Staff P of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
- OE = Old English
- ME = Middle English
- PG = Or-theedish
- SC = Scots
- SW = Swedish
- Dan. = Danish
- ON = Old Norse
- OS = Old Saxon
- NHG = New Hightheech
- IC = Icelandish
- H.IC = High Icelandish
- Du. = Netherlandish
- Fris. = Freesish
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |
| Attested | Unattested | ||
| pabulum | n | fodder, food of thought | - |
| pace | vb/n | speed; step, walk, stride, tread | skeeth (cf Ic. skeið) |
| pacifier | n | soother | - |
| pacifist | n | dove | frithweaver, unfighter |
| package | n | wrapping | - |
| paddle | n | oar | - |
| pædophile/pedophile | n | - | childluster |
| pædophilia/pedophilia | n | - | childlust |
| pagan | n | heathen | - |
| paganism | n | heathendom | - |
| page | n | side, sheet, leaf; knave, boy, helper, thane |
trammet (<OE tramet), leafside |
| pacify | vb | allay | smolten, befrith |
| pain | n | smart(ing), soreness, acheness, sorrow, care, teen(e) (obsolete), warch/wark (obsolete; k-form may be due to influence from Norse), woe | |
| painful | adj | acheful, nasty, sore, harsh, harrowing, smarting | - |
| paint | n | dye |
farb (<OE færbu) |
| paint | vb | mete (obsolete, but in the OED), dye, stroke | fay (<OE fǽgan), mete/meet (<OE (ámétan), meal (<OE mǽlan) |
| painting | n | meting (obsolete) | dyework, mealwork (cf. Ic. málverk) |
| pair | n | twain, twin, set | - |
| palace | n | hall | kingshouse, kingshome
kinghove (<OE cynehof), king's dwelling, sale (related to salon) |
| palate | n | roof of the mouth, gums’ roof |
gums/goom (<OE góma') |
| palatine bone | n | gums’ bone | gumsbone, goombone, roofbone |
| pale | adj | bleach, dull, fallow, light, washed-out; ashen, doughy, mealy, wan | - |
| pale | n | wall, weir | - |
| paleo- | pfx | ere- | ur-, or- |
| paleography | n | old writing | ur-/orwritelore, erewritlore |
| paleolithic | adj | - | ur-/orstonely, orstonish |
| paleontology | n | - | ur/orwightlore, erewritlore |
| palindrome | n | - | crabword, drowword |
| palisade | n | - | stakehedge, stakewall, stakework boardwall (<OE bredweall), stavewall, stickwall |
| palliate | vb | whitewash, soothe | - |
| pallid | adj | ashen, doughy, mealy, wan, ghastly, grey, bleak, white, sickly, ill | - |
| palmtree | n | - | folmtree, handtree |
| palmary | adj | - | heriworthy |
| palpitate | vb | throb | - |
| pamphlet | n | flyer, folder, leafling | leafel |
| panaceä | n | cure-all,heal-all (not common, but in OED) | cureall,allheal (calque) |
| pancreas | n | - | sweet kernel |
| pancreas (when used as a food) | n | gut bread | - |
| panda bear | n | - | (greater) catbear,
eastern bear, eyeshadowbear |
| pandemonium | n | - | hexkettle (cf. Du. heksenketel)
alfiendness (calque) |
| panel | n | shield, screen, board | - |
| Pangaea | n | - | Alland (all + land; calque) |
| pangolin | n | - | shaledeer (calque) |
| panic | n | fright, elfshot | wode, wodening |
| panorama | n | - | allsight; roundsight (cf. NHG Rundblick)
umsight (see um-) |
| Panthalassa | n | - | Allsea (all + sea; calque), Worldsea |
| pant(aloon)s | n | breeches, britches, shorts, leggings, hosen, strides, slacks, legwear | - |
| pants, under- | n | undies, underwear, drawers | netherlings, underkegs |
| papaya | n | - | blasterapple (calque of Cuban Spanish "fruta bomba") |
| paper | n |
leaf, sheet, looseleaf | blade,
|
| papier-mâché | n | - | sheetmash, mashed sheet |
| para- | suffix | over- | Yond- |
| parable | n | likeness, byword | - |
| parachute | n |
fallward (calque of French parachute, para (defense against) + chute (a fall) | fall catcher
fallshirm (cf. NHG. Fallschirm, Du. valscherm) |
| paraclete | n | - | forverghost (<OE forforgast) |
| paradise | n | fairgarden; heaven, the afterlife | narxenwong (newtiding of OE neorxnawang; c.f. dark < OE deorc) |
| paradisiacal | adj | heavenly | heavenlike, narxenwongly |
| parallel | adj | alongside; akin, matching | getherwended, withstraight |
| parallelogram | n | - | sides alongside; akinside |
| paralysed(ysis) | adj/n | lame(ness), lamed | - |
| paramour | n | lover | leman |
| paranoia | n | great fear, maddening fear; mistrust | mad mistrust |
| paranoid | n | - | mad misgiver, overmistruster |
| paranormal | adj | witchcraft, otherwordly; nithe, nicor | nitheness; overmean |
| paranthesis | n | inputmark, sidemark | |
| paraphrase | n/vb | - | n. edwording
vb. edword |
| parasite | n | bloodsucker, free rider | sidefeeder (calque of Gk. parasitos, para (beside) + sitos (food) |
| parasitism | n | bloodsucking, freeriding | sidefeeding |
| parasol | n | sunshade | - |
| parchment | n | bookfell | - |
| parent | n | elder, forebear; father or mother, childrearer | kennen (<OE cennend), may (<OE mǣġ) |
| parenting | n | elderhood, childrearing, raising children/a child | - |
| parenthesis | n | - | breeches |
| parents | n | elders, folks | kennen (<OE cennend), mays (<OE mǣġas) |
| pariah | n | outcast, castoff, black sheep | - |
| parietal bone | n | - | skullwall |
| parish | n | - | bedeshire |
| park | n | - | ersh (<OE ersc)
parrock, eddish (not exact: yard, field) deerton/deertown (<OE déortún) |
| parliament | n | witenagemot(bygone word from OE) | folkthing (cf. Dan. Folketinget)
ledeward, lawmoot, landmoot (there were shire moots, so this is the whole land) |
| parrot | n | - | bleefowl (<OE bleohfugol) |
| parsimonious | adj | mean, stinting, tightfisted | flint-skinning |
| parsley | n | - | crispleaf |
| part | n | deal, share, bit | - |
| part | vb | split, break, sunder | - |
| partake | vb | have, take with | bytake, dealnim; thie (<OE þicgan; c.f. lie < licgan, buy < bycgan) |
| partial | n | some | bent (on), slanted (toward) |
| participate | vb | do with, leap in | dealnim (<OE dælniman) |
| participation | n | - |
dealnimhood in the Eucharist: mansomeness |
| participant | n | - | dealnimmer |
| participle | n | - | dealnimmand (<OE dælnimand) |
| particle | n | mote, bit, crumb, mite, nip, shed; fleck, flyspeck, snip | wordling grammar |
| particularly | adv | namely, above all, all the more, at length, ever so, in the main, more than ever | hure (<OE huru), sunderly |
| partition | n | wall, wough | - |
| partner | vb/n | mate |
in crime: wisithe (<OE wīġesīþ) |
| parturition | n | childbirth, birthing | - |
| party | n | gathering, fungathering, merrymaking, bash | - |
| parvenu | n | upstart | - |
| pascal | adj | - | tholing |
| pass | vb | overtake, overstep
hand over, give | - |
| passage | n | path, way, pathway, footway, footpath | extract: plucking |
| passage of time | n | flow of time | timeflow |
| passenger | n | faregoer | faregest (cf. NHG Fahrgast)
byfarer |
| passion | n | love | lithenship (< NHG Leidenschaft) |
| passive | adj | idle | throwendly (<OE þrowiendlic) |
| passport | n | - | wayleave, fareford, trekford |
| past | n/adj | bygone, forgone, former, last | forthwist (<OE forðgewitan), forganghood (<NHG vergangenheit), forgonehood / forgoneness, foretide (cf. IC fortíð) forebye (cf NHG. vorebei |
| pasta | n | noodle, starch | starchfood |
| pasture | n | grassland, lea, meadow, field | leasow |
| patella | n | kneecap | - |
| paternal | adj | fatherly | - |
| Paternoster | n | Our Father | Lord's Bead |
| pathetic | adj | rueful, ruthful, sad | - |
| pathos | n | sadness | - |
| patience | n | forbearing(ness) | thild (<OE geþyld, cf. NHG Geduld) moodthwearness (<OE módþwǽrnes) |
| patient | adj | forbearing | thildy (<OE þyld, cf. NHG geduldig) |
| patria | n | homeland, fatherland, motherland | - |
| patriarch | n | elder, eldfather | highfather (<OE hēahfæder) |
| patriarchy | n | - | fatherwield |
| patrician | n | - | highholder (<OE héahealdor) |
| patricide | n | - | fatherslaughter, fathermurder |
| patrimony | n | fathersland | - |
| patriotic | n | home-loving | landtrothen, fatherlandish (calque) |
| patriotism | n | home-love, flag-waving (pejorative) | landtrothenness, fatherlandloving, motherlandtrothness |
| patron | n | backer, bestower | - |
| patronage | n | business, trade | - |
| pattern | n | cut, doing, doings,folkway, goings-on, layout, outline,setting, shape, set-up, warp & woof, way, ways, weave, web, yardstick | model:
Forelay (<NHG. Vorlage) |
| pause | n | break, let-up | - |
| paucity | n | lack, fewness | - |
| pavement | n | sidewalk, footpath, walkway | - |
| pay | vb | yield, buy (it), deal (out)
set back (rearranging word order) | betale (cf. NHG bezahlen, Du. betalen) |
| payment | n | fee | betaling (cf. Du. betaling, NHG Bezahlung), scot |
| PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) | n | handheld, handtop | handheld reckoner, handtop reckoner |
| peace | n | frith, bliss, rest, restfulness | sib (<OE sibbe), grith (<OE griþ) |
| peaceful | adj | dovish, restful | frithsome (cf. NHG. firedsam, Du vreedzaam) grithful (grith + ful) |
| peach | n | - | perseapple (ancient Greek calque) |
| peal | vb | ring, toll | - |
| peanut (OE from Latin) | n | earthnut, groundnut | - |
| pearl | n | - | seahurst, merhurst (<OE meregrot 'sea particle', <OE hyrst 'gem'), sandhurst |
| peasant | n | churl, boor, yeoman, husbandman, landman | - |
| peasant farmer | n | bour (<OE būr) pl: bours (<OE būras), cf. neighbour | |
| peculation | n | thefting | - |
| peculiar | adj | freak, unwonted, own | markingly (cf. Nw. merkelig) |
| pedagogue | n | teacher | - |
| pedal | n | treadle, footkey, foot board, foot trigger | - |
| pedal | adj | foot(ed) | - |
| pedantic | n/adj |
inkhorn(y), know-it-all, n: dryasdust | - |
| pedestal | n | - | footstone (<OE fótstán) |
| pedestrian | n | walker | footman, footfarer, footgoer, footganger |
| peel | n | husk, rind, shell, skin, strip | - |
| peel | vb | rend, skin, shell, tear, pull off, slough off, strip | - |
| peep | vb/n | cast, eye; slang: gander | - |
| pegasus | n | - | winged horse |
| pejorative | adj | slighting | - |
| pelican | n | - |
wanfoot dive-dapper or dive-dopper see OED entries |
| pellucid | adj | unclouded | - |
| pelt | n | fell, hide | - |
| pen | n | marker, writing tool, writing needle, writing shaft | writler, writingfeather, writingiron (< OE wrítung-ísen), writsax (<OE writ-seax), reed, quill (uncertain origin) |
| penance | n | bote | - |
| penchant | n | leaning, fondness | - |
| pencil | n | stick | leadstick, graystick, writingstick |
| penetrate | vb | breach, stab, thrill, bore | - |
| peninsula | n | neck of land; arm, foreland, headland, ness, spit | shankdom, as the boot of Italy. |
| pentagon | n | - | fiveside, fivenook, fivedge |
| Pentecost | n | Whitsunday | - |
| penultimate | adj | last-but-one, next-to-last, forelast | - |
| penis | n |
pizzle, weapon (<OE wæpn) | brine hose (slang), bockler (Old Norse "bqllr") |
| penitence | n | rueness (<OE hreonisse), ruefulness, ruth | gild |
| penurious | adj | stingy | - |
| people | n |
folk; throng (group of people) | lede (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden) |
| pepperoni | n | - | croudedswineflesh |
| perceive | vb | wit; see, grasp, behold, smell, smack, fang, witness; make out |
yeme, onget bemark (cf. NHG./Du. bemerken) |
| percent | n | - | hundredth(s) |
| percentage | n | - | hundredmeal |
| perception | n | insight, grip, hold | yeming, onget undergetting, understanding, truetake, soothtake |
| percolate | vb | leach | - |
| perdition | vb | forelornness | - |
| peregrine falcon | n | duck hawk |
duckhawk, wanderfalk |
| perfect | adj | flawless; all-out, blank, blooming, clean, sheer, flat-out; well done, all done, done throug |
bild-board, swotel fulmade (cf. Du. volmaakt) |
| perfect | vb | hone, fullcome | - |
| perfidious | adj | forsworn; untrue, untrustworthy, trothless | - |
| perforate | vb | awl, riddle, thrill, stick, thirl/thurl (< OE thyrel, now obsolete or dialectal), drill | |
| perform | vb | do forth, do, behave, work, play, show |
uptread (theatrical; cf. Du. optreden) theen (<OE ġeþēon) |
| perfume | n | - |
duft, cride athelstench (<OE æðelstenċ) |
| perfunctory | adj | halfhearted, careless | - |
| period (time) | n | while, timespan, time frame, spell, stint | - |
| period (punctuation) | n | fullstop | haltmark, stopmark, endmark |
| perish | vb | waste, waste away, be wrecked, dwindle; forfare, forworth, swelt (dialectal) | dwale |
| perjure | vb/ n | forswear, lie under oath, oathbreach, oathbreaking |
- |
| perhaps | adv | maybe, mayhap, likely | byhaps, weenings (<OE wenunga) |
| perimeter | n | brim, hem, rim, skirt, edge | mireline |
| perineum | n | bonch | - |
| permanent | adj | everlasting, eche (archaic), timeless, lasting |
highfast (<OE hēahfæst), |
| permafrost | n | - | everfrost |
| permission | n | leave, warrant, letting, green light, furlough | letship, thave (<OE þafian), tholing tithe financial, lethood, letship |
| permit | vb/n | green-light, leave, let, go-ahead | thave (<OE þafian), thole tithe (<OE tiðian) |
| pernicious | adj | baleful, baneful | - |
| pernio | n | chilblain | - |
| perpendicular | adj | athwart, straight out from, upright | - |
| perpetually | adj | ever, everlastingly, for ay, endlessly, unendingly, world without end | - |
| perpetuity, in | adv | forevermore | - |
| perplex | vb | bewilder, muddle, befuddle, befog | bewonder |
| persecute | vb | ail, hound | - |
| persecution | n | witch hunt, hounding | - |
| perseverance | n | sticktoitivenesss | - |
| persistence | adj | steadfastness | - |
| persistent | adj | steadfast, dogged, bound | - |
| person | n |
someone, fellow, man, | lede/leed(e) (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden) mennish (cf. Du. mens; grammar: |
| personal | adj | selfly, monnly, self, own, inner, innermost, inmost, belittling, near, of oneself | mennishly, wightly (calque) |
| personality | n | egg, mood, selfhood, self, ghost | - |
| personnel | n | staff, men, ware | - |
| perspective | n | outlook, ken, wits, witness
edge of sight (point of view) | view, opinion: onsight (cf. NHG ansicht), outsight (Eng., cf. Du uitzicht, wist (native English kin to |
| perspicacious | adj | insightful, keen, shrewd | mindswotel |
| perspicacity | n | insightfulness, keenness, shrewdness | - |
| persuade | vb | bring, talk into, win over, sway | beswipe (<OE beswapan) |
| pursue | vb | follow
a new path: tread, beat, | forfollow (cf. NHG verfolgen, Du. vervolgen) a new path:beshrithe (see shrithe) |
| pertinacious | adj | headstrong, strong-willed | - |
| peruse | vb | look through, read through | - |
| pervade | vb | wade (archaic), go through, spread through, fill with | forwade (calque), yond-sprout? (<OE geondsprútan), throughthrust (<NHG durchdringen) |
| perverse | adj | overthwart | forchared, bewarped, thirtover, lewd, wayward, thrawn, forcouth, untoward |
| pervert | n | - | lewdster (Shakespeare),
rakehell |
| pervert | vb | twist, warp, befoul | bewarp, offset, froward |
| petition | vb/n | send writ, bene, beseech, beg, ask | - |
| pet-name | n | nickname | ekename |
| petrify | vb | - | stun (<OE stunian) |
| petroleum | n | black gold
(fuel:) leaded, unleaded | rock-lime (calque), stonesap |
| petticoat | n | - | smallpode (<"small" + OE "pād"), cloak, coat, and calque of ME pety coote, from pety (<Fr. Petit) + coat (<Fr cote) |
| petulant | adj | sour, moody, waspish | - |
| pessimism | n | naysaying, gloomthinking | - |
| pessimistic | adj | downbeat, hopeless | - |
| phantasm | n | dream; shade, shadow, wraith | - |
| phantom | n | ghost | - |
| phalanx | n | - | speerlining |
| pharaoh | n | king (of Egypt) | Sunking |
| Pharisee | n | faker, holier-than-thou, cleanest one, show player | Sunderholies (<OE 'sundor-halgan') |
| pharynx | n | - | retch (cf. NHG Rachen)
swallow (cf. Dan. svælg; Sw. svalg) |
| pheasant | n | - | wildhen (<OE wildhænn)
woorhen (<OE wōrhana) |
| phenomenal | adj | outstanding, astounding | sarrow |
| phenomenon | n | happening, great show, good show | - |
| -philia | sfx | -lust | - |
| Philippines | n | Philipsland | |
| philistine | adj | uncouth | - |
| philological | adj | - | speechwritlorish |
| philology | n | - | speechwritlore |
| philosophy | n | wisdom, world outlook | witlore, lorelief, wittinglove (calque) |
| phimosis | n | - | throttling |
| phlebotomy | n | bloodletting | - |
| phloem tube | n | - | wortrowel |
| -phobia | sfx | ||
| phobia | n | fear, misfear, fright, dread | - |
| phobic | adj | fearful | - |
| phoenix | n | - | firefowl |
| phone | n/vb |
n: blower, dog and bone, vb: ring, tinkle |
speechlore (linguistics): |
| phonetic | adj | - | dinly |
| phonological | adj | - | loudlorish, loudlore- |
| phonology | n | - |
reardwork, reardlore, clanglore |
| phosphorescent | adj | - | lightshedding |
| phosphorus | n | - | glowstuff, lightstuff |
| photograph | n | shot; lightshot, frame, sight, showing | lightbilth (<IC. ljósmynd), lightwrit, lightdrawing |
| photography | n | lightshooting | lightbilthwrit, lightwritcraft, lightdrawingcraft |
| photon | n | - | lightmote, lightbit, lightgang (calque) |
| phrasal | adj | (grammar) bound, having many words but being one | wordstringly, quide (obs.) |
| phrase | n | - | wordstring, quide (obs.) |
| phylum | n | stem, stock, kind | - |
| physics | n | - | worldken |
| physical | adj | bodily, bodylike, wordly, earthly | lichly, lundsome |
| physician | n | leech | - |
| piano(forte) | n | - | beatharp/beat-harp (<IC slagharpa); keyharp |
| pickaxe | n | pike | - |
| picture | n | likeness, drawing, sight, frame, shot, showing |
bilth (<OE biliþ, lightdrawing |
| picturesque | adj | fair | wlitty (<OE wlitig)
elfsheen (<OE ælfsciene) |
| pie | n | bake | rindcake |
| piece | n |
bit, snead, piece of art/music work |
of silver: silverling pl: steck (<OE stycce, cf. NHG Stück) |
| piecemeal | adv |
little by little, | steckwise (cf. NHG stückweise) |
| pier | n | landing, wharf, breakwater | - |
| pierce | vb | bore, hole; gore, spear | - |
| pigeon | n | dove | towndove, mean dove |
| pile | n | heap, hill, mound, mow (hay), swath (corn) | - |
| pillage | vb | sack | reave |
| pillar | n | mast, pole, stake | - |
| pilot | n | lodeman, skyship boss, foreflyer, loftman | skyward |
| pilot whale | n | - | grindwhale (calque) |
| pimple | n | wheal | - |
| piñata | n | - | wonderbag (cf. NHG "wunderhüte")
sweetpot |
| piña colada | n | - | mashed firapple (Spanish calque) |
| pinch | vb |
nip, squeeze, | - |
| pine | n | fir, firtree, evergreen (more general) | furrowwood (<OE furhwudu) |
| pineapple | n | - | firapple (cf. Ic. ganaldin) |
| pinecone | n | - | firtap (cf. NHG Kiefernzapfen) |
| pioneer | n |
groundbreaker, | foretrecker (cf. Du. Voortrekker) |
| pioneering | adj | groundbreaking, waymaking |
foremoving, |
| pious | adj | godly | arefast (<OE arfaest) |
| pip | n |
seed; bee's knees, day's eye | kern |
| pipe | n |
leat, |
rear (<PG *rauza-; |
| pirate | n | - |
seareaver, |
| pirate captain | n | - |
highseareaver, |
| pisiform bone | n | - | peabone, peashapebone |
| pistol | n | gun, gat (informal) | staff (cf. ME staf), handgun (<ME hand gunne) |
| piston | n | - | sucker (cf. Du. zuiger) |
|
pity | n |
shame; | eärming (<OE earmung) |
| pivotal | adj | key | - |
| pixel | n | dot | bilthdot (cf. NHG Bildpunkt) |
| pizza | n | - | flatcake, clampcake |
| place | vb | lay, put, stow, put down | - |
| place | n | spot, berth | ord, stead, stow, lough (<OE lóh) |
| place, special | n | - | sunderstow (<OE sundorstow) |
| placenta | n | afterbirth |
mothercake (cf. NHG Mutterkuchen, |
| plagiarism | n | thought-theft | - |
| plague | n | outbreak | folkbane, blightdom, mancwalm/manqualm (<OE "mancwalm") |
| plan | vb | forethink, plot (origin unknown), draft, hatch | howe (<OE hogian) |
| plan | n | layout, outline, draft, framework | howe |
| plank | n | board, sill | - |
| plankton | n | - | drifter moss |
| planning | n | frame, layout, shape, look, mean | howing |
| planet | n | wanderstar, world, (heavenly) body |
tungle (<OE tungol), |
| plant | n | wort | - |
| plant | vb | sow, besow, scatter | - |
| planted | adj | - | besowen |
| plantation | n | farmstead | wortfield, seed farm, sowing field |
| plasma | n | - | state of matter: stirloft (<IC rafgas)
blood: bloodslime |
| plaster | n/vb |
stickum; besmear | limecoat |
| plastic | n | - | newclay, hardclay, clay-stuff, shape-stuff |
| plateau | n | dish; headland | flatberg |
| plate of metal | n | - | clout (<OE clút), fat/fet (<OE fæt) |
| platform | n | deck, staddle; soapbox, flatscape | flatstand, flatstead; flatpad |
| platinum | n | white gold | - |
| platitude | n | hackneyed saying | flatness (calque) |
| platypus | n | watermole, duckbill, duckmole | billwight (cf. NHG schnabeltier)
flatfoot (calque of Greek platypus) birdnose |
| pleasant | adj |
blessed, darling, dreamy, |
lief/ liefsome (Eng, NHG. lieb, faining, listing, |
| please | interj | kindly, gladly, fain, if you will |
bid (cf. NHG bitte), |
| please | vb | gladden, list | queme |
| pleased | adj | blissful, thankful | eady, quemed |
| pleasing | adj | grateful, welcome | quemely (<OE cwémlic) |
| pleasure | n | lust, gladness |
quemeness (satisfaction), |
| plebiscite | n | - | folkfrain, folkcast, folksay
folkspoll, folksstevening |
| plectrum | n | pick | harpnail (<OE hearpenægel) |
| pledge | n | plight | - |
| pledge | vb | swear, sicker | - |
| plentiful | adj | rife, teeming, manyful | - |
| plenty | adv | enough/enow, many | weal |
| plethora | n | overflow | overmuchness |
| -plex | suf | -fold | - |
| plumage | n | feathers, featherware, hackles | - |
| plumber | n | - | leatfitter, bogfitter, johnman (slang), leadworker |
| plumbing | n | - | leadwork |
| plumbline | n | - | wall-thread (<OE weallþrǽd) |
| plunder | vb | - | stroud (<OE strūdian) |
| plunge | vb | dip, dunk, dive | - |
| plural | adj | morefold |
manifold(ly) (<OE manigfealdlic), manysome |
| plus | pre | and | - |
| plutocracy | n | - | gelddom, goldwield |
| pluvial | adj | rain | indicator: watergall |
| pneumatic | adj | of a woman: shapely | thringlofty |
| pneumonoultramicrosco-picsilicovolcanoconosis | n | - | inbreathedgroundashandsanddustsickness
(inbreathed-ground-ash-and-sand-dust-sickness) flintstuffdustsickness; (poetic) dusty-lung dree |
| poem | n | lay, yed (in OED, <OE giedd) | leeth (<OE leoð), leethsong (<OE leoðsang), adight (NHG gedicht) |
| poet | n | scop, writer, dighter |
shope (<OE scop) |
| poetry | n | dighting | leethcraft (<OE leoðcræft), wordcraft, shopcraft |
| point | n | tip, tine, nib
score; stake, log | Ord (Eng./NHG. but seldom) |
| point | v | token at
point out sth: betoken, | |
| pointless | adj | - | sakeless |
| poison | n | bane, gall, atter (obsolete or dialectal) | |
| pole (land/ physics) | n | axle | |
| polar (land/physics) | adj | - | axled |
| polar bear | n | - |
ice bear (NHG Eisbär, |
| polar zone | n | land of the midnight Sun | everfrost belt |
| pole | n | - |
shot <OE sceāt |
| polecat | n | - | thummart |
| polemic | n/adj | rant | - |
| police | n | law, lawmen, watchmen, coppers, warders | lawthane, warden |
| policy | n | - | thew |
| polite | adj | becoming, befitting | - |
| political | adj |
mootish | shirecrafty, shirecunning, rikescrafty, rikescunn |
| politically correct language | n | egg-shell speak | |
| politician | n | lawmaker | shireling, gehrec(wo)man |
| politics | n | gehrec (<OE gehrec) | shirecraft, shirecunning, mootsmanship, kingspeak, reevedom, reevecunning, rikescraft, rikescunning |
| pollute | vb | foul, befoul, make dirty | smear, besnit, besmut |
| poltergeist | n | - | dinghost, |
| polycephaly | n | - | manyheadedness |
| polygamist | n | - | maniwed |
| polyglot | n | - | tonguesmith, manytongue |
| polygon | n | - | manihern |
| polyhedron | n | - | manineb |
| polymorph | n | - | manishape |
| polymorphism | n | - | manishapedom |
| polytheïsm | n | - | sundertroth |
| pomegranate | n | - | seedapple (calque), seedovet (calque) |
| pompous | adj | showy, overbearing; high-flown, boastful | - |
| ponder | vb | wonder, eye, think, weigh, wrestle with | hiler, smigh |
| pontoon | n | card game: twenty one | sundstall |
| pony | n | - | horseling |
| pool (money) | n | pot | - |
| poor | adj | in need, on the breadline, wretched, ill-stared, needy, wantsome | |
| pop (music) | n | folk | folksglee |
| pope | n | Holy Father |
Romish headrunner Highfather (<OE héahfæder) |
| popular | adj | folksy, folkly, folkish | - |
| popularity | n | - | allthede-love (<IC alþýðu-lof) |
| populate | vb | - | befolk (cf. NHG bevölkern, Du. bevolken) |
| population | n | folks |
population: befolking
indwellers, folk, erdeners, dwellerscore, ledescore, |
| population density | n | crowding; thickness of settling | huddlemete |
| populism | n | folks | folksdom, folkship, folksric, folkswield, folksreevedom, folkshire |
| populist | adj | folksy | |
| populous | adj | crowded, teeming | folkful, folkrich (calque of German) |
| populus assembly | n | - |
folkforsaming |
| porcelain | n | shiny earthenware | midricware (chinaware) |
| porcine | adj | piggish, swinish, boarish, hoggish | |
| porcine | n | pig, boar, hog, swine, sow, yelt | - |
| porcupine | n | - | quillpig |
| pore | n | hole, hidehole, skinhole | thirl, sweathole |
| pork | n | pig, swine, swineflesh | farrow (<OE fearh) |
| pornography | n | - | whoreshowing |
| porous | adj | holey, seepsome | siftful, thirl (<OE thyrel) |
| porpoise | n | mereswine | - |
| porridge | n | mush, oatmeal | - |
| port | n | harbour, haven | ford, hythe |
| portable | adj | handheld | ferryworth |
| portmanteau | n | - | word: mingleword (cf. Du. mengwoord) |
| portal | n | doorway, door, gate, gateway |
rother (<OE rodor) |
| portend | vb |
bode, by-sen, forerun, | - |
| portent | n | - | foretoken, boding |
| portentous | adj |
doomy, foreboding, | - |
| portion | n | deal, lot, share, dole | - |
| portrait | n | likeness (of) | bilth, mealing |
| position | n | berth | steadholding |
| positive (aspect) | n | upside | - |
| positive | adj | - | mathematics: overnaught |
| possess | vb |
own, owe; devilsicken, | - |
| possessed | adj |
devilsick, fiendsick, owned, ought, | - |
| possession | n | ownership, belonging, ought | ownedness (<OE anwædnesse), ight |
| possibility | n | likelihood, likeliness |
mailihood, acendliness (<OE ácendlicnes), acumendliness (<OE ácumendlicnes) |
| possible | adj | likely, | maily (<FR mooglik) maybesome, doughtbefall, dowedbefall, hapsome, mightsome, within reach, acumendly (<OE ácumendlic) |
| possibly | adv | maybe, likely, likelily | maily |
| post- | pref | after- | - |
| posterior | n | rump, back(side) | - |
| posteriority | n | afterness | - |
| posterity | n | offspring |
- |
| post-existence | n |
afterlife, afterbeing, | - |
| posthuman | n | - | afterwere, gearwere, beyond mankind |
| posthumanism | n | - | afterweredom, gearweredom |
| postpone | vb | forestall, put off, call off | forshove (for- "away" + shove, cf. NHG verschieben), forslow |
| post script (p.s.) | n | afterthought | afterword, afterwrit (a.w.) |
| potassium | n | - | potash (pot-ash), potashstuff |
| potato | n | spud, tater, tatty |
earthapple (cf. NHG Erdapfel, |
| potential | adj | likely, maybe | maily |
| potential | n | strength, fitness, wherewithal | |
| potion | n | - | tiverdrink (cf. Du. toverdrank), lib |
| pouch | n | - | pung (<OEpung, cf. Sw., Dn. pung) |
| poultry | n |
fowl, barnyard birds, | - |
| pour | vb | teem, skink, shink, sie, yote |
yeat; birle drink |
| poverty | n | need, want; dearth, drought, wantsomeness | armth, armhood |
| powder | n/vb |
dust; beat, | |
| power | n |
grip, sway, strength, |
thrith (<OE thryth) wield/wold/wald (<OE weald) special: sundercraft (<OE sundorcræft) |
| power | vb | drive, feed | - |
| power line | n | mains line | spark rope |
| powerful | adj | heavy, mighty, strong |
thrythswythe (<OE þrȳþswȳð) |
| power supply | n | mains brick | - |
| practical | adj | working; earthy, down-to-earth | - |
| practically | adv |
about, all-but, fair, fairly, | - |
| practice | vb/n | - |
n: oving |
| pragmatic | adj | hardheaded, down-to-earth | - |
| praise | n | - |
heriness (<OE herenes), |
| praise | vb | - | hery (<ME heryan) |
| pram | n | buggy | push-wainling (Barnes) |
| prayer | n | bead | ben, boon beadred (<OE bedræden), forben |
| prayerful | adj | - | beadful |
| pre- | pref | fore- | - |
| preach | vb | - | athelbid |
| preacher | n | - | athelbode (<OE éðelboda) |
| preamble | n | foreword, inleading, forespell | - |
| precaution | n | forecare | - |
| precede | vb | herald, forerun | - |
| precinct | n | space: pen pedestrian zone: walkway | - |
| precipitation | n | rainfall, snowfall, downsheet, breefall | downsheet |
| precious | adj | dear, dearworth, dearworthly | - |
|
preciousness | n | dearworthiness | - |
| precise | adj | - | - |
| precisely | adv | well | - |
| preclude | vb | forestall, foreclose | - |
| precocious | adj | ahead | rathe-ripe, rathish |
| precognition | n | foreknowledge, foreboding | - |
| precursor | n | forerunner, forebear | - |
| predator | n | hunter (in some contexts) |
reavedeer (cf NHG. Raubtier, |
| predecessor | n | forerunner; forebear, forefather | foreling (by analogy to afterling) |
| predestination | n | wyrd/weird, doom, foredooming |
weird, coring, |
| predetermine | vb | foredoom, forechoose | - |
| predicament | n | swamp, catch 22, sticky wicket | hardfettle |
| predict | vb |
foretell, foresay, foresee, | - |
| prediction | n |
foretelling, foresight, foretelling, | - |
| predominant | adj | overweighing | - |
| preëminent | adj | foremost | elderdomly (<OE ealdordomlice) |
| preëxistence | n | aforeness, beforeness, forebeing | - |
| prefabricated | adj | ready-made, ready-built, forewrought | fore-timbered(houses) |
| preface | n | foreword |
throughlook(ing) |
| prefect | n | - | fyrdenhighshireman |
| prefer | vb | forechoose, (would) rather, wouldsooner, fain | beliken |
| preferable | adj | - |
liever, as lief |
| preference | n | Forechoice | beliking, forechoosing |
| prefigure | vb | foreshadow, foreshow | - |
| prefix | n | - | forefastening |
| pregnant | adj | with child, heavy (with child) | bearing |
| prehistoric | adj | - | yesteryorely |
| prehistory | n | - | yesteryore
study: forewritlore |
| prejudice(al) | n/adj | foredeem(ing) | - |
| prejudge | vb | foredeem | - |
| prelude | n | foreword, warm-up | forspell |
| premature | adj | untimely, unripe, early, betimes (literary) | foreripe |
| prematurely | adv | beforehand, oversoon | - |
| premeditated | adj | forethought | - |
| premier | adj | foremost, first | - |
| premise | n |
given, forestep, if; toft (building site') | forehedging |
| premonition | n | forefeeling, foreboding | - |
| preoccupy | vb |
- | forebusy |
| preparation | n | gearing up,
reening, readying, foregearing, | |
| prepare | vb |
taw, fit, fix, groom, lay, ready; | reen (<OE renian), |
| prepared | adj | ready, tawed, neat, foreworked, forereadied | - |
| preposition | n | - |
foreput, foresetness |
| prepuce | n | foreskin | - |
| prequel | n | - | forefollow, forebook |
| prerequisite | n | - | foreneed |
| prescience | n |
foreknowledge; | forewisdom |
| prescient | adj |
farseeing, farsighted, | - |
| prescribe | vb | lay down | forewrite |
| presence | n | sight; look, outside |
bybe (cf. Du. bijzijn), |
| present | adj |
in; ongoing, nowaday, |
onbe-ish, nowa |
| present | n |
here and now, today; gift, handsel |
nowtide, nowtime, nonce, |
| present | vb |
show; give, bestow, furnish, |
foredraw/foredrag submit: forelay (cf. NHG vorlegen) |
| Presentation of the Lord | n | Candlemas | - |
| presentiment | n | forefeeling | - |
| preserve | vb | forlast, hain, keep, uphold, aspare | |
| preside | vb | steward, overlook | foresit over |
| president | n | - |
foresitter (calque), |
| presque vu | n | - | nighseen |
| press | vb | thring, thrutch | - |
| press down | vb | - | bethryck (<OE beþryccan) |
| pressure | n | - | thringmight, thryck |
| presume | vb | foreguess, daresay | athrist (<OE áthristian) |
| presumably | adv | likely, seemingly | |
| presumptuous | adj | uppity, overweening, daring | - |
| presuppose | vb | - | forettle, forise (<OErǣswian) |
| pretend | vb | do as if, play as if, sham, put on, fake | bebraid (< OE bebregdan), braid (< OE gebregdan), hue (< OE hiwian), let (<OE lætan), fordo, formake |
| pretender | n | would-be, fake, faker | - |
| pretense | n |
put-on, show; high horse | - |
| pretentious | adj | showy, hoity-toity, over the top, kitsch | - |
| prevail | vb | hold up, keep up, last | throughswithe (<OE þurhswiðan) |
| prevent | vb |
hinder, forcome, forbid, | let (<OE lettan), forstand |
| preview | vb/n | forelook, forepeek, foreshow, foreshowing | - |
| previous | adj | former, last, latter, foregoing, earlier, yester | - |
| previously | adv |
afore, already, before, | - |
| prey | n | (the) hunted (in some contexts) | feng (<OE) |
| price | n | outlay, worth | |
| pride | n | orgul (archaic) | unmoodness (<OE unmōdnes)
highmoodness (<OE hēahmōdnes) stout |
| priest | n | hallower (Old Testament), elder (New Testament, < Gk πρεσβύτερος), ghost-man (heathen), cleric (paynim) | |
| prima donna | n | leading lady, first lady; angry woman, showy woman | - |
| primacy | n | - | foremostness, elderdom (<OE), apeness |
| primary | adj | foremost, first, erst, main | - |
| prime | adj | - | head |
| primer | n | - | futhorc writ, firstbook |
| primeval | adj | hoary, olden | - |
| prince | n | frim, atheling, highness |
high earl, kingling, breg (<OE brego "prince; lord; ruler") |
| princess | n | highness |
queenling, high earlin, fursten briggen (<OE brego + -en) edeth (<OE ides "woman of nobility") |
| principality | n | - | frimdom (<OE fruma), high earldom, bregdom (<OE brego + -dom) |
| principle | n | - | howing, eldertruth |
| principle | adj | main, foremost, first, head | - |
| vb | - |
thrick (< OE þryccan), forlau, outlay | |
| printing press | n | - | thrycker, thringing thryck calque |
| prior | adj | before(hand), earlier | - |
| priority | n | right-of-way | forerank, foreweight, foreness, forehood, beforeness |
| prism | n | block | andleamer |
| prison | n | clink, lockup, pound | fangness (<OE root fang (now dial. (capture) + -ness <OE) (like Dutch gevangenis or German Gefängnis dung (<OE dung) |
| prisoner | n | inmate | haftling (<OE hæftling, cf. NHG Häftling) |
| pristine | n | earliest, firstness, spotless, yoreness, orhood | - |
| private | adj | hidden, hushed, shut, asunder, set away | dern, onelepy (<OE anlipig), sunder, wightly (calque of personal) |
| privilege | n | right, freedom | sunderfreedom (<OE), sundergift (cf. OE sundorgiefu) |
| privileged | adj | gifted | - |
| privy | n | outhouse | dern |
| pro | n | craftsman | - |
| probability | n | likelihood, likeliness, odds | |
| probable | adj | likely | - |
| probably | adv | likely, in all likelihood, likely enough, maybe, most likely, belike | trueshinely (cf. Du. waarschijnlijk, NHG wahrscheinlich) |
| probe | vb | prod | - |
| probity | n | uprightness | - |
| problem | n | trouble, worry, kinch, bugbear, reck, hang-up, hitch, snag, rub, pitfall, fall, downside | - |
| problematic | adj | troublesome, worrysome | - |
| procedure | n | - | forsetting (cf. Da. fortsætte, Sw. fortsätta), forfareld |
| proceed | vb | go forward, go forth, forthpass, go on, go ahead | yede, forefare, forthfare,, forthgo |
| proceeding | n | - | foregoing, foregang (cf. NHG Vorgang) |
| process | vb | - |
forework, forthfaring, forfare (cf. NHG verfahren), taw |
| process | n | - |
foregang (cf. NHG Vorgang), workway |
| processor | n | computer: mainframe | telcruncher, reckoner |
| proclivity | n | forelike, forelove | towardbend |
| procrastinate | vb | forresten | |
| procreäte | vb | beget, breed | - |
| procurator | n | - | highshireman (<OE hēahscīremann) |
| procure | vb | - | beshape (cf. NHG beschaffen) |
| product | n | ware | - |
| productive | n | waresome, thrifty, yoelding | - |
| prodigy | n | - | wonderchild |
| prodigal | adj | spareless | unbridled, feespilling |
| produce | vb | beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, draw on, work, yield, | forthbring |
| produce | n | handiwork, output, thing, work, yield, outcome | - |
| production | n | yield, output, handiwork | forthbringing |
| productive | adj | - | forthbear (<OE forþbære) |
| proem | n | foreword | - |
| professional | adj | skilled | - |
| professional | n | worker, craftsman | - |
| professor | n | lorespeaker, loregiver | - |
| profit | n | gain, boot, yield, winnings, earnings | - |
| profitable | adj | worthwhile | - |
| proficiency | n | skill | - |
| profound | adj | underlying, deep | - |
| profoundly | adv | underlyingly, deeply, groundly | - |
| profusely | adv phr | flow thickly, running overly, teemingly | - |
| profusion | n | beteeming | - |
| progenitor | n |
begetter, elder, father, forebear, forefather, fore-elder, forerunner | - |
| program | n | - | foredraught, broadcast, sending (see source code) language: draft writ |
| progress | n | inroads, headway | forthship (<OE forþscype), forthstride |
| progressive | adj | forward, late, broad-minded, cutting-edge | forblowing |
| prohibit | vb | forbid, forfend | - |
| project | n | work | howe, goalwork |
| projector | n | beamer | - |
| prokaryote | n | - | forenut, forekern (calque) |
| proletariat | n | churls, boors, thralls, hirelings, knaves; thralldom | churldom, boordom, knavedom |
| prolific | adj | fat, lush, rich | birthy, broodful, birthful |
| prologue | n | foretale | - |
| promise | n | behight, oath, troth, foreword | - |
| promise | vb | behight, swear; forebode | forspeak (NHG. versprechen), forhight (cf. NHG verheissen) |
| promontary | n | headland, foreland, ness, bill, (Portland Bill); hoe | - |
| promote | vb | uprear, (up)further, boost | - |
| prone | adj | given, open; helpless | alout (<OE áloten), forthlout (<OE forþlútan), onfally (<NHG anfällig, see onfall) |
| pronghorn antelope | n | - | tinedeer, outrunning tinehorner |
| pronoun | n | - | byname (<OE binama), forename (<OE forenama) |
| pronounce | vb | say | speak out, outspeak (cf. NHG aussprechen, Du. uitspreken) |
| pronunciation | n | - | wordway, loudcarve (<IC. hljóðkerfi), outspeaking, outspeech (cf. NHG aussprache, Du. uitspraak), how to say [it] proper/correct: rightsteven (<OE rihtstefn) |
| proof | n | witness | shedding, reckonedness (<OE gerecednes), bewise (cf. NHG beweisen, Sw. bevisa, others) |
| propel | vb | thrust, drive, drive forth | - |
| proper | adj | fitting, meet, seemly, right, true, echt | bedavenly (<OE gedafenlic) |
| proper noun | n | self-name | ownname (NHG Eigenname, Du. eigennaam) |
| property | n | ownings, holdings; hallmark, belongings | ownhood, owndom (<NHG. eigentum) private: sunderfee (<OE sundorfeoh), landgood (Du. landgoed), eaght (<OE æht) |
| prophesy | vb | foretell, foresee, soothsay, say sooth | spae |
| prophecy | n | foresight, boding, foretelling, soothsaying | spaedom, spaeing |
| prophet | n | seer, soothsayer, foresayer (Sir John Cheke) | spaesayer |
| proposal | n | - | forthput, forthputting |
| propose | vb | put forth, say | forthput, forthsay |
| propriëtor | n | householder, owner, >landlord/lady | - |
| propulsion | n | thrust | - |
| proscribe | vb | forbid | - |
| prosecute | v | - | forfollow (cf. Du. vervolgen, NHG. verfolgen) |
| prosecution | n | - | forfollowing (cf. Du. vervolging, NHG verfolgung) |
| proselyte | n | freshman (Sir John Cheke) | - |
| prosopagnosia | n | - | neb blindness |
| prosper | vb | thee | - |
| prosperity | n | theedom | forblowing (<OE blowan) |
| prosperous | n | frim (physically), lush | theely, wealth-owning |
| prostitute | vb | whore | - |
| prostitute | n | hooker, whore, streetwalker, hustler | - |
| prostrate | adj | aground | - |
| prostrate oneself (to) | vb | lay aground before | hien (<OE hīenan, lit. "to lie prostrate") |
| protagonist | n | - | headfellow (cf. Dan. hovedperson) |
| protarchæopteryx | n | - | foreorfowl, first orbird |
| protect | vb | ward, shield, forstand, beshield | - |
| protection | n | shield, ward | lewing (<OE hleowung), mundwist (<OE mundwist) |
| protective | adj | - | mundly (<OE mundian), wardly |
| protector | n | warden | holdand (<OE healdend) |
| protégé | n | ward | - |
| protein | n | - | eggwhite (cf. NHG Eiweiß, Du. eiwit) |
| protest | n/vb | witness; uproar, outcry wrangle, gainsay | -
forstride |
| Protestant (< Lat. pro testare, “for a witness”) | adj | witnessing, faithful, gospelling; true faith; speaking out against lies | for the troth |
| Protestant | n | witness for Christ, faithful, gospeller, true believer; speaker against lies | |
| proto- | pref | ere, ere-, or-, ur- | - |
| Proto-Germanic | n | - | eretheedish, ortheedish |
| proton | n | - | erebit, firstbit; watermaker |
| protoplasm | n | - | ereslime, orslime |
|
protrude | vb | stick out, jut | - |
| protuberance | n | knob, outgrowth | - |
| proud | adj | haughty, showy, overbearing, self-worshipping, lofty, stout | rank (<OE ranc), stolt (<OE stolt, cf. NHG stolz) |
| prove | vb | show, truthen, witness, settle | soothe (OE 'soþian,' ME 'sothen'), bewise (<NHG beweisen, Sw. bevisa, others) |
| proverb | n | byword, saying, saw, folksay(ing) | - |
| provide | vb | afford, feed, give, hand over | beheft |
| province | n | - | landshare; outland, folkshire (<OE folcscearu) |
| provocation | n | - | greming (<OE gremung) |
| prow | n | foreship | - |
| prudence | n | forewit, sparefulness, wariness, wisdom | flackheadedness (flack 'level' <Fr, Du.) |
| prune | n | plum | - |
| pruning | n | shredding, shreading (in OED, obsolete; <OE scrēadung) | - |
| Prunus Spinosa | n | blackthorn, sloe | sloethorn (<OE slāhþorn) |
| Prussia | n | Pruceland, Leatherland | |
| pry | vb | 1. key-hole 2. uproot | - |
| prying | n/adj | key-holeing | - |
| pseudo- | n | fake, -like | lease- |
| psychedelic | adj | - | soulkithing, mindopening, mindrooming, soulopening (cf. Sw. "själsöppnande") |
| psychiatrist | n | shrink | mindhealer, soulkithler, mindlore(wo)man |
| psychiatry | n | - | soulkith (cf. Du. seelkunde), mindkith |
| psychic | n | - | soulsman, mindsman |
| psychic | adj | - | soulish, mindish |
| psychologist | n | shrink | mindlorer, mindloreman |
| psychology | n | - | mindlore |
| psychopath | adj | - | mindsick, mind-ill |
| psychotropic/psychoactive | adj | - | mindwending |
| pubic bone | n | - | shamebone |
| pub(lic house) | n | inn, alehouse, boozer | - |
| public | n | - | openlihood (cf. NHG Öffentlichkeit) |
| public | adj | open, mean | openly, folkly (calque from Latin) |
| public servant | adj | - | theen, onbidsman |
| public toilet | n | - | outhouse |
| publication | n | uttering | foropening (cf. NHG veröffernlichung), abaning |
| publish | vb | utter (lasted in New English until around 1740, when “publish” overtook it), forthset, bring out, forthsend | lay down: forlay (cf. NHG verlegen), outlay, foropen (cf. NHG veröffenlichen), aban (<OE abannan) |
| publisher | n | - | utterer; forlayer, forlay house (cf. NHG verlag), abaner |
| pulsate | vb | beat, throb | - |
| pulse | n | 1. beat, throb 2. bean | - |
| pumice | n | - | foamstone |
| pumpkin | n | marrow | tillberry, harvestball |
| punch | vb | clout | handstrike, fiststrike, dunch |
| punctuation | n | - | tokenmark, tokensetting (cf. NHG Zeichensetzung, Dan. tegnsætning) |
| punish | vb | wreak | smite, strafe (<NHG), witten (<OE wítnian), give back |
| punishment | n | wreak | smiting, strafing (<NHG), wittening (<OE wítnung), giveback (< payback) |
| pup | n | whelp | - |
| pupil | n | of the eye: strale | - |
| puppet | n | cat's paw | handdoll (cf. NHG Handpuppe) |
| purchase | vb | buy, take | - |
| pure | adj | clean, sheer, white | swotel (<OE sweotol) |
| purebred | adj | thoroughbred | - |
| Purgatory | n | - | Sweepfire (cf. NHG Fegefeuer), Otherworld |
| purge | vb | cleanse | furb |
| purify | vb | cleanse | beswotel |
| purple | n | - | bawse (<OE basu), fishdye (<OE fiscdēah), tiver (<OE teafor), woaden (<OE wæden), redblue, bluered (<OE blēorēod), clamhue, clam |
| purple dye | n | - | welktallow (<OE weoloctælg) |
| purple martin | n | - | bawseswallow, blueswallow |
| purpose | n | sake, goal | - |
| pursue | vb | follow, shadow, tail | - |
| pursuit | n | following, shadowing, tailing | woath (<OE wāþ) |
| purveyor | n | monger | - |
| pus | n | atter | - |
| push | vb | shove, thrust, thrutch | outarm |
| pusillanimous | n | weak-minded | |
| pustule | n | pock, w(h)eal, whelk | |
| putrefaction | n | rot(ting) | addleness |
| puzzle | n/vb | brainteaser, riddle | - |
| pygmy | n | dwarf; Tom Thumb | - |
| pyramid | n | - | fourflat (cf. Du. viervlak) |
| pyromania | n | - | firemadness |
| pyromaniac | n | - | firesetter |
| pyrophobia | n | - | fireawe, firefear, baleyse (<OE bælegsa) |
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