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Staff J 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. = Friesish
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
Staffs under English Wordbook/J:
Ja Jb Jc Jd
Je Jf Jg Jh
Ji Jj Jk Jl Jm Jn Jo Jp Jq Jr Js Jt Ju Jv
Jw Jx Jy Jz
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Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
Attested | Unattested | |||
Ja[] | ||||
Jack o'Lantern | n | will-o-the-wisp, foxfire, wildfire, marshlight | Jack o'Lightvat
marrowhead (cf. Dan. græskarhoved) Halloween-marrow (cf. NHG Halloween-Kürbis) | |
jade | flankstone (calque of Spanish piedra de ijada and Greek nephritikós) | |||
jaguar | n | spoted cat, truenicker (calque of Tupi-Guarani yaguareté) | ||
jail | n | lockup | fanghouse; carcern, dimhouse, fastern, wittern 2. slang terms: slough, blackhouse, iron-house | |
jam | n | sweetspread (as strawberry, raspberry, quince, chokeberry sweetspread etc.), mush (German), Silt (Swedish:sylt) | ||
jamais vu | n | - | neverseen | |
janitor | n | caretaker | - | |
January | n | Afteryool | Afteryule (OE), Frostmonth (cf. OHG Härtemonat), Foremonth (<W.Fr. Foarmoanne) Afteryulemonth | |
Japan | n | Land of the rising sun | Dawnland, Sunland | |
jar | n | urn (from Latin "urna") | glass (cf. NHG Glas), pot | |
jargon | n | shoptalk, speak | craftspeech (<OE cræftspræc) | |
jaundiced | adj | sallow | - | |
Je[] | ||||
je ne sais quoi | n | God-knows-what | I-know-not, I-know-not-what | |
jealous | adj | green-eyed | andy (<OE andig), ellenhetten (<ellenhette + -en), nitheful (<OE níþful), nithy | |
jealous person | n | - |
andi(wo)man, ellenhettenwere, ellenhetten(wo)man female: ellenhettenfraw (<ellenhetten + fraw, <NHG "Frau", woman), andifraw benither, nither (cf. NHG Beneider, Neider) | |
jealousy | n | heartburn | andiness, ellenhette (<OE ellenhete), nithe (<OE niþ) | |
Jehovah | n | Almighty, Everlasting, Father, Godhead, Lord | Allfather, Life's Weaver, Dryghten (or Drithen), Worldshaper | |
jelly | n | - | Foodsticklersnack | |
jellyfish | n | sea nettle | seanettle, nettlefish, siltfish (SW sylt + fish) | |
jester | n | funniman, gleeman | - | |
Jesus | n | Lamb of God, Healer, | Ihesu (<ME), Hæland (<OE, German) Ihesu, Jesu (<ME) | |
jet black | adj | raven-black, crow black | ||
jewel | n | rock slang | hurst (<OE), arkenstone (<OE eorcnanstān) | |
Ji[] | ||||
jingoism | n | - | wyetheedishness | |
jinx | n | mishap | wanlucker | |
Jo[] | ||||
job | n | errand, chore, berth, business, work second: bywork |
char | |
join | vb | link, fit, fay, tie | - | |
join | vb | meet, go in, come in | chimb (<OE ċimban) | |
joint | n | limb, lith | - | |
joke | n | prat, one-liner, gab | wit (<OE witt,); witshard. | |
jolly | adj | blithe, gleeful, mirthful, merry | - | |
jötunn | n | ettin (OE) | ||
journal | n | logbook, daybook | - | |
journalism | n | news | logkeeping, logcraft, loggership, newscraft | |
journalist | n | newsman | bewriter, logger, logkeeper, logwriter | |
journey | n | ramble, wayfaring, fare | reys, fare (<ME, cf. NHG fahrt); taught, tought, taughtkin, toughtkin (cf. Du. tocht, -je), widesith, ferd (<ME, PG fardi) | |
joust | vb | - | tiltyoke | |
jovial | adj | blithe, gleeful, merry, mirthful | eady | |
Jōwa (1345-1350 era) | n | - | Rightwisefrith, Rightwisebliss | |
Jōwa (834-848 era) | n | - | Bowfrith, Bowbliss | |
joy | n | gladness,mirth, lust, blitheness, glee | [1], wynbliss, faining, listing, warm fuzzle?? | |
joyful | adj | blissful, tickled, mirthful, merry, gleeful, blithe | eady, faining, listing, reemful, moodglad. (OE hremig) | |
Jr[] | ||||
Jr. | Yr. for younger | - | ||
Ju[] | ||||
Judaism | n | - | Jewdom (German:Judentum) | |
judicial | adj | doomly (<OE dōmlīc) | ||
judge | vb | settle; call, make, reckon; gather, make out: deem, hold | hiler (<OE heolorian) | |
judge | n | deemer (<OE dēma), deemster | ||
judgment | n | doom, finding, holding; call; belief, eye, mind; fix, deemship, ordeal | ||
judicious | adj | wise | doomwise | |
juggernaut | n | drive, push | - | |
juice | n | sap, wos; alne (OED, ‘energy’), fire | - | |
juice up | vb | fire, liven up | - | |
jukebox | n | - | songbox, swinbox, gleambox, gleebox | |
July | n | - | Meadowmonth(<OE mead), Meadmonth (<OE), Afterlithe, Haymonth | |
jump | vb | leap, spring, hop | - | |
June | n | - | Midsummermonth < OE, Erelith (<OE Ærra Līþa), Solmonth, Fallowmonth | |
jungle | n | whirlpool, madhouse, snaggle; weed garden | orweald (cf. Du. oerwoud, NHG Urwald); weed weald, weed wold; wild weald; choke weald, werrow (calque from ‘werewolf’) weald | |
junior | adj | younger, youth, young, underling | - | |
jurisdiction | n | law, lawhood | leedred (<OE leodræden) | |
jury | n | oath-takers | deemteam (<OE dēma + team) | |
just | adj | fair, right, evenhanded; reckoned; straight, upright | - | |
just | adv | barely, hardly, slightly; but, nothing but, nobbut, only, straightforwardly; fully, rightly, sharply; nearly, lately, even
"I just saw that": only now, anowly, benowly |
nar (cf. NHG nur) | |
just about | adj | almost | sowhat (so + what) (cf. Du. zowat) | |
justice | n | fair shake, fairness, rightfulness, rightness | righthood | |
justification | n | grounds | begrounding (cf. NHG begründung) | |
justified | adj | well-grounded; reckoned, reckoned right; rightened | begrounded (cf. NHG begründet) | |
justify | vb | uphold, reckon, righten | soothfasten (<OE sóþfæst)
beground (cf. NHG begründen) | |
Jute | n | Gate, Geat | - | |
Jutland, Jylland | n | - | Gateland; the erehomeland | |
juvenile | adj | young; green, unfledged, unripened | - | |
juvenile | n | youngster, youth, stripling | frumbeardling |