Staff U 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/U:
Ua Ub Uc Ud
Ue Uf Ug Uh
Ui Uj Uk Ul Um Un Uo Up Uq Ur Us Ut Uu Uv
Uw Ux Uy Uz
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
Ub[] | ||||
| ubiquitous | adj | everywhere, all-over; everyday, household; wall-to-wall | - | |
| ubiquity | n | everywhereness | - | |
Uk[] | ||||
| Ukraine | n(p) | - | Dnieperland, East Poland, West Sarmondland, Wolynland-Podolland, Edgelands, Cossackland, Kievrich | |
Ul[] | ||||
| ulcer | adj | - | bile (‹ME bīl), sore [ᛣ] | |
| ulna | n | - | ell, elbone | |
| ulterior | adj | later | - | |
| ultimate | adj | last | - | |
| ultimately | adv | someday, sometime; after all, sooner or later; deep down | endily, lastingly | |
| ultra- | pref | over-, out- | - | |
| ultra | adv | diehard, highly, greatly, overly | - | |
| ultraviolet | adj/n | - | overbaze, yondbaze, outbaze | |
Um[] | ||||
| umbrella | n | rainshade | rainshield, shade, showerstick | |
Un[] | ||||
| unabated | adj | - | unlessened (Barnes) | |
| unanimous | adj | - | onemood (‹ME ōnmọ̄de ⁊ ‹OE ānmōd), oneread (‹OE ānrǣd) | |
| unanimously | adv | - | onemoodly (‹OE ānmōdlīce), onereadly (‹OE ānrǣdlīce) | |
| unanticipated | adj | unforeseen | - | |
| unassailable | adj | holy, hallowed | unoversettingly (see ME oversetten) | |
| unbalanced | adj | barmy, bats, haywire, unhinged; unsteady | unmeted | |
| uncelebrated | adj | nameless, unsung | unfrelsed (see OE frēolsian) | |
| uncertain | adj | flickery, unsettled, trustless | wendful | |
| uncertainty | n | mistrustfulness | uncouthness | |
| uncle | n | eam | paternal: fatherbrother ([ᛣ]: IL föðurbróðir)
maternal: motherbrother ([ᛣ]: IL móðurbróðir) | |
| unconscious | adj | cold; clueless | unheeding | |
| uncritical | adj | beam-blind | - | |
| undamaged | adj | unscathed, unharmed | ||
| undercurrent | n | undertow, tideway | - | |
| underdeveloped | adj | underbuilt, undergrown | underblown (cf. NE full-blown) | |
| undermine | vb | hinder | - | |
| undescribable | adj | untalely | - | |
| undistinguished | adj | unknown | bremeless | |
| undress | vb | unclothe, strip | - | |
| undulating | adj | wavering | - | |
| uneasy | adj | restless | uneath (‹ME unēthe) | |
| unedifying | adj | unwholesome, unhealthy | - | |
| uneducated | adj | unread, unlearnt, untaught; lowbrow | - | |
| unemployed | adj | workless, unhired, idle, jobless | unbehired (full-time) | |
| unexpected | adj | unforeseen | unweened (‹OE unwēned {unwẹ̄ned} ⁊ ungewēned) | |
| unfamiliar | adj | unheard of, unknown, unkindred, beyond your ken | selcouth ([ᚩ]: see ME selcǒuth) | |
| unfavourable | adj | unfriendly, untoward | - | |
| unfortunate | adj | hapless, ill-starred, hardluck, snakebit; heartbreaking, woeful | uneady | |
| ungenerous | adj | selfish | littly (cf. NHG kleinlich) | |
| unhabited | adj | undwelled | unerned, unwoned | |
| unharness | vb | outspan | - | |
| unicorn | n | - | onehorn (‹OE ānhorn; cf. WF ienhoarn, NL eenhoorn) | |
| Unidentified Flying Object | n | - | Unmarked Flying Onget, Unknown Flying Ware | |
| uniform | n | - | clothing: evenwear | |
| uniformity | n | evenness | - | |
| uninjured | adj | unscathed | ||
| unintelligent | adj | bonehead, witless, dumb | barm-brain | |
| uninteresting | adj | leaden, reckless, unrecking | - | |
| union | n | - |
fay, thede, coming-together, meanship (<OE gemǣnscipe, cf. NL gemeenschap, NHG Gemeinschaft) | |
| unionist | adj/n | - | adj: thedish
n: theder | |
| unique | adj | one-off, one-of-a-kind, one and only, outstanding | oneleppy (‹ME ōnlẹ̄pī), sunderly (‹ME sǒnderlī), oneborn (‹OE ānboren) | |
| unit | n | - | onhood (cf. NL eenheid), whit | |
| unite | vb | bind, fasten, tie, wed; knit, link up, fay, one, sam (OED < samnian, cf. same) |
onlay, anledge, oneledge (<OE ānlǣcan), forone (cf. SW förena), agether, bewed | |
| united | adj | knitted, oned | oneleight, fayed, foroned, sammed | |
| United States of America | n(p) | - | Oned Riches of America, Foroned Riches of America | |
| unity | n | oneness (Barnes), onehead, onehood, togetherness, wholeness | onefoldness (‹OE ānfealdnes) | |
| universal | adj | broad-brush, overall; all-in; wall-to-wall | almean (cf. NL algemeen, NHG allgemein), alworldly, alsome (<Barnes), alhomely | |
| universality | n | allness | - | |
| universe | n | world | alworld (cf. NHG Weltall), alfield | |
| university | n | lorestead (Barnes), seat of learning (Barnes) | lorehouse (‹OE lārhūs), allorestead | |
| unjustified | adj | unshown | unrightwised (see ME rightwīsen) | |
| unleash | vb | loosen, unlock | - | |
| unleashed | adj | unbound | - | |
| unlimited | adj | unstinted | mearless (<OE mǣre 'limit, border') | |
| unmaintained | adj | unkempt | - | |
| unmanageable | adj | headstrong, untoward | - | |
| unmarried | adj | unwed, unwedded | oneleppy (‹ME ōnlẹ̄pī, cf. NHG einläufig) | |
| unnecessary | adj | needless, uncalled for, unneeded | - | |
| unnerve | vb | unsettle, faze | - | |
| unoccupied | adj | empty, leer, free of | - | |
| update | vb | - | bywork (cf. NL bijwerken), ednew, uptime, upday | |
| UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) | n | mains backup | - | |
| unpleasant | adj | bad, bitter, rotten, unlovely, wicked | unmerry (cf. OE unmyrige), unwinsome (‹OE unwynsum) | |
| unpopular | adj | - | unfolkly | |
| unprepared | adj | unreadied | - | |
| unproductive | adj | bony, geason, unbearing, unyielding | unteeming | |
| unprofitable | adj | barren | fremeless | |
| unprogressive | adj | hidebound | unforwaying | |
| unreservedly | adj | wholeheartedly | - | |
| unresponsive | adj | unanswering | sloom (cf. NL) | |
| unrestrained | adj | loose | - | |
| unrevealed | adj | untold, hidden, in dern | - | |
| unrighteous (foreign suffix) | adj | unrightly (<OE unrihtlīc) | ||
| unsuccessful | adj | - | unspeedful, unspowing | |
| unsuitable | adj | unbefitting, unbecoming | unbeseeming | |
| unsympathetic | adj | unfeeling; untoward | - | |
| unusual | adj | funny, out-of-the-way, weird | frimdy, seldcouth, unbrooklike, unbrookly, wonely (<OE gewunelīc) | |
| unveil | vb | bare, let on about, spill, tell, unbosom | unhele, unmesh | |
Up[] | ||||
| uproar | n | uprear | mickle-din | |
Ur[] | ||||
| urban | adj | townish (obsolete) | boroughy | |
| urbanite | n | townsman | boroughwere | |
| urbanization | n | - | betowning, beboroughing | |
| urbanize | vb | - | betown, beborough | |
| urban sprawl | n | endless-streets | - | |
| urethra | n | - | midgepipe | |
| urine | n | lant, sig, wee (slang) | mighth (‹ME miȝethe), midge (‹ME migge) | |
| urinate | vb | wee (slang) | migh (‹ME mīȝen) | |
| Ursa Major | n(p) | - | The Plough, The Great Bear | |
Us[] | ||||
| use | n | need, worth | note (‹ME nōte), brich (‹ME brīce ⁊ ‹OE bryce) | |
| use | vb | handle, deal with, milk, wield, work | nit (‹ME nitten), note (‹ME nōten); brook (‹NE brook ⁊ ‹ME brouken) | |
| (make) use of | vb | make worth of | nit (‹ME nitten), neet (‹OE nēotan) | |
| used to | adj | wonted to, weaned to, hardened to, ready for / been readied for | - | |
| used to | vb | formerly, would | English imperfect | |
| (get) used to | vb | get wont/ woned | wone, wean (<OE wenian) | |
| useful | adj | handy, helpful, noteful | brich (‹ME brīche), bootful (‹ME bōteful), frimful (‹ME fremful), nitly (‹OE nytlīc {nitlic}), nittle (‹OE nyttol) | |
| useless | adj | idle, unhandy, bootless, worthless, unhelpful | noteless, brichless, lere (<ME lēre <OE gelǣr) | |
| usual | adj | wonted, household; cut-and-dried | wonly (‹ME iwonelīch), oftseen (cf. ME sēldsēn) | |
| usurer | n | loan shark | wassomshatster | |
| usury | n | - | wassomshat (‹OE wæstmsceatt), wooker (‹OE wōcor, cf. NL woeker, NHG Wucher) | |
Ut[] | ||||
| utensil | n | tool | deal of flatware | |
| uterus | n | womb | - | |
| utopia | n | neverland, never-never land | heaven-on-earth, eadstead | |
| utopian | adj | - | blissful, heavenly, unwordly, starry-eyed | |
Uv[] | ||||
| uvula | n | - | throattongue (‹ME tunge in the throte) | |
Ux[] | ||||
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| uxoricide | n | - | wife-kill | |
| uxorious | adj | - | wifefondly, wife-yearning | |