Staff T 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. = Friesish
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
Ta[]
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| tabernacle | n | - | tilding (< OE geteldung), shifthouse, worshiphut, worshipbooth | |
| table | n | board, listing, spreadsheet | beed (<OE bēod) | |
| table cloth | n | - | beedcloth (<OE bēodclāþ), boardcloth | |
| table d'hôte | n | set meal | guestgiver's beed | |
| table of contents | n | inside | inhold | |
| taboo | n/adj | ban, out; that which cannot be spoken of | shunning, mithing | |
| 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 | - | Greatuprightness, Greatrightwiseness | |
| talkative (foreign suffix) | adj | talksome, chatty, gabby, outspoken, long-winded | eloquent: quethel (< OE cwedol) | |
| talus bone | n | anklebone | - | |
| tan | v | brown, bark | yare (< ME yaren 'to tan') | |
| tanner | n | barker | yarer (< ME yaren 'to tan' + -er) | |
| Tangut | n/adj | - |
Westsummerwrit (calque of Cn 西夏文, xīxiàwén/hsi1hsia4wen2/ŝīŝià-ŭén/ㄒㄒㄧㄚ`ㄨㄣˊ), n/adj: Westsummerrish | |
| tank | n | pond, pool, vat |
bury (< OE beorgan 'to preserve') | |
| tantrum | n | fit | - | |
| Taoism | n | - | (Geater Anglish): Waytroth, Rightway (Lower Anglish): Taodom, Taotroth | |
| tardigrade | n | waterbear | - | |
| target | n | goal, mark | - | |
| task | n | chore, char, errand, undertaking | upgive (up + gave < OE geafu "gift", cf. NHG Aufgabe, Du. opgave, Nw. oppgave),
agift, agive, agiven (cf. NHG Aufgabe, a- denotes "on" as "auf-") | |
| taste (sense) | n | smack; fondness | tung, cride; belikening | |
| taste | vb | smack, smatch | tung | |
| tasteless | adj | smackless , no smack | - | |
| tasty | adj | - | smacky | |
| tautology | n | - | word-sameness (Barnes) | |
| tattoo | n | - | hidemark | |
| tavern | n | alehouse, inn | winehouse (< OE wínhús, cf. NHG Weinhaus), beer hut (cf. NHG Bierhütte),
gesthouse (cf. NHG Gasthaus) | |
| tax | n | geld, tithe, toll | gavel (< OE gafol) | |
| taxation | n | tithing, tolling | gelding, geldnold, gavling (< OE gafol 'tribute, tax, debt') | |
| taxidermy | n | stuffing | stightskinning (calque) | |
| taxman | n | toller | bidreaper (< OE Bidrepe), gaveler, geldman | |
| taxonomy | n | stightlore | ||
Te[]
| tea | n | - | leafwos (ME wos 'juice'), leafbrew |
| technical | adj | craftly (Barnes) | - |
| technical language | n | - | craftspeech (< OE cræftspræc) |
| technically | adj | lorewise | - |
| technocracy | n | - | dabdom, dabship, dabrich |
| technology | n | craft, tooling, tool-work | toolcraft |
| tedious | adj | dreary, leaden, humming | longsome |
| telegram | n | - | wire-spell, wiresend |
| telegraph | n | - | spell-wire |
| telemarketing | - | farchepstowing | |
| telepathy | n | mindreading | thoughtcasting, farfeeling (calque. tele+pathy) |
| telephone | n | farspeaker | dogbone, wirecaller, farsteaven (calque tele+phone) |
| teleport | v | - | farferry |
| teleporter | n | - | farferrier |
| telescope | n | spyglass | farseer, sweeper, look-see |
| telework | v | farwork | |
| television | n | show screen, small-screen, show box, broadcast screen, broadcast box | bairdscraft, sightcasting, farseeing ) set: farseer (cf. NHG Fernseher), streambox, baird box, farwatcher |
| televisual | adj | - | sightcast |
| temper | vb/n | vb: mood n: anneal |
- |
| temperament | n | - | lund (cf. Ic.) |
| temperate | adj | mild | forholding (Barnes) |
| temperate zone | n | - | midstrip |
| temperature | n | heat, cold, warmth | |
| tempest | n | storm | - |
| tempestuous | adj | blood-and-guts, hammer-and-tongs, stormy | thory |
| template | n | cutout | forelay (cf. NHG vorlage) |
| temple | n | - | bedehouse, worship stow, herry
body part: tending (Dan. tinding) |
| temporal | adj | timewise, timely, tidesome | - |
| temporal | adj | earthborn, earthbound, freshly, worldly | - |
| temporal bone | n | - | tending bone |
| temporary | adj | flash, overtaken, overstepped, short-lived | - |
| tempt | vb | whet, draw in, pull in, bait | costen, forlead, cun, forseek (cf. NHG versuchen), fash
fraise (<OE frāsian) |
| temptation | n | itch, bait, come-on, draw, pull, hankering, snare, trap | costening (< OE costnung), fanding, forleading, forseeking
fraising (<OE frāsung) |
| tenacious | adj | dogged; clingy | - |
| tend | vb | tilt towards, lean, slant, look after | - |
| tender | adj | nesh | - |
| tenderly | adj | soft and fair | |
| tendon | n | sinew | - |
| tenebrous | adj | dark, gloomy, thester | - |
| tennis | n | - | holdlake (calque) |
| tense | n | - | grammar: time-shape, timing (Barnes) |
| tense | adj | edgy, uptight; hairy, nail-biting | - |
| tensor | n | stretcher, waybearer (telcraft) | - |
| tent | n | tilt, teld, roof | fieldhouse |
| tentacle | n | feeler, feelhorn | rineling (calque) |
| tepid | adj | halfhearted; lukewarm | - |
| terracota | n | - | bakedearth (Italian calque), burnt clay (cf. Ic. brenndur leir) |
| terrain | n | landscape | landship (<OE landsċipe) |
| term | n | name, word, frist (a term in which a debt is to be repaid) | tide; begrip (calque) |
| terminal | adj | rearmost, endmost
sickness: deadly |
endbound |
| terminal | n | ending | endstop |
| terminate | vb | end (Barnes) | - |
| terminology | n | wording (Barnes) | - |
| terminus | n | end | - |
| termite | n | white ant | - |
| terrestrial | adj | ground-dwelling, earthly, groundly | - |
| terrible | adj | dreadful, fearsome, gruesome, frightening, ghastly; frightful; awful, rotten | - |
| terrific | adj | awesome, top-shelf; awfil, nightmare | - |
| terrify | vb | fright, affright | eyse (< OE egesian), afear, bray (< OE bregan); begallow |
| terrifying | adj | eldritch, frightening, gruesome, bone-chilling | - |
| territorial | adj/n | - | landly
military: landly (plural landlies) |
| territory | n | land, turf | ledemark (< OE leódmearc 'people's territory') division: landdeal; hundred, hund, ward, lathe, riding, tithing |
| terror | n | hang-up; dread, fright | deadly: qualmthrea (< OE cwealmþrēa) pl: qualmthreën (< OE cwealmþrēan)
brow (<OE brōga) |
| terrorize | v | - | eyse (<OE egesian) |
| terrorism | n | - | awewhelming, fearstrikening |
| terrorist | n | - | fearstriker |
| test | n/vb | - | fand(ing) (< OE fandung) |
| testament (will) | n | will | ervebeek (< OE ierfebéc), ervewrit (< OE ierfegewrit) |
| testator | n | willwriter | ervewritend (< OE ierfewrítend) |
| testicle | n | bollock, ball | shall (<OE sceallan), herth (<OE herþ), hoath (<PG huþō) |
| testimony | n | witness | - |
| text | n | - | queath (Fr. OE cwide) |
| textbook | n | handbook | - |
| textile | n | - | thrum |
| texture | n | mouthfeel | - |
Th[]
| thatched | adj | - | thatchen (Barnes) |
| theater | n | - | drama: waving (<OE wáfung), Toneel (<Dutch) place: showhall, playhouse, wavingstow (<OE wáfungstów), wavingstead (<OE wáfingstede) |
| theme | n | feel | underwarp (cf. Du. onderwarp) |
| theology | n | godlore | - |
| theory | n | thought, thoughtlay | beholding |
| therapy | n | - | behandling (cf. Dan. behandling) |
| thermo- | pfx | - | heat- |
| thermodynamic | adj | - | warmthworkly, heatworkly |
| thermodynamics | n | - | warmthworks, heatwork |
| thermology | n | - | warmthlore, heatlore |
| thermometer | n | - | warmthmeter (meter = mete + er; one who metes), heatmeter |
| thermonuclear | adj | - | warmthkernly, heatkernly |
| thermostat | n | - | warmthteller, heatteller |
| theropod | n | - | yorebird |
| thesaurus | n | - | begripwordbook (cf. NHG Begriffswörterbuch) |
| they/them/their
(technically not native English, but North Germanic) |
pron | they/them/their (no oversetting needed) | hie/hem/her (<OE hīe/him/hira) |
| throne | n | seat | giftstool, giftseat (OE ġifstōl), kinestool (<OE cynestol), kinesettle (<OE cynesetl), kingleeder (<king + OE hlēda, meaning "seat"), highseat (<IS hásæti), kingseat |
| thug | n | outlaw, beater | - |
| thunderous (foreign suffix) | adj | thundery | - |
Ti[]
| tibia | n | shank-bone, shinbone | - |
| tidal (foreign suffix) | adj | - | tidely |
| tier | n | layer, row, string | - |
| tiger | n | - | stripecat |
| till | prep | - | ooth (<OE ōþ) |
| time of tribulation | n | woe, hard times, dearth, evil | arveth-throw, arvethrow (<OE earfoþþrāg; c.f. ME arveþ-sīþ) |
| timid | adj | shy, meek, thewless | bleathe (<OE blēaþ) |
| tint | n | blee, hue | - |
| tire | n | shoe, rubber, hoop | wheelring, loftband, liftband, band, Ringy (German:Reifen) |
| titanium | n | - | strongstuff, Ettinstuff |
| title | n | name, right, sterling | - |
Tm[]
| tmesis | n | - | umgrave, incarve |
Tn[]
| TNT | n | - | boomkeg, blastkeg, boomstick, TCWMB (threechoke woodmead-benzene, calque of trinitrotouline/trinitro methylbenzene), TCWWB (threechoke woodwine-benzene) |
To[]
| toast | vb | thanksgiving | - |
| toast | n | - | roastbread (cf. NHG Röstbrot) |
| tobacco | n | - | smokeleaf, smokingleaf, hirst loaf |
| to be able | v | to cun or to mow (old infinitives of "can" and "may") | |
| toboggan | n | slide, slider | - |
| toilet | n | bathroom, washroom, restroom | shithouse (Dutch kakhuis) |
| toilet (bowl) | n | stool, pot, potty, can | doppy (German: Töpfchen), gangsettle (<OE gangsetl), washsettle |
| tolerate | vb | thole, bear, put up with | thware (<OE þwarian) |
| tomato | n |
loveapple |
heartapple (< OE heortæppel), goldapple (cf. NHG Goldapfel, French pomme d'or), bloodapple, swelling ovet (literal meaning of Aztecan tomatl) |
| tomb | n | grave | thesterlock, lichrest, 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 | - | besheer (<OE bisceran and <ME bisheren) |
| topaz | n | - | basestone (<OE baswa stán) |
| topic | n | - | underthrow (cf. Du. onderwerp "subject, topic") |
| topography | n | landscape | - |
| torch | n | flashlight, handlight, wisp | fackle (<OE fæcele, cf. NHG Fackel) brand, glimmer |
| torch | vb | fire, light | brand |
| torment | vb/n | bedevil
n: hang-up |
qualmness (<OE cwealmnes) vb: aquilm (<OE ácwylmian, to be tormented) susle (<OE sūsl) |
| tornado | n | whirlwind, whirlstorm, twister | - |
| torpedo | n | tin fish (navy slang) |
fornaughtsend (cf. Ic. tundurskeyti), seashot (sea-missile)
|
| torso | n | upperbody, bouk | - |
| tortoise | n | - | landburdling (<OE byrdling), rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin to stegosaurus 'roofed lizard'), shieldback (cf. Ic. skjaldbaka), shellpad, fennich |
| torture | vb | bedevil, twist, writhe | forpine, threst, befiend |
| total | n | overall | - |
| 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. Swed. pepparätare) |
| touch | n | feel; reaping, groping (OED) | |
| vb | feel; rine, onrine, arepp, frede (OED); handle, finger | berear (cf. NHG berühren calque of all Ger. speeches) (see rear ety. 2)
rine (<OE hrinan <ME rinen) | |
| tour | n | sightseeing | leadabout (cf. Du. rondleiding) |
| tour | vb | sightsee | go about |
| tourist | n | sightseer | fandler |
| tournament | n | manimatch | |
| towel | n | cloth, handcloth, washcloth | handdook (cf. Fr. handoek, Du. handdoek, NHG Handtuch), bedesheet (<OE beodsceat), thweal (<PWG þwahilu) |
| 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 union | n | - | workship, iworkship, aworkship, yworkship, workscape, iworkscape, aworkscape, yworkscape (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 |
| tragedy | n | - | doomfall, wopleeth (<OE wopleoþ), ill-hap, woehap |
| tragic | adj | heartbreaking, unlucky, woeful | - |
| trail | n | byway, mark, road, stream, wake, way | wanderway (cf. NHG wandernweg) |
| trail | v | 1. follow, hunt, shadow
2. dawdle, fall behind |
- |
| trailblazing | adj | groundbreaking | - |
| trailing | adj | abaft, following, hunting | - |
| train | n | tow, tug | wain (old word for a wagon) |
| trainer | n | - | outbilther (cf. NHG Ausbilder) |
| trait | n | tie | - |
| traitor | n | backstabber, bewrayer | lew (<OE læwa 'betrayer, traitor'),forreder (cf. NHG Verräter, Du. verrader, OE forrǽda. see rede), trustreaver |
| trans- | pref | over- (only some words) | through- or thru- (cf. NHG durch-) (only some words), yond- |
| transcend | vb | - | oversty, overgo, overfare, outmire, outstep |
| transcribe | vb | downwrite | overwrite (Du. overschrijeven) |
| 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 | - | overhade |
| transform | vb | shapeshift | forshape (<OE forscieppan)
forwandle, forwend |
| transgress | vb | - | overbreak (<OE oferbrecan) |
| transhuman | n | - | yondwere, halfwere, halfman |
| transhumanism | n | - | yondweredom, halfweredom |
| 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 | - | outreaching (Barnes), overgangly (cf. Du overgankelijk) |
| transitory | adj | fleeting | whilewendly (<OE hwilwendlic) |
| translate | vb | anglished/englished, put into (Barnes), overset | awendan, wend (<ME wendan, see also NE wend) |
| translation | n | oversetting | wend (<ME wendan, see also NE wend) |
| transliminal | adj | - | mirethwarsing |
| transliteration | n | - | umwriting (cf. IC umrita, NHG umschreiben) |
| translucent | adj | - | thurghbright, throughleaming, throughshinely (cf. Du. 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 Germanic) | - |
| transsexual | n | folkhalf shifter, folkhalf switcher | kinswitcher, overkind |
| transsubstantiate | vb | - | yondwhat, yondandwork |
| transubstantiation | n | - | wistforwandering (Norw. vesensforvandling; Dan. 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, Du. 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: drightmathem (<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 | - | 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, gunne (<ME), swinging stonehauler, weighed stonehauler |
| tremble | vb | bever, shiver, quiver, shudder, shake, quake | bive, aquake (<OE ācwacian and <ME aquāken) |
| 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 | offbreete (calque of Ic. af-brot; cf. OE breotan) |
| trespasser | n | guilt-doer | - |
| triangle | n | wedge | threenook, threeside (cf. Du. trekant) |
| tribal leader | n | - | kinelder, kinleader, hereman |
| tribe | n | kindred, stem |
mathe, 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 | - | gavle (< 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 | foursand, etning | |
| trilobite | n | - | thrilap, threeleaf bug |
| trilogy | n | - | thrilock (cf. Du. drieluik) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | n | - | Threefold and Smokeleaf |
| trinity | n | - | threeness (Barnes), threefoldness |
| tripartite | adj | threefold | threedealed (< OE þridǽled) |
| 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, sig | - |
| triumvirate | n | - | thriwered (exact calque: trium- thri + -vir- were + -ate -ed) |
| trivial | adj | paltry | ayeap, ageap (< OE ægype) |
| troops (army) | n | - | sithreaden (<OE ġesiðræden) |
| tropical (climate) | adj | wethot | wendringly (cf. Du. keerkring, NHG Wendekreis) |
| tropical zone | n | - | wendring strip, innerstrip, innerslice |
| troposphere | n | - | windhelm |
| trouble | n | upset, worry, plight, ordeal, headache, woe, dretch, dree, dref, swenk
in trouble: on the ropes, in deep water; in a hole, |
- |
| trouble | vb | to upset, worry
in trouble: on the ropes |
swench (< OE swencan) |
| troubled | adj | susley (<OE sēosliġ) | |
| troublesome | adj | in a hole, in deep water, upsetting, straining, worrisome | athrotsome (<OE aþrotsum) |
| truck | n | lorry | freightwain (cf. W.Fris. frachtwein) |
| truncheon | n | cudgel, nightstick, club | - |
| trunk | n | - | body, bole, salk, stock, stem, shaft, |
| trunk | n | - | slurf (cf. Du. slurf, W.Fris. sloarf), limbnose, armnose |
| try | vb | mint, fand, bid, shoot, crack, stab, go, seek, strive, work | forseek (cf. NHG versuchen, Du. verzoeken) or forseech (regarding beseech), munt (< OE myntan) |
Ts[]
Tu[]
| tuba | n | - | basshorn |
| tube | n | straw, pipe | - |
| 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, going (cf. Ic. göng) |
| 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 off | vb | switch on | |
| turn out | vb | crop up | |
| turning point | n | watershed | - |
| turquoise | vb/n | teal | greenblue |
| turret | n | small keep | wyehouse (<OE wíghús) |
| turtle | n | shell-paddock (rare) | burdling (<OE byrdling), rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin to stegosaurus, meaning 'roofed lizard'), shieldpad (cf. W.Fr. skyldpod & Du schildpad) |
| tutelage | n | - | reding |
| tutor | n | teacher, leerer | lorethew |
| tutu | n | - | bumbum (French calque) |
Tw[]
| tweezers | n | nippers | - |
Ty[]
| 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. Du. 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 tharlathex (calque of Greek+Latin), great king athex (athex <OE āðehe: saurus), dread athex |
| tyranny | n | - | tharlreding |
| tyrant | n | - | tharlreder (<OE þearl 'severe, strict'), hardrede (cf. king Harold 3 of Norway), leedhater (<OE lēodhata/leōdhata) pl: leedhatren (<OE lēodhatan/leōdhatan) |
