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Revision as of 19:59, 12 July 2018
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.
Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
Attested | Unattested | |||
macabre | adj | gruesome, grisly | - | |
macerate | vb | soak, steep | - | |
machine | n |
vehicle: horseless, wheels (slang) |
gearware, searshaft, workware, workrig | |
machine gun | n | - | shacklegun | |
magazine | n | daily (some contexts), weekly (other contexts), slick (some contexts) | timewrit (cf. Du. tijdschrift, NHG Zeitschrift) | |
magic | n/adj | bad: spellcraft, witchcraft |
dwimmer, galder (<OE galdor) galder(craft) chanting magic gale to do galder seethe(craft), seith(craft), or seeth(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 | |
magnesium | n | - | bitterstuff | |
magnesium oxide | n | - | bitter earth | |
magnate | n | - | mickman | |
magnet | n | loadstone/lodestone (< lode (ME guide) + stone) | sailstone (cf. Ic. segull) | |
magnify | n | blow up, make bigger |
bemickel (<be + OE miclīan) in wonderment: wonderleak (<OE ġewundorlæcan) glorify: dome (<OE dōmian) | |
magnitude | n | weight, greatness, micklehood | ||
magnolia | n | - | beaverbloom | |
maggot | n | worm, grub | maddock, mathe (<OE maþa; cf. Scots mathe) | |
mail (armor) | n | - | mesh, burne (<ME) | |
maim | vb | cripple | - | |
maintain | vb | keep up, uphold, hold | - | |
maintenance | n | upkeep | - | |
maître d'hôtel | n | - | houserede | |
majestic | adj | high-flown, lofty, stour | hovely, thrymfast (<OE þrymfæst), storslagenhet | |
majesty | n | highness, lordship, loftiness, stourness |
oreworthness (<OE arweorþnes), douthness, thrim (<OE þrymm), kineship (<OE cynescipe) | |
major | n | overling | thane | |
major | adj | higher, overling | - | |
majority | n | most, better half, body, great body | morehood | |
maladjusted | adj | misfit | - | |
malady | n | sickness, illness, unwellness | addle, cothe | |
malapert | adj | brazen | unbeshamed (cf. Du. onbeschaamd) | |
malaria | n | - | nitheloft (calque of Italian mala aria) | |
male | adj |
manly, manlike; pref: he- |
he-kind, hesome | |
male | n | man, buck, chap, fellow, lad state: manhood |
-werman (O.E wermann) | |
malefactor | n | sinner, wrongdoer: crook, lawbreaker | - | |
malevolence | n | hatefulness, meanness | - | |
malevolent | adj | bad, mean, evil | - vond (<ON Vándr) | |
malfeasance | n | misdoing, wrongdoing | - | |
malfunction | n | flaw, glitch | - | |
malfunction | vb | misbehave | miswork | |
malice | n | cattiness, hatefulness, meanness | nithecraft | |
malicious | adj | wicked | nithe | |
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 | - | milkwight, suckledeer (NHG. Säugetier) | |
mammary | n | breast, tit | - | |
mammoth | n | - | furelp (cf. Ic. loðfíll Far. loðfílur)
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 | |
manger | n | trough | - | |
mango | n | - | gawk's/yeke's bliss (cf. Eng. cuckoo's joy) | |
mangrove | n | - | shrubmarsh; tree: loftroot | |
mania | n | madness | - | |
maniac | adj | mad, crazy | - | |
manifest(ed) | adj | bald, ringing, straightforward, marked | sweetel (<OE sweotol)
obvious: opensightly (cf. NHG offensichtlich) | |
manifest | vb | bespeak, give away
indicate: betoken |
sweetel | |
manifestation | n | - | sweetling, betokening | |
manifesto | n | - | sweetling | |
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 (has multiple spellings) <OE þēaw, cf. Nhb. ðēow) | |
manna | n | - | whitecorn (<OE hwītcorn) | |
mansion | n | hall | hireyard (cf. Sw. herrgård) hire = mister | |
mansuetude | adj | tameness, mildness | - | |
manta ray | n | - | mantlereagh | |
mantis | n | - | 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 | - | |
Maoism | n | - |
Mao Zedong Thought/Mao Tsetung Thought/Mao Cetung Thought (Calque of the Ch. 毛澤東思想, Máo Zédōng Sī'ǎng/Mao2 Tze2tung1 Sih1ang3/Máŭ Cétǖng Sīh-ǎng/ㄇㄠˊㄗㄜˊㄉㄩㄥㄙㄤˇ), Maodom | |
map | n | - | mete (<OE metan: to measure "to scale") landsheet (cf. Ic. landakort) | |
marble | n | - | shinestone (Greek) | |
march | n/vb | headway, onrish; stride
rim land: mark |
- | |
March | n | - |
Miremonth, Rethmonth (<OE Hreðmonað), Lyde | |
Mardi Gras | n | Shrove Tuesday | - | |
marijuana | n | hemp street talk: grass, weed |
- | |
marine | adj | sea-, mer(e)- | - | |
marine | n | - | shipyæger | |
marine park | n | - | water-frith | |
marionette | n | - | stringdoll, marydoll | |
maritime | adj | sealike | - | |
marjoram | n | - | kingswort (<OE cyningeswyrt) | |
market | n | - | chepstow (town on the Welsh border) | |
marquess | n | - | athelman | |
marriage | n | wedding, handfast, wedlock | gathership (<OE gaderscipe) | |
marry | vb | wed, tie | awn | |
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) | |
marvel | n/vb | wonder, wilder | - | |
marvelous | adj | wonderful, wulderly, selcouth | - | |
mask | n/vb | hide | grime (<OE grīma), mesh, greem (<OE, to show it is like grime, but not the same meaning as modern English) | |
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 | n | bulk, inweight, lot, deal | - | |
mass media | n | - | bulk means | |
massacre | n | slaughter | - | |
masticate | vb | chew | - | |
master | n | head, lord | reeve | |
mastodon | n | - | breasttooth (calque of Greek) | |
masturbate | vb | frig (OE: frygian (“to rub, caress”)), wank | - | |
match | n |
game, tie, head-to-head; mate, fellow; twin, lookalike; light (stick) |
(to light a fire) strikewood, kindlewood (like German) | |
material | adj | weighty | bodilike | |
maternal | adj | motherly | - | |
mathematics | n | - | rimecraft (<OE rīmcræft), tellcraft, reckonlore | |
matrimony | n | wedlock | - | |
matrix | n | womb; listing; spreadsheet | feedingbottom (Du. voedingsbodem); yetshape (calque of Du. gietvorm) | |
matter | n | - | andwork (<OE andweorc), inting (<OE intinga) | |
mature | adj | grown, ripe | - | |
maxilla | n | jawbone | - | |
maximum | n/adj | uttermost, utmost, most | - | |
May | n | - | Threemilkmonth, (<OE Þrimeolce, Þrimilcemonað), Merrymonth | |
mayhem | n | crippling, | - | |
mayonnaise | n | yolkdip | - | |
mayor | n | - | boroughreeve, townreeve, burgelder(<OE) | |
mea culpa | my bad | by my misdeed, through my wrongdoing. | ||
measure |
n/vb |
beat, mete | meal (<OE mǣl) | |
mechanics | n | - | workcraft (<OE weorccræft) | |
media | n | - | means | |
mediate | vb | - | formiddle (cf. 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 | |
medieval | adj | - | middle eld | |
mediocre | adj | middling, halfway | - | |
meditate | vb | - |
hedge, huy (<OE hycgan) sin/sun (<OE sinnan) 'sun' by analogy to 'run' - <OE rinnan to avoid, negative connotation with "sin") smigh (<OE smeagan) smy (<OE smean) threed (<OE þreodian) forsink (calque of NHG versenken, senken "to lower" being a causative form of sinken "to sink" akin to OE sencan) | |
Mediterranean Sea | n | - | Wendlesea (<Vandal seafarers) | |
medium | adj | - | evenspan, midbulky | |
medley | n | mashup, mix | ||
mega- | p
fx |
- | mickle (<OE micel) | |
megalodon | n | - | mickletooth (calque of Greek)
great-haye, great-highcarl, great dog fish | |
megalopolis | n | - | mickleborough | |
megaphone | n | bullhorn, loudhailer | - | |
meiosis | n | - | frumecleaving | |
melancholy | adj | dreary, heartbreaking, heartrending, mournful, saddening, teary; cast down, down in the-mouth, forlorn, gloomy, woebegone, sorrowful | - | |
melee | n | tussle | - | |
melody | n | - | gleestaff (<OE gliwstæf) lin (OE hlynian; cf. Ic. hljómr), earworm | |
melon | n | - | rindberry, shellberry, barkberry | |
member | n | limb, fellow, belonger, link | belongand | |
membrane | n | film | skinkin (cf. NHG Häutchen) | |
memory | n | mimor, mind's eye, mind's ear, min | eftminding, bemindings, inmind, mindskill, mindlikeness, yemind (<OE ġemynd) | |
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- | - | |
mentality | n | mindset, outlook | - | |
mention | vb | name, speak of, say something of, bring up, hint at | - | |
menu | n | - | walelist, mealsheet | |
mercenary | n | - | 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 | milts (<OE) | |
merge | vb | blend, meld | - | |
meridian | n | high noon, high-water line | - | |
merit | n | meed, worth | theen, winst (cf. Du. winst) | |
merry-go-round | n | - | merry-werve | |
Mesolithic | n | - | Middle Stoneseldth | |
Mesopotamia | n | - | Bearithland (shortening of bear 'fertile' + rith 'stream')Twixtrith (meso = between) | |
meson | n | - | midmote | |
message | n | earful, tiding, wire, word | errandwrit, boding, errandbook (<OE ǽrendbóc)
beright (cf. Du. berecht) | |
meta- | pref | over- | after- | |
metal | n | - | bloom (<OE blóma), orestuff | |
metamorphosis | n | - | forwandling (cf. NHG Verwandlung), overshift | |
metaphor | n | kenning | - | |
metaphoric(al) | adj | - | kenningly, kenning | |
meteor | n | falling star, shooting star | strealer | |
meter (poetry) | n | - | tal (<OE getæl 'rhythm, harmony') | |
methane | n | - | firedamp | |
method | n | way, means | thewline, shedding (cf. OE gescéad) | |
metropolis | n | - | mickleborough | |
Mexico | n | - | Moonsnavel | |
mezozoicum | n | - | midlife eldth | |
micro- | pref | small- | - | |
microscope | n | - | speckseer | |
Midgard | n | - | Midgarth, Midyard | |
migrate | vb | - | outwander (cf. NHG auswandern) | |
militarist(ic) | n/adj | hawk(ish) | - | |
military | n/adj | landmight(ly) | ferd (<OE fyrd), campdom
expedition: axfaring (<OE æxfaru) | |
militia | n | - | folkward | |
millennia | n | yearthousands | thousandyears | |
millennium | n | yearthousand | thousandyear | |
millimeter | n | - | twisandbeat (Anglish "twisand" (million) + "beat" (measure)), twisandmeter(<E mete 'to measure', meter 'that which measures') | |
million | n | - |
micklered (<OE mycel 'much, great' cognate to Gk. megas, "mega-" being the SI prefix for "million" + '-red, as in 'hundred') twisand (<Anglish twi- 'two' + -sand, as in 'thousand') | |
mince | vb | - | hack | |
mine (weapon) | n | - | delf: explosive: stillblaster | |
mine (place from which ore is extracted) | n | - | groove (cf. Ger. Grube; Du. Groeve) | |
mine | vb | delve | groove | |
mineral | n | ore | - | |
mini- | pref | small-, lesser | - | |
minimize | vb | lessen, downplay, belittle | - | |
minister | n | - | rede, ambighter | |
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) | n | - | Ambight for Ricksickerhood (calque) | |
ministry | n | - | ambight | |
minstrel | n | gleeman, folksinger | - | |
minor | adj | - | youngling | |
minority | n | - | lesserness, lesserhood (cf. NHG Minderheit) | |
minus | conj | min, less than, take away | ||
minotaur | n | - | mazebull, bullman | |
minute | n | - | mete, shortlog (cf. Latin minuta 'short note') | |
miracle | n | flash, wonder | craftwork (<Ic.), wonderwork, tacen | |
mirror | n | looking-glass | shewer (<OE scūwa + -er, cf. goth. skuggwa "mirror") | |
misandrist | n | man-hater | - | |
misappropriate | vb | steal | - | |
misappropriative guest | n | - | stealguest (<OE stælġiest) | |
misappropriation | n | stealing, theft | - | |
miscellany(eous) | n/adj | clatter, jumble, kitchen-sink, mishmash, mixed | sundry | |
misdemeanour | n | wrongdoing | - | |
miser | n | tightwad, skinflint, niggard | - | |
miserable | adj | black, bleak, cheerless, dark, forlorn, glum, godforsaken, grey, sullen; downcast, hangdog, woeful; wreatched; ratty, run-down, threadbear | yomer (<OE geomor) | |
misery | n | angst, weakness, woe, sorrow, gloom, hardship | jermth (<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 | misstead, mis-stead | |
missile | n | - | shot (<OE gescot, cf. NHG Geschoss)
warp | |
mission | n | errand, undertaking, goal, task, ordeal | - | |
missionary | n | sendling, errander | winfridsman, winfridster, winfridingman cf. Saint Boniface | |
mitigate | vb | soften | - | |
mitochondrium | n | - | mightcorn | |
mitosis | n | - | brickdealing | |
mitten | n | - | fistling (cf. NHG Fäustling)
fistglove (cf. NHG Fausthandschuh) want (cf. Du. want) | |
mobile (phone) | n | handset, handcaller | handblower, handy (cf. NHG Handy) | |
mock | vb/adj | man-made, sham; send up | - | |
mockery | n | hoker (ME, <OE hōcor) | - | |
mode | n | way, trend | ||
model | n | - | pattern: forelay (cf. NHG Vorlage) dummy, forebeing | |
modern | adj | newfangled | nowtide (cf. Sw. nutida), nowalike | |
modernise | vb | - | benew | |
modest | adj | down-to-earth, meek | cush (<OE cúsc) | |
modesty | n | beshedness/ beshedhood (cf. NHG bescheidenheit, Du. bescheidenheid) | ||
modify | vb | wend | awend | |
modification | n | wending | awentness, awendedness
awending | |
modulation | n | -stringbending | sparkwave
(music): wavebending | |
moist | adj | damp, wet, watery | - | |
molar | n | - | wongtooth (<OE wangtoð) grindtooth (<OE grindetoð) | |
molasses | n | - | sweetsap | |
mold | vb | build, make, shape | - | |
moment | n | eyeblink, flash, heartbeat, twinkling |
nutlog, eyeblinck, flash, heartbeat, twinkling, thraw (<ME þraw(e), <OE þrāg) pl: thrawü | |
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 | |
monologue | n | - | lonespeech | |
monopoly | n | onesell (calque) | - | |
monster | n | fiend; dreadnaught | nicker (<OE nicor); unhire (cf. NHG Ungeheuer, Dan./Norw. uhyre) | |
Montenegro | n | - | Blackhill, Blackberg, Swartbarrow, Blackbarrow | |
monument | n | keepsake, token; gravestone, headstone | thinktoken (cf. W.Fr. tinkteken) | |
monumental | adj | overwhelming | awe-inblowing | |
moor | n | heath | - | |
moose | n | (greater) elk | - | |
moral | adj | - | sidely, sideful (OE sideful), thewfast (<OE geþéawfæst), thewful | |
morality | n | uprightness | sideliness, thewfastness, douthness | |
morbid | adj | cheerless, forlorn | - | |
mordant | adj | biting | - | |
morgue | n | deadhouse | - | |
moribund | adj | dying, deathbound | - | |
mortal | n/adj | deadly (adj); wight (n) | deathling | |
mortality | n | death, end, ending, endless sleep, forthfaring, bane, Grim Reaper | diesomeness | |
mortgage | n | wadset, homeloan | - | |
mother nature | n | - | Lady Lund, motherkin | |
mortuary | n | - | deadhouse, undertaker's, bodyroom, bodyhouse | |
mosaic | n | - | shardbild | |
mosquito | n | gnat, midge, midgy | bloodfly | |
moth (native) | n | - | nightflinder (cf. NHG Nachtfalter) | |
motion | n | - | shrithing, beweighing (cf. NHG Bewegung, Du. beweging), quickening, sway | |
motionless | adj | stock-still | - | |
motive | n | - |
rethe, frume ulterior: hinderthought (cf. NHG Hintergedanke) | |
motor | n | - | wheels, drivework | |
motorboat | n | watercraft | - | |
motorcycle | n | - | halfwain, halfwagon | |
motorway | n | highway | - | |
motto | n | saying | pithword | |
mound | n | drift; heap; highland, rise, upland | - | |
mount | n | hill | barrow, berry | |
mounted | adj | on horseback | beriden (<ME beriden <OE berídan) | |
mountain | n | barrow, berry a mountainous region: Highland(s) |
berg, highberg (not to mistake it for "burg"), fell
peak (OE pīc, Du. piek, Dan. pik) | |
moustache | n | kemp | overbeard, snor (cf. Du. "snor", NHG "Schnurrbart"), gran (<OE "granu"), lipbeard | |
move | vb |
shift; drive; stir; sway; set off; wade; rock (cf. NHG rücken) |
wander: shrithe (<OE scriþan 'to go, take one's way) beweigh (Du bewegen, be- + wegen) away: upshove (<OE oþscūfan) quicken | |
movement | n | shift, stir; drive | shrithing
pol: beweighing (cf. NHG bewegung, Du. beweging) quickening | |
movie | n | film, flick | quickie | |
Mr, Sir | n | Lord |
Hire (<OE hearra, cf. NHG Herr) | |
Mrs, Miss | n | Lady |
Frow (<OE frówe, cf. NHG Frau) | |
mucus | n | slime, snot | - | |
muffle | vb | shroud | - | |
multiculturalism | n | - | felemenning (cf. Ic. fjölmenning) | |
multiple | adj | many, manifold | - | |
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 (cf. NHG Gemeinde) | |
muscle | n | brawn, thew, sinew | mousock (Latin musculus: 'little mouse'); musling ('little mouse') | |
muscular | n | brawny, thewy, sinewy, thewsome | - | |
muse | vb | mimmer/mammer | - | |
museum | n | - | crafthall, yorehall; crafthouse; lorestead | |
mushroom | n | toadstool | mosswort, mosswamb | |
music | n | glee |
swin, swincraft (<OE geswin "song" + craft) gleamlist (cf. Ic hljómlist), song, tonelist (from Icelandic), songcraft, gleecraft, swinsongcraft, | |
musical | adj/n | - | songly, gleamwise (cf. Ic hljómvís) theatre: songplay
movie: songfilm | |
musician | n | gleeman, player, songwright |
swinsmith, dreamer (<OE dreamere) | |
musicology | n | - | swinlore, gleelore | |
mustard | n | - | sennep (<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 | - | |
mutilate | n/vb | - | overcripple | |
mutton | n | sheepflesh | - | |
mutual | adj | evenway | bothways | |
mycelium | n | - | net (cf. Ic neti), swambnet | |
myopia | n | near(-)sightedness, short(-)sightedness | - | |
mystery | n | wonder, brain twister, beyond man's ken, hidden thing | rune (<PG) ghost-wonder (cf. OE gástgeryne) hiddle, mist hearing riddle | |
myth | n | misth (shortening of mist + th); dreamtale, wondertale | ||
mythology | n | folklore, dreamlore, wonderlore |
mistlore godlore |