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PART OF SPEECH
Category
(Part of speech) Entry
1. Definition
a. Words in Old English (literary word if still surviving)
i. Derivative words (definition)
b. Modern English equivalent words
i. Name
c. Language: Modern equivalent words (definition)
OE to ModE
PART OF SPEECH
Category
(Part of speech) Morpheme (literary word if still surviving)
1. Derivative word in Old English
a. Definition
i. Words in Modern English
1. Name
ii. Language: Modern equivalent words (definition)
PREFIX/SUFFIXES
a-
alfan
1. To permit, allow
3. Completely, fully
a. andleofna - sustenance
b. andweorc material/substance/matter
be-
for
1. Give up, abstain
a. forgive
b. German: forlet (show, display)
ge-
1. indicates result or effect of an action
a. aware, alike
or (Old Norse)
1. privative adjective, concerning oneself
a. orlg fate
orrest - battle
or-lege - war
Norwegian: oorlog
ordle ordeal "having no part in the thing"
t divide
Tscade divide
ModE: shed
ymb around
ModE: umlaut
with against
ModE:
withsay renounce
withset - resist
withdraw
VERBS
Active ModE with Multiple OE
fadian
yncan
fremman
nerian
(v.) Grab
1. Take
a. Wrecan
i. rend-wrecan
b. Wreck
2. Seize
a. Fon
i. Onfon (receive)
b. Fang, Newfangled
c. German: empfangen
3. Capture
a. Hentan (hent)
Sellan give away voluntarily
ModE: sell
Nytt use
Dutch: nut
Swedish: nytta
(v.) Move
1. Go
a. yede
b. gang, gangway
2. Wend
a.
b. wend, went, wend your way
Thinking OE with Multiple ModE
(v.) Acunnian
1. Know
a. Ken, Know, Cunning, Kenning, Uncanny
(v.) Witan
1. Know
a. Wisse (guide), Wise,
b. German: wissen
(v.) Accutian
1. Experience, prove
a. Uncouth
(v.) Ge-reccan (aretch)
1. Calculate
a. Reckon
2. Interpret, explain
(v.) Cierran
1. Turn (cierran)
a. charcoal (char change, turn + coal)
b. German: kehre (turn)
2. Convert (ge-cierran)
(v.) Say
1. Say
a. cwean
b. Bequeath, Quoth
Positive
Aspire Fundian
Encourage Bieldan, Elnian
Endeavor Fundian
Improve Gdian
Praise Herian
Reward - Lanian
Thinking
Adorn A-fgrian
a + fair (make beautiful)
Accuse - wrgan (bewray)
ModE: Bewray (expose)
Consent to afian
Confess Andettan
Deceive Beswike
Examine/consider - a-smegan
Implore Hlsian
Investigate - a-smegan
Prove- Accutian
Study - Cneord-lcan
Translate - Ge-fadian
Physical
Liberate - a-lsan
Latin: release (Latin laxere)
Contend Flten
Guard - Beorgan
Ward - Weard
Protect - Beorgan
Guide Wisse noun
Ancrenne wisse
Prepare - Greith
Ready (v.) - Gearcian (yare)
"I do desire to learn, sir; and, I hope, if you have occasion to use
me for your own turn, you shall find me ~."
William Shakespeare; Measure For Measure; 1604.
Ready - Gearo
Strife, Toil, Labor Swincan
NOUNS
Humanity ModE with Multiple OE
(n.) People
1. People
a. lede (lede)
2. Folk
3. Nation
a. eod (thede)
i. Ge-odan (join)
b.
c. German: Deutsch land, Teutan
(n.) Man
1. A regular man.
a. Ceorl (man of lowest rank)
b. ModE: churl, churlish
i. Name: Carl
2. Man
a. Guma (OE and Visigoth)
b.
i. Name: Gomez
3. Folk
4. Human
a. Mann
i. Menniscu (humanity)
ii.
2. A living being
a. Wer
b. World (wer +eld), Werewolf (wer + wolf)
3. Wealde
aal- nobility
atheling
Adele, Ethel
aud wealth, prosperity
ead prosperity
Edmund,
aala- lineage
Attil, Otto
ala-
d-inheritance, estate, property (udal)
Ulrich
Sibling Sibb
gesib
Sib-leger incest
Sibb - Peace
ModE: siblingF
Power - weald
On-weald (onwald) authority, power
Anwealda, Onwealda ruler
An-weald - lord
ModE: Wield
Journey - si
ge-si - comrade
Welsch
errand - rend
rend-wrecan Ambassador/Messenger (errand+wreca)
rendgewrit message/letter ("errand-writing)
andgit- meaning, sense
andward present time, currently
Specific Terminology
(n.) Royal family (cyning-cynn)
1. eod
a. eoden king (ruler of the people)
i. egn (thane) kings servant
ii. ow servant
2. ele - noble
a. eling prince (noble one)
b. otha
(n.) Bible
1. drihten lord
2. healand - savior
3. costnunge - temptation
4. fstness religion
5. fruma creator
a. frum origin
i. On re fruman gecynde in the original nature
6. laf leave
b. lafness permission
c. ge-lafan faith
Twon doubt
Ton suffering, pain
Bton
Common mean
Ge-mnsumian
el stranger
elodige - strangers
ModE: eldritch
Foreign l-fremed
German: fremde
Related:
Wealh foreigner (i.e. the Welsh)
weahlstoda interpretor
ModE: walnut, Corn-wall
War-related
1. kempa - warrior
a. ModE: champion
2. sacu - battle
a. ModE: sack, ransack
3. andsaca - adversary
4. sige - victory
5. here - army
a. Name: Herald, Hera
6. searu weapon Saruman from Tolkienn
Mulitiple Etymology
Custom, practice aw (thew)
Sty
Onstigende online
ON stga to rise
advanced steep
Common Nouns
Eahte reckoning
Free - Fre
Frith - peace
ModE: freedom, free, Freya
Forest - Weald (wold)
ModE: wild
BORROWINGS
Call
Time Tide?
Get
Take -
Hour/Moment Stund (stound)
Intermittedly Stoundmeal
The foxe loked on the kyng ~ and was glad in his herte.
Voice/sound - Stevvon (Steven)
Appointment Stevvon (Steven)
Counsel - Rede
Threap
Thole - Suffer
Rathe Ripe and eager and ready
Nouns
Name: Denmark
C
Clear, evident - sweotol
Crime Firen
D
Descendant/Child/Posterity - eafora
J
Judiciously, responsibly Dme
ModE: deem
K
Corpse -Lich
M
Manner Wise
Music Dreamcrft
Magic Dwimmer
N
O
P
Poor - Pintel
Poor Earm
S
Season Sele
Support Fultume
Dutch: voltooien
T
U
Unstable wancol
ModE: wonky
V
Variety Fgner
Venom Attor
Attorcop (spider)
cne eternal
rdness - condition
un-ge-wemmedne unimpaired
halsunga precaution, entreaty, solemn appeal
ADJECTIVES
Characteristics
Fierce/bright Breme, Reoc, Rathe
Cruel/Fierce/Savage Re, Rec and re
Courageous - Ellen
Famous: Mre, Hlsa
Dignity Mensch
Gracious Holde
Name: Holden
Fyren Sin
Moods
Anda evil, adversary
Cruel Sle
Envy Anda
Remorse Agenbite
German: einfach
Related: manifold
German: ehrlich,
German: ehrlos
earhart
Honor r
arweore - honourable
Respect re
stir
to lark
scot-free tax
wallop
spell
shend
clepe
nithing
harl
hummel
speld
sprote
hurple/hirkle
furbish
grimalkin
indite
ort
wassail
tope
leman
wuldor glory
hery
clem
GRAMMATICAL
They, their, them - he, heora and him
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Old_English/Word_Formation#Nouns_formed_with_
prefixes
http://germanic.eu/Scandinavian-loanwords-in-Old-and-Middle-English-and-their-
legacy-in-the-dialects-of-England-and-modern-standard-English.htm