English Wordbook/S

Staff S 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.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

iiChancery English	Class	Anglish/English
		Attested	Unattested
sabotage	vb	cripple, undermine? (mine is from Old French)	-
saboteur	n	-	crippler
sacred	adj	holy, hallowed	-
Sacrament	n	holy oath, holy undertaking, hallowing	forhallowing, holy-work (<OE haligweorc)
sacrifice	vb/n	give, give up,	bloot (<OE blotan)
sacrilege	n	unholiness	holishending (cf. Du heiligshennis) (to shend, to defile)
sacrilegious	adj	unholy, sinful	-
sacrosanct	adj	holy, hallowed	-
sacrum	n	-	holybone, roodbone
sadism	n	fiendishness, heartlessness	meanlove, meanlust
sadistic	adj	heartless, coldhearted	overtuly
safe	n	strongbox	-
safe	adj	sound, fast; white; trusty, good, sheltered, shielded	-
safety	n	shelter, wholeness, soundness, frith (archaic)	munding, berg, frith
safe space	n	haven, hugbox	frithyard (<OE friþġeard)
sagacious	adj	insightful, wise, witty, foresightful	rede hedging (<OE rǽdhycgende) hyesnotter (<OE hygesnottor) redesnotter (<OE rǽdsnotor) searthinkle (<OE searuþancol) shedwise (<OE scéadwís) smighful (<OE sméah) wisefast (<OE wísfæst) yarewittle (<OE gearuwitol)
Saint (St.)	n	Holy	-
saint	n	-	holyman, hallow
sainthood	n	hallowdom	-
saliva	n	spit	-
salamander	n	-	landwater athex, land-newt, land-eft
salary	n	earnings, income, salt	toll
sally	vb/n	outfall
salmon	n	-	lax (<OE leax, cf. NHG Lachs, Yid. לאַקס (laks), ON, Ic. Sw. lax, Dn. Nw. laks)
saltire	n	Andrew's Rood (cross)	-
salutary	n	friendly, good, helpful, kindly; good, healthy, wholesome	-
salutation	n	greeting, welcome, hail	-
salvation	n	lifeline	redding (<OE hreddung) halwendness (<OE hālwendnes)
salvo	n	unload, outburst	-
sample	vb	to have a smack of, fore smack	-
samurai	n	-Easternwye	dawnlandish knight
sanctify	vb	hallow, behallow	-
sanctuary	n	haven, grith, holyroom, hallow, holystead, frithhouse, frithstow	-
Santa Claus	n	Father Christmas	-
sapient	n	much wise; aware	-
sapphire	adj/n	-	bluehurst
sarcophagus	n	-	stonethrough sunkingthrough(Egypt)
sasquatch	n	Bigfoot	-
Satanism	n	-Heathenish	Ostroth; Satandom; Satan-worship
satchel	n	knapsack, rucksack	-
satellite	n	moon	artificial: ironmoon, swail searsender, umworld loftvat ("around-world-air-vessel" att'd on the Old English Wikipedia as ymbeworuldlyftfæt) / * NB: 'ump-' as in 'umpteen' = around an amount
satiate	vb	fulfill, quench, slake	-
satire(ist)	n	heaning, heancraft(er), heanwriting(er)	-
satisfaction	n	gladness	cwemeness (<OE cwemness), eadiness befrithening (cf. NHG Befriedigung) itheness (<OE  īeðnes)
satisfy	vb	gladden, slake, fulfill, sate, quench	queme, afill, befrith, sede (<OE ġesēdan)
saturate	vb	sop, soak, steep	indrench (<OE indrencan)
Saturday	n	-	Lyeday (< OE læg, leag "lye" (cognates: M.Du. loghe, Du. loog, OHG louga). The substance was formerly used in place of soap, hence OHG luhhen "to wash," ON laug "bath". ON laugardagr, Dan. lørdag, Swed. lördag "Saturday," literally "bath day".)
sauce	n	dip	-
sauerkraut	n	-	sourcole, sourkale
sauna	n	steam room	hot-house, hotroom, sweatbath
sausage	n	pudding, banger	swineflesh, meary (<OE mearh)
savage	adj/n	wild; wilder	wildard
savanna; savannah	n	-	wendringly grassland barelands (cf. Eng. barrens)
save	vb	spare; keep, hold	nere (<OE nerian, akin to NHG nähren) redd (<OE hreddan 'to free from recover rescue save take away') berg/barrow (<OE beorgan 'to save, preserve', Goth bairgan, OHG bergan, ON bjarga) hain, stow, hoard, heal
saviour	n	-sparer	healand (cf. NHG Heiland, from OHG Heliand 'the healing one') halend, healer, healant (<OE hælend, in light of MnE 'coolant') ner(i)gend (<OE, 'the Savior', cf. nerian)
savory	adj	-smeckfull	hearthaft (cf. NHG herzhaft) defty (cf. NHG deftig)
Saxon	n		Saxish
Saxony	n		Saxland (<OE Seaxland) Sexland Saxes Saxen
saxophone	n	saxhorn	-
scald	vb	forseethe	-
scale	vb	climb	-
scale	n	layout, frame, framework, mete, setup	animal skin: shale (<M. Eng. schale)
scalpel	n	-	leechsax
scapegoat	n	-	fenman (from Old Dutch thews of offering a man-bloot by either throwing the chosen into a fen, lynching them or throwing them into streams to undo the anger of the gods.) singoat (cf. Du. zondebok; NHG Sündenbock)
scaphoid bone	n	-	boatbone
scapula	n	shoulderbone, wingbone	-
scar	n	blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark, wale, weal, wheal, wen, welt
scarabaeus stercoreous	n	-	turd-weevil
scarce	adj	light, sparing; lacking, low, shy, wanting	-
scarcely	adv	barely, hardly, narrowly, slightly	-
scarcity	n	lack, shortness, seldomness, fewness, dearth	-
scarf	n	-	neckcloth (cf. Sw. halsduk; Dn. halstørklæde
scarlet	adj	bawsebrown	wormred (<OE wyrmread)
scatophilia	n	-	dritelust
scatter	vb	broadcast, cast, deal out, go-off, go through, let go, oversow, overspread, put to flight, spread, strew	-
scene	n	background, setting; blowup, fireworks; footing	-
schizoid	adj	-	splitlike (calque of Gk. schizein "split, break, shatter" and -oeides "like") cleavemindy; mindcleavish
schizophrenia	n	-	splitmindness, shattermindness (calques of Gk. schizein "split, break, shatter" and phrēn "mind, understaing") kithshatter, kithcleave (cf. Ic. geðclofi) wit-cleftness
scholar	n	learner; bookman	loreman; fieldknower, learnand; writman; wordman; booklover
scholarship	n	knowledge, learning	bookhood, loreship; writdom
school	n	-	lorehall, learnhall?
science	n	knowledge, ken; lore, wisdom	witship (cf. Du. wetenschap, NHG Wissenschaft); kendom
scientist	n	knower	witshipper (cf. Du. wetenschapper, NHG Wissenschaftler) loreman, kenman, knowledgeman
scientific	adj	cunning; -craftly	worldkenly, witshiply, lorely
scientific language	n	-	craftspeech (<OE cræftspræc); cunningtongue
scintillate	vb	sparkle, flash, shine, leam	-
scissors	n	blades	shears (Scots cf. NHG. Scheren)
-scope	sfx	-	-seer
scorpion	n	-	stingtail, night-sting
scout	n	pathfinder	foretrekker (< Afr. voortrekker, 'pioneer')
scowling	adj	-	black-browed
screen	n	sheet, sail; shroud	shirm (<PG skirmiz, compare Du. scherm NHG. Schirm)
scribe	n	writer, logger	bookman
scrotum	n	ballsack*, sack* (*but "sack" is from Latin saccus); hanger	cod (<OE codd) ballbag (Scots bawbag, OE. beall and ON. baggi)
scrutinize	vb	-	scrut (<OE scrutinan) gaumgive (<Ic. gaumgæfa)
scrutiny	n		shroutening (<OE sċrūtnung)
sea monster	n	merfiend	fivel (<OE)
search	vb	seek; rake, comb, delve, hunt, cape	nease (<OE neosan, to search out, find out by enquiry) speer (<OE spyrian)
search word	n	headword	seekword
season	n	time, tide	sele (<ME), yeartime, yeartide (by analogy from German Jahrzeit)
seat of joy	n	-	gleestool (<OE glīwstōl)
sebum	n	tallow	-
secede	vb	leave, withdraw, cleave, sunder, split off	offsplit
secession	n	selfhhod, self-standing, freedom; withdrawal, walking away, breakaway, breakup, cleaving, sundering, splitting off	selfstead; offsplitting; frith
secessionist	n	freedomfighter	offsplitter
second	n	moment: tick, eyeblink	nutlog  (hour: log,  minute: shortlog)
second	adj	twoth	next, other, after (obsolete), twithe (twi- + th as in four-th)
secret	adj/n	adj: dern, hidden, withdrawn, unseen, inward, stealthy, untold, unbeheld, underground, underhanded, hushhush, inly n: dern	n: hiddle (<OE hydels), dyle (<ME diȝel, <OE dīegol) hushthought, hushword roun(d) (< OE run, 'mystery, secret, rune'), hem (cf.NHG. heimlich NHG "geheim", Du. "geheim", Sw. "hemmelighet", Da. "hemmelig")
secret society	n	-	himebind (cf. NHG "geheimbund") stealthfay (cf. Ic. "seynifélagið"), hidden guild
secretary	n	reeve; helper, greeter	inwriter
secrete	vb	seep, leak, ooze	-
sect	n	block, body	afterfollowing (<OE æfterfylgung)
section	n	bit, block
secular	adj	worldly, of this world, earthly	-
secular	n	worldling; worldhood	-
secularise/-ize	vb	-	formean, forworlden (cf. NHG verweltlichen)
secure	adj	belayed, fast, steadfast	-
secure	vb	shield, ward; ice; more, set, fasten	mound (<OE mundian 'to protect, shelter, guard)
security	n	fastness; stronghold, bulwark	sickerness sickerhood (NHG. Sicherheit)
sediment	n	dregs, silt, draff, dross	-
seduce	vb	fortee, lead on	spane (<OE spanan), adwell
segment	n	lith; string, thread	-
segregation	n	-	beshedding, asunderhood
seize	vb	hold, hend, clutch, take, gripe	fang (<OE fangen), reach (<OE geræcan), lach/laght, laught, or lachen for past tense, participle, or as an adjective (<ME lacchen, cf. OE læccan)
seizure	n	fit	-
select	vb	choose, pick, wale	-
selenium	n	-	moonstuff
self-effacement	n	-	self-naughting
self-esteem	n	self-worth	-
self-restraint	n	-	forhaveness (<OE forhæfnes)
semester	n	sixmonth, half-year	-
seminar	n	workshop	-
sempiternity	n	-	endlessness, unendinghood, alwayness, everlastingness
semi-	pref	half-, sam-/sand-/some- (<OE sam-)	-
semicircle	n	-	halfring, samring
semisphere	n	-	halfball, samball
senate	n	witenagemot	witansmoot, witansimoot; eldermoot [elder: <L. senex + moot (council)]
senator	n	witan	folkwit (<OE folcwita), elder
senile	adj	doddery, doddering, elderly, old, doted	-
senior citizens	n	elderly, old folks, eldfolk, eldman, the old	-
sensate	adj	feeling	-
sensation	n	1. feeling	2. upthrill
sensational	adj	amazing	wuldersome
sense	n	1.feeling 2. meaning; wit	seave (<OE sefa)
sense	vb	feel	-
senses	n	the five wits
sensible	vb	-	feelbere (calque), begetful
sensitive	adj	feeling, keen, sharp	-
sentence	n	wordset; byword, saw (etym. 2), wordstring, saying	cwide (<ME, OE cwide)
sentence	vb	doom	-
sententious	adj	pithy	-
sentience	n	awareness	awaredom (obsolete OED word)
sentient life	n	wight, being	-
sentiment	n	feeling, thought	-
separate	vb	sunder, split, break, cleave, fork	shed (<ME sheden: cf. NHG/Du. scheiden)
separate	adj	sundry, freestanding, sundered cleave, cloven	shedded
separation	n	splitting, split	shedding, asunderhood
September	n	-	Holymonth (which was noted in OE), Sheddingmonth, Harvestmonth (<OE)
Septuagesima	n	-	Berueingtide (<OE berwosungtid)
sequel	n	-	afterfollowing, forthsetting (<NHG Fortsetzung)
sequence	n	aftermath, backwash, child, outcome, outgrowth, upshot; string; setup	gatherbinding
sequential	adj	back-to-back, straight, through	fayed, gatherbinding
sequoia	n	-	ettinfirwood (cf. Du. reuzenpijnboom)
series	n	line, stream (entert.) saga	-
serious	adj	earnest, unfunny, heavy, weighty	-
seriously	adv	earnestly, thoroughly, wholeheartedly, with heart & soul, willingly, agoodly, weightily	-
serpent	n	snake, worm  (<OE wyrm), adder	slang (cf. NHG Schlange, Du. slang, Da. slange)
servant	n	help, helper; hireling, besteader housekeeper, maid (fm.), dey (fm.), bondsman, loaf-eater, shalk, man, boy, may, thane, (<OE þegn), thrall, knight	thew (obs.) theener, theen (<OE þēonest cf. NHG Diener) ambight (<OE ambiht)
serve	vb	help, dish, hye, bestead, give	theen (<OE þeġnian cf. NHG/Du. dienen) thew, ambight (<OE geambihtan; onþéowian)
serve a meal	vb	help, give	mess (<ME messen) "Could you mess out the bread and ale for our guests?"
server	n	sender, broadcaster, outputter, mainframe	-
serf	n	bondman, thrall	-
service	n	besteading, help, choosing	theen (<OE þēnest, cf. NHG Dienst) betheening (cf. NHG Bedienung) folgth (OE folgþ, ME, EME)
servile	adj	bowing, scraping; thrallish	thewly (<OE þéowlic)
session	n	sitting, stint	-
settlement	n	hem, thorpe/thorp/dorp, wick, town, whistle-stop	settlening, hemling, ham
several	adj	sundry	-
severe	adj	stern, hard, harsh, tough, thorough	-
severely	adv	hardly, roughly, sternly, stiffly;	-
sewer	n	drain, sieve	-
sex	n	kind	folkhalf, hade
sex act	n	kin-making, lovemaking, breeding	swiving, heamedlock (<OE hæmedlac) fleshly knowledge, bysleep (cf. NHG Beischlaf, DU bijslaap)
sexual reproduction	n	breeding	swiveful matchyielding, swiveful matchbearing
sexy	adj	fetching, comely, hot, steamy, come-hither	-
shantytown	n	tinstow, hutstead, slum	-
shark	n	haye	highcarl (cf. O.N. hákarl), dreadfish, sea dog
shingles	n	tetter	-
shoelace	n	shoestring	-
shortage	n	dearth	shortdom, shorthood; lack is Germanic but not Old English (seemingly)
show mercy	vb	spare	orefast/arfast (<OE ārfæstan)
shrapnel	n	-	blastfall, blastrain, blastbits
shrine	n	weved (OED ‘altar’)	wighbed (<OE wigbed = altar)
siege	vb	beleaguer, (um)beset	-
Sierra Leone	n	-	Lein (pr. lee-in) Ridgelands
sign	n	token, shingle, mark	-
sign	vb	blaze; onmark, underwrite	undertoken (calque of Ger. speech cf. NHG unterzeichnen, Du. ondertekenen)
signal	n	bale-fire, beacon	-
significant	adj	noteworthy, weighty	markworthy
silence	vb	hush, make still, soothe	bestill, beroo (cf. NHG beruhigen)
silence	n	stillness	forsowing (<OE forsuwung), roo (Eng., ME ro <OE rō, cf. NHG Ruhe ) bestillness
silicon	n	-	flintstuff
similar	adj	alike, akin	akind, samekind
simile	n	likeness	-
simple	adj	onefold	-
single	adj	a, one	-
sir	n	Lord, m’lord	har (<ME harre<OE hearra, cf. NHG Herr)
sire	n	lord	har
Sirius	n	Dog Star, Brightest Star	-
site	n	stead	point, location:  ord (Eng.)
situate	vb	lay down, ground	-
situation	n	lay? (cf. lay of the land)	-
size	n	greatness, bigness, bulk	grete (<ME <OE grīetu, cf. NHG Größe)
skateboard	n/vb	-	rollboard roller board wheelboard (cf. Ic. hjólabretti)
skeleton	n	frame	boneset, boneframework
slander	n/vb	n: smear vb: belittle, defile, smear, sully, tarnish; lie	holen (<ME holen < OE hōlian
slave	n	bondman, thrall	theen (OE)
smuggler	n	-	owler
snow globe/snowglobe	n	-	snowkuggle (cf. NHG Schneekugel)
social media	n	-	fellowly means; friendly sarrow (“miracle, wonder; technology”)
socialism	n	thralldom; churlishness	rikeownership; allownership; worldrike, oneworldreevedom; fellowdoom, rikedom, unfolk, endfolk; allbinding, manbinding; “manbinding by the thralls, bindrike of the churls, worldreevedom of the knaves” (< ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’)
socialist	n, adj	enthraller; churl	rikeowned; rikebinder, manbinder, fellowshiply, fellowdoomish; folkender, folksfoe; worldthrall
social/societal	adj	friendly, sharing	-
society	n	fellowship, friendship, folk; kith and kin	sithership (<OE gesíðscipe, cf. NHG Gesellschaft) big: theed/thede (<OE þeod), leedship (<OE léodscipe, from lede), thede, landleed, kinrike (<OE), folkstead (<OE), folkship (<OE) folcscipe)
socket	n	outlet bone: cup	-
sodium	n	-	saltstuff
solar	adj	sun-like, sunly	-
solder	vb	weld, tin	lead
sole (foot)	n	-	ile (<OE ile, cf. Ic. il), footfolm
solid	adj	hard	fast (dated sense of firm), earthlike (with each state of matter representing one element)
solstice	n	sunstead	sunwend (cf. Du. zonnewende, NHG Sonnenwende) sunstandstill (cf. Du. zonnestilstand)
solve	vb	answer	loose, loosen, lease (calque of Ger. speech)
soporific	adj	-	sleep-giving
sorcery	n	witchcraft, dwimmer	dreecraft, drycraft
sorrel	n	-	sourleaf
sound	n	reard, cling, ring, loudness, pitch	din, sough, yar/yer, loude, lidden (<OE hlýd, OE hlýden, cf. NHG. Laut, Du. geluid, Dan. lyd, Swed. ljud, Icel. hljóð)
sound	v	ring, clink, cling sound like: to be heard like...	to sound like: onhear/ hear on (NHG. anhören)
soup (from a Germanic root, through F and L) (Proto-Germanic *sup)	n	broth, gruel	-
source	n	birthplace, root, begetter, dawn, onset, start, spring, wellspring, ere-	ordfrom (<OE ord, "point", + from)
sovereign	adj	-	selfstanding (cf. Sw. självständig)
space	n	-	room astrology: roomth
spacious	adj	roomy	roomy
spatial	adj	-	roomthy
special	adj	-	besunder (cf. NHG besondere) sunderly (<OE sundorlic, cf. NHG sonderlich)
speciality	n	-	besunderhood (cf. NHG Besonderheit) ownhood/ship (cf. NHG Eigenheit/schaft)
species	n	-	lifekin, lifekind
specific	adj	-	bestevened (cf. NHG bestimmt) (see steven)
specifically	adv	only, one, inborn, clean-cut, sharp
sphenoid bone	n	-	wedgebone
sphere	n	ball	kuggle* (cf. NHG Kugel) (*Kugel is of either Semitic or Germanic origin)
sphincter	n	-	closethew/closemoussock (cf. Du. sluitspier, NHG Schließmuskel)
sphinx	n	-	wilibilth (calque of Anc. Egyptian šzp-ꜥnḫ)
spice	n	-	croud (cf. Du. kruid)
spine	n	backbone	backridge
spirit	n	gast, gost, ghost, breath, soul, mind	-
sponge	n	-	swamb (<OE swamm)
sport	n	lark, lake (etym. 2)	-
spy	n/vb	sleuth: very late borrowing into Old English (near to 1200AD) from The Orrmulum.	speer (<OE spyrian) loosesheerwere (<OE lēassċēawere)
squadron	n	-	sheltron, shieldtrum (<OE scieldtruma); swathe (cf. NHG Geschwader); stafle (cf. NHG Staffel)
square	n	-	fourside (cf. Du. vierkant) in a city: tey (<OE tēge)
squirrel	n	aquern O.E. ācweorna, O.N. loan in O.E. scug; skug.	shadow-tail
stabilize/-ise	v	steady, still	besteady, bestill
stable	adj	steady, still	-
stadium	n	-	spurd (<OE spyrd)
standard	adj	stock, mean	-
stapes	n	stirrup	earstirrup, stirrupbone
state	vb	utter	-
state	n	condition: shape, lay (cf. lay of the land) polity: moot, rike	-
statue	n	-	standbilth (cf. Ger. Standbild; Du. Standbeeld)
status	n	rank	-
statute	n	-	setness
stay	vb	belive, blive, keep	-
stellar	adj	starly	-
sternum	n	breastbone	-
stingray	n	-	-
stomach	n	maw	-
store	vb	keep, hoard	-
story	n	tale, yarn	telling, atelling, ortelling (cf. NHG Erzählung)
strange	adj	outlandish, weird, unwonted, unknown, wild, odd, freakish, eerie, queer	fremd
strategy	n	plot	wyecraft
stray	vb	wander	dwale (<ME dwalen)
street	n	road, way; roadway	wainway, wagonway (to be brooked inborough to tell between the walking path (walkway) and the faring path)
stress	n	burden, weight, load	thrutch (cf. NHG Druck) belasting (cf. NHG belastung, Du. belasting)
strict	adj	hash, hard, stern, forbidding	-
strive/strife	vb/n	fight	-
structure	n	makeup, set, setting, frame; building, boards	upmake
study	vb/n	swot, either usage (up on), thought; reading	-
student	n	learner	learningchild (<OE leorningcild)
style	n	kind	-
stylus	n	spear, pecker, picker, stick, shaft, writing tool, needle	leadstick
sub-	pref	under- (subsequent) after-	-
subject	v	thread	underthrow (cf. Du. onderwerpen, NHG. unterwerfen)
subject	n	-	underthrow (cf. D. onderwerp)
subjunctive	adj/n	-	underlinked (claque of Latin)
submarine	n/adj	adj: undersea	n: U-boat (short for undersea-boat), diveboat (cf. Du. duikboot)
submit	vb	give in, ingive, hand in, send	-
substance	n	stuff (but a G (Frankish) root modified through Old French); being	anwork (<OE andweorc)
substitute	n	stand-in, fill-in	-
substitute	vb	swap, fill in, stand in, go as	outtrade (cf. NHG. austauschen) replace: aset (cf. NHG ersetzen)
subtitle	n	-	undername, understerling
subtle	adj	low-key	-
suburb	n	-	underborough (<OE underburg), foreord (cf. NHG Vorort)
succeed	vb	go after	spow (<OE spówan)
success	n	-	spowing, afollowing (cf. NHG Erfolg)
successful	adj	-	spowful, afollowfull (cf. NHG erfolgreich)
succumb	vb	fall to	alie (alying; alay; alain) (cf. NHG erliegen) undernick (<OE underhnigan)
sudden	adj	swift, rushing, rash	-
suddenly	adv	swiftly, rushingly, rashly, forthwith, straightaway	-
suffer	vb	-	thole (<OE þolian, þrowian), undergo (transitive), dree (<OE drēogan)
suffering	n	harm, ache, sorrow, woe, smarts	tholing, dreeing
suffice	vb	do, be enough, reach, work, meet (transitive)	outreach (cf. NHG ausreichen)
sufficiency	n	enoughness, fulth, fittingness	-
sufficient	adj	enough, done, right, even, fair, fit, befitting, becoming	filling, outreaching
suffix	n	-	word tail, endfastening, afterword
sugar	n	-	sweethurst (hurst is old english for crystal) molecule: sweetmote
sugarcane	n	-	sweetreed (cf. Du. suikerriet)
suggest	vb	imply: hint, infold offer: bid, put forth	imply: ettle, bysay offer: forthput, rede
sulfur	n	brimstone	-
sum (up)	vb	cast up, tally up	-
sunflower	n	-	sunbloom, sunblossom (<NHG. Sonnenblume)
super	adj/pfx	adj: over, overly pfx: over-	-
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious	adj	-	overfairnessbrokenliatoneliteachworthy
supercontinent	n	-	overworlddeal
superhero	n	-	overheleth
superhuman	adj	-	overman
superior	adj	overly	-
supermarket	n	-	overchepstow
supernatural	adj	otherwordly	-
supernova	n	-	overnew
superposition	n	-	overstelling
supervillain	n	-	overnithing, overnither
supervise	vb	oversee	-
supervisor	n	overseer	-
supplement	n	-	togive
supply	n	yield, stock, spring	-
supply	vb	yield, feed, fill, afford	-
support	vb	back up, forward, foster, upbring, uphold, underprop, upstart, underset	bestaddle, understut (cf. NHG unterstützen), stut
support	n	back up	fultum
suppose	vb	ween, believe, guess, think, reckon	forethink
sure	adj	wis, siker, set	-
surface	n	overlay, layer, overside	-
surgeon	n	sawbones	-
surname	n	last name	-
surprise	vb	stun, astound, overcome, overtake	overrush (NHG überraschen)
surrender	vb	yield, hand over, give up	overgive
surround	vb	hem in, enring, inring	umbgive (cf. Du. omgeven; NHG umgeben), umbring (cf. Du. omringen; NHG umringen)
survive	vb	outlive, live on	overlive (cf. NHG. überleben Du. overleven Dan. overleve Norw. overleve Swed. överleva)
susceptibility	n	openness, givenness, helplessness	-
susceptible	adj	given, open; helpless	alout (<OE áloten) v. forthlout (<OE forþlútan); onfally (<NHG. anfällig) (see onfall)
suspect	vb	mistrust, underlook	forthink (cf. Du./NHG. verdenken)
suspend	vb	-	hang freely: uphang (cf. Du. ophangen, NHG aufhängen)
suspicion	n	mistrustfulness, underlook	forthought (cf. Du. verdachting, NHG. verdacht)
suspicious	adj	mistrustful, wary	forthoughtful/ forthoughty (cf. Du. verdacht)
sustain	vb	underhold, uphold, stay	-
suitable	adj	fit	-
Swabia	n		Swabeland, Sweafland (<OE Swǣfaland)
Swabian	n		Swabish, Sweafish (<OE Swǣfisc)
swastika	n	fylfot, gleerune (as a religious symbol)	hookrood (cf. NHG Hakenkreuz)
syllable	n	-	staveset, staffle/stavle (cf. SW stavelse), staffgrip(e)/stavegrip(e) (cf. Du. lettergreep)
synesthesia	n	-	linked feeling (calque)
synonym	n	likeword, selfsame	otherword
system	n	layout, makeup, setup	stellel (cf. Du. stelsel) outlay, upmake