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Revision as of 12:01, 9 November 2018

Staff L 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.


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
labia majora n - greater ladylips (<calque of Latin + "lady")
labia minora n - lesser ladylips (<calque of Latin + "lady")
labo(u)r vb work, swink; sweat, grind, slog, strive, struggle

wirch/worch/werch <OE wyrċan (attested as historical/dialectal verbs)

labo(u)r n work, swink; sweat, elbow grease, struggle
med: childbirth, birthing
arveth (<OE earfoðe)
labo(u)rer n worker, swinker blue hem (blue collar)
laboratory n workshop, workhall workstead
laborious adj backbreaking, burdensome, toilsome -
labyrinth n maze -
lacerate vb cut rend, snithe
lachrymose adj sad, teary, tearful, weeping, weepy -
lackadaisical adj lackadaisy, listless, lazy -
lacklustre adj dim, dull, leaden, lifeless, dead, brightless -
lacrimal bone n - tearbone
lactose n - milksweet
lacuna n dearth, hole gapfall
lager (beer) n - light beer (cf. Sw. ljust öl), "a light" (inf.)
lagoon n - sealock
lambaste vb berate, flog, scathe, upbraid flay
lament vb mourn, weep, yammer norn, quithe, beweep (<OE)
lamentable adj bemoaning, doleful -
lamp n beacon, light chell (cf. OE ciella, OHG kella)

lightvat (<OE leohtfæt)

leamer, crusie

lampion n - lightvat
LAN (local area network) n - ord network
language n tongue, speech, leid (from Scots), talk

reard (rerd, reird) (<OE reord), landspeech (<OE landsprǣċ), leed, thodspræc (Plural: thodspræcken)

literary: booklead (<OE bōclæden) pl: bookleaden, tung

languid adj limp; down-and-out, sapped, wimpish slack
languish vb pine, dwindle, droop, ebb, lessen, wane, wither, weaken, wear away, swine dwine, addle (<OE ádlian)
languor n listlessness; lowness, wimpiness -
lanolin n - wool wax
lapidary n - ingraver
lapis lazuli n - skystone (calque)
lapse n fluff, slip, screwup, backslide dwild (<OE 'error')
large adj big, broad, mickle, great -
largely adj mostly, mainly -
larynx n - throathead (cf. NHG Kehlkopf)
lascivious adj foul, lewd; lustful; horny gole (<ME<OE gāl; listed in OED as obsolete), gat-toothed (<ME gat-toþed)
laser n - losyr (light outbroadening by spurred yoreputting of rodding)
lasso n - throwsling; throwknot
latitude n - bowheight
laud vb - herry (<ME herian)
launch vb take off -
launder vb wash, cleanse furb
laundrette n washhouse furby's
laundry n wash, washing furbing
lava n molten rock rown/rean (cf. ON;Ic. hraun)

barrowquick (cf. Ic. bergkvika)

lawyer n lawman -
lax adj careless, slack; loose, slackened -
laxative n - (stool-)loosener
lay (poem/song) n - yedding
layman n newbie, dabbler, beginner byfellow
LCD n flatscreen frost outplay, ??flowing frosted outplay
league n - measure: Gaulish milegroup/association: bind (cf. NHG Bund)
lease vb let -
leash n lead, tether -
lecherous adj hot, itchy, lewd, wanton -
lecture v read, teach foreread (calque of all Ger. speeches)
lecture n reading

teach: leer

talk: foredraw (calque of all Ger. speeches)

lecture(school): forereading (calque of all Ger. speeches)

lecturer n reader lorespeaker, leerer
lederhosen n - leatherhosen
leg n shank -
legacy n bequest -
legal adj lawful, aboveboard -
legalize vb phrase: make lawful belaw, berighten, tholingly
legend n key; folktale, saga - must-read tale, wonder-tale.
legendary adj - talewoven
legible adj - readsome
legislator n lawmaker, lawgiver -
legislature n lawmaking body -
legitimate adj rightful, (of birth) fullborn, lawful -
legume n ovest -
leishmaniasis n - blackdriff (cf. Eng. black fever)
leisure n free-time, time off, holiday, rest, spare time, freedom faining, list, eathdom (cf. Scots "Aisedom")
leisure adj free, busiless, off -
leisure, have vb rest, loaf, while away the time fain, list
lemon n - sourapple
lenitive adj soothing milding
lepidoptera n moths, flinders (butterflies) -
lepton n - lightmote
lesbian n dyke (slang) -
lesson n teaching, learning read, underright (cf. NHG Unterricht)
-let suf -ling -
lethal adj deadly, fey (obsolete) -
lethargic adj sluggish, listless, tired, sleepy sleeple
lethargy n listlessness, sluggishness, sleepiness sleepleness
letter n character: bookstaff, bookstave, rune/roun kite (<US prison, slang); speech-tokens

errandwrit, errandbook (<OE ǽrendbóc)

lettuce n bigleaf leaghtrick/leaghtry (<OE lēahtric)
leukemia n - blood MTF (see cancer)
level n - flake (Fr, see Du. vlak)

tool: gauge, tier, emnet (<O.E)

level adj flat, even, straight -
lever n switch liftstaff
leverage n heft, pull, sway -
leveret n young hare hareling
leviathan n - nicker (<OE nicor 'sea monster')
lexicon n wordhoard (<OE wordhord), wordlist -
LGBT adj queer
liability n downside, drawback law: linkworthiness
liable adj guilty

law: linkworthy

liberal adj broad-minded, freehearted, openhanded, unstinting, unselfish custy (<OE cystig), givel (<OE gifol)
liberalism n - freewardness
libertarian(ism) n/adj - freesome (troth/seeker)
liberate vb free befree (Eng., <OE befreogan, cf. NHG befreien), loose, let go

lease (<OE aliesan 'to let loose, free, deliver, liberate')

red(d) (<OE hreddan 'take away, save, liberate'

liberation n freeing, freedom befreeing
liberty n freedom, free will freels (<OE freols)
library n bookhouse, bookhoard bookhall, bookstrain, booksamning
librarian n bookman, bookkeeper
license n leave -
licentious adj hot, lewd, itchy -
lichen n lungwort raw (<OE ragu)
lieutenant n helpmate, sidekick steadholder
life course n - lifeswend (<ME levenswende)
ligature n belt, binding, strap, string -
lilac n - elderbloom (cf. NHG Fliederblüte)
lily n - lilie, liliebloom
lily pad n - seabloom (cf. NHG seerose), waterbloom
limbo n - neitherworld
limerence n crush -
limit n bound, threshold, cap, stint; landmark mire (<OE mære)
limit vb bound, tint, narrow -
limitation n cramp -
limpid adj see-through; cool, smooth, together, unruffled, unshaken, unworried
lineage n blood-ties, house, strain, seed strind
linear adj straight(wise) -
linen n - flaxcloth
lingerie n knickerwear, smallclothes -
lingua franca n shared tongue -
linguistic adj tonguely, speechly, wordly
Linguistic Purism n - quide swoteling

sheerspeechcraft/lore

linguistics n - speechlore, quidelore (<OE cwide)
linguist n - speechlorer, quidelorer (<OE cwide)
linoleum n - corksail
linseed n flaxseed -
lion n - lewcat, manecat
lipid n fat, speck lind
liquid n wet (OED) bree, wettock, flowstuff, weet/wete (archaic/dialectal variants of "wet")
liquid adj flowsome, flowy, wet weet/wete (variant form of "wet" < OE wǽt/wét < PG *wēt-)
liquor n mead, shench, shenk, firewater, booze gut-rot, knock-out drops, srandy, burning wine, lith
liquorice/licorice n sweetroot -
litany n - beesong (cf. Ic. bænasöngur)
literal adj - verbatim: 

wordly (NHG. wörtlich) of letters: bookstavely (NHG Buchstäblich)

literally adv word for word verbatim: wordly (NHG. wörtlich)

of letters: bookstavely (NHG Buchstäblich)

literary adj written, bookish -
literate adj learned, well-read -
literature n bookcraft booklore, bookware, the written word, writings, written works, writcraft
lithium n - stonestuff
lithograph n - stonewrit
lithography n - stonewritting
littoral adj - searim, shorely
liturgy n - ledework (calque of Gk. leit-urgia),
lizard n ask, askard (Brit. dialect) eft
llama n - sheepolvend (calque of Du. schaapkameel + olvend (<OE olfend) for camel)
lobe n - lap (cf. NHG Lappen)
lobotomy n - lapdeal (calque)
lobster n - -
local adj near, nearby, neighbouring steadly, stowly
locality n shire, neighbourhood bystead
locate vb find; come upon -
location n spot, whereabouts, lying (cf. NHG Lage, Du. ligging)

Ord (Eng. but seldom, NHG. Ort, Du. od, Sw. udd)

locomotive n - draughtwain
lodge n inn, bergh, guesthouse, bed & breakfast; watchman's hut, shed, gatehouse, townhouse

cote

lodge vb dwell stow, ern (<OE ærn)
lodger n boarder, roomer board & roomer
logarithm n - splittle
logic n witcraft rethemete, redecraft, flitcraft
logistics n yieldship, yieldcraft
logo n brandmark -
logos n Word thew
-logy, -log, -logue suff -lore, -craft -frod (cf. Ic. jarðfræði 'earthfrod' ~ geology; OE frod 'wise')
longitude n length bowlength
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leiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopte-

rygon

n Daintifishfleshfowlandsaucesdish

(Dainti-fish-flesh-fowl-and-sauce-dish)

loquacious adj feather-tongued, gabby speakle
lounge n living room, sitting room -
lounge vb idle, lie, moon -
loyal adj stalwart, down-the-line, true-hearted, good, fast, steady, true-blue, steadfast true (<OE trēowe, cf. Du trouw, NHG. treue), trothsome, trothful, trothly, trothfast (<NE steadfast + troth, cf. Swed. trofast, Norw. trofast <ON trúfastr)
loyalist n stalwart truand (cf. Du getrouw, NHG Getreue)
loyalty n troth, trueness trow (<OE trēowe, cf. NHG. Treue, Du trouw)

hield (<OE)

lubricate vb slick, wax, wet -
lubricated adj slippery -
lubricious adj hot, lewd, itchy, wanton -
lucid adj shining, glowing -
Lügenpresse n liënpress -
luminous adj light-bearing, bright, lightened -
lunacy n madness, witlessness moonstroke, moonmadness
lunar adj moonly, moonish -
lunar phase n moon shape mooncast
lunate bone n - moonbone, sicklebone
lunatic adj bats, batty, unhinged, moonstruck (archaic) moonmad
lupine adj wolven -
luscious adj lush, sweet, good, lovely, smacky, smackful -
luster n gloss, gleam -
lutein n - yellowen (luteus -> yellow + -in -> -en)
luteinizing hormone (LH) n - beyellowenning spur (BS)
lutetium n - parisstuff, lightburghstuff, lightstuff
luxe adj silken -
luxuriant adj green, leafy -
lycanthropy n - warewolf-sickness
lynx n - lox (<OE 'lox', <PIE 'leuk', light)