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’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fag | fāh | fāg | variegated | ||
| fald | fald | fald | fold | deor+fald : pundfald : stod+fald | |
| fæder | fæder | - | father | ||
| *fæfer | - | fæfer | smith | ||
| fæger | fæger | fæger | fair | ||
| *fæled | - | *fæled | fold | ||
| fær1 | fær | fær | passage | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| fær2 | fǣr | - | danger | ||
| fæs | fæs | fæs | fringe | ||
| fæst | fæst | - | firm | ||
| fæsten | fæsten | fæsten | stronghold | ||
| fæt | fæt | - | vat | ||
| *fealca | - | *falca | falcon | ||
| (ge)feall | feall : gefeall : (ge)fiell | *(ge)fall | fall | feall & gefeall have separate entries in DOE; (ge)fiell in CH | wæter+(ge)feall |
| feallan | feallan | - | to fall | ||
| fealu | fealu | fealu | fallow, yellow | ||
| fearn | fearn | fearn | fern | ||
| fearnig | fearnig | fearnig | ferny | ||
| fearr | fearr | fearr | bull | ||
| feax | feax | feax | coarse grass | ||
| feld | feld | feld | open land, field | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| feldlæs | feldlǣs | - | open pasture | ||
| felging | - | felging | ploughland | ||
| *fellet | - | *fellet | felling | ||
| *fengel | fengel | *fengel | trap | ||
| fenn | fenn | fenn | fen | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| feoh | feoh | feoh | money | ||
| feor | feorr | feor | far | ||
| feorþa | fēorþa | fēorþa | fourth | ||
| feorþe_healf | fēorþa + healf | - | three and a half | ||
| feoþer- | - | feoþer- | four | ||
| feower | fēower | fēower | four | ||
| feowertig | fēowertig | - | forty | ||
| feowertyne | fēowertӯne : fēowertīene | - | fourteen | ||
| (ge)fere | gefēre | - | community | ||
| fersc | fersc | fersc | fresh | ||
| feþer | feþer | feþer | feather | ||
| fif | fīf | fīf | five | ||
| fifta | fīfta | - | fifth | ||
| fifte_healf | fīfta + healf | - | four and a half | ||
| fiftig | fīftig | - | fifty | ||
| fiftyne | fīftӯne : fīftīene | - | fifteen | ||
| fild | fild | - | milking | ||
| *filden | filden | *filde : *filden | fielden | ||
| fileþe | fileþe | fileþe | hay | ||
| fin | fīn | fīn | heap | ||
| fina | fīna | fīna | woodpecker | ||
| finc | finc | finca | finch | ||
| *fining | fini | *fīning | wood-pile | ||
| fisc | fisc | fisc | fish | ||
| fiscere | fiscere | fiscere | fisherman | ||
| fiþer- | fiþer- | feoþer- | four | ||
| flæscmangere | flǣscmangere | - | butcher | Not in PnEl, but included in Notts List | |
| fleax | fleax | fleax | flax | ||
| fleot | flēot : flēote | flēot | creek | Includes DOE's fleot & fleote1. See also Gelling&Cole under fleot | |
| flit | flit | (ge)flit | dispute | ||
| flitan | flītan | - | to dispute | ||
| flod | flōd | flōd | flood, stream | ||
| flode | flōde | flōde | watercourse | ||
| flor | flōr | flōr | floor | ||
| flota | flota | - | sailor | ||
| foda | fōda | - | fodder | ||
| *fogga | - | *fogga | aftermath | ||
| fola | fola | fola | foal | ||
| folc | folc | folc | folk | folcland | |
| folcland | folcland | folc-land | folk-land | ||
| fon | fōn | - | to grasp, start | ||
| for | for | - | for | ||
| foran | fore : foran | fore | in front | foreyrþ | |
| foranongean | foran + ongēan | - | opposite | ||
| *foranrihte | - | - | straight on | ||
| foranto | foran + to | - | opposite | ||
| forc | forc | - | fork | Not in PnEl, but listed as forca in Notts List | |
| ford | ford | ford | ford | See also Gelling&Cole | *here+ford |
| fordelfan | fordelfan | - | to dig up | ||
| forecweþan | forecweþan | - | to mention before | ||
| foresecgan | foresecgan | - | to say before | ||
| foresprecan | foresprecan | - | aforesdaid | ||
| foreweard | foreweard (adj) : forþweard (adj) : furþorweard | - | forward | Includes DOE's foreweard (adj), forþweard (adj) & furþorweard (adv) - since the one example cited there is adj. | |
| foreyrþ | foreyrþ | - | projecting ploughland | ||
| forgyfan | forgyfan | - | to grant | ||
| forlætan | forlǣtan | - | to leave | ||
| fornon | fornon | - | in front of | ||
| forsceotan | forscēotan | - | to forestall | ||
| forst1 | forst | - | frost | Not in PnEl but listed under forst1 in Notts List | |
| *forst2 | - | *forst | ridge | ||
| forto | - | - | until | A Middle English term | |
| forþ | forþ | forþ | forth | ||
| forþrihte | forþrihte : forþrihtes | - | straight on | Includes DOE/CH's forþrihte & forþrihtes | |
| forþryne | forþryne | - | course | ||
| forþweard | forþweard : forweard | - | forward | Both adj. & adv. are conflated under forþweard in DOE; forweard & forþweard in CH | |
| forwyrcan | forwyrcan | - | to forfeit | ||
| *foss | *foss | *foss | ditch | This includes British forms (see PnEl) | |
| fostor | fōstor | - | sustenance | fostor+land | |
| fot | fōt | fōt | foot | ||
| *fotiht | - | - | footy | ||
| foþor | fōþor | fōþor | cartload | ||
| fox | fox | fox | fox | fox+hol | |
| fram | fram | - | from | ||
| frene | - | - | ash-tree | A French word in a Middle English copy | |
| freobearn | frēobearn | - | noble child | ||
| freogan | frēogan | - | to free | ||
| freolsdom | frēolsdōm | - | freedom | ||
| freomann | frēomann | frēo-mann | free-man | ||
| frigedæg | frīgedæg | Frīgedæg | Friday | ||
| friþ | friþ | friþ | peace | ||
| *friþen | - | *friþen | protected | ||
| frosc | frosc | frosc | frog | ||
| frum- | frum- | - | source | frum+wylla | |
| fruma | fruma | - | beginning | ||
| fugel | fugel | fugol | bird | ||
| ful | fūl | fūl | foul | ||
| full | full | - | full | ||
| *funta | funta | funta | spring | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| furh | furh | furh | furrow | ||
| furlang | furlang | furlang | furlong | ||
| fyld | fyld | - | fold | ||
| *fyllet | fyllet | *fellet | clearing | ||
| *fylling | fylling | *felling | clearing | ||
| fyr | fӯr | fӯr | fire | = | |
| fyrclede | fyrclede | - | forked | ||
| fyrd | fyrd | ferd | army | ||
| fyrding | fyrding | - | army | ||
| (ge)fyrhþ | fyrhþ : gefyrhþe | (ge)fyrhþ | wood, scrubland | fyrhþ & gefyrhþe under separate entries in DOE; see also Gelling&Cole under fyrhth(e) | |
| fyrm | fyrm | - | food-rent | ||
| fyrs | fyrs | fyrs | furze | ||
| *fyrsig | - | - | furzy | ||
| fyrst | fyrst | - | first | ||
| fyxe | fyxe | - | vixen |