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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.
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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(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) |