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Staff N 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 | |||
nadir | n | depths, bottom, trough | - | |
naive | adj | craftless; self-taught | liefsome (<OE geleafsum) | |
nano-technology | n | smart dust | kernel wield | |
narcolepsy | n | sleepsickness | - | |
narcotic | n/adj |
dope benumbing, deadening |
- | |
narrate | vb | yarn, tell | kithe (<OE cýðan), foretell | |
narrative | n | tale, yarn | kithing, backtale, foretelling (cf. Du. vertellen) | |
natatorium | n | swimming pool, pool | sundhall ("sund" from OE, meaning "ability to swim, act of swimming"), | |
nation | n | folk, stock | theed/thede (<OE þeod), leedship (<OE léodscipe), theid, landleed, kinrike (<OE), folk, folkstead (<OE), folkship (<OE) folcscipe) | |
nationalism | n | flag-waving | haletheeding, theedholdness (<OE theodenhold) | |
native | n | towner, townie | erd-folk, arlander (OE or 'origin'), lander (<OE), landman (<OE), landfolk (<OE,[natives]) | |
native | adj | homely, built in, inborn, inbred, ownborn. | homelike, home-ish, erd-folkish, arland, true-born, true-grown | |
natural | adj |
clay, self grouping: feather, ilk, kind |
kindly (<OE cyndelic) quithenly (<OE cwiðenlic) lundish (cf. ME lund; ON lund) | |
natural logarithm | n | - | infold (for e); inroot (for ln) (synthesised from meaning) | |
natural selection | n | drain of life | - | |
nature | n | clay, self; wilderness; lik, kind; being, soul; world | lund, lind (<ME lund from Old Norse lundr); umworld (cf. NHG Umwelt) | |
naturism | n | - | barelife | |
naturists | n | barefolk | - | |
nausea | n | sickness, loathing | the shifts (calque), snoffy | |
nauseous | n | sickening, loathsome | latsome (<OE) | |
navigate | vb | guide, sail, steer, helm | lode | |
navy | adj/n | fleet, shipfyrd | fleethood | |
Neanderthal | n | - | Newmandale (calque of Gk nea + Gk andra + NHG thal) | |
nebula | n | - | starcloud, heavenly cloud | |
necessary | adj | needful, needed |
daven (<OE dafen), needsakely (cf. Du. noodzakelijk ) | |
necessitate | vb | need, behoove (att'd in impersonal sense) | - | |
necessity | n | need | thearf (<OE) | |
necklace | n | -neckband | meen | |
necro- | pref | dead-, death- | lich- | |
necrology | n | - | gravelore, deadlore, lichlore | |
necromancy | n | witchcraft | lichcalling, deathcalling, lichcraft | |
necrophage | n | - | licheater, deadeater | |
necrophagy | n | - | licheating, deadeating | |
necrophilia | n | - | lichlust, deadlust | |
nectar | n | - | honeyor, heaven's broth | |
negate | vb | gainsay | unsay, withersay, undo, forno (cf. NHG verneinen) | |
negative | adj | naysaying, untoward | unsay, naysome, undeed | |
neglect | n | seediness | - | |
neglect | vb | forget, overlook, slight, slur over | mar, foryeme (<OE forgyman), overgum (<OE ofergumian) | |
negligent | vb | heedless, reckless | - | |
negotiate | vb | moot, chaffer, haggle | formeal (<OE formǽlan)
forhandle (calque) | |
negro | n/adj | black, swart, swarthy | blackman, blackskin | |
neocortex | n | - | brain bark | |
Neolithic | n | - | New Stone Eld | |
neophyte | n | greenhorn, incomer, settler, newcomer | callower | |
nepenthe | n | - | unmourner | |
nephew | n | neve | sibson | |
nerve | n | mettle, boldness, doughtiness, guts, fastness, fearlessness, firmness, pith, pluck, steadiness, steel, heart, will,sinew | concrete n: ader (<OE ædre) | |
nervous(ness) | adj / n | edgy, keyed-up, high strung |
-sinewsome, sinewly n: edginess, sinewlith, sinewsomeness | |
neurose | n | - | sinewsweet | |
neurotransmitter | n | - | sinew sender | |
neutral | adj | unsided, sideless, middlish, in-between | - | |
neutrality | n | unsidedness, fair-mindedness, evenhandedness | middleness | |
neutrino | n | neitherling | ||
neutron | n | - | neitherbit, evenmote | |
newspaper | n | tiding(s) | ||
niche | n | nook | - | |
niece | n | nift | neven (<OE nefene, cf. vixen) | |
Niflheim | n | Mistworld | Nevilworld | |
nihilism | n | - | wearning (<OE wiernan 'deny, reject') | |
Níðhöggr | n | - | Nithehewer | |
nitrogen | n | - | loftmote | |
noble | n/adj |
highbred; best kind: gilt-edged |
athel (<ME aethel, <OE æþele) | |
nocturnal | adj | nightly, night-time, night-life | - | |
nocturne | n | - | night-swey | |
noise | n | din, clattering | low (<OE hlowan 'low, bellow, roar') | |
noisy | adj | loud | dinsome | |
nolens volens | adv | willy-nilly | - | |
nominative (case) | n | - | beckoningly, whofall (cf. NHG Werfall), namefall (cf. Ic. nefnifall) | |
nominate | vb | call; name | clepe | |
non- | pref | un-, -less, not | - | |
non obstante | n | -notwithstanding | rightening | |
non-existent | adj | beingless | - | |
nonsense | n | rubbish, twaddle, humbug, gammon | unwit | |
noose | n | - | hangknot | |
norm | n | rightline | - | |
normal | adj | right | mean | |
nostalgia | n | - | yesterlove, yoresickness | |
notable | adj | bright, outstanding, star | breme (<OE breme) | |
notch | n/vb | slit, groove, kerf (n.), carve (vb.) | - | |
notary public | n | - | logbookande (cf. Ic. lögbókandi) | |
note | n | - | log (Norse lág) | |
note, of (famous) | adj | - | namecouth (<OE namcuþ) | |
notice | vb | heed (take heed) |
Beaughten (NHG. Beachten) from Be- + aught + -en (see aught) Bemark (NHG. Bemerken) yeme | |
noticeable | adj | striking | yemebere, heedsome | |
noting | vb | heeding | yeming | |
noun | n | nameword | - | |
nourish | vb | feed, fodder | - | |
novel | n | talebook | - | |
novelty | n | newness, newth | - | |
November | n | - | Fogmonth, Bloodmonth | |
novice | n | newling, beginner, fledgeling, newcomer, freshman, greenhorn | callower | |
nubile | adj | wedworthy | -wedsome | |
nuclear weapon | n | - | kernelweapon | |
nucleon | n | - | pithmote | |
nucleus | n | kernel | - | |
nugget | n | - | lumpling
nugling (nug (of unknown origin) + ling) | |
nuisance | n | hindering, besetter, harrier, hounder, gadfly | - | |
nullify | vb | naughten, override | - | |
number | n | rime, scoring | tale (<OE talu, cf. NHG zahl, Du. tal, Dan. tal) rimetale (<OE rimtæl) | |
number | vb | mark | rim, tell (up) | |
numerator | n | - | teller (calque) | |
numerological | adj | - | rimlore-, rimlorish | |
numerous | adj | many | - | |
nurse | vb | care; breastfeed, suckle | - | |
nurse | n | carer, caregiver | berg-maid, ward sister
child-foster (<OE cildfóstre) sicksister (Nw. sykesøster) | |
nursery | n | - | kindergrove, | |
nurture | vb | breed, rear, foster, bring up | - | |
nutritious | adj | feeding, healthful, wholesome | - |