Staff T of the English Wordbook.
Tongueshortenings:
- NE = New English
- ENE = Early New English
- ME = Middle English
- OE = Old English
- SC = Scots
- WF = West Frish
- NF = North Frish
- SF = Saterlandish Frish
- WO = Wangeroogish
- WLG = West Low Thetch
- EFLS = East Frish Low Saxish
- ELG = East Low Thetch
- NL = Netherlandish
- AF = Afrikaans
- NHG = New High Thetch
- IL = Icelandish
- HIL = High Icelandish
- FO = Faroish
- NO = Nornish
- SW = Swedish
- DN = Danish
- MLG = Middle Low Thetch
- MNL = Middle Netherlandish
- MHG = Middle High Thetch
- OF = Old Frish
- OS = Old Saxish
- OHG = Old High Thetch
- ON = Old Norse
- GO = Gottish
- PWG = Or-West-Theedish
- PG = Or-Theedish
Other shortenings:
- [ᛣ] = Loanwend
- [ᚹ] = Widened meaning given to a word for the sake of Anglish
- [ᛏ] = Transitive
- [ᚾ] = Intransitive
- [ᚩ] = Old and dead meaning of a living word
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
Staffs under English Wordbook/T:
Ta Tb Tc Td
Te Tf Tg Th
Ti Tj Tk Tl Tm Tn To Tp Tq Tr Ts Tt Tu Tv
Tw Tx Ty Tz
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| tabernacle | n | - | shifthouse, worshiphut, worshipbooth; erdingstow (‹ ME eardingstowe ⁊ OE eardungstōw), tielding (‹OE geteldung) | |
| table | n | board, listing, spreadsheet | beed (‹ME bēode) | |
| table cloth | n | - | beedcloth (‹OE bēodclāþ), boardcloth | |
| table d'hôte | n | set meal | guestgiver's beed | |
| table of contents | n | inside | inhold | |
| taboo | n | ban, out | shunning, mithing | |
| tachyon | n | - | snellmote, swiftbit | |
| tacit | adj | unspoken, wordless, not understood | - | |
| taciturn | adj | tight-lipped | - | |
| taco | n | wrap | (Mexickish) foldwich | |
| tactics | n | how, way | wyecraft | |
| tailor | n | needle-worker, outfitter | thimbleman, wearshafter, seamer | |
| tailor | vb | fit, put, shape | - | |
| Taishō (era) | n(p) | - | Greatuprightness, Greatrightwiseness | |
| take (‹ON) | vb | nim | - | |
| talkative (foreign suffix) | adj | talksome, chatty, gabby, outspoken, long-winded | eloquent: queddle (‹OE cwedol) | |
| talus | n | anklebone | ancleebone (‹ME anclẹ̄ bone) | |
| tan (‹OE) | vb | brown, bark | yare (<ME yaren 'to tan') | |
| tanner (‹OE) | n | barker | yarer (<ME yaren + -er) | |
| Tangut | n/adj | - |
Westsummerwrit (calque of Cn 西夏文, xīxiàwén/hsi1hsia4wen2/ŝīŝià-ŭén/ㄒㄒㄧㄚ`ㄨㄣˊ), adj: Westsummerrish | |
| tank | n | pond, pool, vat |
vehicle: gouthwain (< OE gūþ + wain), blastwain, fightwain, fightfarewain, meshcampwain (calque: NHG Panzerkampfwagen), mesh | |
| tantrum | n | fit | - | |
| Taoism | n(p) | - | Taotroth, Taodom, Waytroth, Rightway | |
| tardigrade | n | waterbear | - | |
| target | n | goal, mark | - | |
| target | vb | deal (against) | - | |
| task | n | chore, errand, undertaking, char | upyeave (up- + yeave <OE geafu "gift", cf. NL opgave, NHG Aufgabe), agift, agive, agiven (cf. NHG Aufgabe, a- denotes "on" as "auf-") | |
| tassel | n | - | knap (‹ME knap), quast (‹PG *kwastuz > WF kwast, NHG Quaste) | |
| taste | n | smack; fondness | belikening | |
| taste | vb | smack, smatch | - | |
| tasteless | adj | smackless, smatchless | - | |
| tasty | adj | - | smatchful, smacky | |
| tautology | n | - | word-sameness (Barnes) | |
| tattoo | n | - | hidemark | |
| tavern | n | alehouse; inn; winehouse | - | |
| tax | n | toll; tithe | yield (‹ME yẹ̄ld), gavel (‹ME gāvel) | |
| taxation | n | tolling; tithing | - | |
| taxidermy | n | stuffing | stightskinning (calque) | |
| taxman | n | toller | gaveler (‹ME gavelere), gavelreeve (‹OE gafolgerēfa) | |
| taxonomy | n | - | stightlore | |
Te[]
| tea | n | - | leafbrew |
| tear duct | n | - | tearpipe, teartheet (see OE þēote) |
| technical | adj | - | craftly |
| technically | adj | lorewise | - |
| technocracy | n | - | outhwitwield (‹ OE ūþwita + ME wẹ̄ld), dabdom, dabship, dabrich |
| technology | n | craft, tooling, tool-work | toolcraft |
| tedious | adj | dreary, leaden, humming | longsome |
| teenage | adj | - | teeneld |
| teenager | n | - | teenelder, teener |
| telegram | n | - | wirespel, wiresand (see ME sōnd) |
| telegraph | n | - | spellwire |
| telemarketing | n | - | farcheaping (‹ NE far + ME chẹ̄pinge) |
| telepathy | n | mindreading | thoughtcasting, farfeeling [ᛣ] |
| telephone | n | farspeaker | dogbone, wirecaller, farsteven [ᛣ] |
| teleport | vb | - | farferry |
| teleporter | n | - | farferrier |
| telescope | n | spyglass | farseer, sweeper, look-see |
| telework | vb | - | farwork, farworch |
| television | n | gogglebox | bairdscraft, farseeing ([ᛣ]: NF Fiirsen), sightcasting, sightcast ([ᛣ]: IL sjónvarp) set: farseer ([ᛣ]: NF fiirnsäier, EFLS feersäier, NHG Fernseher), streambox, showbox, bairdbox, farwatcher, broadcastbox |
| televisual | adj | - | sightcast |
| temper | n/vb | n: mood vb: anneal |
- |
| temperament | n | - | lund (cf. IC) |
| temperate | adj | mild | forholding (Barnes) |
| temperate zone | n | - | midstrip |
| temperature | n | heat | warmth; cold |
| tempest | n | storm | - |
| tempestuous | adj | stormy, blood-and-guts, hammer-and-tongs | breem (‹ME brẹ̄me) |
| template | n | cutout | forelay (cf. NHG Vorlage) |
| temple | n | - | harrow (‹OE hearg/hearh {haroghes?}), bedehouse, worshipstow, herry allow/augh (<OE ealh)
body part: thunwang (‹ME thunwange) |
| temporal | adj | timely, timewise | tidesome |
| temporal | adj | earthborn, earthbound, worldly | - |
| temporal bone | n | - | thungwangbone |
| temporary | adj | flash, overtaken, overstepped, short-lived | - |
| tempt | vb | whet, draw in, pull in, bait | costen (‹OE costnian {icostned}), frose (‹OE frāsian), forlead, cun, fash |
| temptation | n | itch, bait, come-on, draw, pull, hankering, snare, trap | fanding (‹ME fanding), costening (‹ME costninȝ), frosing (‹OE frāsung), forleading |
| tenacious | adj | dogged; clingy | - |
| tend | vb | tilt towards, lean, slant, look after | - |
| tender | adj | nesh | - |
| tenderly | adv | - | soft and fair |
| tendon | n | sinew | - |
| tenebrous | adj | dark, gloomy | thester (‹ENE thester) |
| tennis | n | - | holdlake (calque) |
| tense | n | - | grammar: tide ([ᚩ]: see OE tīd), timeshape, timing (Barnes) |
| tense | adj | edgy, uptight; hairy, nail-biting | - |
| tensor | n | - | stretcher; waybearer |
| tent | n | fieldhouse; tilt, roof | tield (‹ME tēld), erdingstow (‹ ME eardingstowe ⁊ OE eardungstōw) |
| tentacle | n | feeler, feelhorn, arm | rineling (calque), thennel (<OE þennan + -el) |
| tepid | adj | halfhearted; lukewarm | - |
| term | n | name, word, frist | tide; quid (‹ME quide) |
| terminal | adj | rearmost, endmost
sickness: deadly |
endbound |
| terminal | n | ending | endstop |
| terminate | vb | end | - |
| terminology | n | wording (Barnes) | - |
| terminus | n | end | - |
| termite | n | white ant | - |
| terracotta | n | redware [OED] | bakedearth [ᛣ] |
| terrain | n | landscape | landship (‹OE landscipe) |
| terrestrial | adj | ground-dwelling, earthly, groundly | - |
| terrible | adj | dreadful, fearsome, gruesome, frightening, ghastly; frightful; awful, rotten | - |
| terrific | adj | awesome, top-shelf; awful, nightmare | - |
| terrified | adj | afeared, frightened, affrightened | ackle (‹OE acol) |
| terrify | vb | afear, fright, affright | bree (‹ME brẹ̄en), eyse (‹OE egesian); begallow |
| terrifying | adj | eldritch, frightening, gruesome, bone-chilling | - |
| territorial | adj/n | - | landly
military: landly (plural landlies) |
| territory | n | land, turf | leedmark (‹OE lēodmearc) division: landdeal; hundred, hund, ward, lathe, riding, tithing |
| terror | n | dread, fright; hang-up | brow (‹OE brōga) |
| terrorism | n | - | fearstriking, fearstrikening, awewhelming |
| terrorist | n | - | fearstriker |
| terrorize | vb | - | eyse (‹OE egesian) |
| test | n | - | fanding (‹ME fanding) |
| test | vb | - | fand (‹ME fanden) |
| testament | n | will | witword (‹ME witword), erfbeech (<OE irfebéc), erfwrit (‹OE irfegewrit) |
| testator | n | willwriter | ervewriter (cf. OE yrfewrītend) |
| testicle | n | bollock, ball | hoth (‹PG *huþô > NHG Hode) |
| testimony | n | witness | - |
| text | n | - | physical medium: writ |
| textbook | n | handbook | lorebook (‹OE lārbōc) |
| textile | n | - | thrum |
| texture | n | mouthfeel | - |
Th[]
| theater | n | playhouse | drama: waving (‹OE wafung) place: wavingstow (‹OE wafungstōw), wavingstead (‹OE wafungstede), showhall war: wyehall |
| theme | n | feel | underwirp (cf. NL onderwerp) |
| theology | n | godlore | - |
| theory | n | thought | beholding, thoughtlay |
| therapy | n | - | behandling (cf. DN behandling) |
| thermo- | pfx | - | heat- |
| thermodynamic | adj | - | heatworkly, warmthworkly |
| thermodynamics | n | - | heatwork, warmthworks |
| thermology | n | - | heatlore, warmthlore |
| thermometer | n | - | heatmeter, warmthmeter (meter = mete + -er) |
| thermonuclear | adj | - | heatkernly, warmthkernly |
| thermostat | n | - | heatteller, warmthteller |
| theropod | n | - | yorebird |
| thesaurus | n | - | begripwordbook (cf. NHG Begriffswörterbuch) |
| they/them/their (‹ON) | pron | - | hie/hem/her (‹OE hīe/him/hira), hy (‹OE hī)/'em (‹NE ?‹ME hem)/here (‹ME here) |
| throne | n | seat | kinstool (‹ME kinestọ̄l), kinsettle (‹ME kineseotle), kinbench (‹ME kine-benche), thrumsettle (‹OE þrymsetl {þrimsettles}), highseld (‹OE hēahseld), kingleeder (< king + OE hlēda "seat"), highseat ([ᛣ]: IL hásæti) |
| thug | n | outlaw, beater | - |
| thunderous (foreign suffix) | adj | thundery | - |
Ti[]
| tibia | n | shinbone, shankbone | - |
| tidal (foreign suffix) | adj | - | tidely |
| tier | n | layer, row, string | - |
| tiger | n | - | tiger (‹OE *tiger {tigres}), stripecat, orwoodlee |
| till (‹ON?) | prep&c | - | oth (‹ME oth), hent (‹ME hent) |
| timid | adj | shy, meek, thewless | bleeth (‹ME blēð) |
| tint | n | blee, hue | - |
| tire | n | shoe, rubber, hoop | wheelring, loftband, liftband, band, ringy (cf. NHG Reifen) |
| titanium | n | - | ettinshaft, eatenshaft |
| title | n | name, right, sterling | - |
Tm[]
| tmesis | n | - | snithing (cf. OE gesnīþung) |
Tn[]
| TNT | n | - | boomkeg, blastkeg, boomstick, TCWMB (threechoke woodmead-benzene: calque of trinitrotoluene/trinitromethylbenzene), TCWWB (threechoke woodwine-benzene) |
To[]
| toast | n/vb | thanksgiving; wassail | - |
| toast | n | browned bread | breedbread (see ME brēden; cf. NHG Röstbrot) |
| tobacco | n | - | smokeleaf, smokingleaf, the dark-leaf; pipweed |
| to be able | vb | - | to cun or to mow (old infinitives of "can" and "may") |
| toboggan | n | slide, slider | - |
| toilet | n | bathroom, washroom, restroom | outside: cackhouse (‹OE cachūs; cf. NL kakhuis) |
| toilet (bowl) | n | stool, pot, potty, can | gangsettle (‹OE gangsetl), washsettle, doppy (see NHG Töpfchen) |
| tolerate | vb | thole, bear, put up with | thave (‹ME thāven), thild (‹OE geþyldgian/geþyldigian) |
| tolerance | n | - | tholing ([ᚩ]: see ME thōlinge) |
| tomato | n | loveapple | heartapple, goldapple (calque: NHG Goldapfel, French pomme d'or), bloodapple, swelling ovet (literal meaning of Nahuatl tomatl) |
| tomb | n | grave | lichrest (‹OE līcrest), thesterlock, bed of dust, the dark inn, grass-bed, mold-earth, moldern, moldstow, the pit, lichpit, the delf, the deep-six, lair, narrow house, long-home, dust-bed, earth-home (Most found in Old English and in Full Oxford English Dictionary) |
| tonsure | vb | - | beshear (‹ME bishēren) |
| tone | n | pitch | - |
| topaz | n | - | bazestone (‹OE baswa stān) |
| topic | n | - | underthrow ([ᛣ]: WF ûnderwerp, NL onderwerp) |
| topography | n | landscape | - |
| torch | n | flashlight; brand (archaic), firebrand, wisp | thechen (‹ME þechene), fackle (‹OE fæcele, cf. NHG Fackel), cheen (‹OE cēn), speld (‹OE speld), handlight, glimmer |
| torch | vb | fire, light | brand |
| torment | n | hang-up | sussel (‹OE sūsl), qualmness (‹OE cwealmnes) |
| torment | vb | bedevil | quilm (<ME quelmen ⁊ OE cwilman/cwelman/cwylman) |
| tornado | n | twister, whirlwind | whirlstorm |
| torpedo | n | tinfish | blastleflone ([ᛣ]: IL tundurskeyti), seashot (sea-missile) |
| torso | n | upperbody, bouk | - |
| tortoise | n | shellpad (cf. WF skyldpod) | landburdling (<OE byrdling), rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin to stegosaurus 'roofed lizard'), shieldback (cf. IC skjaldbaka), fennich |
| torture | vb | bedevil, twist, writhe | forpine, threst, befiend |
| total | n | overall, whole | - |
| total | adj | utter, full, all-out, full-on, overall | - |
| totalitarian(ism) | adj/n | red | fullreding, fullriking, overiking |
| totally | adv | altogether, fully, wholly, outright, utterly, all-utterly, full-on, allness, thoroughly, downright, wholeheartedly, stark, to the hilt, all the way | - |
| totem | n | hallmark | eldermark, kinmark |
| toucan | n | - | pepper eater (cf. SW pepparätare) |
| touch | n | feel; reaping, groping (OED) | - |
| touch | vb | feel; rine, onrine, arepp, frede (OED); handle, finger | rine (< ME rinen < OE hrīnan), berear (cf. NHG berühren) (calque of all Germanic speeches) (see rear ety. 2) |
| tour | n | sightseeing | leadabout (cf. NL rondleiding) |
| tour | vb | sightsee | go about |
| tourist | n | sightseer | fandler |
| tournament | n | - | manimatch |
| towel | n | cloth, handcloth, washcloth | thweal (<OE þwǣle), handdook (cf. WF handoek, NL handdoek, NHG Handtuch); bedesheet (<OE bēodscēat) |
| tower | n | keep, steeple | - |
| tower | vb | - | outwax |
| toxic(ity) | adj/n | - | atter(some/ness) |
| toxoplasmosis | n | - | bowmolden sickness |
Tr[]
| trace | n | smatch | loast (‹OE lāst) |
| trachea | n | windpipe | lungleat, windtharm, throatboll, windadder |
| track | n | path, way | - |
| tractor | n | tug, tower | tugwain |
| trade (‹MLG) | n | swap | chaffer (< NE ⁊ ME chaffāre) |
| trade (‹MLG) | vb | swap | chaffer (‹ME chaffāren), wrixle (<ME wrixlen <OE wrixlan) |
| trade union | n | - | workship, workscape (cf. NHG Gewerkschaft), workers' guild |
| tradition | n | trend, folklore, folkways, oldenway, thew(s) | besetness (cf. OE gesetnes) |
| traditional | adj | old-line | old-stream, old-thread, thewkeeping, thewabiding, yorewise |
| traffic | n | wains, flow | wayburden, forchar (cf. WF ferkear) |
| tragedy | n | - | woopleeth (‹OE wōplēoþ), doomfall, ill-hap, woehap |
| tragic | adj | heartbreaking, unlucky, woeful | - |
| trail | n | byway, mark, road, stream, wake, way | wanderway (calque: NHG Wandernweg) |
| trail | vb | follow, hunt, shadow; dawdle, fall behind | - |
| trailblazing | adj | groundbreaking | - |
| trailing | adj | abaft, following, hunting | - |
| train | n | tow, tug | wain (akin to wagon, which comes from Dutch), tye (cf. NHG Zug) |
| trainer | n | - | outbilther (cf. NHG Ausbilder) |
| trait | n | tie | - |
| traitor | n | backstabber, bewrayer | warlow (<ME warlou), lewer (<OE lǣwa), swiker (<OE swica), forreder (cf. WF ferrieder, NL verrader, NHG Verräter, OE forrǽda(?); see rede), trustreaver |
| tranquility | n | - | roo (UK dialectal, <ME rō; cf. NHG Ruhe), smiltness (<OE smyltnysse/smyltness), frith |
| trans- | pref | over- (only some words) | through- or thru- (cf. NHG durch-) (only some words), yond- |
| transcend | vb | - | oversty (‹ME overstīen), overgo, overfare, outmire, outstep |
| transcribe | vb | - | overwrite (calque: NL overschrijeven), downwrite |
| transfer | vb | send, bring over, hand to/over, shift (Barnes) | wend over, overbring |
| transfigure | vb/n | shapeshift(ing) | forwandle (cf. NHG verwandeln), yondshape |
| Transfiguration (religion) | n | - | Forhallowing |
| transgender | n/adj | - | overhoad |
| transform | vb | shapeshift | awend (‹ME awēnden), umbwend (‹OE ymbwendan), forwend; forshape (‹ME forshāpen) |
| transgress | vb | misfare (obsolete) | overbreak (<OE oferbrecan) |
| transhuman | n | - | yondwere, halfwere, halfman |
| transhumanism | n | - | yondweredom |
| transit | n/vb | thoroughfare, faring | - |
| transition | n | shift, overgang | wending, switch-over, overswitch, frothering |
| transitional | adj | - | wendingly, wendsome |
| transitive | adj | overfaresome (Barnes) | - |
| transitive (grammar) | adj | Suffixed forms:
hither, thither, whither, hitherto |
outreaching (Barnes), overgangly (cf. NL overgankelijk) |
| transitory | adj | fleeting | whilewendly (<OE hwilwendlic) |
| translate | vb | put into (Barnes), overset | wend (‹ME wenden), awend (<OE āwendan) |
| translation | n | oversetting | wend (‹ME wenden) |
| transliminal | adj | - | mirethwarsing |
| transliteration | n | - | umbwriting (cf. IC umrita, NHG umschreiben) |
| translucent | adj | - | throughleaming, throughshinely (cf. NL doorschijnend) |
| transmit | vb | spread; ship; hand over, oversend | oversend (<OE ofersendan) |
| transmission | n | broadcast | oversending |
| transparency | n | openness, see-throughness | throughsightihood(ness) (cf. NHG Durchsichtigkeit) |
| transparent | adj | sheer, see-through; bright-line, glassy through-seen (Barnes) |
throughbright (<OE þurhbeorht), throughshine (<OE þurhscýne), throughsighty (cf. NHG durchsichtig) |
| transpire | vb | 1. sweat 2. happen, come to happen, leak out, come out |
- |
| transport | vb | ferry (from North Yermanish) | - |
| transsexual | n | folkhalf shifter, folkhalf switcher | kinswitcher, overkind |
| transubstantiation | n | - | wistforwandering (cf. NO vesensforvandling; DN væsensforvandling; NHG Wesensverwandlung) |
| transvestite | n | - | thwart-dresser, otherdresser |
| trampoline | n | - | spring-sheet |
| trapezium/trapezoid | n | - | boardshape |
| trapezium (bone) | n | - | lesser boardbone |
| trauma | n | wound, aftershock | - |
| travel | vb | fare (Barnes), wend, wayfare, yondfare, lithe | - |
| traveler | n | wanderer, wayfarer, wayferend | fere |
| traverse | vb | tread, yondfare | yondshrithe (<OE geondscríðan) |
| treachery | n | - | foe-hearted, swick, swickcraft |
| treason | n | - | forrede (cf. OE forrǽdan, NL verraden, NHG verraten) |
| treasure | n | hoard, wealth hoard, dearworthness (<OE déorwyrðnes) |
shat (<ME schat), yarse/yass (<OE gærsum; c.f. bass < OE bærs, arse/ass < OE ærs) princely: drightmathom (<OE dryhtmaðm) ancient: earstreen (<OE ærġestrēon), eldstreen (<OE ealdstrēon) |
| treasury | n | - | gavelgild (<OE gafolgyld), feehoard (<OE feohhord) hoardern (<OE hordern) feehove (<OE feohhof) cluff (<OE clyfa), mathomhouse (<OE māþumhūs) |
| treat | vb | behandle | - |
| treatise | n | - | cart (< ME carte < OE carte), rake (< ME race ⁊ OE racu), lorespel (< ME lōrspel ⁊ OE lārspell), offhandling (cf. NHG Abhandlung) |
| treatment | n | - | behandling, tiling (<OE tilung) |
| treaty | n | truce, deal, bargain (Barnes) | (peace): frithwrit, frithware (<OE friðuwær), foreward (<OE foreweard) |
| trebuchet | n | - | slaught stonehauler, overbouk (calque), uprooting bouke (calque), slaught gearwork, gun (<ME gunne), swinging stonehauler, weighed stonehauler |
| tremble | vb | bever, shiver, quiver, shudder, shake, quake | bive, aquake (< ME aquāken < OE ācwacian) |
| tremor | n | quake, quiver, shake, shudder | - |
| trench | n | ditch | gravet <OE grafet), delf, waterfurrow |
| trenchantly | adj | - | telling, forthright, biting, stinging, sword-wordy (O.E. sword-word) |
| trespass | vb | overstep, overtread | offbreete (calque of Ic. af-brot; cf. OE breotan) |
| trespasser | n | guilt-doer | overtreader |
| trial | n | - | fanding (‹ME fanding) |
| triangle | n | wedge | threenook, threeside (cf. NHG Dreieck, DN trekant) |
| tribal leader | n | - | kinelder, kinleader |
| tribe | n | kindred, stem | theed (<ENE thede, maith (<ME mæith), kneeress (<OE cnēoris) |
| tribulation | n | woe, hard times |
costing (< OE costung), onfighting (cf. NHG Anfechtung), arwothe (<OE earwoðe), forniddenness (<OE forgnidennes) |
| tribunal | n | - | doomstow, deemstool |
| tribute | n | - | gavel (<OE gafol) |
| tributary | n | brook | rith, side-stream (Barnes) |
| triceratops | n | - | threehornanleth (calque of Greek) |
| trichology | n | hairlore | - |
| tricycle | n | - | threewheeler |
| trick | n | wile, swack | sare (<OE searu) |
| triennium | n | - | yearthree |
| trigonometry | n | - | threenooklore, threenooking |
| trillion | num | - | fourfold thousand, foursand |
| trilobite | n | - | thrilap, threeleaf bug |
| trilogy | n | - | thrilock (cf. NL drieluik) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | n(p) | - | Threefold and Smokeleaf |
| trinity | n | - | threeness (Barnes), threefoldness |
| tripartite | adj | threefold | threedealed (‹OE þridǣled) |
| trio | n | threesome | - |
| triple | n | threesome | - |
| triple | vb/adj | threefold (Barnes) | - |
| triplet | n | threeling | thrin |
| tripod | n | - | threefoot (calque) |
| triquetal bone | n | - | threenookbone |
| tristful | adj | sad; downcast, gloomy, unblithe, unglad, wretched | - |
| triumph | n | win | reeth (‹OE hrēþ) |
| triumvirate | n | - | thriwered (exact calque: trium- thri + -vir- were + -ate -ed) |
| trivia | n | - | specktide, bittide |
| trivial | adj | paltry | eathly (‹ME ēthelich), ayeap (‹OE ægype; cf. OE gēap) |
| trochee | n | - | leethstep |
| tropical (climate) | adj | - | wendringly (cf. NL keerkring, NHG Wendekreis) |
| tropical zone | n | - | wendring strip, innerstrip |
| troposphere | n | - | weathershell, windhelm |
| trouble | n | upset, worry, plight, ordeal, headache, woe, dretch, dree
in trouble: on the ropes, in deep water; in a hole |
derf (‹ME derf), drake (‹OE dracu), arveth (‹OE earfoðe) |
| trouble | vb | to upset, worry | dreeve (‹ME drẹ̄ven), swench (‹ME swenchen) |
| troubled | adj | - | droof (‹ME drōf), ruechary (‹OE hrēowcearig), susley (<OE sēosliġ) |
| troublesome | adj | in a hole, in deep water, upsetting, straining, worrisome | angsome (‹OE angsum), athrotsome (‹OE aþrotsum) |
| truck | n | lorry | freightwain (cf. WF frachtwein) |
| truncheon | n | cudgel, nightstick, club | - |
| trunk | n | - | body, bole, salk, stock, stem, shaft, |
| trunk | n | - | slurf (cf. WF sloarf, NL slurf), limbnose, armnose |
| try | vb | fand, mint, bid, shoot, go, seek, work | forseech/forseek (cf. NHG versuchen, NL verzoeken) |
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| tsunami | n | flash flood, flood, flood tide, wave | harbor wave (Japanese calque) |
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| tuatara | n | - | bridgeask (calque: NHG Brückenechse), prickleback (cf. Maori tuatara) |
| tuba | n | - | basshorn |
| tube | n | straw, pipe | theet (<OE þēote) |
| tubule | n | awl, straw | - |
| tuition | n | teaching geld | leering |
| tulip | n | - | houvebloom |
| tumor | n | amper (OE: ampre) | - |
| tundra | n | northgrass, coldgrass | - |
| tunic | n | chesthelm, breasthelm | - |
| tunnel | n | - | burrow, crawlway, underway, gang (cf. IC göng), stoal (cf. NHG Stollen) |
| turban | n | - | houve |
| turbid | adj | cloudy, droff, overcast, murky, muddy | - |
| turn | vb | wend, writhe | - |
| turn | n | (my turn): next in the row | - |
| turn against | vb | gainsay, withstand | - |
| turn into | vb | become, char | forwandle |
| turn off | vb | switch off | - |
| turn on | vb | switch on | - |
| turn out | vb | crop up | - |
| turn signal | n | blinker, winker | - |
| turning point | n | watershed | - |
| turquoise | n | teal | greenblue |
| turret | n | small keep | wyehouse (<OE wíghús) |
| turtle | n | shellpad, shell-paddock (rare), shieldtoad (rare) | birdling (<OE byrdling), rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin to stegosaurus, meaning 'roofed lizard'), shieldpad (cf. WF skyldpod & NL schildpad) |
| tutelage | n | - | reding |
| tutor | n | teacher, leerer | lorethew |
| tutu | n | - | bumbum (French calque) |
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| tweezers | n | nippers | - |
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| tycoon | n | - | greatsman (cf. Eng. magnate) |
| type | n | kind (Barnes), ilk | - |
| type | vb | peck, mash, strike; key, truckle, tap (in); write | - |
| typewriter | n | - | writsare (cf. NL schrijfmachine, NHG Schreibmaschine), keywriter, tapwriter |
| typhus | n | - | lent-addle (Barnes) |
| typify | vb | kinden, mark, inbody | - |
| typical | adj | everyday | token |
| typographer | n | - | outlayer, runecrafter |
| Tyrannosaurus rex | n | - | king thearlask (calque of Greek+Latin), great king athex (athex <OE āðexe), dreadask |
| tyranny | n | - | thearlrixing |
| tyrant | n | strongman | leedhate (<OE lēodhata), thearlwielder (<OE þearl 'severe, strict') |