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|'''jail'''
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|'''Jack o'Lantern'''
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|''n''
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|will-o-the-wisp, foxfire, wildfire, marshlight
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|Jack o'Lightvat
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marrowhead (cf. Dan. græskarhoved)
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Halloween-marrow (cf. NHG Halloween-Kürbis)
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|'''jaguar'''
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|''n''
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|spoted cat, truenicker (calque of Tupi-Guarani yaguareté)
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|'''jail (gaol)'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
 
|lockup
  
|lockup
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|fanghouse; carcern, dimhouse, fastern, wittern 2. slang terms: slough, blackhouse, iron-house
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|fanghouse (cf. Fa. fangahús)
  
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|'''jam'''
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|''n''
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|<nowiki>-</nowiki>
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|<nowiki>-</nowiki>sweetspread, as strawberry, raspberry, quince, chokeberry sweetspread etc.
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|-
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|'''jamais vu'''
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|''n''
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|<nowiki>-</nowiki>
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|neverseen
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''janitor'''
  
|'''janitor'''
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|''n''
  
|''n''
 
| -
  
| -
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|Afteryule (OE), Frostmonth (cf. OHG Härtemonat), Foremonth (<W.Fr. Foarmoanne)
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|Afteryule (OE), Frostmonth (cf. OHG Härtemonat), Foremonth (<W.Fr. Foarmoanne) Afteryulemonth
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''Japan'''
  
|'''Japan'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
 
|Land of the rising sun
  
|Land of the rising sun
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|Dawnland
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|Dawnland, Sunland
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''jar'''
  
|'''jar'''
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|sallow
  
|sallow
 
| -
  
| -
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|-
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|'''je ne sais quoi'''
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|''n''
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|God-knows-what
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|I-know-not, I-know-not-what
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''jealous'''
  
|'''jealous'''
 
|''adj''
  
|''adj''
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| -
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| green-eyed
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|andy (<OE andig), ellenhetten (<ellenhette + -en)
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|andy (<OE andig), ellenhetten (<ellenhette + -en) nithy (<OE niþ), nith<span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:95%;">eful (<OE níþful), swartsick </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:95%;">(<SW svartsjuk)</span>
 
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|-
 
| '''jealous person'''
  
| '''jealous person'''
 
| ''n''
  
| ''n''
 
| -
  
| -
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andi(wo)man, ellenhettenwere, ellenhetten(wo)man
  
andi(wo)man, ellenhettenwere, ellenhetten(wo)man
   
 
''female: ''ellenhettenfraw (<ellenhetten + fraw, <NHG "Frau", woman), andifraw
  
''female: ''ellenhettenfraw (<ellenhetten + fraw, <NHG "Frau", woman), andifraw
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benither, nither (cf. NHG Beneider, Neider)
 
|-
  
|-
 
| '''jealousy'''
  
| '''jealousy'''
 
| ''n''
  
| ''n''
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| heartburn
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| -
  
 
| andiness, ellenhette (<OE ellenhete)
  
| andiness, ellenhette (<OE ellenhete)
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nith (<OE niþ) nithness (OE niþ+ness)
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''Jehovah'''
  
|'''Jehovah'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
 
|Almighty, Everlasting, Father, Godhead, Lord
  
|Almighty, Everlasting, Father, Godhead, Lord
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|Allfather, Life's Weaver, Dryghten, Worldshaper
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|Allfather, Life's Weaver, Dryghten (or Drithen), Worldshaper
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''jellyfish'''
  
|'''jellyfish'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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| sea nettle
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| namby-pamby, wimp
  
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|seanettle
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|stingfish, brimfish
  
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''jester'''
  
|'''jester'''
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|'''Jesus'''
  
|'''Jesus'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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| Lamb of God
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| Lamb of God, Healer,
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| Ihesu (<ME), Hæland (<OE, German) Ihesu, Jesu (<ME)
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| -
  
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''jewel'''
  
|'''jewel'''
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|link, fit, fay, tie
  
|link, fit, fay, tie
 
| -
  
| -
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|-
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|'''join'''
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|''vb''
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|meet, go in, come in
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|
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''joint'''
  
|'''joint'''
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|'''joke'''
  
|'''joke'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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|one-liner, trick
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|prat, one-liner,
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| wit (<OE witt) pret (<OE præt)
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| wit (<OE witt,); witshard.
 
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|-
 
|'''jolly'''
  
|'''jolly'''
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|blithe, gleeful, mirthful, merry
  
|blithe, gleeful, mirthful, merry
 
| -
  
| -
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|-
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|'''jötunn'''
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|''n''
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|ettin (OED)
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|
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''journal'''
  
|'''journal'''
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|''n''
  
|''n''
 
|ramble, wayfaring, fare
  
|ramble, wayfaring, fare
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|[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reys#English reys], ferd (<ME, NHG fahrt) widesith
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|fareld, widesith
  
 
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|-
 
|'''jovial'''
  
|'''jovial'''
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|'''joy'''
  
|'''joy'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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|gladness, warm fuzzles, mirth
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|gladness, warm fuzzles, mirth, lust, blitheness, glee
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| win (<OE wynn), faining, listing
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| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winne winne], faining, listing,
 
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|-
 
|'''joyful'''
  
|'''joyful'''
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|'''judgment'''
  
|'''judgment'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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| doom, finding, holding; call; belief, eye, mind; fix, deemship
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| doom, finding, holding; call; belief, eye, mind; fix, deemship, ordeal
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|
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|ordeal (<OE ordāl)
  
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''judicious'''
  
|'''judicious'''
 
|''adj''
  
|''adj''
 
| wise
  
| wise
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| doomwise
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|-
  
|-
 
|'''juggernaut'''
  
|'''juggernaut'''
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|'''juice'''
  
|'''juice'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
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|sap, wos
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|sap, wos; alne (OED, ‘energy’), fire
 
| -
  
| -
 
|-
  
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|fire, liven up
  
|fire, liven up
 
| -
  
| -
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|-
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|'''jukebox'''
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|''n''
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|<nowiki>-</nowiki>
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|songbox, swinbox, gleambox, gleebox
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''July'''
  
|'''July'''
 
|''n''
  
|''n''
 
| -
  
| -
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|Afterlithe, Haymonth
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|Meadowmonth(<OE mead), Meadmonth (<OE), Afterlithe, Haymonth
 
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|-
 
|'''jump'''
  
|'''jump'''
 
|''vb''
  
|''vb''
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|leap, spring
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|leap, spring, hop
 
| -
  
| -
 
|-
  
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|''n''
  
|''n''
 
| -
  
| -
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|Erelith, Solmonth, Fallowmonth
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|Midsummermonth < OE, Erelith (<OE Ærra Līþa), Solmonth, Fallowmonth
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|'''jungle'''
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|''n''
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|whirlpool, madhouse, snaggle; weed garden
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|orweald (cf. Du. oerwoud, NHG Urwald); weed weald, weed wold; wild weald; choke weald, werrow (calque from ‘werewolf’) weald
 
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|'''junior'''
  
|'''junior'''
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|law, lawhood
  
|law, lawhood
 
|leedred (<OE leodræden)
  
|leedred (<OE leodræden)
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|-
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|'''jury'''
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|''n''
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|oath-takers
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|deemteam (<OE dēma + team)
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''just'''
  
|'''just'''
 
|''adj''
  
|''adj''
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|fair; straight, upright
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|fair, right, evenhanded; reckoned; straight, upright
 
| -
  
| -
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''just'''
  
|'''just'''
 
|''adv''
  
|''adv''
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|barely, hardy, slightly; but, merely, only; full, right, sharp; nearly, lately
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|barely, hardly, slightly; but, only; fully, rightly, sharply; nearly, lately, even
   
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only now, anowly, benowly ''I just saw that''
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"''I '''just''' saw that": ''only now, anowly, benowly
 
|nar (cf. NHG nur)
  
|nar (cf. NHG nur)
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|-
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|'''just about'''
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|''adj''
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|almost
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|sowhat (so + what) (cf. Du. zowat)
 
|-
  
|-
 
|'''justice'''
  
|'''justice'''
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|fair shake, fairness, rightfulness, rightness
  
|fair shake, fairness, rightfulness, rightness
 
|righthood
  
|righthood
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|-
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|'''justification'''
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|''n''
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|grounds
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|begrounding (cf. NHG begründung)
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|-
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|'''justified'''
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|''adj''
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|well-grounded; reckoned, reckoned right; rightened
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|begrounded (cf. NHG begründet)
 
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|'''justify'''
  
|'''justify'''
 
|''vb''
  
|''vb''
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| uphold, righten
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| uphold, reckon, righten
 
|soothfasten (<OE sóþfæst)
  
|soothfasten (<OE sóþfæst)
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beground (cf. NHG begründen)
 
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|-
 
|'''juvenile'''
  
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|youngster, youth, stripling
  
|youngster, youth, stripling
 
|frumbeardling
  
|frumbeardling
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Revision as of 00:07, 22 February 2020

Staff J 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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Chancery English Class Anglish/English
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Jack o'Lantern n will-o-the-wisp, foxfire, wildfire, marshlight Jack o'Lightvat

marrowhead (cf. Dan. græskarhoved)

Halloween-marrow (cf. NHG Halloween-Kürbis)

jaguar n spoted cat, truenicker (calque of Tupi-Guarani yaguareté)
jail (gaol) n lockup fanghouse; carcern, dimhouse, fastern, wittern 2. slang terms: slough, blackhouse, iron-house
jam n - -sweetspread, as strawberry, raspberry, quince, chokeberry sweetspread etc.
jamais vu n - neverseen
janitor n caretaker -
January n - 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 ne sais quoi n God-knows-what I-know-not, I-know-not-what
jealous adj green-eyed andy (<OE andig), ellenhetten (<ellenhette + -en) nithy (<OE niþ), nitheful (<OE níþful), swartsick (<SW svartsjuk)
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)

nith (<OE niþ) nithness (OE niþ+ness)

Jehovah n Almighty, Everlasting, Father, Godhead, Lord Allfather, Life's Weaver, Dryghten (or Drithen), Worldshaper
jellyfish n sea nettle seanettle
jester n funniman, gleeman -
Jesus n Lamb of God, Healer, Ihesu (<ME), Hæland (<OE, German) Ihesu, Jesu (<ME)
jewel n rock slang hurst (<OE)
jingoism n - wyetheedishness
jinx n mishap wanlucker
job n errand, chore, berth, business, work
second: bywork 		char
join vb link, fit, fay, tie -
join vb meet, go in, come in
joint n limb, lith -
joke n prat, one-liner, wit (<OE witt,); witshard.
jolly adj blithe, gleeful, mirthful, merry -
jötunn n ettin (OED)
journal n logbook, daybook -
journalism n news logkeeping, logcraft, loggership, newscraft
journalist n newsman bewriter, logger, logkeeper, logwriter
journey n ramble, wayfaring, fare reys, ferd (<ME, NHG fahrt) widesith
jovial adj blithe, gleeful, merry, mirthful eady
joy n gladness, warm fuzzles, mirth, lust, blitheness, glee winne, faining, listing,
joyful adj blissful, pleased, tickled, mirthful, merry, gleeful, blithe eady, faining, listing, reemful (OE hremig)
Judaism n - Jewdom
judge vb settle; call, make, reckon; gather, make out: deem, hold hiler (<OE heolorian)
judge n deemer (<OE dēma), deemster lawlord, hilerand
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, only; 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)

juvenile adj young; green, unfledged, unripened -
juvenile n youngster, youth, stripling frumbeardling
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