English Wordbook/U

Staff U 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.

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Chancery English	Class	Anglish/English
		Attested	Unattested
ubiquitous	adj	everywhere, all-over; everyday, household; wall-to-wall	-
ubiquity	n	everywhereness	-
Ukraine	n		Borderland, Innerland, Inethel
Unidentified Flying Object	n	-	Unmarked Flying Onget, Unknown Flying Ware
ulcer	adj	-	sore (calque)
ulna	n	-	ell, elbone
ulterior	adj	later	motive: backthought (calque)
ultimate	adj	last	-
ultimately	adv	someday, sometime; after all, sooner or later; deep down	endily, lastingly
umbrella	n	rainshade	rainshield, shade
unabated	adj	-	unlessened (Barnes)
unanimous	adj	kindred, like-minded	all-thwaring, oneholly (cf. NHG einhellig, Sw. enhällig)
unanimously	adv	-	thwaringly (OE þwarian 'to agree')
unanticipated	adj	unforeseen	-
unassailable	adj	hallowed, holly	unthwartsome
unbalanced	adj	barmy, bats, haywire, unhinged; unsteady	unmeted
uncelebrated	adj	nameless, unsung	unfrealsed (OE freolsian)
uncertain	adj	flickery, unsettled, trustless	wendful
uncertainty	n	mistrustfulness	uncouthness
uncle	n	eme	paternal: fathere, farbror maternal: eme,morbror
unconscious	adj	cold; clueless	unheeding
unctuous	adj	smarmy	-
undercurrent	n	undertow, tideway	-
underdeveloped	adj	underbuilt, undergrown	underblown (OE blowan)
undermine	vb	hinder	-
undistinguished	adj	unknown	bremeless
undress	vb	strip, unclothe	-
undulating	adj	wavering	-
uneasy	adj	restless, ill at ease	-
unedifying	adj	unwholesome, unhealthy	-
uneducated	adj	unread, unlearnt, untaught; lowbrow	-
unemployed	adj	jobless, idle, unhired, workless	unbehired (full-time)
unexpected	adj	unforeseen	unweened (OE wenan), unbewaited
unfamiliar	adj	unheard of, unknown, unkindred, beyond your ken	seldcouth (<OE seldcúþ)
unfavourable	adj	unfriendly, untoward	-
unfortunate	adj	hapless, hardluck, ill-starred (Barnes), snakebit; heartbreaking, woeful	uneady
unhabited	adj	undwelled	unerned, unwoned
unharness	vb	outspan	-
unicorn	n	-	onehorn (Du. eenhorn)
uniform	n	-	clothing: evenwear
uniformity	n	evenness	-
unintelligent	adj	bonehead, witless	-
uninteresting	adj	leaden, reckless, unrecking	-
union	n	-	fay, gathertang, thede, meanship (<OE ġemænscipe, cf. NHG Gemeinschaft)
unionism	n	-	thedehood
unionist	n/adj	-	adj: thedish n: theder
unique	adj	one-off, one-of-a-kind, one and only, outstanding	-
unit	n	-	fach (pl. fax), onhood (cf. Du. eenheid), whit
unite	vb	knit, link up, bind, fay, one	onlay, anledge , Oneledge (<OE anlæcan), forone, agether bewed
united	adj	knitted, oned	oneleight, fayed, foroned, sammed
United States of America	n	Oned Rikes Of America	Foroned Rix of Markland, Banded Folkdoms of Americksland, Bonded Hoods of America, Bonded Landhoods of America, Foranned Rix of Vinland, Sammed Rikes of America Redland ethels informal
unity	n	oneness (Barnes), onehead, onehood, togetherness, wholeness	onefoldness (<OE ānfealdnes), Oneledgehood, Oneledgeness of voices:  evenleether (<OE efenhlēoðor) pl: evenleethru
universal	adj	broad-brush, overall; all-in; wall-to-wall	almean (cf. NHG allgemein, Du. algemeen), alworldly, allsome (<Barnes), allhomely
universality	n	allness	-
universe	n	world	allworld (cf. NHG Weltall), wholeäll (cf. Du. heelal)
university	n	lorestead (<Barnes), seat of learning (<Barnes)	learnhall
unjustified	adj	unshown	unsweetled
unleash	vb	loosen, unlock	-
unleashed	adv	unbound	-
unlimited	adj	unbounded (<Barnes), unstinted	mireless (OE mære 'limit, border')
unmaintained	adj	unkempt	-
unmanageable	adj	headstrong, untoward	-
unnecessary	adj	needless, uncalled for, unneeded	-
unnerve	vb	unsettle, faze	-
unoccupied	adj	empty, leer, free of
update	vb	-	bywork (cf. Du. bijwerken), ednew, uptime, upday
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)	n	mains backup	-
unpleasant	adj	bad, bitter, rotten, unlovely, wicked	uncweming
unpopular	adj	-	unfolkly
unproductive	adj	bony, geason, unbearing, unyielding	unteeming
unprofitable	adj	barren	fremeless
unprogressive	adj	hidebound	unforwaying
unreservedly	adj	wholeheartedly	-
unresponsive	adj	-	sloom (cf. Du.)
unrestrained	adj	loose	-
unrevealed	adj	untold, hidden, in dern	-
unsuccessful	adj	-	unspeedful, unspowing
unsuitable	adj	unbefitting	unbeseeming
unsympathetic	adj	slash-and-burn, unfeeling; untoward	-
unusual	adj	funny, out-of-the-way, weird	frimdy, seldcouth, unbrooklike, unbrookly
unveil	vb	bare, let on about, spill, tell, unbosom	unhele, unmesh
urban	adj	townish	townwise, boroughwise
urbanite	n	townsman	boroughwere
urbanization	n	-	betowning, beboroughing
urbanize	vb	-	betown, beborough
urge	n/vb	beseech, beg, goad n: craving, lust, thirst, yearning	thraving (<OE thrafian)
urination	n	weeing slang	migothening, migothletting, thwayletting, harnening, landening, midgening
urine	n	wee slang, sig	migoth (<OE migoða), land (<OE hland), midge (<OE micga), wetness (<OE wæta), harn (cf. NHG "Harn"), thway (cf. Ic. "þvag")
urinate	v	wee slang, wet	migothen (on basis of German Harn and Harnen), migothlet, landen, midgen, harnen, thwaylet (cf. Ic. "þvaglát")
ursa major	n	The Plough, The Great Bear	-
use	n	need	brook, note, noteing, frim (<ME), brookness
use	vb	brook, handle, deal with, milk, wield, work, nait	note (Eng. ety.2 , <ME <OE notu, cf. NHG nutzen) benote (<ME binoten, cf. NHG benutzen ) neet (OE neotan)
used to	adj	wonted to, weaned to, hardened to	-
used to	vb	formerly, would	English imperfect
(get) used to	vb	get wonted to	gewone (cf. NHG gewöhnen)
useful	adj	handy, noteful, helpful, naitly	frimful (<OE fremful), brookful
useless	adj	idle, unhandy, unhelpful, noteless	fremeless, brookless
usual	adj	household; cut-and-dried	grove kind, brooklike, brookly, gewonely
usurer	n	loan shark	wastomshatster
usury	n	-	wooker (<OE wócor, cf. NHG Wucher, Du woeker) wastomshat (<OE wæstmsceatt)
utensil	n	tool	-
uterus	n	womb	motherbear (cf. Du. baarmoeder)
utopia	n	neverland, never-never land,	heaven-on-earth, eadstead.
utopian	adj	-	blissful, heavenly, unwordly, starry-eyed.
uxorious	adj	-	wifefondly, wife-yearning