English Wordbook/H

Staff H of the English Wordbook.

Basic abbreviations:

• OE = Old English
• ME = Middle English
• PG = Or-theedish
• SC = Scots
• SW = Swedish
• Dan. = Danish
• ON = Old Norse
• OS = Old Saxon
• NHG = New Hightheech
• IC = Icelandish
• H.IC = High Icelandish
• Du. = Netherlandish
• Fris. = Freesish

For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Chancery English	Class	Anglish/English
		Attested	Unattested
haberdasher	n		sew-ware
habit	n	trend, wont, wone, thew, wontedness	wonehood (cf. NHG Gewohnheit), rote (ME, origin unknown)
háček	n	-	hookling
hadron	n	-	strongmote
hafnium	n	-	havenstuff
hagiography	n	-	holilore, holglore (< OE halga)
hallelujah	interj	-	herrigod, herriya (calque of Hebrew)
hallucination	n	-	smoke and glass, sightmad
halophile	n	salt-loving, salt-friendly	-
hamate bone	n	-	hookbone
hammock	n	hangmat	-
hamlet	n	hem, thorpe/thorp/dorp, wick, town, whistle-stop	hemling, ham
haptic suit (VR)	n		aped handling, handlewear
harass	vb	harry, bother, stalk, taw, harrow	-
harmonica	n	mouth harp	-
harmony	n	bond, overlay, like-mindedness, togetherness	est (OE), evenheartness (< OE efenheortnes) of voices: evenleether (< OE efenhlēoðor), leethering (< OE hlēoðorung)
harness	vb	inspan	-
harpsichord	n	-	harpstring
harpy eagle	n	-	king's hawk (Port. calque of gavião-real)
hashish	n	-	hemptar
haste	n	speed	snellness
haunt	vb	hound, stalk, ghost, lurking	-
have in common	vb	share, fellowship	evendeal (< OE efenġedæl)
having a good voice	adj	having a good steven (OED steven = voice)	wellstemned (< OE welġestemned)
headphone(s)	n	headset, earspeaker(s)	headspeaker, headswan, earset, earswan
hectare	n	-	hundreder
heir, heiress	n	scion, scioness	erve (< OE ierfa, cf. NHG Erb) f: ervin
helicopter	n	eggbeater, whirlybird	bladewing (airship), whirlwing, spinning-vanes thyrl (<Ic.), liftspinner (< NHG Hubschrauber)
heliology	n		sunlore
heliotrope	n	-	silewharve ( < OE sigelhweorfe)
helium	n	-	sunstuff
helix	n	writhe, twist	double: twofold writhe
helmet	n	helm	grime, beadgrime
hemi-	pref	half-, sam-, sand-, some-	-
hemicircle	n	-	halfring, samring
hemisphere	n	-	halfball
hen coop	n	henhouse	-
hepatitis	n	liver-sickness	-
heptagon	n	-	sevenside
herb	n	grass, shrub, wort	croud (< PG krūdą, cf. NHG Kraut)
herbal (book)	n	-	wortbook
herbicide	n	weedkiller	-
herbivore	n	-	grass-eater, wort-eater
heresy	n	-	dwild (< OE dwild), trewleaseness (< OE tréowléasnes)
heritage	n	bequest, birthright	yerve (< OE ierfe; cf. NHG Erbe)
hermaphrodite	n	-	beddle, newhalf, scrat, scrit, manwoman
hermit	n	loner	lonesettler (cf. NHG Einsiedler)
hero(ïne)	n	white hat	heleth(in) (< OE hæleð, cf. NHG Held), hield (<OE hildewulf "hero") noble: bearn (< OE beorn),
heroïc deed	n	-	ellenwork (< OE ellenweorc)
heroïsm	n	doughtiness	helethdom (cf. NHG Heldentum)
herpes	n	tetter	-
hesitate	vb	dither	swither
heterogeneous	adj	mixed	-
heterosexual	n	straight	witherdrawn, andlover, andluster
heterosexuality	n	-	andlove, andlust, andkind (cf. Far. samkynd)
hexagon	n	-	sixside
hiatus	n	gap, break	-
hibernal	adj	wintry
hibernate	vb	winter, overwinter	-
hibiscus	n	rosemellow	-
hick	n	redneck, hillbilly	-
hicksville	n	backtown	-
hideous	adj	awful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, loathsome, sickening, ugly	unfair, uncomely, litless (< OE wliteleas)
hierarchy	n	ladder	-
Hinduism	n	-	Vedidom, Hindudom, Indom, Aytrothdom/Aydharmadom (Hind. Sanātana dharma (सनातन धर्म)), Veditrothdom
hippopotamus	n	-	eahorse (O.E. ea:river & horse ); nicor (Sweet's Students A-S Dict)
histology	n	-	lifebricklore, (life)thrumlore (Ar. علم الأنسجة)
historian	n	-	sheedteller (< OE gescēode + teller), ashiftwriter, ashiftly writer (cf. NHG Geschichtsschreibung), happenwriter (cf. Du. geschiedschrijving)
historic	adj	-	sheedly (cf. NHG Geschichtlich)
historical	adj	bygone	ashiftly (cf. NHG geschichtlich), happenlorely (cf. Du. geschiedkundig)
historiographic(al)	adj	-	ashiftwritingly (cf. NHG Geschichtsschreibung), happenwritingly (cf. Du. geschiedschrijving)
historiography	n	-	ashiftwriting, ashiftly writing (cf. NHG Geschichtsschreibung), happenwriting (cf. Du. geschiedschrijving)
history	n	yore, yesteryear, timeline, background	ashift (cf. NHG Geschichte), stear (< OE stǣr), eretide, life tale, asheede, sheede (< OE gescēode, cf. NHG Geschichte), happenness (cf. Du. geschiedenis), haplore (cf. Du. geschiedkunde), forline ( < WFris. ferline) ancient: firnmind (< OE fyrnġemynd)
hodiernal	adj	-	tidely
holocaust	n	burn-all, rain of fire, scorched earth, wildfire, death, slaughter, bloodbath	allburn, firerain, menburning, flamingtown, firewar, earthscorch, Roufrithsoned Engliſh: Alkindening
hologram	n	-	woven build
homage	n	-	manred < OE manræden (man- + -ræden, suffix used to refer to 'condition', 'state')
homicide	n	murder, manslaughter	-
homily	n	chestnut	lorespell (< OE lárspell), teaching-spell, folklore (< OE folclar, after the Grk 'homilos,' 'crowd')
homogenous	adj	samewise, kindred	stemling, stemsharing
homophobia	n	-	samelovefear, samelustfear, samekindlovefear, samekindlovefear, samelovehate, samelusthate, samekindlovehate, samekindlusthate
homosexual	n	bender, swish, queer,	samelover, sameluster, samekindlover
homosexuality	n	-	samelove, samelust, samekind (cf. Far. samkynd), samekindlust, queerness, fagness
honest	adj	truthful, upright, forthright, full, open, becoming, frank	lutter (< OE hlutor)
honesty	n	truthfulness, forthrightness;	lutterness
hono(u)r	n	uprightness, mensk	ore (< OE ár), deemworthing (< OE dómweorðung), indryght (< OE indryhtu), tire (< OE tír), worthfulness, worthing, worthliness, worthmind, worthness, worthship (< OE), mind's-worth ornament: gling (< OE gleng) greatness, distinction, celebrity: mearness (< OE mǽrnes) seat of: thrimseld (< OE þrymseld), thrimsettle (< OE þrymsetl) special: sunderworthing (< OE sundorweorðung)
hono(u)r	vb	worthy, mensk	mather (< OE mǽðrian), mear (< OE mǽran), mearse (< OE mǽrsian), o(u)ver (< OE uferian), stepe (< OE stépan), breme (< OE gebréman), meed (< OE gemedemian), ore (< OE geárian), oreworth (< OE geárweorðian), worth (< OE weorðian)
honourable	adj	upright, upstanding, mensk	oreworthy, orely (cf. NHG ehrlich)
hooligan	n	rough neck	-
hope of a ressurection	n	-	aristhyght (< OE æristhyht)
horde	n	throng	-
horizon	n	skyline	skyedge; skyfoot, skysill
horizontal	adj	-	flatways, flatwise, warp
hormone	adj	-	spur
horology	n	-	timekeeping seercraft
horrible	adj	awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, scary	lathsome, gruring, hettely (< OE heteliċ) grireful
horrify	vb	scare, frighten, afear	affright
horror	n	awe, dread, fear, fright	grire (< OE gryre), attle (<OE atoland <ME ātel )
horror fiction	n	-	Dread-devil books/writing "A reader of old dread-devil and dread-death books" 2. creepshow (movie).
horrible	adj		attlely (<OE atollīc and <ME atelīch)
horticulture	n	-	wortcraft
hospice	n	inn	-
hospital	n	sickhouse, leechhouse	healhouse, sickbergh
hospitable	adj	guestfriendly	comelithe (< OE cumliðe), guestly (<OE gǣstlic)
hospitality	n	guestfriendship, guestfriendliness	-
host	n	-	guestgiver (cf. NHG Gastgeber)
hostage	n	-	yisle (<OE ġīsel)
hostile	adj	foesome, unfriendly, fiendish, fiendlike,	fiendly (<OE fēondliċ) (but fiendish and fiendlike are already attested)
hostility	n	foehood, unfriendliness, fiendishness	foeth (<OE fæhþa and akin to Du vete and NHG Fehde), fiendliness, fiendship (<OE fēondsċipe)
hot chocolate	n	bitterbrew	-
hotel	n	guesthouse, inn	toachirhouse (<OE tōċirhūs)
hour	n	stound, tide	longlog
hourglass	n	sandglass	timeglass
House of Commons	n	-	Folkthing, Folksthing (cf. Dan. Folksting)
House of Lords	n	-	Athelthing, Athelsthing (cf. Norw. Odelsting, PG. ōþala "inherited estate" > OE. athel "noble", Norw. odel "fully owned estate")
huge	adj	great, big, wide, stour	-
hullabaloo	n	uproar, ado, merry hell, to-do	-
human	n	man, son of man, earthling, wer	wordling, soul
human	adj	manlike, like a son of man, earthborn	mennishly (<OE mennisclic)
humane	adj	mannish	-
humanitarian	adj	do-good	manworthy
humanity	n	folk, world; kindheartedness, ruth, warmheartedness, mankind	mankin, mannishness, mennishliness (<OE mennisclicnes), mennishhood
humanize	n	-	manthware (<OE ġemanþwærian)
humble	adj	down-to-earth, meek, lowly	-
humerus	n	arm-bone	-
humid	adj	dank, damp, sweltry, sticky, wet	-
humidity	n	wetness, dampness	loftwetness, loftdampness (cf. NHG Luftfeuchtigkeit)
humiliate	vb	cheapen, foul, lower, shame, sink, take down	forhien (<OE forhīenan), anether (<ME anetheren<OE aniþerian), neigh (<OE hnaégan), nither (<OE niðrian)
humiliating	adj	cringe-making	-
humility	n	down-to-earthness, lowiness, meekness	lowlayth, lamblikeness, sackclothness
humorous	adj	funny, witty, side-splitting	-
hurricane	n	gale, whirlwind	-
hurt (Germanic)	vb	harm, scathe, wound	-
husband	n	-	were (<OE "wer", companion of "wife" lost via ON "husbondi")
hushed	adj	still, lown (dialect), on the down low	-
hyacinth	n	-	darkbluehurst
hybrid	n/adj	-	thwarsebreed
hydraulics	n	waterworks	-
hydrate	vb	water
hydrogen	n	waterstuff (Poul Anderson)	lightmote
hydrotherapy	n	-	waterhealing
hyena	n	-	nightgang (<OE nihtgenge)
hymn	n	hymn, Churchsong	hymn (<OE ymen) Churchsong (<OE Ciricsang)
hyoid bone	n	-	tungbone (NHG Zungenbein)
hyper	adj	overspringed, springy	-
hyperopia	n	far(-)sightedness, long(-)sightedness	-
hypha	n	-	swambthread
hyphen	n	dash	-
hypnosis	n	bedazzling, spellbinding	-
hypnotise	vb	bedazzle, grip, spellbind	-
hypnotic	adj	bedazzling, gripping, spellbinding sleep soothing, sleepy	-
hypocrite	n	faker, show-player, mask-wearer, holier-than-thou, liar, shameless, bewrayer	-
hypocritical	adj	faking, playing a show, masked, Pecksniffian, double-dealing, two-tongued, a sham	double-leerer, unecht (cf. NHG. unecht) (see Eng. echt)
hypocrisy	n	faking, show-play, masking, double-dealing	unluterness
hypothermia	n	chill, frost, cooling, freezing, frostbite	undercooling (German Unterkühlung)