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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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Ma[]

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
mess over slang

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 LideOE 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/ (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)


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

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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

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