Staff F 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.
Staffs under English Wordbook/F:
Fa Fb Fc Fd
Fe Ff Fg Fh
Fi Fj Fk Fl Fm Fn Fo Fp Fq Fr Fs Ft Fu Fv
Fw Fx Fy Fz
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |||||
| Attested | Unattested | ||||||
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| fable | n | tale, wonder-tale | byquid (<OE bigcwide) | ||||
| fabric | n | cloth, argmt: shell, framework | thrum (<OE) | ||||
| fabricate | vb | bring into being, build, make, put together, run up, set up, shape; think up, write; lie, make up | bework (calque: NL bewerken) | ||||
| fabrication | n | making | beworking (NL bewerken + -ing) | ||||
| fabulous | adj | groovy, amazing, sterling, top-shelf, wonderful | - | ||||
| facade | n | foreside, forehead; outer-skin, put-on, show | - | ||||
| face | n | brow, shell, cast, side, foreside; neb, nebshaft, anleth (OED), look | anatomy: leer (<OE hléor), neb (<OE nebb), onlet (<ME anlet, onlete).
hue, blee, mug, forefeeler (that which shows feeling at the front), sight, beseer | ||||
| facet | n | side, bearing | - | ||||
| facetious | adj | biting, tung-in-cheek, sharp-witted, salty, smart, witty | - | ||||
| facilitate | vb | easen | - | ||||
| fact | n | truth | sooth (<OE sōþ), deedsake (cf. NHG Tatsache) | ||||
| fact, in | phr | indeed, in truth | soothly | ||||
| factor | n | building block | - | ||||
| factory | n | - | buildworks, worksmithy (cf. IC verksmiðja) | ||||
| faculty | n | - | lorehalldeal | ||||
| fad | n | hit, brainstorm | - | ||||
| faddish | adj | - | a-go-go | ||||
| fade | vb | dwindle, wane | sear | ||||
| feces | n | shit, shite, stool, dirt, dung | - | ||||
| fæggot | n | - | stickbind, stickfasten, stickbundle | ||||
| faience | n | - | tin-glazed earthenware | ||||
| fail | vb | fizzle, flop, flunk, let down | truck (<OE trucian), swether | ||||
| failure | n | oversight, blunder, washout | truckness (<OE trucian), swethering | ||||
| faint | vb | swoon, flake out, black out, dwam (<SC) | - | ||||
| fair | n | hoppings | - | ||||
| fairy | n | elf | - | ||||
| fairytale | n | - | elvinrime | ||||
| fait accompli | n | done deed, done deal, fulfilled, carried out, (thing) over and done | - | ||||
| faith | n | belief, troth, trow | lief (<OE lēafa) | ||||
| faithful | adj | down-the-line, fast, good, steadfast, steady, true-blue | trowful, liefful (<OE ġelēafful) | ||||
| faithfulness | n | - | lieffulness (<OE ġelēaffulnes), trowfulness | ||||
| faith, to have | vb | trust, lief | trow | ||||
| fake news | n | - | beat-up | ||||
| falcon | n | - | falk (cf. DN/NO/SW falk, NL valk, NHG Falke) | ||||
| fallacy | n | untruth | untrue/wrong/unsound rake | ||||
| fallible | adj | unsound, wanting | - | ||||
| Fallopian tube | n | - | eggladder (calque: NHG Eileiter) | ||||
| false | adj | lease, off, unsound, untrue, wrong. sham. crooked, flicke, misdealing, misleading | falsh (<PWG falskī, cf NHG falsch) | ||||
| falsely accuse | vb | - | forwray (<OE forwregan) | ||||
| fame | n | name, wellstanding, stardom, limelight, greatness | bremeness, reem (<OE hrēmiġ; cf. NHG Ruhm, NL roem), reth (<OE hreþ), lise (<OE hlīsa) | ||||
| familiar | adj | couth, friendly, inward, near, thick, tight; abreast; household | hewcouth (<OE hīwcūþ), forwildering (as unlike bewildering) | ||||
| family | n | kin, kindred, kinfolk, ilk, sib, household | hird (<ME hīred), kneeris (<OE cnēoris) | ||||
| family household | n | - | hewreaden (<OE hīwrǣden) | ||||
| famine | n | dearth, hunger | - | ||||
| famished | adj | hungry, starving, hunger-bitten | - | ||||
| famous | adj | well-known, couth | meer (<ME mēr), breme (<OE brēme, cf. NHG berühmt, NL beroemt), liseful (<OE hlīsful), namecouth (<OE namcūþ) | ||||
| fan | n | lover, nut | device: blower, waffer, waffend
enthusiast: fultumer (<OE: fultum, support) bewonderer (cf. NL bewonderaar), wonderling | ||||
| fanatic | n | hardnose | - | ||||
| fanaticism | n | - | ellentroth | ||||
| fancy | n | liking, longing, bent, flighty thought, daresay, brainwave | - | ||||
| fancy | adj | showy | - | ||||
| fantastic | adj | wonderful | dreamsome | ||||
| fantasm | n | dream; shade, shadow, wraith | - | ||||
| fantasy | n | daydream, dreamland, dreamworld, dreamscape
(genre:) wonder-tales |
mind-wonder | ||||
| farce | n | take-off, dry-wit | - | ||||
| farm | n | holding | earthfield | ||||
| farmer | n | acreman, plowman, husbandman, tillerman, tiller, fieldsman | earthtiller, cropcrafter, small-holder | ||||
| farming | n | tilling | earthtilling, cropcrafting | ||||
| farrago | n | mash, mashing, all-kinds-of | sundrying | ||||
| farro | n | - | emmer (<NHG), twocorn (calque of NHG Zweikorn) | ||||
| fasces | n | bundle | - | ||||
| fascia | n | strip, band | - | ||||
| fascism | n | - | bindlerichdom | ||||
| fascist | n | blackshirt | bindlerichliever | ||||
| fascinate | vb | bewitch, spellbind, draw, fire, inthrall, eyebite (cited by Richard Chenevix Trench) | - | ||||
| fascinated | adj | inthralled, bewitched, spellbound | - | ||||
| fashion | vb | fit, put, shape; frame | hue (<OE hīwian), fangle | ||||
| fashion | n | trend, way | fangle | ||||
| fashionable | adj | dashing; cool (slang); trendy; crowd-pleasing | - | ||||
| fastidious | adj | choosy, picky | - | ||||
| fatal | adj | deadly | - | ||||
| fatal wound | n | - | walben (<OE wælben) | ||||
| fatamorgana | n | - | loftglass | ||||
| fate | n | doom, lot
weird (meaning was skewed by Shakespear's Weird Sisters, revived after dying as a word meaning "destiny") |
wird (<ME wē̆rd/wird), orlay (<OE orlæg) | ||||
| fatigue | n | frazzle, tiredness, weariness | - | ||||
| fatuous | adj | brainless, half-witted, thick-headed | - | ||||
| faucet | n | tap | - | ||||
| fault | n | shortcoming, want, weakness; mistake, oversight, trip; pockmark, misstep, | dwild (<OE), shild (Eng.) (<ME schuld <OE scyld; cf. NL schuld) | ||||
| fauna | n | wildlife | deerworld, wightlife | ||||
| faux-pas | n | mistake, misstep, slipup | - | ||||
| favor | n | kindness, blessing; one-sideness, shine | hild, milts (<OE) | ||||
| favorable | adj | bright, golden, heartening, hopeful | belikening, fair-boding | ||||
| favorite | adj | beloved, darling, dearest, fair-haired, fondest, [most] liked, [most] loved, sweet, white-headed, chosen, handpicked, crowd-pleasing | fondmost, belikened, darling (cf. NHG Lieblings-), gunstelling (Afrikaans) | ||||
Fe[] | |||||||
| feasible | adj | likely, doingly, seemingly, timely, welltimed, wieldly, worthwhile | howingly (<OE hogian 'plan') | ||||
| feast | n | feed, spread; wealth | simble (<OE symbel) | ||||
| Feast day (religious) | n | - | simbleday (<OE symbeldæg) | ||||
| Feast of Tabernacles | n | - | Simble of Ingathering | ||||
| Feast of the Cross | n | Holy Rood Day | - | ||||
| Feast of the Transfiguration | n | - | Forhallowing Day | ||||
| Feast of Trumpets | n | - | Simble of Beems | ||||
| Feast of Unleavened Bread | n | - | Simble of Unraised Bread | ||||
| feat | n | deed, stroke | - | ||||
| feature | n | shape, look, make, mark | - | ||||
| February | n | - | Soalmonth (<OE Solmōnaþ), Mudmonth, Filibrook, Horningmonth, Othermonth | ||||
| feckless | adj | bootless, hamstrung | - | ||||
| federal | adj | - | kernelish, rikebandish | ||||
| federation | n | - | forbend (calque of NL verbond), rikeband | ||||
| feeble | adj | weak, backboneless | - | ||||
| fee simple | n | freehold | - | ||||
| feign | vb | sham, put on | - | ||||
| feint | n | blind, hoodwinking, put-on, red herring | - | ||||
| felicitate | vb | hug | - | ||||
| felicity | n | happiness | sealth (<OE sǣlþ) | ||||
| feline | adj | pusslike, catlike | carlcatlike, queencatlike | ||||
| felinology | n | - | catlore | ||||
| fellow | n | gesith | sith (<OE gesīþ) | ||||
| fellowship | n | - | sithship (<OE gesīþsċipe) | ||||
| felony | n | - | headsin, deathshild (<OE dēaþscyld) | ||||
| female | n | quean, lady, frow, wifekind, she-kind (pre: she-) | - | ||||
| feminazi (slang) | n | - | manhater, werehater, gomehater | ||||
| feminine | adj | - | wifely (<OE wíflic, NHG weiblich), shesome | ||||
| feminism | n | - | queanstem | ||||
| feminist | n | - | queanstemmer | ||||
| femme fatale | n | maneater | - | ||||
| femto (-byte) | pref | fifteen- | - | ||||
| femur | n | thigh bone | - | ||||
| fence | n | waugh, hedge, sundering | edor | ||||
| fence | v | swordfight | - | ||||
| fend (off) | vb | ward off, hold off, keep off | - | ||||
| fender | n | shield, windshield, hob; midriff | - | ||||
| fennec | n | - | dryland fox | ||||
| feudalism | n | - | flack fellowship | ||||
| feral | adj | wild, untamed, running mad, tameless | - | ||||
| feric | adj | ironlike | - | ||||
| feriferous | adj | - | iron-yielding, ironbear, ironbere | ||||
| ferment | n | barm, yeast | - | ||||
| ferment | v | yeast, brew | - | ||||
| ferocious | adj | fiendish, mad, grim, warlike, wild, frothing | - | ||||
| ferret | n | - | neasle | ||||
| ferret | vb | hound, harry, seek out | nease (<OE neosian) | ||||
| Ferris wheel | n | big wheel | - | ||||
| fertile | n | fallow, yielding, loamy | wastombear | ||||
| fervent | adj | glowing, warm-blooded | - | ||||
| fester | vb | burn, rot, weep, blain | - | ||||
| festival | n | holiday | guild (<OE gield), frealsing | ||||
| festive | adj | festlike, cheery, grooving, upbeat, hearty, merry, gleeful | frealsing | ||||
| festoon | n | - | wreathe | ||||
| festoon | vb | deck, trim, doll up | clad up | ||||
| fetid | adj | smelly, stenchy, rank | - | ||||
| fetish | n | - | kink, overlust | ||||
| feudal | adj | toll-run, fee-holding, lendship | - | ||||
| feud | n | foe-fighting, bad blood, ill-feeling | - | ||||
| fever | n | ail, sickness | driff, rith, rithing (<OE hriþ), raised body heat | ||||
Fi[] | |||||||
| fiancé | n | betrothed, husband-to-be | forloved (<NHG verlobter) | ||||
| fiancée | n | betrothed, wife-to-be | forloved (<NHG verlobter) | ||||
| fiasco | n | out-and out breakdown, full-blight, misdeal | - | ||||
| fiber | n | bristle, thread; backbone, grit, guts, pluck | thrum | ||||
| fibula | n | calf bone, bow pin | - | ||||
| fiction | n | - | literature: sheenwritcraft (cf. DN skønlitteratur)
umtruth, playtruth | ||||
| fictional | adj | made up | literature: sheenwritsome | ||||
| fidelity | n | faithfullness, troth | heldrede (<OE hyldræden) | ||||
| fierce | adj | rethe | - | ||||
| fifth columnist | n | back-friend | |||||
| figment | n | daydream | dwimmer | ||||
| figure | n | - | gestalt (cf. NHG Gestalt), ansen (<OE ansien), beaconing (<OE bycnung) | ||||
| figure out | vb | riddle, work out | - | ||||
| file | n | binder, writ | - | ||||
| filings | n | - | swarf | ||||
| Filipino Language | n | - | Philipslandish Tung
Philipish Tung | ||||
| Filipino (people) | n | - | Philipslander
Philipish | ||||
| filter | n/vb | sieve, sift, winnow, trawl | - | ||||
| final | adj | last, rearmost, hindmost; flat, frozen, hard, set, settled, endmost | afte (<PG aftai), aftere (<PG afteraz), after (<ON aptr, aftr <PG aftrą), Aftume (<PG aftumô) | ||||
| finale | n | ending, showdown | - | ||||
| finally | adv | at last, endly, in the end, at last | - | ||||
| finance | n | thrift | geldlore | ||||
| fine (payment) | n | bote; geld, bed-geld, land-geld, barley-geld, cloth-geld | - | ||||
| fine | n/adj |
dusty, finespun, hairline; neat, straight, spot-on; four-star; keen, sharp; tasteful; adv: all right, good, middlingly |
sifer, swotel n: lawslight | ||||
| finish | vb | end, fulcome, fulfill | beend (be-end) (cf. NHG beenden) | ||||
| finish | n | ending | - | ||||
| finished | adj | ready, done | - | ||||
| fireplace | n | hearth | oase (<PWG *aisā; cf. MLG êse) | ||||
| firm | adj | fast, bound, unyielding, stalwart | - | ||||
| firmament | n | blue, heaven(s), high, welkin |
swail, rother (<OE rodor), heaven-wheel (<OE), beaten-stretch (more literal to Biblical Hebresh raqia) | ||||
| fiscal | adj | - | gelth | ||||
| fissure | n | crack, split, cleft | chine (<OE cínu) | ||||
| fix | n | fastening, righting, overhaul, setting, patch, healing | - | ||||
| fix | vb | fasten, right, work, overhaul, set, patch, heal. 2. (in a sporting contest: runstiff) | - | ||||
| fixed | adj | given, fast, fastened, wrought, set, patched | - | ||||
Fl[] | |||||||
| flaccid | adj | limp | - | ||||
| flagellate | n | lash, leather, rawhide | - | ||||
| flagellum | n | whip | - | ||||
| flame | n | blaze, fire, fire-shoot, lowe | lye, ligh (<OE līġ) | ||||
| flamingo | n | - | stiltswan, fireswan | ||||
| flange | n | rim | - | ||||
| flask (<OE) | n | - | flax (<OE flaxe) | ||||
| flatulence | n | wind | - | ||||
| flavor | n | tang, smack, smatch | - | ||||
| Flensburg | n | - | Flensborough | ||||
| fletcher | n | - | arrowsmith | ||||
| flexible | adj | lithe, bendy, limber, bendfull, bendsome, bowsome | - | ||||
| flexibility | n | litheness, bendiness, limberness | bendfullness (<OE bendfulnes), bendsomeness, bowsomeness | ||||
| flight-hooligan | n | - | flight-dretch | ||||
| flinch | vb | draw back, wince, hang back, reel, shy, blench | - | ||||
| flirt | vb | eye-tease, eye play | - | ||||
| floccinaucinihilipilificate | vb | deem worthless | - | ||||
| flora | n | green | bloomlife, wortlife | ||||
| floss | n/vb | thread | tooththread | ||||
| flotsam and jetsam | n | - | sea-bits and strew | ||||
| flour | n | meal | - | ||||
| flourish | vb | bloom, blossom | - | ||||
| flower | n | bloom, blossom | - | ||||
| fluctuate | vb | ithe (<OE ȳþian) | |||||
| fluctuate | n | swing | |||||
| fluctuating | adj | - | ithy (<OE ȳþiġ) | ||||
| fluent | adj | flowing, smoothspoken | - | ||||
| fluffy | adj | puffy, downy (ON), feathery, featherlike, fleecy, woolly, hairy, fuzzy, soft, bushy, mushy, cozy | - | ||||
| fluid | adj | runny, flowing | - | ||||
| fluorescent | adj | leaming | flowglowing | ||||
| fluorine | n | - | flowstuff | ||||
| flux | n | flow, flowing | outerning (<OE ūtirning) | ||||
| flying buttess | n | - | loftbow (cf. NL luchtboog) | ||||
Fo[] | |||||||
| focus | n | eye; lodestar | fuster (<OE fustra) | ||||
| focus | v | spotlight, hearth | - | ||||
| folly | n | dullness, unwisdom, witlessness, boneheadedness | wanwit, dullship, stuntness, fleard, oodness, unwareship, sotship | ||||
| folio | n | - | leaf | ||||
| fondant | n | frosting, icing | - | ||||
| fondue | n | - | smeltcheese | ||||
| font | n | - | staffkind, staffcast, casting | ||||
| fool | n | dotty, half-baked; sucker; halfwit, bonehead, meathead, bean-brain, mouth-breather | - | ||||
| fool's gold | n | mullock | - | ||||
| foolhardy | adj | brash, bold, headlong, heedless, hot-headed, daring, daresome, reckless | - | ||||
| foolish | adj | dotty, half-baked | - | ||||
| footprint | n | footmark | footspoor, trod, last, footlast | ||||
| force | n | strength, dint, might, craft | thrake (<OE þracu), groundswell (nautical) | ||||
| force | vb | thring, thrust, shove, pull, make to | thwing (cf. NHG zwingen) | ||||
| forceps | n | tongs | - | ||||
| forcible | adj | strong-arm, make to | - | ||||
| foreign | adj | outlandish, fremd | ellendish (<ME elendish, ellendish, <OE elelendisc) | ||||
| foreign country | n | farland, faraway land, outland | elland (<OE eleland, elland), althede | ||||
| foreigner | n | outlander, outsider | fremdling (<NHG Fremdling), comeling (<ME cǒmeling), fremder, wale | ||||
| forest | n | woodland, woods, holt, frith, timberland, greenwood | - | ||||
| forester | n | woodward, woodsman | frither (calque: NHG Förster) | ||||
| forestry | n | - | woodward-craft | ||||
| forficula | n | earwig | forky tail, clipshear | ||||
| forge | vb/n |
get along; carve out, grind out, thrash out, work up; beat, draw, pound n: smithy, hammermill |
n: smithe (<ME smithe) | ||||
| forgive (swayed by ON) | vb | - | foryeave (<ME foryēven), foryive (<ME foryiven) | ||||
| forgiveness (swayed by ON) | n | - | foryeaveness (<ME foryēvenes), foryiveness (<ME foryevnes/foryivenesse) | ||||
| forgiver (swayed by ON) | n | - | foryeaver (<ME foryēver), foryiver (<ME forʒyver) | ||||
| form | n | shape | hue (<OE hiw) | ||||
| form | vb | shape, make, begin, build | - | ||||
| formal | adj | starchy, stiff-necked, stilted; lofty, high-flown | - | ||||
| formation | n | setting up, shaping, building, making | - | ||||
| format | n | layout | shape | ||||
| formatted | n | - | shaped | ||||
| formicology | n | - | antlore | ||||
| formidable | adj | stalwart | - | ||||
| formula | n | draft | leechwrit, spellwrit | ||||
| fornication | n | - | horning (<OE hornung); forlier (<OE forliger) | ||||
| fort(ress) | n | keep, stronghold, fastness | hillwark | ||||
| fortification | n | stronghold | umbtrimming (<OE ymbtrymming), befastening (calque) | ||||
| fortitude | n | backbone, grit, grittiness, pluck | ellen, strength | ||||
| fortune | n | hap, luc, life-tide | - | ||||
| forum | n | moot, soapbox | mootstow (<OE mótstów) | ||||
| fossil | n/adj | forbone | stonelaves (stone remains) adj: stonelave | ||||
| fotanelle | n | soft spot, mold | - | ||||
| found | vb | ground, build, begin, put up, settle, set up, start up | staddle (<OE staþolian), ground (cf. NHG gründen), stift (cf. NHG stiften) | ||||
| founder | n | forenunner; begetter; father of | staddler (<OE staþolian + NE -er), grounder (cf. NHG Gründer), groundlayer (cf. NL grondlegger, cf. NO grunnlegger) | ||||
| foundation | n | groundwork, staddle | grounding (cf. NHG Gründung), stifting (cf. NHG Stiftung) groundlaying (cf. NHG, DN) | ||||
| fountain | n | cradle, root, seedbed, wellspring, bourn, burn head: headspring |
springwell, springbourn (cf. NHG Springbrunnen) | ||||
| foyer | n | waiting room | - | ||||
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| fraction | n | share, lot, deal, breaking | - | ||||
| fracture | n/vb | break | - | ||||
| fragile | adj | brittle, weak | tider (<OE tȳdre), brokenly (<OE brocenlic), swack (<OE swæc) | ||||
| fragment | n | thrum, scrap, shatters, sherd | breakdeal | ||||
| fragmentation | n | - | forcleaving | ||||
| fragrance | n | sweet smell, sweetness | wortbreath (<OE wyrtbræþ) | ||||
| framboise | n | raspberry | - | ||||
| francophone | adj | French-speaking | - | ||||
| franchise | n | saga, line | - | ||||
| France | n | - | Frankland, Frankrich | ||||
| frangible | adj | - | breaksome | ||||
| fraternal | adj | brotherly | - | ||||
| fraternity | n | brotherhood | - | ||||
| fraud | n | swindle | - | ||||
| fray | vb | frazzle | - | ||||
| frenulum/frenum | n | tongue thrum ( OE. thrum: only in tungethrum ‘ligament of the tongue’) | bridle, bridleling (calque from Leeden); lip-thrum, brain-thrum, gum-thrum, gut-thrum, pintle -thrum | ||||
| frenzy | n | madness | hestmadness | ||||
| french toast | n | sop in the pan | - | ||||
| frequency | n | oftenness | - | ||||
| frequent | adj | hang at; adj: everyday, household, often | simble (<OE), loom (<OE ġelōm) | ||||
| frequently | adv | often, over and over | - | ||||
| fricative | adj | rubclank | - | ||||
| friction | n | rubbing | - | ||||
| Frisia | n(p) | Friesland | Frisland (<ME Frīslōnd) | ||||
| Frisian | n(p) | Friesish | Fris (<OE Frysa) | ||||
| Frisian | adj(p) | Friesish | Frish (<OE Frysisc) | ||||
| frigate | n | - | lightship, lightboat | ||||
| fringe | n | edge, outskirt | lough (<OE wlōh; rimes with plough) | ||||
| front | n | fore, afore, foreside | - | ||||
| frontal bone | n | brow | foreskull, forebone | ||||
| frontier | n | mere, mark, edge, balk, rone (OED); region: backlands, backwater, backwoods, bush, hinterland, outback | - | ||||
| fructose | n | - | berrysweet | ||||
| frugal | adj | sparing, thrifty | - | ||||
| fruit | n | apple, applestock, ovest (obsolete meaning); -berry; seed, yield, spawn; output, work | blead (<ME blēd), wassom (<ME wastme ⁊ <OE wæstm), ovet (<ME ovet; cf. WF oefte, ELG Ooft/Aaft, NL ooft, NHG Obst) | ||||
| fruitful | adj | lush | wassombere (<ME wastmbēre); wassomly (<OE wæstmlíc) | ||||
| fruitfulness | n | - | wassombereness | ||||
| frustrate | vb | thwart | - | ||||
| fry | vb | - | hirst (<ME hirsten), breed (<ME brēden) | ||||
Fu[] | |||||||
| fucacae | n | seaweed | float-wort, seawrack | ||||
| fuel | n | - | firefood (<OE fȳrfōda) | ||||
| fugitive | n | runaway, lamster | wrack (<OE wræcca), flightling | ||||
| fulcrum | n | shaft, heart, swivel | - | ||||
| fulfillment | n | fulfilling | - | ||||
| fuliginous | adj | sooty, grimy, blackish, darkish, dusty, emberlike, cinderly, ashlike, coomy | - | ||||
| fulminate | n | huff | - | ||||
| fumigate | vb | smeek | bereek (<OE berēocan) | ||||
| fun | vb | play | |||||
| function | n | work, job, goal | brooking (<OE brúcing), working goal | ||||
| functional | adj | working | - | ||||
| fund | n | nest egg; wherewithal; stock | - | ||||
| fundament | n | groundwork | - | ||||
| fundamental | adj | underlying, innermost, key | groundlaying (calque of NHG grundlegend, DN grundlæggende) | ||||
| funeral | n | burial | begraving | ||||
| funereal | adj | mournful, ghostly, barrow-wightish (O.E.D.) | - | ||||
| fungus | n | - | swamb (<ME swam) | ||||
| funk | n | dank | - | ||||
| fur (reintroduced by Frankish) | n | - | fooder (<PWGmc fōdr) | furtherance (foreign suffix) | n | furthering | |
| furnace | n | kiln, oven | - | ||||
| furnish | vb | bedight | - | ||||
| fury | n | - | wood (<ME wōde; rimes with mood) | ||||
| fuse | n | meld, cleave | forsmelt | ||||
| futile | adj | worthless | fremeless | ||||
| future | n | aftertime, to-come, by-and-by, hereafter, offing, forthcomingness, to-be | forthshaft, towardness (<OE tōweardnes) | ||||
| future | adj | forthcoming, upcoming, incoming, unborn, toward |
after-time, forthtime near and far | ||||