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’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| macian | macian | - | to make | ||
| maes | - | maes | field, plain | ||
| magan | magan | - | to be able | ||
| *malm | - | malm | sand | ||
| man | man | - | one (indef. pron.) | ||
| manig | manig | manig | many | ||
| mann | mann | mann | man | ||
| manslieht | manslieht | - | manslaughter | ||
| *mapel | - | *mapel | maple | ||
| mapuldor | mapulder | mapuldor | maple-tree | ||
| mara | māra | māra | Larger | ||
| mase | māse | māse | titmouse | ||
| mattuc | mattuc | - | mattock | ||
| *mawe | - | *māwe | meadow | ||
| mæd | mǣd | mǣd | meadow | See also Gelling&Cole | mædræden |
| mæddre | mǣddre | mæddre | madder (plant) | ||
| mædræden | mǣdrǣden | - | meadow provision | ||
| mæg | mǣg | - | kinsman | ||
| mægden | mægden | mægden | maiden | ||
| mægen | mægen | mægen | power, huge | ||
| mægþ | mægþ | mægþ | maiden | ||
| mægþe | mægþa | mægþe | mayweed | ||
| mæle | mǣle | mǣle | multi-coloured | ||
| mæl2 | mǣl2 | mǣl | speech | ||
| mæl1 | mǣl | mǣl | measure, cross | ||
| (ge)mæne | (ge)mǣne | (ge)mǣne | common | ||
| gemænnes | gemǣnnes | - | community | ||
| mæran | mǣran | - | to bound | ||
| (ge)mære | (ge)mǣre | (ge)mǣre | boundary | landgemære | |
| (ge)mærsian | (ge)mǣrsian | - | to mark out | ||
| mæsten | mæsten | - | mast | ||
| mæst2 | mæst2 | - | (pig) mast | ||
| mæst1 | mæst1 | - | (ship's) mast | ||
| mæþ | mǣþ | mǣþ | mowing | ||
| mæþel | mæþel | mæþel | meeting, assembly | ||
| mealmeht | mealmeht | - | chalky? | ||
| mearc | mearc : mearca : gemierce | mearc | boundary | Includes CH's (ge)mearc, mearca & gemierce | landmearc |
| mearca | mearca | - | marked space | ||
| (ge)mearcian | (ge)mearcian | - | to mark, bound | ||
| mearh | mearh | - | horse | ||
| mearþ | mearþ | mearþ | marten, weasel | ||
| medeme | medeme | - | middle | ||
| medemung | medemung | - | measure | ||
| *mel | - | *mēl | bald | ||
| melde | melde | melde | orach | ||
| melu | melu | - | meal | ||
| meolc | meolc | meoluc | milk | ||
| meos | mēos | mēos | moss | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| meox | meox | mix | dung | ||
| mere | mere | mere | pool | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| mersc | mersc | mersc | marsh | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| (ge)met | (ge)met | - | measure | mil+gemet | |
| meteærn | meteǣrn | - | refectory | ||
| metgyrd | metgyrd | - | measuring rod | ||
| micel | micel | micel | great | ||
| mid | mid | mid | with | ||
| midd | midd : midde | - | middle | Includes CH's midd & midde. NB 'mid streame', usually meaning 'mid-stream', might on occasion be OE 'mid' (with the stream) | |
| middel | middel | middel | middle | ||
| middeweard | middeweard | - | middleward | Includes CH's middeweard (adj) & (adv) | |
| midrihtes | - | - | to the middle | Not in CH, but in DOEList so is likely become an entry in DOE | |
| miere | miere | mere | mare | ||
| mil | mīl | mīl- | mile | mil+gemet : *mil+stan | |
| mint | mint | minte | mint | ||
| mixen | mixen | mixen | dung-hill | ||
| mor | mōr | mōr | marsh | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| morþ | morþ | morþ | death | ||
| mos | mōs | mos | moss, bog | See also Gelling&Cole | |
| (ge)mot | (ge)mōt | (ge)mōt | meeting | ea+mot | |
| motere | mōtere | mōtere | speaker | ||
| muga | mūga | mūga | heap | ||
| mul | mūl | mūl | mule | ||
| munuc | munuc | munuc | monk | ||
| mus | mūs | mūs | mouse | ||
| muscelle | muscelle | - | mussel | ||
| muþa | mūþa | mūþa | mouth | ||
| mycg | mycg | mycg | midge | ||
| myln | mylen | myln | mill | mylen+stan : mylen+stede | |
| mynecen | mynecen | myncen | nun | ||
| mynster | mynster | mynster | monastery | ||
| Myrce | Myrce : Mierce | Merce | Mercians | Mierce in CH but likely to be Myrce in DOE | |
| (ge)myþe | gemӯþe | (ge)mӯþe | confluence |