Staff M 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.
Staffs under English Wordbook/M:
Ma Mb Mc Md
Me Mf Mg Mh
Mi Mj Mk Ml Mm Mn Mo Mp Mq Mr Ms Mt Mu Mv
Mw Mx My Mz
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Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
Attested | Unattested | |||
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macabre | adj | gruesome, grisly | - | |
macerate | vb | soak, steep | - | |
machine | n |
tool, setup, workings, rig, workhorse vehicle: horseless, wheels (slang) |
sare (<OE searu), gearware, workware, workrig | |
machine cannon | n | - | shellsprayer (< shell & SW -spruta) | |
machine gun | n | gun, firearm, zip gun, gatling gun, tommy gun (Mean Anglish) | boltsprayer (cf. SW kulspruta), shacklegun, shacklebox, gearbox, gearstaff, slaught weapon (calque of assault weapon), slaught arm | |
magazine | n | daily (some contexts), weekly (other contexts), slick (some contexts) | tidewrit (cf. WF tydskrift, NL tijdschrift, NHG Zeitschrift) | |
magic | n/adj | spellcraft, dwimmer, dwimmercraft
bad: witchcraft |
galder (<OE galdor), galder(craft) (chanting magic), spell (a chant), gale (to do galder), seethe(craft) (magic concerning changing fate, seen in the Weird Sisters where it is depicted as actually boiling (seething) in a cauldron), spae (seer magic) | |
magician | n | wizard, witch, warlock | hag, dwimmerman | |
magistrate | n | deemer, deemster(Female) | reeve | |
maggot | n | worm, grub | maddock, mathe (<OE maþa; cf. SC mathe); fleshworm | |
magnaminious | adj | - | high-minded | |
magnesium | n | bitterstuff | ||
magnesium oxide | n | - | bitter earth | |
magnate | n | - | mickman | |
magnet | n | loadstone/lodestone (< lode "guide" + stone) | sailstone (cf. IC segulsteinn) | |
magnificent | adj | - | practy (cf. NHG prächtig) | |
magnify | n | blow up, make bigger, greaten |
bemickel (<be + OE miclīan) in wonderment: wonderledge (<OE ġewundorlæcan) glorify: dome (<OE dōmian) | |
magnitude | n | weight, greatness, micklehood | - | |
magnolia | n | - | beaverbloom | |
magpie | n | - | aw/awe (<OE agu), naw (cf. newt < ewt) | |
mail (armor) | n | - | mesh, burne (<ME) | |
maim | vb | cripple | - | |
maintain | vb | keep up, uphold, hold | underhold (calque: NHG unterhalten) | |
maintenance | n | upkeep | - | |
maître d'hôtel | n | - | houserede | |
majestic | adj | high-flown, lofty, stour | hovely, thrymfast (<OE þrymfæst) | |
majesty | n | highness, lordship, loftiness |
dolk, stourness, oreworthness (<OE arweorþnes), douthness, thrim (<OE þrymm), kineship (<OE cynescipe) | |
major | n | overling | - | |
major | adj | higher, overling | - | |
majority | n | most, better half, body, great body | mosthood | |
make sense | v | hold | make wits | |
maladjusted | adj | misfit | - | |
malady | n | sickness, illness, unwellness | addle, cothe | |
malapert | adj | brazen | unbeshamed (cf. NL onbeschaamd) | |
malaria | n | - | unlift (<OE unlyft) | |
male | adj |
manly, manlike; pref: he- |
he-kind, hesome | |
male | n | man, buck, chap, fellow, lad state: manhood |
werman (<OE wermann) | |
malefactor | n | sinner, wrongdoer: crook, lawbreaker | - | |
malevolence | n | hatefulness, meanness, unkindheartedness | - | |
malevolent | adj | bad, mean, evil | unkindhearted, unlindheartedly | |
malfeasance | n | misdoing, wrongdoing | - | |
malfunction | n | flaw, glitch | - | |
malfunction | vb | misbehave | miswork | |
malice | n | cattiness, hatefulness, meanness | ond (<ME ōnd) | |
malicious | adj | wicked | nithe, ondy (<OE andiġ) | |
malign | adj | evil, harmful, baleful | nithe | |
malleus | n | hammer | earhammer, hammerbone | |
malnourish | vb | misfeed, underfeed | - | |
maltose | n | - | maltsweet | |
maltreat | vb |
manhandle, rough up |
illbrook | |
malware | n | - | badware, evilware | |
mammal | n | - | suckdeer (calque: WF sûchdier), suckledeer (calque: NHG Säugetier), milkwight | |
mammary | n | breast, tit | - | |
mammoth | n | - | furelp (cf. IC loðfíll), earthhorn (calque of Proto-Mansi *mē̮ŋ-ońt) | |
manage | vb | handle, run, deal with, fare, keep, keep up | - | |
manager | n | foreman | besteerer (cf. DN bestyrer) | |
manatee | n | sea cow | - | |
mandate | n | bid | handdare | |
mandible | n | - | jowlbone | |
mandrake | n | - | skinroot | |
mandrill | n | - | hueleer ape, rainbow ape, huemug ape | |
manga | n | - | dawnlandish talestrips | |
manganese | n | - | torghtshaft | |
manger | n | trough | - | |
mango | n | - | gawk's/yeke's bliss (cf. Eng. cuckoo's joy) | |
mangrove | n | - | shrubmarsh;
tree: loftroot, loftmore (from Minecraft) | |
mania | n | madness | - | |
maniac | adj | mad, crazy | - | |
manifest(ed) | adj | bald, ringing, straightforward, marked | suttle (<ME sutel)
obvious: open-sightly (calque: NHG offensichtlich) | |
manifest | vb | bespeak, give away
indicate: betoken |
atew (<ME atẹ̄wien) | |
manifestation | n | - | betokening | |
manner | n | way | erd (<ME <OE eard, cf. NHG Art), lund | |
mannerism(s) | n | quirks, wont (See MW or OED, not the same as won't) | thewes (<ME þeau/þeu <OE þēaw, cf. Nhb. ðēow) | |
manna | n | - | whitecorn (<OE hwītcorn) | |
mansion | n | hall | haryard (cf. SW herrgård) | |
mansuetude | adj | tameness, mildness | - | |
manta ray | n | - | mantlereagh | |
mantis | n | rearhorse | beadbug | |
mantle | n | wrap; hood, shroud | - | |
manual | n | handbook | - | |
manual | adj | handly | - | |
manually | adv | by hand | - | |
manufacture | vb | frame, beframe, make up, think up, make | - | |
manure | n | dung | - | |
manuscript | n | handwrit | - | |
map | n | plot | mete (<OE metan: to measure "to scale") landsheet (cf. IC landakort) | |
marble | n | - | shinestone (calque of Greek) | |
march | n/vb | headway, onrish; stride
rim land: mark |
- | |
March | n | - |
Lide (< ME Lide ⁊ OE Hlȳda), Reethmonth (<OE Hrēðmōnaþ), Miremonth (???), Thirdmonth | |
Mardi Gras | n | Shrove Tuesday | - | |
margrave | n | - | markearl, markreeve (cf. NHG Markgraf) | |
margraviate | n | - | markearldom, markreeveship (cf. NHG Markgrafschaft) | |
marijuana | n | hemp street talk: grass, weed |
- | |
marine | adj | sea-, mer(e)- | - | |
marine | n | - | nowend (<OE nōwend) | |
marine park | n | - | water-frith | |
marionette | n | - | stringdoll, marydoll | |
maritime | adj | sealike | - | |
marjoram | n | - | kingswort (<OE cyninges wyrt) | |
market (<OE) | n | market | chapstow (cf. chapman, Chapstow, Chipstead, Cheapside, Chipping,), chipping (<ME chẹ̄pinge, cf. Chipping) | |
maroon | adj | oxblood | – | |
marquess | n | - | athelman | |
marriage | n | wedding, handfast, wedlock | wedlock, trothing, shackledom (slang) trothness, trothhood, betrothing, betrothness, betrothhood, wifefast, gathership (<OE gaderscipe) | |
marry | vb | wed, troth, betroth, tie | gathership | |
married | adj | wedded | trothed, betrothed, wifefast, tied, gathershipped (< OE gaderscipe + NE -ed) | |
Mars (the planet) | n | - | Tye | |
marsupial | n | - | pursedeer (cf. DN pungdyr) | |
martyr | n | - | bloot (<OE (ge)blot, 'sacrifice'), rood-bearer, kither (from Modern English kithe <OE cyðere), witness (Gr. martyreo means 'I witness, I tell about'; Ar. also uses same root for witness and martyr) | |
martial art(s) | n | - | wyecraft(s) | |
Martian | adj | - | Tyely (<OE Tīw/Tī (a god who was often interpreted as being equivalent to Mars/Jupiter) + -ly) | |
marvel | n/vb | wonder, wilder | - | |
marvelous | adj | wonderful, wulderly, selcouth | - | |
Marxism | n | - | Marxlief, Marxhood, Marksdom, Marxdom | |
massive | adj | big, great, huge (Frankish or Old Norse origin) | - | |
mask | n/vb | hide | grime (<OE grīma), mesh (calque) | |
masochism | n | achelove, achelust | - | |
masochist | n | seeksorrow, achelover, acheluster | - | |
mason | n | stonecutter | stonewright, wallwright | |
masonry | n | stonecraft, stonework | wallwork | |
masque | n | - | meshplay | |
masquerade | n | - | meshtumb | |
Mass (<OE) | n | - | Roufrithson's Engliſh: Sent (send + -th) | |
mass | n | bulk, inweight, lot, deal | - | |
mass media | n | - | bulk middle | |
massacre | n | slaughter | - | |
masticate | vb | chew | - | |
master | n | head, lord, teacher | lorethew, reeve, larew (<ME lārēw <OE lārēow; shortening of lorethew) | |
master | vb | - | alearn (cf. NHG erlernen) | |
mastery | n | - | sleight (cf. ME sleight) | |
mastodon | n | - | breasttooth (calque of Greek) | |
masturbate | vb | play with oneself, wank (unknown origin) | handswive, selfligoad, selfswive | |
masturbation | n | self-love, ham shank (vulgar), wank (unknown origin), fingering (female) | - | |
match | n |
lighter |
strikewood, kindlewood (like German) | |
material | n | - | anwork (<OE andweorc), even (<OE *efn <PG *abniją; found in OE andefn) | |
material | adj | weighty | bodilike | |
maternal | adj | motherly | - | |
mathematics | n | - | rimecraft (<OE rīmcræft), tellcraft, reckonlore | |
matrimony | n | wedlock | - | |
matrix | n | womb; listing; spreadsheet | feedingbottom (calque: NL voedingsbodem); yetshape (calque: NL gietvorm) | |
matronym | n | - | mothername (calque) | |
matter | n | sake | antimber (<OE andtimber), anwork (<OE andweorc), inting (<OE intinga) | |
matter | vb | - | of importance: markworth | |
mature | adj | grown, ripe, wise | fulwaxen (<ME fulwaxen), frood (<OE frōd) | |
maxilla | n | jawbone | - | |
maximum | n/adj | uttermost, utmost, most | - | |
May | n | - | Threemilkmonth/Thrimilk (<OE Þrimilce, Þrimilcemonað), Merrymonth, Fifthmonth | |
mayhem | n | crippling | - | |
mayonnaise | n | yolkdip | - | |
mayor | n | - | boroughreeve, townreeve, burgelder (<OE) | |
Mc[] | ||||
McCarthyism | n | - | McCarthydom | |
Me[] | ||||
mea culpa | phr | my bad | by my misdeed, through my wrongdoing | |
mean(s) | n | way | middle | |
measure |
n/vb |
beat, mete | meal (<OE mǣl), even (<ME evene, even <ON efni) | |
mechanics | n | - | workcraft (<OE weorccræft) | |
media | n | - | middle, midspan | |
mediate | vb | - | formiddle (calque: NHG vermitteln) | |
mediate | adj | halfway, midmost | - | |
mediator | n | - | formiddler, makefrith, middleman | |
medicine | n | healing (substance) | leechwort, leechdom (field of.), leechcraft (field of.), leechlore (field of.), healcraft, healer (remedy), healstuff (<NHG Heilstoff) | |
medieval | adj | - | middle eld, middletimely | |
mediocre | adj | middling, halfway | - | |
meditate | vb | - |
insee, hedge, huy (<OE hycgan), sin/sun (<OE sinnan; 'sun' by analogy to 'run' - <OE rinnan to avoid negative connotation with "sin"), smay (<OE smeagan/smean), threed (<OE þreodian), forsink (calque of NHG versenken, senken "to lower" being a causative form of sinken "to sink" akin to OE sencan) Godsit | |
meditation | n | - | inseeing, inwardness, inwardfare, godsitting | |
Mediterranean Sea | n | Great Sea (Bible, Chaucer) | Wendlesea (<Vandal seafarers), Middlesea (calque: NHG Mittelmeer) | |
medium | adj | - | evenspan, midbulky, midspan | |
medley | n | mashup, mix | - | |
mega- | pfx | - | mickle (<OE micel) | |
mega annum- | n | - | Greatyear, Mickleredyear, twisandyear | |
megalodon | n | - | mickletooth (calque of Greek), great-haye, great-highcarl, great dog fish | |
megalopolis | n | - | mickleborough | |
megaphone | n | bullhorn, loudhailer | - | |
meiosis | n | - | frumecleaving | |
Meiji (era) | n | - | Enlightened Law | |
melancholy | adj | dreary, heartbreaking, heartrending, mournful, saddening, teary; cast down, down in the-mouth, forlorn, gloomy, woebegone, sorrowful | moody-blue | |
melee | n | tussle | - | |
melody | n | - | gleestaff (<OE gliwstæf), lin (OE hlynian; cf. IC hljómr), earworm | |
melon | n | - | rindberry, shellberry, barkberry, entapple (from Minecraft) | |
member | n | limb, fellow, belonger, link | belongand, lith | |
membrane | n | film, foreskin, rim | skinkin (cf. NHG Häutchen) | |
meme | n | - | meme (Reconstructed with the alternatively Germanic rooted <ME mene, which relates to the common tone)
apemind (ape+mind, as in copy+idea) | |
memento | n | keepsake | - | |
memory | n | mimor, mind's eye, mind's ear, min | amind (<OE ġemynd), eftminding, bemindings, inmind, mindskill, mindlikeness | |
menagerie | n | - | housekeep (calque), deerkeep, wightkeep, wildhouse, deerhouse, wighthouse | |
meningitis | n | - | brimshell addle | |
menstrual | adj | monthly | - | |
menstruate | vb | monthbleed | moonbleed | |
mental | adj | mindly, inward, mindlike, mind- | - | |
mental affliction | n | ail, bedevil | - | |
mentality | n | mindset, outlook | - | |
mention | vb | name, min, speak of, say something of, bring up, hint at | - | |
menu | n | - | walelist, mealsheet | |
mercenary | n | sellsword, hired gun | hireling | |
merchant | n | chapman, trader | - | |
merchandise | n | wares, goods, stocks | - | |
merchandising | n | - | (direct to public): delling | |
merciful | adj | forgiving, mildhearted | - | |
merciless | adj | ruthless | - | |
mercury | n | quicksilver | - | |
mercy | n | kindness, ruth | milse (<ME milce) | |
merge | vb | blend, meld, flow, flow in | - | |
meridian | n | high noon, high-water line | - | |
merit | n | meed, worth | theen, winst (<NL winst) | |
merry-go-round | n | - | merry-werve | |
Mesolithic | n | - | Middle Stone Eld | |
Mesopotamia | n | - | Mesopotamland, or translated as Bearithland (shortening of bear 'fertile' + rith 'stream') Twixtrith (meso = between) | |
meson | n | - | midmote | |
mesozoic | n | - | Midlifen, eld of slinkands/creepdeer | |
message | n | earful, tiding, wire, word | sond (<ME sōnd), boding; errandwrit (<OE ǣrendgewrit); errandbook (<OE ǽrendbóc), beright (calque: NL berecht) | |
meta- | pref | over- | after- | |
metal | n | ore | bloom, blome (<OE blóma) | |
metamorphosis | n | - | awendshape | |
metaphor | n | kenning, sameness | - | |
metaphorical | adj | - | kenningly, kenning | |
meteor | n | falling star, shooting star | strealer, welkin-fire (OE), yondaloft, sloftmote, aloftstreal, overloft, overloftling, aloftwist (loft- + 'wist' - being), midloft (calque on Greek (mid & lofty) | |
meteorology | - | overloftlore, aloftlore | ||
meter | n | meter (mete + -er phonetic and literal calque) | (poetry) atell (<OE getæl 'rhythm, harmony') | |
methane | n | - | firedamp | |
method | n | way, means | thewline, shedding (cf. OE gescéad), doway, iway, iwone, bewoning, ilode, belode | |
metro | n | - | fastwain, boroughwain, steadwain | |
metropolis | n | - | alderborough, mickleborough | |
Mi[] | ||||
micro- | pref | small- | - | |
microcosm | n | worldkin | - | |
microorganism | n | - | smallbeing | |
microphone | n | speaker | smallspeaker | |
microscope | n | - | speckseer | |
microscopic | adj | tiny, teeny, wee, specky | - | |
microwave | v | bake, heat up, warm up, zap | - | |
microwave oven | n | oven, kiln, zapper, stove | smalloven | |
Midgard | n(p) | - | Midgarth, Midyard | |
migrate | vb | - | outwander or wander out (calque: NHG auswandern) | |
militaristic | adj | hawkish | - | |
military | n | - | ferd (<OE fyrd), campdom | |
militia | n | - | folkward | |
millennia | n | yearthousands | thousandyears | |
millennium | n | yearthousand | thousandyear | |
milligram | n | - | thousandthbit (thousandth + bit) | |
millimeter | n | - | twisandbeat (Anglish "twisand" (million) + "beat" (measure)), twisandmeter(<E mete 'to measure', meter 'that which measures') | |
million | n | thousand thousand |
micklered (<OE mycel 'much, great' cognate to Gk. megas, "mega-" being the SI prefix for "million" + '-red, as in 'hundred'), twisand (< twi- 'two' + -sand, as in 'thousand'); yan (from Northumbrian yan and doing a recount while using old ways to say numbers or dialectal ways to make up for those numbers) | |
mince | vb | - | hack | |
mine (weapon) | n | - | delf, explosive: stillblaster | |
mine (place) | n | pit (<OE) | groove (cf. NHG Grube; NL groeve) | |
mine | vb | delve | groove | |
minecart | n | - | delvewagon (from Minecraft) | |
mineral | n | ore | - | |
mini- | pref | small-, lesser | - | |
minimize | vb | lessen, downplay, belittle | - | |
miniscule | adj | tiny, teeny, wee, specky | - | |
minister | n | - | rede, ambighter, thane | |
ministry | n | - | ambight | |
minstrel | n | gleeman, folksinger | - | |
minor | adj | - | youngling | |
minority | n | - | lesserhood (cf. NHG Minderheit) | |
minus | conj | min, less than, take away | - | |
minotaur | n | - | mazebull, bullman | |
minuscule | adj | - | lowerkey, lowerkind | |
minute | n | - | mete, mint (min [small] + -t [frequentative suffix]), shortlog (cf. Latin minuta 'short note') | |
miracle | n | flash, wonder | - | |
mirror | n | looking-glass | shewer (<OE scēawere, cf. GO skuggwa "mirror") | |
misandrist | n | man-hater | - | |
misappropriate | vb | steal | - | |
misappropriation | n | stealing, theft | - | |
misbehaviour (foreign suffix) | n | - | misbehaving | |
miscellany | n | clatter, jumble, kitchen-sink, mishmash | - | |
misdemeanour | n | misdeed, wrongdoing | misdeed (<OE misdǣd) | |
miser | n | tightwad, skinflint | - | |
miserable | adj | black, bleak, dark, forlorn, glum, godforsaken, grey, sullen; downcast, hangdog, woeful; wretched; ratty, run-down, threadbare | yeemer (<OE geomor), arsy (calque: NHG arschig) | |
misery | n | angst, weakness, woe, sorrow, gloom, hardship, ruth | ermth (<OE iermðu), wanshaft (<OE wansceaft), unlithe (<OE unlæþu), unseel (<OE unsælþ), wearing (<OE weargung) | |
misfortune | n | mishap, harm | illfare, wanluck | |
mismanage | vb | mishandle | - | |
misogynist | n | - | woman-hater | |
misotheïsm | n | - | mistroth, god-hating, hatred of god(s) | |
misplace | vb | mislay | misstow, misput | |
missile | n | - | shot (<OE gescot, cf. NHG Geschoss), warp | |
mission | n | errand, undertaking, goal, task, ordeal | religious: winfrid, winfriding (cf. Saint Boniface) | |
missionary | n | sendling, errander | winfridsman, winfridster, winfridingman (cf. Saint Boniface) | |
Mister/Mr. | n | Goodman/Gn. | Her/Hr. (<ME herre; cf. NHG Herr)
Frea/Fr. (<OE frēa)
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mitigate | vb | soften, loosen | - | |
mitochondrium | n | - | mightcorn | |
mitosis | n | - | brickdealing | |
mitten | n | - | fistling (calque: NHG Fäustling), fistglove (cf. NHG Fausthandschuh), want (<NL want) | |
Mo[] | ||||
mobile (phone) | n | handset, handcaller | handblower, handy (<NHG Handy) | |
mock | vb/adj | mock (<PG reassembling), man-made, sham; send up | - | |
mockery | n | hoker (ME, <OE hōcor) | - | |
mode | n | way, trend | wayset | |
model | n | build, make | pattern: forelay (calque: NHG Vorlage) dummy, forebeing | |
modern | adj | newfangled | nowtide (calque: SW nutida), nowalike | |
modernise | vb | - | benew | |
modest | adj | down-to-earth, meek | coush (<OE cúsc) | |
modesty | n | - | beshedness (cf. NHG Bescheidenheit, NL bescheidenheid) | |
modify | vb | wend, overhaul, work over | awend | |
modification | n | wending, overhaul, overhauling | awentness, awendedness, awending | |
modulation | n | stringbending | sparkwave
(music): wavebending | |
moist | adj | damp, wet, watery, soft | thone (<OE þān) | |
molar | n | - | wangtooth (<OE wangtoð) grindtooth (<OE grindetoð) | |
molasses | n | - | sweetsap | |
mold | vb | build, make, shape | - | |
moment | n | eyeblink, flash, heartbeat, twinkling |
nutlog, flash, heartbeat, twinkling, thraw/throwe (<ME þraw(e), þrowe <OE þrāg) | |
monarch | n | king | onewleld (<OE anwealda), self-reder | |
monarchism | n | kingdom | self-reding | |
monarchy | n | kingship | sunderwield (<OE sundoranweald), self-rede kineship | |
monastery | n | - | bedestow | |
monasticism | n | - | brotherlife | |
money | n |
gelt, geld (native), fee, brass, mint, silver, sterling, penny, tradeworth, slang: kale, dough, buck |
shat (<ME schat) | |
moneybag | n | - | sead (<OE seod) | |
monitor | vb | watch, oversee | - | |
monk | n | - | brother (<OE), lonelord | |
monkey | n | - | tailape | |
monkey-puzzle tree | n | - | tailape-puzzle tree | |
monogamy | n | - | anwedding | |
monologue | n | - | lonespeech | |
monopoly | n | onesell (calque) | - | |
monotheism | n | - | onetroth, onetrothing, oneoath, onebelief, onebelieving, oneworship, baretroth, baretrothing, bareoath, barebelief, barebelieving, bareworship, alonetroth, alonetrothing, aloneoath, alonebelief, alonebelieving, aloneworship, lonetroth, lonetrothing, loneoath, lonebelief, lonebelieving, loneworship, onlytroth, onlytrothing, onlyoath, onlybelief, onlybelieving, onlyworship, barelytroth, barelytrothing, barelyoath, barelybelief, barelybelieving, barelyworship | |
monsoon | n | - | squallrain | |
monster | n | fiend; dreadnaught; bogey | nicker (<OE nicor); unhire (cf. NHG Ungeheuer, Dan./Norw. uhyre) | |
Montenegro | n | - | Blackhill, Blackbarrow, Swartbarrow, Swartfellland (cf. IC Svartfjallaland), | |
monument | n | keepsake, token; gravestone, headstone | thinktoken (cf. W.Fr. tinkteken), umbfastening (<OE ymbfaestnung) | |
monumental | adj | overwhelming | awe-inblowing | |
moor | n | heath | - | |
moose | n | (greater) elk | - | |
must (was past tense in OE) | v | - | moot (<OE mōtan and <ME mọ̄ten) | |
moral | n | thew | thewword | |
moral | adj | - | sidely, sidful (<OE sideful), thewfast (<OE geþéawfæst), thewful | |
morality | n | uprightness | sideliness, thewfastness, douthness | |
morbid | adj | forlorn | - | |
mordant | adj | biting | - | |
morgue | n | deadhouse | - | |
moribund | adj | dying, deathbound | - | |
mortal | adj | deadly, deathly, fleshly | deathling, deathbound | |
mortality | n | death, end, ending, endless sleep, forthfaring, bane, Grim Reaper | deadliness, deathliness | |
mortify | vb | - | adeeth (<OE gedēþan) | |
mortgage | n | wadset, homeloan | - | |
mortuary | n | - | lychhouse, undertaker's, bodyroom, bodyhouse | |
mosaic | n | - | shardbilth | |
mosquito | n | gnat, midge, midgie | bloodfly | |
mother nature | n | - | Lady Lund | |
motion | n | - | shrithing, beweighing (calque: NHG Bewegung, NL beweging), quickening, sway | |
motionless | adj | stock-still | - | |
motive | n | - |
rethe, frume ulterior: hinderthought (calque: NHG Hintergedanke) | |
motor | n | - | wheels, drivework | |
motorboat | n | watercraft | - | |
motorcycle | n | - | halfwain, halfwagon, thunderhorse, rarianhors* (roaring-horse) | |
motorway | n | highway | - | |
motto | n | saying | bidword (calque: WF biedwurd) | |
mound | n | drift; heap; highland, rise, upland | - | |
mount (<OE) | n | hill, barrow; horse | - | |
mounted | adj | on horseback | beriden (<ME beriden <OE berídan) | |
mountain | n | barrow, fell, peak mountainous region: highland(s) |
highbarrow, ??? (<OE pīc, NL piek, DN pik) | |
mountainous | adj | - | barrowy (cf. NHG bergig) | |
moustache | n | kemp, nosebeard | grane (<OE granu), overbeard, snor (cf. NL snor, NHG Schnurrbart), lipbeard | |
move | vb |
shift, drive, stir, sway, set off, wade; rock (cf. NHG rücken) |
waw (<ME wawen) wander: shrithe (<OE scrīþan), beweigh (calque: NL bewegen), quicken, flit (<ON flytja) away: othshove (<OE ōþscūfan) fast: lake stealthily: besteal | |
movement | n | shift, stir; drive | shrithing, quickening, nessing (<OE ness)
pol: beweighing (calque: NHG Bewegung, NL beweging) | |
movie | n | film, flick | quickie | |
Mr[] | ||||
Mr/Mr., Sir | n | Lord |
Har (<ME harre <OE hearra, cf. NHG Herr) | |
Mrs/Mrs., Miss, Ms/Ms., Missus | n | Lady | Frow (<OE frówe, cf. NHG Frau) | |
Mu[] | ||||
mucus | n | slime, snot | horrow (<OE horh, cf. OHG Horo) | |
muffle | vb | shroud | - | |
mule | n | - | dunkyhorse (from Minecraft) | |
multiculturalism | n | - | felemenning (calque: IC fjölmenning) | |
multiple | adj | many, manifold, morefold | fele (<OE fela, feola) | |
multiply | vb | manifold | - | |
multi- | pref | cluster-, mani- | fele- (<OE fela-), fay (<OE fag fah brightly multicoloured) | |
multi-language word | n | wanderword | - | |
multi-purpose | adj | all-in-one | - | |
multitude | n | crowd, throng, flock, folk, cluster, wave, mow, manifoldness | - | |
mummy | n | - | linwrapped body | |
municipality | n | - | meanth (calque: NHG Gemeinde) | |
murderous (foreign suffix) | adj | murdery | - | |
Murmansk | n | Northman | - | |
muscle | n | brawn, thew, flesh-string | mousock (Latin musculus 'little mouse'); musling ('little mouse') | |
muscular | adj | brawny, thewy, sinewy, thewsome | - | |
muse | vb | mimmer/mammer | - | |
museum | n | - | crafthall, yorehall; crafthouse; lorestead | |
mushroom | n | toadstool | mosswort, mosswamb | |
music | n | glee |
soon (<OE són), swin, swincraft (<OE geswin "song" + craft), gleamlist (cf. Ic hljómlist), song, tonelist (from Icelandic), songcraft, gleecraft, swinsongcraft, dreamcraft (<OE dréamcræft) | |
musical | adj/n | dreamly | soonly, soony, soonsomesongly, gleamwise (cf. Ic hljómvís)theatre: songplay
movie: songfilm, soonfilm | |
musician | n | gleer, player, songwright, gleeman/gleewoman (obsolete) |
soonsmith, swinsmith, dreamer (<OE dreamere) | |
musicology | n | - | soonlore, swinlore, gleelore | |
musket | n | firearm, gun, (types of musket): flintlock, matchlock, wheel-lock, smoothbore, snaplock, doglock | long gun, locked gun, handgun, drum-loaded gun, gunne, staff, firegar (fire spear), handgunne/handgun, flygun | |
Muslim | n | - | Frithsomebeliefbeliever, Frithsomebelieffollower, Sibfulbeliefbeliever (<OE sibbe + -ful + belief + believe + -er), Sibfulbelieffollower (<OE sibbe + -ful + belief + follow + -er), Grithfulbeliefbeliever (<OE griþ + -ful + belief + believe + -er), Grithfulbelieffollower (<OE griþ + -ful + belief + follow + -er) | |
Muslim | adj | - | Frithsomebeliefly, Blissfulbeliefly, Dovishbeliefly, Restfulbeliefly, Sibfulbeliefly (<OE sibbe + -ful + belief + -ly), Grithfulbeliefly (<OE griþ + -ful + belief + -ly) | |
mustard | n | - | semp (<OE senep, but <late Latin <Greek, compare modern Italian, senape, so both roots are not Germanic) | |
muster | n/vb | gather(ing) | fay | |
mussel | n | - | ran (<OE hran) | |
mutate | vb | shapeshift | shrithe, yondshape, wandle | |
mute | adj | dumb, hushed, speechless | nospeak | |
mutilate | n/vb | - | overcripple | |
mutton | n | sheepflesh | - | |
mutual | adj | evenway | bothways | |
muzzle | n | snout, neb | wroot (<ME wrōt); snoutmesh | |
My[] | ||||
mycelium | n | - | net (cf. IC net), swambnet | |
myopia | n | near(-)sightedness, short(-)sightedness | - | |
mystery | n | wonder, brain twister, beyond man's ken, hidden thing | rown (<ME roun), mistihood (<ME mistīhēd), ghost-wonder (cf. OE gástgerýne), hiddle, riddle, arine (<OE gerȳne; cf. ME irīne, NHG Geraune) | |
mystic | n | - | riddle-like, riddleish ( cf. NL raadselachtig) | |
mysticism | n | - | homeliness (cf. NL geheimzinnig), riddle-likeness (cf. NL raadselachtig) | |
myth | n | - | dreamtale, wondertale | |
mythology | n | folklore |
dreamlore, wonderlore, mistlore |