Browse Glossary
Select a category and then a letter. Click your chosen headword for a concordance ordered by County and Estate.
Note that the General Glossary is selected by default: here we present the correspondences between the LangScape headword and the headwords in selected dictionaries (see Abbreviations); your search criteria will match with any of these. The display also shows how we have treated ‘compounds’ (eg. under ‘burh’, you will see that ‘burhware’ is treated as one LangScape headword but ‘eorþ+burg’ as two).
| LangScape Headword |
OE Dictionaries (DOE/CH) |
PN Elements (PnEl/VEPN) |
Brief Translation |
Comments | See also ‘compounds’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c | hund | - | hundred | ||
| *ca | - | *cā | jackdaw | ||
| cair | - | cair | fortification | ||
| calu | calu | calu | bare | ||
| camp | camp | camp | field, open land | ||
| candel | candel | candel- | candle | Not in PnEl; see under candel-(wriht) in VEPN | |
| canne | canne | canne | cup | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| *carn | - | *carn- | cairn | ||
| casere | cāsere | - | emperor | ||
| castel | castel | castel(l) | stronghold | As with PnEl's entry, this headword potentially includes British, OE & ME instances | |
| catt | cat | cat(t) | cat | DOE cites a weak form 'catte', included here | |
| cawel | cawel | cāl | cole, cabbage | ||
| cæg | cǣg | cǣg | key, stone | ||
| cærse | cærse | cærse | cress | ||
| cærsiht | cærsiht | - | cressy | ||
| *ceacga | ceacga | *ceacga : *ceagge | brushwood, broom | ceacga in PnEl; *ceagge in VEPN | |
| ceafor | ceafer | ceafor | beetle | ||
| ceahha | ceahha | ceahhe | jackdaw | Discussed under ca in VEPN | |
| cealc | cealc | calc | chalk | ||
| ceald | ceald | cald | cold | ||
| cealf | cealf | calf | calf | ||
| ceap | cēap | cēap | market | ceapmann | |
| ceapmann | cēapmann | cēap-mann | merchant | ||
| ceastel | cystel | ceastel | heap | ||
| ceaster | ceaster | ceaster : cæster | city | ceaster in PnEl; cæster in VEPN | |
| *cegel | - | *cegel | pole | ||
| celde | - | celde | spring | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| cenep | cenep | cenep | wild hemp | ||
| *ceodor | - | *cēodor | hollow, ravine | Listed in VEPN but not in PnEl | |
| ceole | ceole | ceole | throat, channel | ||
| ceorl | ceorl | ceorl | churl | ||
| ceping | cēapung | cēping | market | ||
| *cert | - | cert | rough ground | NB - this has an asterisk in VEPN | |
| cest | cist | cest | chest, coffin | ||
| cild | cild | cild | child, young person | ||
| *cille | - | - | spring? | In VEPN under *cille | |
| *cippa | cipp | cipp | beam, post | *cippa/*cippe is discussed under 'cipp' in VEPN | |
| ciris | ciris | ciris | cherry | ||
| cirps | cirps | - | curly | ||
| *cis | - | *cis | gravel | ||
| cisel | ceosol | cisel | gravel | ||
| *cisse | - | *cisse | gravel | Listed in VEPN but not in PnEl | |
| clate | clāte | clāte | burdock | ||
| claþ | clāþ | clāþ | cloth | Listed in VEPN but not in PnEl | |
| clæfre | clǣfre | clǣfre | clover | ||
| clæg | clǣg | clǣg | clay | ||
| clægig | clǣig | clǣgig | clayey | ||
| clæne | clǣne | clǣne | clean | ||
| cleac | cleac | - | stepping stone | Listed in CH & TOE but not in DOE | |
| cleofan | clēofan | (ge)clofen | to cleave | ||
| clif | clif | clif | cliff, slope | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| *clinc | clinc | *clinc | rough ground, crevice | Discussed under *clenc in VEPN & clenc in DOE; not listed in CH | |
| clipian | clipian | - | to call | ||
| *clodd | - | *clodd | clod | ||
| *clopp | - | *clop(p) | lump, hillock | ||
| clott | clott | clot(t) | clod, hill | ||
| clud | clūd | clūd | rock-mass | ||
| cluse | clūse | clūs(e) | enclosure | Under cluse in VEPN | |
| clyppan | clyppan : geclypped | - | to enclose | ||
| cnapa | cnapa : cnafa | cnapa : cnafa | servant | Includes cnafa & cnapa (listed separately in VEPN) | |
| cnæpp | cnæpp : cnæp | cnæpp | hill-top | cnæp in DOE but cnæpp in CH | |
| cniht | cniht | cniht | retainer | ||
| cnoll | cnoll | cnoll | knoll | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| cnotta | cnotta | cnotta | knot | ||
| *cnugel | - | *cnugel : *cnuwel | broken ground | *cnugel in PnEl; *cnuwel in VEPN | |
| *cobbe | - | *cobb(e) | cob, round lump | ||
| coccel | coccel | coccel | tares | ||
| *cocc1 | - | *cocc1 | heap, hillock | See also Gelling&Cole, under *coc(e) | |
| cocc2 | coc | cocc2 | cock | cocc+bill : cocc+rod(u) : *cocc+scyte | |
| cofa | cofa | cofa | chamber | ||
| *coll | - | *coll | hill | ||
| colt | colt | colt | colt | ||
| col2 | cōl | cōl2 | cool | ||
| col1 | col | col1 | charcoal | ||
| commun | - | - | common | Middle EnglishNot in PnEl but included in Notts List | |
| coni | - | coni | rabbit | ||
| *copel | - | *copel | peak? | ||
| copped | coppede | copped | pollarded | ||
| *corf | corf | *corf | cutting | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| corn | corn | corn | corn | ||
| cors | - | cors | marsh | ||
| *corte | corte | *cort(e) | plot | This includes *cort | |
| cot | cott | cot | cottage | cotsetla : cot+stow | |
| cotsetla | cottsetla | cot-setla | cottager | ||
| cran | cran | cran : corn2 | crane, heron | ||
| cranoc | cranoc | cranuc | crane | ||
| crawe | crāwe | crāwe | crow | ||
| crist | crist | Crist | Christ | ||
| cristelmæl | cristelmǣl | cristel-mǣl | cross | Includes both DOE/CH's cristelmæl & CH's Cristes-mæl | |
| *croc | - | *crōc | crook | ||
| crocc | crocc : crocca | crocc | crock | Listed under crocc in CH & crocca in DOE | |
| croft | croft | croft | croft | ||
| *croh2 | - | crōh2 | nook, corner | ||
| croh1 | croh : crog | croh1 | crocus | Listed under croh in DOE & crog in CH | |
| croix | - | crois | cross | ||
| crop | crop | crop(p) | crop, hill | ||
| cros | cros | cros | cross | ||
| cruc | crūc | crūc | hill, mound | ||
| cruche | - | - | cross | a Middle English term | |
| crundel | crundel | crundel | excavated hollow | ||
| *cruw | - | *crūw | bend | ||
| *crymel | - | *crymel | small piece | ||
| crypel | - | crypel | burrow | ||
| cu | cū | cū | cow | ||
| culfre | culfre | culfre | dove, pigeon | ||
| cuman | cuman | - | to come | ||
| cumb | cumb | cumb | valley | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| *Cumbre | - | *Cumbre | Cymry, Welsh | ||
| *cupe | cūpe | *cūpe | coop | ||
| cuppe | cuppe | - | cup | ||
| *cwabba | cwabba | *cwabba | marsh | ||
| *cwætt | - | - | pimple? | ||
| cwealm | cwealm | - | death | cwealm+stow | |
| cwen | cwēn | cwēn | queen, lady | ||
| cwene | cwene | cwene | woman | ||
| cweorn | cweorn | cweorn | quern, mill | ||
| cwic | cwic | cwic | live, quick(-set) | ||
| cwice | cwice | cwice | couch-grass | ||
| *cwylla | cwylla | *cwelle | spring | ||
| *cwylm | - | - | spring | ||
| cyf | cӯf | cӯf | tub | ||
| cyfel | cӯfel | - | tub | ||
| cylle | cyll | - | sack, bag | Discussed under *cille in VEPN | |
| cyln | cylen | cyln | kiln | ||
| cymed | cymed | cymed | germander | ||
| cymen | cymen | - | cumin | ||
| cyning | cyning | cyning | king | ||
| cyrice | cyrice | cirice | church | ciric+stede | |
| cyrr | cyrr | cerr | turn | ||
| cyrring | cyrring | *cerring | bend | NB - no asterisk in VEPN | |
| cyse | cӯse | cēse | cheese | ||
| cyta | cӯta | cӯta | kite, buzzard | ||
| cyte | cӯte | cyte | cottage | ||
| cytel | cytel | cetel | kettle, hollow | ||
| *cytere | - | - | kyter | Hypothesised on the analogy of 'hafocere' |