English Wordbook/P

Staff P of the English Wordbook.

Basic abbreviations: att'd=attested, OE=Old English, NHG=New High German, Du.=Dutch

For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see Forshortenings.

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pabulum	n	fare, food, tucker
pace	vb & n	step
pacifist	n	frithweaver
package	n	bale
paedophile	n	childluster, bairnluster
paedophilia	n	childlust, bairnlust
pagan	n	heathen
paganism	n	heathendom, heathentroth, heathenry
page	n	(one of two sides of a leaf of paper) side (the whole sheet) leaf
pacify	vb	allay, befrith
pain	n	smart, soreness, hurtness, acheness
painful	adj	acheful
paint	vb	meal (<OE mǽlan)
painting	n	wetdrawing, mealdrawing, mealwork (cf. Icelandic málverk)
palace	n	thronehalls, thronehouse, thronehold, thronestead, rikehouse, moothouse
palate	n	roof of the mouth goome (<OE góma)
pale	adj	wan, fallow
pale	n	wall, weir
paleolithic	n	Old Stone Eldth
palindrome	n	drowword, crabword
palisade	n	stakehedge, stakewall, stakework, boardwall (Cf. OE bredweall)
palliate	vb	whitewash, gloss over
pallid	adj	wan, dulled, hueless, sallow, ashen, drawn,
palpitate	vb	throb
pamphlet	n	leaflet, flyer/flier
panacea	n	alheal, healer of all, healall
pancreas	n	alflesh
panda bear	n	eyeshadow bear, catbear
pangolin	n	scaledeer (cf. NHG Schuppentiere, cf. Du. schubdieren)
panic	n	fright
pant(aloon)s	n	britches, breeches, hoes
pants, under-	n	netherlings, netherbritches, underwear, underkegs, undies
papacy	n	popedom (the concept of the office of the pope), popeship (the actual office or its duration, i.e. pontificate)
papal	adj	popish, popely
paper	n	bookstuff, blade, leaf
parable	n	byspel, likeness (c.f. Latinish 'similitude'), biword (Sir John Cheke)
parachute	n	fallguard (calque of French parachute, para (defense against) + chute (a fall)
paraclete	n	cheerer, cheergiver, helper, spokesman, soothener, Forverghost (<OE forforgast)
paradise	n	heaven, godstow, nerxnawong (<OE neorxnawang)
paradisiacal	adj	nerxnawongly (<OE neorxnawanglic)
parallel	adj	alongside
paralysed	adj	lame, lamed
paralysis	n	lameness
paramour	n	lover, leman
paranoia	n	misgiving madness, overmistrust
paranoid	n	mad misgiver, overmistruster
paraphrase	vb & n	new wording, new bewording
parasite	n	sidefeeder (calque of Greek parasitos, para (beside) + sitos (food)
parasitism	n	sidefeeding
parasol	n	sunshade
parchment	n	book-fell
parent	n	elder (att'd, cf. NHG Elter), may (<OE mǣġ, "kins(wo)man, parent")
parenting	n	child-rearing
parenthesis	n	byspeech, brackets
parents	n	elders (att'd, cf. NHG Eltern), folks
pariah	n	outcast
park	n	parrock (att'd, also means "paddock" <OE pearroc) eddish (OE. edisc)
parliament	n	witan, lawmoot, witenagemot, witen, witenmoot, allthing (calque of Icelandish AlÞing)
parrot	n	talkbird, speakbird
parsimonious	adj	sparing, saving, mean, flint-skinning. 2. (of things): yielding sparely,
parsley	n	crispleaf
part	n	deal, share, bit
part	vb	split, break, sunder
partake	vb	thig (<OE þicgan; c.f. ON þiggja, OHG dikken)
participate	vb	nim deal, dealnim (<OE dælniman; cf. NHG teilnehmen), take deal, dealtake
participant	n	dealnimmand, partaker, player
participle	n	dealnimmand (<OE dælnimand)
particle1	n	[grammar] wordling
particle2a	n	mote
particle2b, smallest	n	whit
particularly	adv	namely, above all, all the more, at length, ever so, in the main, more than ever
partition	n	wall, wough
partner	vb & n	mate
party	n	gathering, fungathering, merrymaking, bash
parvenu	n	upstart
pascal	adj	tholing
pass	vb	overtake
passage	n	gangway, throughfare
passage of time	n	ygang (<OE gegang)
passenger	n	byfarer (person next to driver, cf. NHG Beifahrer), insitter (person being transported, cf. Du. inzittende)
passive	gram	thrawendly (<OE 'þrowiendlic')
passport	n	furlough, forloff,
past (pre'terit)	adj	forthwist (<OE forðgewitan), bygone, offlopen (Cf. Du. afgelopen)
past (previous)	adj	former; ~ few last
pasta	n	noodles
pasture	n	grassland, meadow, lea
patella	n	kneecap
paternal	adj	fatherly
Paternoster	n	Our Father, Lord's Bead
pathetic	adj	rueful, ruthful
patience	n	thild, forbearing, moodthwareness (<OE módþwǽrnes)
patient	adj	thildy, forbearing
patria	n	homeland, fatherland
patriarch	n	highfather (<OE hēahfæder), elder, eldfather
patriarchy	n	fatherlordship, fatherwald, fatherwield, fatherwealth
patrician	n	highelder (<OE héahealdor)
patricide	n	fatherslaughter, fatherslay, fatherslayer
patrimony	n	fatherland
patriotic	n	landtrothen, home-loving, homeland loving, fatherland loving, fatherlandish (calque)
patriotism	n	landtrothenness, home-love, homeland love, fatherland love
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
pause	n	break, let-up
paucity	n	lack, fewness, scantiness
pavement	n	sidewalk, footpath, walkway
pay	vb	yield, betale (cf. German bezahlen, Dutch betalen)
payment	n	fee
peace	n	frith
peacock	n	rainbow bird
peal	vb	ring, toll
pearl	n	meregrot (<OE meregrot "pearl (lit. sea-particle)"), seamote, seawhit
peasant	n	ackerman, boor, churl, farmer, husbandman, landman
peculation	n	thefting
peculiar	adj	odd, quirky, weird, funny
pedagog	n	youth teacher, childteacher
pedal1	n	footkey
pedal2	adj	foot(ed)
pedantic	adj	inkhorn(y), well-taught, know-it-all, bookfed, book-learned, bookish, bookwise, nitpicking, teachy, overlearned, wise, dryasdust
pedestrian	n	footfolk (att'd), footgoer, sidewalker, walker
pedestrian	adj	footly (<OE fotlic)
peel	n	husk, rind, shell, skin
peel	vb	rend, skin, tear
peep	vb	tout
pegasus	n	winged horse, winghorse
pelican	n	wanfoot
pelt	n	fell, hide
pen	n	inkstick, mealstick, writestick
pencil	n	graystick, writestick
penetrate	vb	thrill, bore
peninsula	n	by-land, seagirt, spit
pentagon	n	fivekneer
Pentecost	n	Whitsunday ('White Sunday'), Fiftieth, Pinst (cf. Sw. Pingst, Dan./Norw. Pinse, NHG Pfingsten, Du. Pinksteren)
penultimate	adj	last- but-one, next-to-last, forelast
penis	n	yard, pintle, manhood, tail
penitence	n	rueness (<OE hreonisse), ruefulness
people	n	folk, lede (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden), throng (group of people)
perceive	v	onget, underget, get, understand, truetake, soothtake
percent	n	hundredths
perception	n	undergetting, understanding, truetake, soothtake, truetaking, soothtaking
percolate	vb	leach
perdition	vb	forelornness
perfect	adj	flawless, forfit
perfect	vb	forfitten, fullcome, fullcomely (Cf. Sw. fullkomlig)
perforate	vb	riddle, thrill
perform	vb	do forth, do, behave, work, play, uptread (theatrical; calque of Dutch, optreden)
period	n	while, timespan, time frame, spell
perish	vb	forfare, forworth
perjure	vb	mainswear, forswear, lie under oath
perhaps	adv	byhaps, maybe, mayhap
perimeter	n	rim, rimlength, rimspan
permanent	adj	everlasting (att'd), highfast (<OE hēahfæst), foreversome
permission1‘‘‘	n	leave, goahead, tithe
permit1‘‘‘	vb	let, tithe (OE tiðian), thave (OE þafian) brook, give green light to
permit2‘‘‘	n	letwrit, goahead, lettingwrit
pernicious	adj	baleful, baneful
pernio	n	chillblain
perpendicular	adj	straightways(nb att'd), straight on
perpetually	adj	ever, aye, unendingly
perpetuity, in	adv	forevermore
perplex	vb	bewilder, bewonder
persecute	vb	forfollow, hound
persecution	n	witch hunt, hounding
persistent	adj	keep-at-ly, dogged
person	n	being, body, fellow, man, soul, wight, bloke, lede (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden)
person (grammar)	n	sway (<OE swég)
personal	adj	selfly, monnly, self, own; inner, innermost, inmost; belittling; near
personal (grammar)	adj	swaily (<OE swéglic, from swég)
personality	n	selfhood, egg, mood
personal stereo	n	walkman
personnel	n	staff, men, ware
Perspicacious	adj	insightful
perspicacity	n	insight, keenness, shrewdness
perspective	n	onsight, outlook, wist (native English kin to 'view' and 'vista'), wholesight
persuade	vb	withwin, overrede, wheedle, sweet-talk, overwin
pervade	n	forwade (Calque)
perverse	adj	forchared, bewarped, thirtover, lewd, wayward, thrawn, forcouth, untoward
pervert	n	lewdster (nb. att'd Shakespear), luster
pervert	vb	bewarp, offset, froward, throw off track
pet-name	n	nickname, ekename
petrify	vb	(for)stonen
petroleum	n	black gold, stonesap
peruse	vb	look through, read through
pessimism	n	naysaying, gloomthinking
pessimist	adj	naysayer, gloomthinker
phantasm	n	ghost
phantom	n	ghost
phalanx	n	slaughtrow (cf. NHG Schlachtreihe), strugglerow, war-row
Pharisee	n	Sunderholies (<OE 'sundor-halgan'), Lawlorers
pharaoh	n	Egypt king, sandking
phlebotomy	n	bloodletting
philosophy	n	wisdom, witlore, lorelief, world outlook, wittinglove (calque)
phloem tube	n (biol)	wortpipe
photograph	n	snap, still, sunprint, lightstain, lightwrit, lightblot, snapshot
phobia	n	fear, misfear
phosphorescent	adj	briny
photographer	n	sunprinter, sunprintster, sightblotter, lightplotter, lightblotster, lightwriter, sightsnapper
photography	n	sunprinting, lightplotting, sightblotting, lightblotting, lightwriting
phototoxin	n	lightbane
phrase	n	wordstring
phylum	n	stem, stock
physics	n	worldken
physical	adj	bodily, litchly, lundsome, bodilike, bodylike
picture	n	build
picturesque	adj	pretty, lovely, fetching, striking, sightworthy, sightly, highly wrought
piece	n	bit
pier	n	wharf (<OE hwearf), dock
pierce	vb	bere, bore, stab, thrill, gore, thring through
pianoforte	n	softhard keyboard, beatharp
pigeon	n	culver, dove
pile	n	heap, mow (of hay), swath (of corn)
piline	n	hair, beard, chin-hair, lip-hair, wangbeard, hackles
pillage	vb	ransack, plunder, reave
pilot	n	lodeman, skyship boss, foreflyer, loftman
pimple	n	wheal
pinch	vb	nip, squeeze, steal, scrimp, nab
pine (ultimately Latin)	n	fir, firtree, furrowwood (<OE furhwudu)
pioneer	n	groundbreaker, waymaker, pathfinder
pioneering	adj	groundbreaking, waymaking
pious	adj	godly
pip	n	(hard) seed
pipe (smoking pipe)	n	smokehorn, hollowhorn
pipe (construction pipe)	n	hollowlink, hollowway
pirate	n	seareaver. searobber, searover, seawolf, wiking, wiching
pity	n	ruth, withache, mildheartness
pivotal	adj	key
pizza	n	flatcake
place	vb	lay, put, stow
place	n	stead, stow, spot, -where
place, special	n	sunderstow (<OE sundorstow)
place-name	n	steadname
placenta	n	afterbirth, wombhide
plagiarism	n	thought-theft
plague	n	folkbane, blightdom
plan	vb	plot, forethink
plan	n	layout, outline, draft
plank	n	board, sill
plankton	n	drifter moss
planning	n	forethought
planet	n	world, wanderstar
plant	n	wort, stand (plantation i.e. birchstand, firstand)
plantation	n	wortfield, seeding field
plaster	n, vb	limecoat
plastic	n	newclay
plateau	n	dish
plateau	n	wold
platform	n	deck, hustings(esp. for poltiical gatherings), staddle
pleasant	adj	lithe, likesome, queme (<OE cwéme)
please	interj	kindly, gladly, fain, bid (German "bitte, related verb "bitten" which is related to English "bid")
please	vb	gladden, list, queme (<OE cwéman)
pleased	adj	glad, happy
pleasing	adj	quemely (<OE cwémlic)
pleasure	n	lust, gladness, quemeness (<OE cwémnes)
plebiscite	n	folkcast, folksay
pledge	n	plight
pledge	vb	swear, ensure
plentiful	adj	rife, manyful,
plenty	adv	enough, weal
-plex	suff	-fold
plumage	n	feathers, featherware, hackles
plumber	n	pipefitter, waterfitter
plumbing	n	pipework, leadwork, founding
plumbline	n	well-thread (<OE weallþrǽd)
plunge	vb	dip, dunk, dive
plural	adj	manifold(ly) (<OE manigfealdlic), manysome, many
plutocracy	n	gelddom, goldwield
Pluvial indicator	n	watergall
pneumatic	adj	suckwork, by air (pressure)
poem	n	lay, leeth (<OE leoð), leethsong (<OE leoðsang)
poet	n	leethwriter, wordwright, wordcrafter, scop, versemonger, verseman
poetry	n	leethcraft (<OE leoðcræft), wordcraft, scopery
point	n	tip, tine, nib (point out v : betoken, forewarn, make smb aware of)
poison	n	bane, atter
polar zone	n	outerstrip, outerslice
pole (geographic)	n	worldshote (cf. Icelandic heimskaut: heim = "world"; shote <OE sceāt "corner, angle, nook," cognate of skaut)
polecat	n	thummart
police	n	law-warden
political	adj	mootish
political correctness	n	mootish rightness
political party	n	mootband
politcally correct	adj	mootishly right
politician	n	rikemaster, mootsman, mootswoman
politics	n	mootsmanship
pollute	vb	besmear, foul, befoul, besmerch, besmut
pollution	n	besmutting, besmearing, befouling, besmerching
polycephaly	n	many-headedness, maniheadedness
polygamist	n	maniwedder
polyglot	n	manispoken, many-speeched, manytongued
polygon	n	manycornered, manykneed
polyhedron	n	manyface
polytheism	n	manygodhood, manygoddedness
pompous	adj	overblown
ponder	vb	think over, think under on
pontoon	n	punt
pony	n	horseling, horselet
poor	adj	arm, needy, angish
pop (music)	n	folk
popular	adj	well-liked, well thought of, held dear, well known, all-the-thing, homespun, household name, far heard, widespread
popular (of the people)	adj	folkish (<OE folcisc, cf. NHG völkisch)
popular usage	n phr	leedthew (<OE léodþéaw)
populate	vb	befolken, folken
population	n	befolking, bewoners, indwellers, folk, ware, erdeners, allfolks (allhallows), folktell, headtell (head count)
porcines	n	pig, boar, hog, swine, sow, yelt
porcupine	n	quillpig
pore	n	hole, hidehole, skinhole
pork	n	pigflesh, pig, swineflesh
porous	adj	holey, hole-shotten, seepsome, holesome
port	n	harbour, larboard, haven
portmanteau (word)	n	wordmelt, mixword, mingleword (cf. Du. mengwoord)
portal	n	doorway, gate, gateway, yet
portend	vb	bode, by-sen, forerun, ill-bode, foreshadow, forewarn
portent	n	foretoken, boding
portentous	adj	baleful, baneful, bodeful, boding, by-sening, dire, doomful,fateful,foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, ill-boding, untoward, weighty
portion	n	lot, share
portrait	n	likeness
position	n	howstand, therestand, stead, steadholding
positive (aspect)	n	upside
possess1‘‘‘	vb	own, owe
possess2‘‘‘	vb	devilsicken, bewitch
possessed	adj	devilsick, owned, ought, owed, own, giddy, bewitched, deviltaken, devilled (Sir John Cheke)
possession	n	ownership, belonging, ought, ownedness (<OE 'anwædnesse')
possibility	n	maybehood ,mightsomeness
possible	adj	maybesome, doughtbefall, dowedbefall, hapsome, mightsome, within reach, mayly (cf. NHG 'möglich')
possibly	av	maybe
posterior	n	rump, back(side)
posteriority	n	afterness
posterity	n	afterbairns, afterkin, offspring
post-existence	n	afterlife, afterbeing, the beyond, the great beyond, the next world, other world, the great unknown, the world to come
postpone	vb	forslow (att'd), put off, shelve, call off
post script (p.s.)	n	afterthought, afterwrit (a.w.)
potassium	n	potash
potato	n	earthapple (Cf. Du. aardappel, Afrik. aartappel, NHG Erdapfel, Pol. ziemniak, N.Pers. سیب‌زمینی), nightshade runner ("solanum tuberosa"), shaderoot, tater, tatty, pot, spud, breadroot
potential	adj	mayly, likely, maybe
pouch	n	pung (<OE pung, Cf. Swed., Dan. pung)
poultry	n	hen, fowl
pour	vb	~ a drink birle (att'd <ME birlen <OE byrelian) {C {C geet [past gote, ppt gotten] (<OE geotan) yote (dialectal, <OE geotan)
poverty	n	armth, armhood, hardship, need, lack,
powder	n	dust
power	n	craft (<OE cræft, cf. NHG Kraft) might (<OE miht, cf. NHG Macht) know-how, main, strength thrith (OE thryth) wald (OE weald) elderdom (<OE ealderdóm)
power, special	n	sundercraft (<OE sundorcræft)
power, supreme	n	douthmight (<OE duguþmiht)
power	vb	drive, feed
power line	n	spark rope
powerful	adj	crafty, mightful, mighty, strong, strengthful, main
practical	adj	noteful, earthy, down-to-earth, yielding
practically	adv	nearly, well-nigh, indeed
pram	n	buggy, push-wainling (Barnes)
prayer	n	bead (att'd, <OE gebed, cf. Du. gebed, NHG Gebet), smeek-bed (from Dutch smeekbede)); bee (<OE ben; c.f. NE boon; c.f. Dan bøn, Ic bæn, NHG Bann)
prayerful	adj	beadful
preamble	n	foreword, inleading, forespell
precaution	n	forecare
precede	vb	come before, beforen, forego, forefall
precipitation	n	rainfall, snowfall, downpour, wetfall, breefall
precious	adj	dearworth (<OE déorwyrðe), dearworthly (<OE déorwyrðlic)
preciousness, precious thing	n	dearworthness (<OE déorwyrðnes)
preclude	vb	forestall, foreclose
precocious	adj	half-baked, ahead, oversoon, unripe, rathe-ripe, rathish
precognition	n	foreknowledge, foreboding
precursor	n	forerunner, forebear
predator	n	reavedeer (cf Ger. Raubtier, Du. roofdier), overdeer, upperdeer, flesheater
predecessor	n	forerunner, forebear, foreling(by analogy to afterling)
predestination	n	wyrd, foredooming, doom, wierd, foreteeing (<OE foreteohhung)
predetermine	vb	foreset, foredoom, foretomark
predetermined	vb	foregone, foreset
predicament	n	hardship, quagmire, quandary, jam, scrape, plight, hardplace
predict	vb	foretell, foresay, foresee, soothsay
predominant	adj	overweighing
pre-eminent	adj	foremost, elderdomly (<OE ealdordomlice)
pre-existence	n	aforeness, beforeness, forebeing
prefabricated	adj	ready-made, ready-built, forewrought, fore-timbered(houses)
preface	n	foreword, headleaf, flyleaf, foretalk
prefer	vb	forechoose (<OE foreceosan), rather, rather have, liefer have, berather, like over
prefer to	vb	forechoose to, would rather, would sooner, had liefer
prefigure	vb	foreshadow , foreshow
prefix	n	forefastening
pregnancy	n	childladenhood
pregnant	adj	bearing, with-child, childladen
prehistory	n	aforeyorelore, yesteryore, aforeeretide, aforeerelore, gonetime, gonetimelore
prejudical	adj	foredeeming
prejudice	n	foredeeming
prejudge	vb	foredeem
prelude	n	forerunner, lead-up, lead-in, harbinger, foreword, forspiel,
premature	adj	foreripe, oversoon, untimely
prematurely	adv	oversoon
premeditate	vb	forethink
premeditated	adj	forethought
premier	adj	foremost
premise	n	given, starter, foretruth
premises(a building's site)	n	toft
premonition	n	forefeeling, foreboding
preoccupy	phr & vb	forebusy, worry about, taken up by, beset, come uttermost, inthrall, fill the thoughts, spellbind, take over the mind
preparation	n	forgeearing, readiness, readying,(complete) alreadiness, yareness
prepare	vb & vb phr	taw (att'd), foregear, aready, agraith, foreready, make ready, get ready, ready, rede, yare, set about, go about
prepared	adj	ready, tawed, neat
preposition	n	foreplacing (place is Latin) ,foreputword, foresetness (< Ælfric's OE calque 'foresetnes')
prepuce	n	foreskin
prescience	n	foreknowledge, forethought, forewisdom
prescient	adj	farsighted, foresighted, foreseeing, forwise, forknowing
prescribe	vb	forwrite, forespell, shrive
press1‘‘‘	vb	thrimp, shove
pressure	n	(of water, gas) head
presence	n	onbe-hood, theresomeness, bybe (from Dutch bijzijn)
present	adj	onbe-ish, andward (<OE andweard), gainward (Cf. NHG gegenwart), nowa
present	adv	andwardly, gainwardly, nowadays
present1	n	nowtide, nowtime, nonce, time being, now, (grammar) andward (<OE andweard)
present2	n	gift
present	vb	show, give, bestow
presentiment	n	forefeeling
preserve	vb	forlast, lastingen, hain, keep, uphold, aspare
preside	vb	forsit over
president	n	kithhead, stoolman, foresitter (c.f. Dutch voorzitter, Frisian foarsitter, NHG Vorsitzender)
press	vb	thring [past thrang, ppt thrung] (<OE þringan)
pressure	n	thringmight
presume	vb	foretrue, guess, dare, make free with
presumptuous	adj	uppity, overweening, daring
presuppose	vb	foreset out
pretender	n	would-be
pretense	n	make-believe, falsehood
pretentious	adj	showy, hoity-toity, over the top, kitsch
prevail	vb	throughswithe (<OE þurhswiðan)
prevent	vb	forcome, forbid, forestop, forestall, forehinder, hinder, let
preview	vb & n	forelook, forepeek, foreshow, foreshowing
previous	adj	yester, last, latter, foregoing, former, earlier
previously(general)	adv	afore, yesterly, beforehand
previously(before now)	adv	heretofore, until now, before now, hitherto
previously(before then)	adv	theretofore, until then, afore, before then
prey	n	underdeer, downdeer
prima donna	n	leading lady
primacy	n	foremostness, elderdom (<ealdordóm)
primary	adj	foremost, first, erst
primer	n	futharkbook
prince	n	atheling
principle	n	eldertruth
principle	adj	main, foremost, first, head
print	vb	offset, run off, stamp, thrutch [past throught, ppt throught] (<OE þryccan; Cf. NHG drucken, Du drukken, Sw trycka)
printer	n	(person and machine) thrutcher, thrytcher
printing house	n	thrutchinghouse
prior	adj	beforehand, before
priority	n	forerank, foreweight, oreness, beforeness
prism	n	block
prison	n	dung [plural ding] (<OE dung), lockup, clink, lagstead, gaol
pristine	n	earliest, firstness, spotless, yoreness, orhood
private	adj	homely
privilege	n	sunderfreedom (<OE sundorfreodom), sundergift (Cf. OE sundorgiefu)
privileged	adj	sundergifted
privy	n	outhouse
probable	adj	likely
probably	adv	likely, in all likelihood, maybe, most likely, belike, trueshinely (Cf. Du. waarschijnlijk, NHG wahrscheinlich)
problem	n	worry, kinch, bugbear, reck, hang-up, hitch, snag, rub,
procedure	n	forfareld
proceed	vb	forfare (Cf. NHG verfahren), go forward, go forth, go on, thence go, yede, (emanate)outher, flow out
proceeding	n	forgoing (Cf. NHG vorgang)
process	vb	forework,forfareld/forfaring, taw
process	n	forgoing (Cf. NHG vorgang)
processor, computer	n	mainframe, numbercruncher, reckoner
proclivity	n	forelike,forelove, towardbend
procreate	vb	beget, breed
procure	vb	beshape [past -shope, ppt -shapen] (Cf. NHG beschaffen)
product	n	ware
productive	n	waresome, thrifty
prodigy	n	wonderchild
prodigal	adj	unsparing, spend-all, spareless, unbridled, feespilling
produce	vb	bring forth, get out, yield, make, make forth
production	n	forthmake, yield, output
proem	n	foreword
professional	adj	skilled
professional	n	worker
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(s), father(s), forebear(s), forefather(s), fore-elder(s), Forerunner(s)
program	n	foredraught, broadcast, sending (see source code)
programming language	n	foredrafting tongue
progress	n	forthstride, headway, foreway
progressive	adj	forward-looking, forthgangsome
prohibit	vb	forbid, forfend
project	n	goalwork, forththrow (calque)
projector	n	beamer
prokaryote	n	forecorn, forekern, forekernel, forechurn(?), forenut
proleteriat	n	working-poor
prolific	adj	bemanying, birthy, broodful, birthful
prologue	n	foretale
promise	n	oath, forword
promise	vb	behote [past -hight, ppt -hoten] (<OE behatan), swear, forspeak (Cf. NHG versprechen)
promontary	n	headland, foreland, ness, hoe
promote	vb	upfurther, uprear, further, boost, raise
pronoun	n	byname (<OE binama), forename (<OE forenama)
pronounce	vb	breath-en, utter, outsay, outspeak, onkithy (Cf. NHG ankündigen)
pronouncement	n	onkithying (Cf. NHG Ankündigung), say-so
pronunciation	n	breath-ening, uttering, outspeech, outsaying, wordloud
proof	n	reckonedness (Cf. OE gerecednes)
propose	vb	put forth, forthsay
propel	vb	thrust, drive, drive forth
proper	adj	fitting, meet, seemly, right, true, bedavenly (<OE gedafenlic)
property	n	owndom (Cf. Du. eigendom, NHG Eigentum), ownings, holdings
property, private	n	sunderfee (<OE sundorfeoh)
prophesy	vb	foretell, foresee
prophesy	n	foresight, foretelling
prophet	n	soothsayer, godsayer, foresayer (Sir John Cheke)
proposal	n	put-forth, put-forward, forthput, forwardput
proprietor	n	householder, owner, landlord/lady
propulsion	n	thrust, spinthrust(as from a plane's propeller)
proscribe	vb	forbid
proselyte	n	freshman (Sir John Cheke), new believer
prosper	vb	thee, wellfare, do well, grow rich, highfly
prosperity	n	theedom, thrivedom, thriveliness, wealthiness
prosperous	n	theedly, thrively, wealthy
prostitute	vb' '	whore
prostitute	n	hooker, whore, streetwalker
prostrate	adj	aground
protarchaeopteryx	n	foreorfowl, aforeoldenwing, erstorbird, first orbird, first oroldenwing
protect	vb	ward, shield, forstand,
protection	n	lewing (<OE hleowung), mundwist(<OE mundwist)
protective	adj	mundly
protege	n	ward
protein	n	eywhite (Cf. NHG Eiweiß, Du. eiwit)
protest	vb	say against, gainsay, utcry
protestant	adj	againstish, gainsayish, gainsayerish
protestant	n	againstisher, gainsayer
protoplasm	n	orslime
protrude	vb	stick out, jut
proud	adj	rank, showy, overbearing, lofty
prove	vb	soothen (OE 'soþian,' ME 'sothen')
proverb	n	byword, saying, saw, folksay(ing)
provide	vb	forsee (Calque, cf. NHG versehen), give, open, afford
province	n	great shire
prow	n	foreship
prudence	n	forewit, insightfulness, sparefulness, carefulness, awareness, thoughtfulness, watchfulness, wiseness
pry	vb	key-hole
prying	n & adj	key-holeing
pseudo-	n	fake, -like
psychedelic	adj	mindkithing, mindopening, soulopening (cf. Swe. "själsöppnande")
psychiatrist	n	mindhealer, soulkithler, mindlore(wo)man
psychiatry	n	soulkith (Cf. Du. seelkunde), mindkith
psychic	n	soulsman, mindsman
psychic	adj	soulish, mindish
psychologist	n	mindlorester
psychology	n	mindlore, mindalogy
psychotropic	adj	mindwending
pub(lic house)	n	inn, alehouse, boozer
public	adj	openly, stately, emean
public servant	adj	onbidsman
public toilet	n	outhouse
publish	vb	forlay (Cf. NHG verlegen), forthset, make known, folkcast, bring out, outbring, forthsend, openthrutch
publishing firm	n	forlay (Cf. NHG Verlag)
pulsate	vb	beat, throb
pulse1	n	beat, throb, heartbeat
pulse2	n	bean
pumice	n	foamstone
pumpkin	n	harvestberry, harvestball
punch	vb	clout, handstrike, fiststrike
punish	vb	scold
pup	n	whelp
puppet	n	wiretoy, handtoy
purchase1	vb	buy
purchase2	n	grip
pure	adj	clean, sheer, white
Purgatory	n	Sweepfire (cf. NHG Fegefeuer), Cleanseroom (literal Latin translation), Otherworld
purge	vb	cleanse
purify	vb	cleanse
purple	n	redblue, bluered, clamhue, clam
purpose	n	sake
pursue	vb	onfollow after, follow, go after
pursuit	n	woath (<OE wāþ)
purveyor	n	monger
push	vb	shove, thrust
pustule	n	pock
putrefaction	n	rot, rotting, addleness
pygmy	n	shortman, dwarfman
pyromania	n	firemadness
pyromaniac	adj	firemad, firemadman, firecrazy