Staff H of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations: att'd=attested, OE=Old English, NHG=New High German, Du.=Dutch
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see Forshortenings.
| haberdasher | n | smallwaresdealer |
| habit | n | wont, wone |
| háček | n | hooklet |
| hadron | n | strongmote |
| hagiography | n | holylore |
| hallucination | n | offshinnen (cf. Icelandish ofskynjun) (visual) offsight (auditory) offhearing |
| halt | n | stint |
| hamlet | n | thorpe |
| happiness | n | bliss, blithe, gladness, glee, eadiness, eadith |
| happy | n | blissful, gleeful, blithesome, gladsome, winesome, bittersweet, uneadiness |
| harass | vb | harry, bother, stalk, taw |
| harmony | n |
est (<OE est) |
| harness | vb | inspan |
| hashish | n | hemp[resin] |
| haste | n | speed |
| haste | vb | speed |
| haunt | vb | linger, hound, stalk |
| headphones | n | headset, earspeakers |
| hectare | n | hundreder |
| heir | n | erve [pl erven] (<OE ierfa, cf. NHG der Erbe), aftergoer, hand-down, afterganger, earfnimmer, earfward |
| helicopter | n | bladewing (airship), whirlwing, spinning-vanes, twistedfeather (calque) |
| helios | n | sun, god's beacon, day's eye, day's candle, giver of warmth |
| helix | n | writhe, twist |
| helix, double | n | twofold writhe |
| helmet | n | helm |
| hemoglobin | n | bloodred, bloodball |
| hemotoxin | n | bloodbane |
| hen coop | n | henhouse |
| hepatitis | n | liver-sickness |
| herb | n | grass, wort, plant |
| herbicide | n | weedkiller |
| herbivorous | adj | wort-eating, grass-eating, plant-eating |
| herbivore | n | grass-eater, wort-eater, plant-eater |
| heresy | n | dwild (<OE dwild), misbelief, irrbelief, selfwillness, false godly thought(s), godly untruth(s), godly untruthfulness, false-god learning, godkind wrongness |
| heritage | n | erve (<OE ierfe, cf. NHG das Erbe), bequeathship, bequesting, inborn gift, handing down, coming from |
| hermaphrodite | n | beddle, newhalf, scrat, scrit, manwoman |
| hermit | n | loner, away-being, lonesettler (cf. NHG Einsielder) |
| hero | n | heleth (cf. OE hæleð, NHG Held), seldman (cf OE seld‐guma, guma=man) |
| heroine | n | helethin |
| herpes | n | tetter |
| hesitate | vb | dither, swither |
| heterogen | adj | unlikekinded |
| heterosexual | adj | otherkindloving, goutswiven, straight, straightswiving |
| hiatus | n | gap, break |
| hibernate | vb | wintersleep, winter |
| hibiscus | n | rosemellow |
| hick | n | redneck |
| hicksville | n | backtown |
| hideous | adj | ugly |
| hippopotamus | n | necker (<OE nicor "hippopotamus, water monster, neck, nixie, nix"), waterpig, waterhog, waterswine |
| histology | n | webcellcraft |
| history | n | yore, yorelore (topic), olds, eretide |
| hodiernal | adj | of this day, belonging to now, nowadays |
| holocaust | n | all-fire, forburning, whole-fire, baledom, banedom, balefire deathfire, fire-wrack, hell, earthly hell, hellburn, hell on earth, all-slaught, great slaughter, bloodbath, woedom, |
| hologram | n | whole picture |
| homicidal | adj | death-doing, kill-lust |
| Holy Innocents Day | n | Childermas |
| homily | n | lorespell (OE lárspell), teaching-spell |
| homocide | n | manslaughter, murder |
| homogenous | adj | kindred, stemling, stemsharing |
| homophobia | n | queermisfear, queermisdread |
| homophobic | adj | queermisdreaded |
| homosexual | adj | samekindloving (cf. Is. samkynhneigðra), inswiven, gay, inswiving |
| honest | adj | truthful, upright |
| honesty | n | truthfulness |
| hono(u)r | n |
ore (<OE ár) doomworthing (<OE dómweorðung) gleng (<OE gleng) indright (<OE indryhtu) mearness (<OE mǽrnes) thinkth (<OE þyncðu) tire (<OE tír) worthfulness (<OE weorþfulnes) worthing (<OE weorðung) worthliness (<OE weorþlicnes) worthmind (<OE weorþmynd) worthness (<OE weorþnes) worthship (<OE weorþscipe) mind's-worth |
| hono(ur), seat of | n |
thrimseld (<OE þrymseld)
|
| hono(u)r, special | n | sunderworthing (<OE sundorweorðung) |
| hono(u)r | vb |
mather (<OE mǽðrian) mear (<OE mǽran) mearse (<OE mǽrsian) o(u)ver (<OE uferian) stepe (<OE stépan) ybreme (<OE gebréman) ymedem (<OE gemedemian) ymether (<OE geméðrian) yore (<OE geárian) yoreworth (<OE geárweorðian) yo(u)ver (<OE geuferian) |
| hono(u)rable | adj | oreworth |
| hooligan | n | rough neck |
| horde | n | throng, teeming throng |
| horizon | n | skyline |
| horizontal | adj | flatways, flatwise, warp |
| hormone | adj | spur |
| horology | n | clocklore |
| horrible | adj | awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
| horror | n | affright, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, grir |
| horticulture | n | wortcraft |
| hospital | n | sickhouse |
| hospitality | n | guestkindiness, guestliness |
| hostage | n | haftling |
| hostile | adj | unfriendly, foesome |
| hostility | n | wrath, anger, foehood, unfriendliness |
| hotel | n | guesthouse, inn |
| hour | n | stound, tide |
| house of prayer | n | bidhouse |
| huge | adj | great |
| hullabaloo | n | uproar |
| human | n | mennish (<OE mennisc, cf. NHG Mensch), man, earthling, wordling, soul, wer |
| human | adj | mennishly (<OE mennisclic, cf. NHG menschlich), man, mennish/mensh (<OE mennisc), manlike, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, werish |
| humanity | n | mennish (<OE mennisc, cf. NHG Mensch), mennishliness (<OE mennisclicnes), mennishness (<OE menniscnes), mankind (att'd), ermenkin (<OE eormencynn), werdom |
| humanize | vb | manthware (<OE gemanþwærian) |
| humble | adj | meek, lowly, lowlayly |
| humerus | n | arm-bone |
| humid | adj | dank, damp, sweltry, sticky |
| humiliate | vb | heen (OE hienan), neeg (OE hnaégan) |
| humiliation | n | shame, lowlaygening, downcome, downfall |
| humility | n | mildness, lowlayth, selflessness, lamblikeness, tameness, sackclothness |
| humourous | adj | funny, witty |
| hurricane | n | Whirlstorm (calque N.H.D) |
| hurt | vb | harm |
| hushed | adj | whisper-soft |
| hyacinth | n | bluegemrose |
| hybrid | n | crossbreed, mongrel, mixed-forebearhood |
| hydraulic | adj | waterwork, wetwork |
| hydraulics | n | waterworks |
| hydrogen | n | waterstuff |
| hydrophobia | n | misfear of water |
| hyena | n | laughwolf |
| hymn | n | lofesong (OE lof, NHG lobgesang), praise song |
| hymnal | n | lofesong-book (NHG gesangbuch), song-book |
| hyperlink | n | webshackle, overshackle |
| hyperon | n | overmote |
| hypertense | adj | overtaut |
| hyphen | n | dash |
| hypnotise | vb | brainwash |
| hypocrite | n | twiwayer, faker, liar, |
| hypocrisy | n | twiways |