The Anglish Moot

Staff K of the English Wordbook.

Tongueshortenings:

  • NE = New English
  • ENE = Early New English
  • ME = Middle English
  • OE = Old English
  • SC = Scots
  • WF = West Frish
  • NF = North Frish
  • SF = Saterlandish Frish
  • WO = Wangeroogish
  • WLG = West Low Thetch
  • EFLS = East Frish Low Saxish
  • ELG = East Low Thetch
  • NL = Netherlandish
  • AF = Afrikaans
  • NHG = New High Thetch
  • IL = Icelandish
  • HIL = High Icelandish
  • FO = Faroish
  • NO = Nornish
  • SW = Swedish
  • DN = Danish
  • MLG = Middle Low Thetch
  • MNL = Middle Netherlandish
  • MHG = Middle High Thetch
  • OF = Old Frish
  • OS = Old Saxish
  • OHG = Old High Thetch
  • ON = Old Norse
  • GO = Gottish
  • PWG = Or-West-Theedish
  • PG = Or-Theedish

Other shortenings:

  • [ᛣ] = Loanwend
  • [ᚹ] = Widened meaning given to a word for the sake of Anglish
  • [ᛏ] = Transitive
  • [ᚾ] = Intransitive
  • [ᚩ] = Old and dead meaning of a living word

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


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Staffs under English Wordbook/K:


Ka Kb Kc Kd Ke Kf Kg Kh Ki Kj Kk Kl Km Kn Ko Kp Kq Kr Ks Kt Ku Kv Kw Kx Ky Kz

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Chancery English Class Anglish/English
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Ka[]

kakistocracy n - worstwield, worstship
kaleidoscope n - shapeglass
Kalends n - Calling
kamikaze n daredevil, devil-may-care, hell-for-leather  -
kangaroo n boomer leapdeer
kapok tree n - silk-treewool tree
karaoke n sing-along -
Karling (<OHG) n(p) - (See Carolingian)
Kattegat n - Cat’s Gate, Catsgate; the Gate

Ke[]

kennel n doghouse deerhouse, deerbower, deershelter
keno n - fiveluck
keno- pref empty, idle -
ketchup n - blooddip, heartdip, loveappledip

Ki[]

kilig n thrill lovespark, uplift
kilogram n - thousandbit (thousand + bit)
kindergarten
(<NHG)
n - childeryard, children's grove, foreskool
kindle
(<ON)
vb light, tind tend (<ME tēnden), eal (<OE ǣlan)
kinetic adj - wawsome, wawy
kiosk n booth, stall -

Kl[]

klepto- pref - stal- (<OE stæl-, such as in stælgiest)
kleptocracy n - thiefdom
kleptomania n mad theft thiefmadness (calque)
kleptomaniac n mad thief thiefmadman (calque)

Kn[]

knowledgeable adj knowledgeful -

Ko[]

kowtow vb bootlick, fawn kneelbow
koala n - bagbear (calque of IC pokabjörn), poughbear (see ME poughe), apebear (calque: NE monkey-bear), New Hollandish bear, Great Southern bear, Andlandish bear (<HIC proposal "Andland")
kohl n eye makeup eyelid darkener, eye dust, eye-marker

ku[]

Ku Klux Klan n - Wheel Club, Ring Club

Kr[]

krypton n - dernshaft
kryptonite n weakness, soft spot dernshaftstone