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’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wad | wād | wād | woad | ||
| *walc | - | *walc | fulling | ||
| walu | walu | walu | weal, ridge | wyrtwala | |
| wamb | wamb | wamb | womb, hollow | ||
| wan- | wan- | - | poor | ||
| -ware | -waru | -ware | people | burhware | |
| wareine | - | wareine | warren | ||
| waroþ | waroþ | waroþ | shore | ||
| waschunge | - | - | washing | a Middle English term | |
| wase | wāse | wāse | mire | ||
| waþ | wāþ | wāþ | hunting | ||
| wæcc | wæcc(e) | - | look-out | ||
| (ge)wæd | (ge)wæd | (ge)wæd | ford | See also Gelling&Cole under gewæd | |
| wægn | wægn | wægn | wagon | ||
| wæl | wæl | wæl | corpse | ||
| wær | wǣr | wǣr | treaty | ||
| wæsce | wæsc | wæsce | wash | sceap+wæsce | |
| *wæsse | - | *wæsse | flood-land | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| wæstm | wæstm | - | produce | ||
| wæt | wǣt | wēt | wet | ||
| wæter | wæter | wæter | water | See also Gelling&Cole | wæter+(ge)feall |
| *wæþe | - | *wǣþe | hunting | ||
| wealcan | wealcan | - | to walk | ||
| weald | weald | wald | woodland, forest | See also Gelling&Cole under wald | |
| wealh | wealh | walh | Briton, Welshman | ||
| weall | weall | wall | wall | ||
| weard | weard | weard | look-out | weard+setl | |
| *wearda | - | - | watch | ||
| wearg | wearg | wearg | criminal | wearg+rod : wearg+treow | |
| wearm | wearm | wearm | warm | ||
| wearp | - | wearp | warp | Includes weak form *wearpe | |
| wearriht | wearrig | - | rough, knotty | Included under wearrig in CH | |
| weax | weax | weax | (bees)wax | ||
| weaxan | weaxan | - | to grow | ||
| wede | wēde | - | raging | ||
| weg | weg | weg | way | See also Gelling&Cole | ærning+weg : hereweg : hrycg+weg : port+weg |
| wel | wǣl | wēl | deep pool | ||
| wendan | wendan | - | to turn | ||
| wenn | wenn | wenn | wen, barrow | ||
| wente | - | wente | way, path | ||
| weoce | wēoce | - | wick | ||
| (ge)weorc | geweorc | (ge)weorc | (earth)work | ||
| (ge)weorp | geweorp | - | heap | ||
| (ge)weorpan | (ge)weorpan | - | to throw | ||
| (ge)weorþan | (ge)weorþan | - | to be | ||
| wer | wer | wer | weir | ||
| *wereþ | - | *wereþ | marsh? | ||
| wer1 | wer1 | - | man | ||
| wesa | wēsa | - | drunkard | ||
| wese | wēse | - | moist | ||
| west | west | west : *wester | west | Westseaxe | |
| westan | westan | westan | from/ in the west | ||
| westannorþan | westannorþan | - | north-west | ||
| westerne | westerne | - | western | ||
| westeweard | westweard : westanweard : westeweard | - | westward | Includes CH's westanweard (adj) & westwe(a)rd (adj) | |
| westhealf | westhealf | - | west side | ||
| westlang | westlang | - | west-running | ||
| westrihte | westrihte : westrihtes | - | directly westwards | Includes westrihte & westrihtes, although CH only lists westrihtes | |
| Westseaxe | West-Seaxe | - | West Saxons | ||
| westweard | westweard | - | westwards | Includes CH's westanweard (adv) & westwe(a)rd (adv) plus also, potentially, westweardes (not listed in CH) | |
| weþer | weþer | weþer | wether | ||
| wibba | wibba | - | beetle | ||
| wic | wīc | wīc | farm | wicham : wic+stow : wic+tun : bere+wic : heorde+wic : herewic | |
| wice | wice | wice | wych-elm | ||
| wicga | wicga | - | beetle | ||
| wicham | - | *wīc-hām | 'wic' settlement | ||
| wicing | wīcing | wīcing | Viking, 'wic' dweller | ||
| wid | wīd | wīd | wide | ||
| wif | wīf | wīf | woman | ||
| wifel | wifel | wifel | weevil, beetle | ||
| wig | wīg | wīg | shrine | ||
| wiga | wiga | - | warrior | ||
| *wiht | - | *wiht | bend | ||
| wil | wīl | wīl | trap | ||
| *wilig | welig | *wilig | willow | ||
| wilign | - | wilign | willow | ||
| wiliht | wiliht | - | willow-grown | ||
| willan | willan | - | to wish | ||
| win | wīn | - | wine | ||
| *wincel | wincel | *wincel | corner | ||
| wind | wind | wind | wind | *wind+geat | |
| *windels | - | *windels | windlass | ||
| windig | windig | - | windy | ||
| winna | winna | - | enemy | ||
| *winn1 | - | *winn1 | pasture | ||
| *winn3 | - | *wïnn3 | white | ||
| winter | winter | winter | winter | winter+burna | |
| wir | wīr | wīr | myrtle | ||
| *wire | - | - | tendril, briar | Not in PnEl but included in Notts List | |
| wisce | wisce | wisce | marshy meadow | See also Gelling&Cole under wisc, *wisse | |
| *wise | - | *wise | swamp | ||
| (ge)wisian | (ge)wīsian | - | to instruct | ||
| *wisse | - | *wisse | marshy meadow | See also Gelling&Cole under wisc, *wisse | |
| wita | wita | wita | councillor | ||
| (ge)witnes | (ge)witnes | - | witness | ||
| wiþ | wiþ | wiþ | near, by, towards | ||
| wiþ_eastan | wiþēastan | - | to the south of | ||
| wiþforan | wiþforan | - | before, in front of | ||
| wiþig | wīþig | wīþig | willow | ||
| *wiþigen | - | *wīþigen | willow-grown | ||
| *wiþign | - | *wīþign | willow copse | ||
| wiþinnan | wiþinnan | wiþ-innan | within | ||
| wiþneoþan | wiþneoþan | - | below | ||
| wiþ_norþan | - | - | to the north of | Not cited in CH | |
| wiþ_suþan | - | - | to the south of | Not cited in CH | |
| wiþufan | wiþufan | - | above | ||
| wiþutan | wiþūtan | wiþ-ūtan | outside | ||
| wiþ_westan | wiþwestan | - | to the west of | ||
| woh | wōh | wōh | twisting | ||
| wol | wōl | - | disease | ||
| wop | wōp | - | weeping | ||
| worþ | worþ | worþ | enclosure, farm | ||
| worþig | worþig | worþig | enclosure, farm | ||
| worþign | - | worþign | enclosure, farm | ||
| woþ | wōþ | - | noise | ||
| wrang | wrang | wrang | twisted | ||
| wræcca | wræcca | wrecca | fugitive, wretch | ||
| *wræna | - | *wrǣna | stallion | ||
| *wræst | - | *wrǣst | twisted object | ||
| wrenna | wrenna | wrenna | wren | ||
| *wreo | - | *wrēo | twisting | ||
| wrid | wrid | wrid | thicket | ||
| *wride | - | *wride | winding | ||
| gewrinclian | gewrinclian | - | to wind about | ||
| *writol | - | *writol | bubbling | ||
| *wrocc | - | *wrocc | bird of prey | ||
| wroht | wrōht | wrōht | dispute | ||
| wudu | wudu | wudu | wood | See also Gelling&Cole | wuduræden |
| wudubær | wudubǣr | - | wood pasture | ||
| wudulæs | wudulǣs | - | wood pasture | ||
| wudumann | wudumann | wudu-mann | woodman | ||
| wudung | wudung | - | wood-rights | ||
| wuduræden | wudurǣden | - | wood provision | ||
| wulf | wulf | wulf | wolf | wulf+pytt | |
| wull | wull | wull | wool | ||
| wylisc | wielisc : wylisc | Welisc | Welsh | wielisc in CH but likely to be wylisc in DOE | |
| wylla | wiell | wella | spring | wiell in CH but likely to be wyll in DOE. See also Gelling&Cole under well | frum+wylla |
| *wyllere | - | *wellere | salt boiler | ||
| wylm | wielm | welm | spring | ||
| wynn | wynn | - | delight | ||
| wyrhta | wyrhta | wyrhta | craftsman | scyld+wyrhta | |
| wyrm | wyrm | wyrm | snake, dragon | ||
| gewyrpe | gewyrpe | - | heap | ||
| wyrt | wyrt | wyrt | plant | wyrt+tun : wyrtwala : wyrttruma | |
| wyrttruma | wyrttruma | - | tree-roots, woodbank | ||
| wyrtwala | wyrtwala | - | root-wale, woodbank |