vb	send off, forthsend	-
dispel	vb	uproot, drive off
disperse	vb	scatter, spread, strew	todrive, tofare
displace	vb	uproot	unord
display	n/vb	fair, show; lay out, show off, strut, forthset	-
displease	vb	-	misqueme (<OE miscwéman)
disposable	adj	throwaway	-
disposal	n	deep-six, junking, throwing away	-
disposition	n	heart, mind, thinking	hye (< OE hyge)
disprove	vb	belie	-
dispute	n	bickering, brawl, tiff	unreckoning (calque)
dispute	vb	bicker, brawl, tiff, wrangle	flit (OE)
disqualify	vb	unfit	-
disregard	vb	overlook, forheed	overgum (<OE ofergumian)
disrobe	vb	-	unclothe (cf. NHG entkleiden)
disrobed	adj	-	unclothed
disrupt	vb	upset, unsettle, break, break up, sunder, split, shatter, tear, rip, rattle, muddle	-
dissect	vb	sithe, cut up	-
dissemble	vb	bluff, sham, put on; let on, make out	aswike
dissolution	n	breakup, split, sundering	-
dissonance	n	infighting	-
dissuasive	adj		forbidly (<OE forbēodlic)
distance	n	lead, length, spread, stretch, way; breadth, field; unlikeness, otherness, farness	-
distant	adj	away, deep, far, far away far-flung, far-off; cold-eyed, dry, offish, standoff; other, unalike, unlike	farlen, offward (OE)
distill	vb	drop, trickle, strengthen,	forsteaming
distinct	adj	marked, sundered	undershed (calque of many Ger. speeches).
distinguish	vb	make-out	undershed (calque of Ger. speech. NHG Unterschieden, Du. onderscheiden)
distort	vb	misshape, twist, throw, warp	-
distract	vb	throw off, draw off, pull away, bewilder, mislead	heed off, mind off
distraught	adj	worked up	-
distress	vb/n	bother, upset, worry n: woe, harm's way ruth	-
distress signal	n	-	woecall
distribute	vb	deal out, hand out, mete out, spread, spread out	breat/bret/brut/brit (<OE bryttian)
distribution	n	dealing, setup, spread	brittening (<OE bryttian)
district	n	neighbourhood	shire, riding, leet, -wick, wike, stretch
distrust	vb	forthink, mistrust	-
disturb	vb	stir, muddle, unsettle	dreve (<OE dréfan) , sturian (<OE styrian), bestir
disturbance	n	stir, teasing, harrying, bothering, unsettling	dreving, bestir
disturbing	adj	creepy, startling, frightening, unsettling, upsetting, stirring, scary	bestiring
diurnal	adj	daily	-
diverse	adj	manifold, sundry, manikind	-
divert	n	-	off-lead
divide	n	split, gap	-
divide	vb	cleave, shed, split, sunder, share, of-mete, deal	to-tweam (<OE to-twaémen)
divination	n	foretelling	freit (<ME freit), wile (<OE wigle)
divine	adj	godly, holy	wily
divinity	n	holiness	-
division	n	cleaving, splitting, tweeming, shedding, sundering	-
divorce	n	splitting-up	wedending, wedbreach
divorce	vb	split up	wedend, wedlock-free

Do

docile	adj	meek; law-abiding	learnsome, loresome (<OE lārsum)
doctor, medical	n	healer	learer (<ME lerare <OE lārēow) leech, healand
doctrine	n	-	lorespell (<EME)
document	n	-	leafwrit
documentary	n	broadcast	leafwritfilm, logfilm, truthfilm
dogma	n	-	set-in-stone thinking; hardline beliefs
dogmatic	n	-	set-in-stone; hardline
dolphin	n	mereswine	tumbler (cf. NHG Tümmler)
domain	n	-	lorddom
dome	n	-	cupple (calque of Italian cupola) (cup + -le diminutive)
domestic	adj	homeland (politics); household; tamed; born	-
domesticate	vb	tame	houserede
domicile	n	grith
dominate	vb	lord over, bestride	rich (<OE), hire (calque)
donate	vb	bestow, give, overgive, yield	-
donation	n	gift, yield, outgiving	-
donkey	n		easle (<OE esol and akin to NHG Esel)
doppelgänger	n	look-alike, evil look-alike, ill-boding look-alike	Walking-dead, death-ghost, twinish-unknowns
dormant	adj	sleeping, drowsing	-
dormitory	n	bedroom	sleepstow, sleepearn (<OE slæpærn)
dorsal	adj	back	-
dosage	n	muchness	-
double	vb/n/adj	twin, twofold, twosome, two times	vb: twifold (<OE twifealdian)
doubt	n/vb	qualm, niggle, wonder, tweag; twimindedness, lack belief (in), misbelieve, mistrust	ink (<OE inca; ME inke) twimind, tween (<OE tweo, <OE tweona)
doubtful	n	twiminded	tweenful
douse	vb	drench	-
dozen	adj	twelve	-
dozen	n	tens	-

Dr

draconian	adj	-	harsh, rough
dragon	n	lindworm, wyrm	-
dragonfly	n	adderbolt (Brit. dialect)	leanfly
drainage basin	n	watershed	-
drama	n	play, show	showplay (cf. NHG Schauspiel)
dramatic	adj	hammy; showy, splashy	-
dramatist	n	playwright	-
dress	n	bodyskirt, fullskirt, long skirt, smock, frock	-
dress	vb	clothe, don	-
dromadary	n	-	drylander
drought resistant	n	-	drought-hardy
drug (Germanic)	n	lib	rushmiddle (cf. NHG Rauschmittel)
drupe	n	-	stoneberry

Du

dual	adj	twin, twofold	-
dub	vb	name, call	-
dubious	adj	dodgy, shady, shaky; loath; iffy, far-fetched, unlikely; hinky, mistrustful, unsettled	frainworthy, bethinkly (cf. NHG bedenklich) see bethink
duchy	n	earldom	Heretogdom
due	adj	owing, thanks	-
duel	n	ballgame	wyefare
duet	n	-	twising
dugong	n	-	seacow
duke	n	earl	alderman (<OE ealdorman), hertow (<OE heretoga)
dunce	n	have a dry brain	mouthbreather (slang)
dune	n	-	sandhill
dungeon	n	dung, hole, hollow, delvehollow, delfrum	-
duplication	n	twofoldness	twiness
duration	n	-	time-length
during	prep	throughout	bewhile
Dutch(man)	adj	-	Lowland(er), Netherland(er)ish
duvet	n	bedspread, eiderdown	-

Dy

dynamic	n	snell, flush, lusty, red-blooded, goey	speedfast, beweighful
dynasty	n	house, line	erverich
dysentery	n	-	reddrif (<OE drif: fever)
dysfunctional	adj	unworking, badworking	-
dyslexic	n	word-blindness	-
dystopia	n	-	torestead (calque using obsolete English tore "hard, difficult" + stead)
dysphoria	n	-	undergladness, misweight (calque)