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’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| belimpan | limpan : belimpan | - | to belong | Includes also limpan | |
| lac | lāc | lāc | sport | ||
| lacu | lacu | lacu | watercourse | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| lad | lād | (ge)lād | watercourse | LangScape follows Gelling&Cole in treating lad and gelad separately | gean+lad |
| *lagge | - | *lagge | marsh? | ||
| lagu | lagu | lagu | stream, pond | ||
| lam | lām | lām | loam | ||
| lamb | lamb | lamb | lamb | ||
| *lambheord | - | - | lamb flock | ||
| *lambhyrde | - | - | shepherd | ||
| land | land | land | land | See also Gelling&Cole | landgemære : landmearc : landscearu : bocland : ea+land : folcland : fostor+land : *heafodland : igland : inland : yrþland |
| landgemære | landgemǣre | land-gemǣre | land-boundary | ||
| landmearc | landmearc | - | land-boundary | ||
| landscearu | landscearu | land-scearu | land-boundary | ||
| landseten | landseten | - | estate | ||
| lane | lanu | lane | lane | ||
| lang | lang | lang | long | ||
| laþ | lāþ | - | noxious | Not in PnEl, but included in Notts List | |
| lawerce | lāwerce | lāwerce | lark | ||
| læcc | - | *læc(c) : *lece | boggy stream | Includes also PnEl's *lece. See also Gelling&Cole | |
| *læcce | - | *læcce | trap | ||
| læce | lǣce | lǣce | leech | ||
| *læd | - | *lǣd | drain | ||
| læfer | læfer | lǣfer | rush, iris | ||
| *læfriht | - | - | rushy | Not in CH or DOE but hypothesized from læfer plus suffix -iht | |
| *læge | - | lǣge | unploughed | læg+æcer | |
| læs | lǣs | lǣs | pasture | ||
| læssa | lǣssa | - | less, smaller | ||
| læs2 | lǣs2 | - | less | ||
| (ge)læt | gelǣte | (ge)lǣt | junction | ||
| lætan | lǣtan | - | to allow | ||
| le | - | le | the | ||
| lead | lēad | - | lead | Not in PnEl but included in Notts List | |
| leaf | lēaf | lēaf | leaf | readleaf | |
| leah | lēah | lēah | wood-pasture | See also Gelling&Cole. 'leah' refers to a very specific resource, frequently, but not always, wood-pasture | |
| *leaht | - | *leaht | side-channel | ||
| (ge)lecgan | (ge)lecgan | - | to dispose, attach | ||
| *gelegu | - | - | lair, bed | see PNGloucs. p. 171 | |
| lengu | lengu | - | length | ||
| leo | lēo | - | lion | ||
| leyne | - | leyne | arable tract | ||
| lic | līc | līc | corpse | lic+tun | |
| licgan | licgan | - | to lie | ||
| lim | līm | līm | lime | ||
| lin | līn | lín | flax | ||
| lind | lind | lind | lime-tree | ||
| line | līne | - | rope | ||
| lippe | lippa | - | lip | ||
| *lisc | - | *lisc | reedy marsh | ||
| lit | līt | - | dye | ||
| loc | loc | loc | lock, fold | ||
| loca | loca | - | enclosure | Mentioned in PnEl under loc | |
| *locere | - | *lōcere | keeper, shepherd | ||
| locian | lōcian | - | to look | ||
| loddere | loddere | loddere | beggar | ||
| lof | lof | - | praise | ||
| loh | lōh | - | place | ||
| loppe | loppe | loppe | spider | ||
| *lorte | - | *lort(e) | dirt | ||
| lundr | - | lundr | grove | ||
| lus | lūs | lūs | louse | lus+þorn | |
| *lycce | - | *lycce | enclosure | ||
| lytel | lӯtel | lӯtel | little |