Changes: List of Old English Words in the OED/IS

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Old English	sp	English
Is	vb	Third person singular present of be, Old English is, from Germanic stem *es- Old English lost the final -t-. See be. Until 1500s, pronounced to rhyme with kiss.
Is	phr	"Isnt It So?" -
Is	phr	"It Is What It Is." - indicating resigned acceptance of an unpleasant but inevitable situation or circumstance about which nothing positive really can be said.
I-same	adv	Together, in company.
I-say-so	n	An assertion, ipse dixit; "Heed I-say-so even of authority.""
I-schappe	vb	To create, form, shape
I-schield	vb	To shield, to protect
I-schirre	vb	To make clear, declare, make known, tell, say, speak
I-scole	n	A troop, host, shoal, band
I-seche	vb	to seek, seek after
I-see	vb	To see, behold
I (see)	phr	"I See Said the Blind Man" -
I (see)	phr	"I See What You Did" -
I-seggen	vb	To say, relate, confess, declare
Isel	n	Izle, sparks, embers, ashes. 2. floating sparks from a fire or conflagation. 3. extinct sparks, particles of soot, smuts.
I-sele	adj	Happy, silly
I-seli	adj	Happy, fortunate, prosperous, isele.
I-selth	n	Happiness, felicity, fortune
I-seme	vb	To bring to agreement, to settle. 2. to reconcile, settle, to suit, beseem
I-semeliche	adj	In a seemingly or becoming manner
I-setnesse	n	Institution, ordinance, statue, law
Ish	sfx	A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”; “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (childish, hillish ); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” ( bookish; ); “near or about” ( fiftyish; sevenish ). 2. a suffix used to form adjectives from other adjectives, with the sense of “somewhat,” “rather” (oldish; reddish; sweetish ). origin: Old English -'isc'.
I-ship	n	The state of one's own self and identity; one's conscious personality. 2. i-hood.
I-sib	pp	Related, akin
I-sibsum	adj	Peaceful.
I-sight	n	Vision, sight
Island	n	Old English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th century was due to association with the unrelated word isle. A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. 2. an entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. 3. an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment) an island of color on a butterfly's wing. 4. superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck. 5. a traffic island; the island in the middle of a roundabout. 6. (land surrounded by water): ait, holm; an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis; insular; isle; islet.
Island	vb	To surround with water; make into an island. 2. to set, dot (as if) with islands. 3. to make into, or as an island. 4. to place as an island; to make, settle or enclose as an island. 5. to insulate; to isolate.
Island	phr	"Island of the Blessed" - In Greek mythology, islands in the western ocean, where the favorites of the gods lived after death.
Island	phr	"No Man Is an I(s)land" - human being do not thrive when isolated from others.
Island	phr	"Stand in I(s)land" - to be detached or isolated.
Island-born	adj	Born on and native to an island.
Islanded	adj	Made into or as an island; insulated. 2. furnished or studded with islands.
Islander	n	One who lives on a island.
Islandful	adj
Island-hood	n	Insularity, the condition of being an island.
Islandish	adj	Pertaining to or characteristic of an island; insular.
Island-less	adj	Devoid or without islands.
Island-like	adj	Resembling, characteristic or of the nature of an island.
Island-strewn	adj	An ocean or sea strewn with islands. 2. a country of strewn island such as indonesia; on the island-strewn waters of scandinavia.
Island-wide	adj
Islandy	adj	Full of islands; insular.
Isness	n	The fact that a thing is. 2. that which a thing is in itself, essence
I-sound	adj	Sound, sound in health, well, safe
I-spile	n	Isepile. 2. Var. of Ilspile, Isespil
I-stand	vb	To stand firm
I-still	vb	To restrain, still, calm, stay
Is-to-be	adj
I-stink	vb	To smell, to percieve by smell
I-streon	n	Gain, acquisition, wealth. 2. begettinng, procreation. 3. Off-spring, progeny
I-stretche	vb	To stretch, spread
I-sunde	n	Wholeness, soundness. 2. safety
I-sundful	n	Quite sound, well, prosperous, happy
I-sunding	n	Salvation, healing.
I-sundlen	vb	To heal, save, to sundle
I-swike	vb	To fail, to cease, to cease from an act.
I_swinke	vb	Swinch. 2. to toil, to labour, to swink

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 |I-setnesse||n||Institution, ordinance, statue, law
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-|Ish||prf||A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”; “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (childish, hillish ); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” ( bookish; ); “near or about” ( fiftyish; sevenish ). 2. a suffix used to form adjectives from other adjectives, with the sense of “somewhat,” “rather” (oldish; reddish; sweetish ). origin: Old English -'isc'.
+|Ish||sfx||A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”; “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (childish, hillish ); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” ( bookish; ); “near or about” ( fiftyish; sevenish ). 2. a suffix used to form adjectives from other adjectives, with the sense of “somewhat,” “rather” (oldish; reddish; sweetish ). origin: Old English -'isc'.
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 |I-ship ||n||The state of one's own self and identity; one's conscious personality. 2. i-hood.
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 |Island ||vb||To surround with water; make into an island.  2. to set, dot (as if) with islands. 3. to make into, or as an island. 4. to place as an island; to make, settle or enclose as an island. 5. to insulate; to isolate.
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+|Island ||phr||"Island of the Blessed" - In Greek mythology, islands in the western ocean, where the favorites of the gods lived after death.
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 |Island ||phr||"No Man Is an I(s)land" - human being do not thrive when isolated from others.