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oad | n | funeral pyre; [from early Middle English and Old English ād]
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oathneat | n | federation, confederate; [calque from German Eidgenosse, Eid = oath, Genosse = O.E. geneat 'companion']
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offdale | n | hidden valley, remote valley; [<Ic. af-dalr]
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offhanging | adj | to be dependent on someone or something; dependent [neologism, in part calque]
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offhinge | vb | depend; [off + hinge]
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offhingend | adj | dependent; [off + hinge + -end (wordlore 1)]
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offmind | vb | to draw (the mind, attention)away in another direction; distract [compound: 'off' + 'mind']
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offwill | vb | to have in mind as a goal or aim; intend [compound: 'off' + 'will' ( to want)
part calque]
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Old Ways Were Once New Ways (The). | pvb | nothing stays the same; [compound: OE]
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onefoldsome | adj | truly having the seeming qualities or character; genuine, sincere [one-fold-some]
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oneleppy | adj | single, unique, unmarried, isolated; [ME ōnlẹ̄pī]
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onesomehood | n | the state of being onesome (solitary) or alone; solitude [one+some+hood]
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onfall | n | the act of attacking; attack [Calque of German Anfall]
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onfang | vb | to receive; to welcome; to accept; (of a woman) to conceive; [obsolete]
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onhold | adj | Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.; conservative [(On-Hold-er) To hold on]
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onholdom | n | commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.; conservatism, traditionalism [(On-hold-dom) To hold on]
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onlook | n | respect; [OE anlec]
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onsnithe | vb | cut up; [(OE onsnīðan)]
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ontake | verb | to consent to receive (a thing offered); accept [unknown]
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openharmly | adj | that can be wounded or hurt;open to criticism or attack; vulnerable [compound: open+harm+ly]
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openseely | adj | easy to see or understand; obvious, evident [open + sight + -ly; calque of NHG offensichtlich]
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ord | n, vb | point, can be used in all ways that modern English utilizes the word "point", such as "to point the finger (to ord the finger)" and "the point of this meeting (the ord of this meeting)"; Synonym with "point of origin" as well [From the Old English "ord", which as far as I can tell did not have as many meanings in its brooking as "point" does in modern English, but did truly mean "point".]
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ordfrim | adj | beginning; [OE ordfrym]
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ordfrom | n | beginning, source, origin, originator, author; [ME ordfrume ⁊ OE ordfruma]
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ordeeming | n | diagnosis; assay [OE ór 'origin' + deeming]
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orfathom | vb | to expand, outstretch; inflate [or- + fathom; cognate-in-self with Latin expandō]
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orlander | n | foreigner; outlander [or- ‘out’ + land]
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orlay | n | fate, destiny; doom [OE orlæg: or- ‘out’ + læg ‘lay’]
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orrest | n | combat, battle; [Old English orrest, akin to Old Norse orrosta]
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orwigh | vb | to evict; [or + wigh]
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oth | prep, conj | until, as far as, up to, down to; [OE oþ]
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other tongue | n | a language or languages other than your first language; [other & tongue, with the word 'mother tongue ' in mind.]
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outarm | vb | stronger than (someone or something); to push [out ‘beyond’ + arm (having a meaning or force and strength)]
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outfoldly | adj | superficial; surface, exterior, external, outer, outside, slight [out+foldly]
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outgo | vb | to exit; literally " to go out"; [calque: from out + go]
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outgoing | n | exit; outway [calque: from German "ausgang"]
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outlay | n, vb | def 1: template, def 2(economics): total cost of something def 3: literally to lay something out; varies by definition [ENE out+lay]
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outspring | n | that from which something comes into being, develop, or derives; source [compound: 'out' + 'spring']
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outtake | vb | to take or pull something out; remove [extension of noun]
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outway | n | exit; literally "the way out"; outgoing [neologism: out + way]
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outwend | n & v | separate, divide, to part one from another; guide elsewhere from another [out + wend(O.E. "wendan", turn, direct, go, translate/move elsewhere)]
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ovehinge | vb | suspend; [OE yfe + hinge]
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ovehingend | adj | suspence; suspension [OE yfe + hinge + -end (wordlore 1)]
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overgive | v | to surrender; [Calque of Dutch 'overgeven' (give up, surrender, equivalent of 'over' + 'give')]
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overhave | v | capture, seize. To "have" with a greater, higher, and more powerful sense.; [Neologism of "over" + "have". The English word "have" comes from the same root as the Latin word "cap" (the base of "capture") P.I.E. *kap, meaning "to grasp or hold".]
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overlove | v | praise; ['over' (superior) + 'love' (related to Dutch 'loven' to praise)]
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overloving | n | praise; ['overlove' + 'ing']
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overmorrow | n | day after tomorrow; day after tomorrow [an old word from a 1535 Bible]
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overrush | v | to surprise; [calque of NHG ‘Überraschen’]
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overrushing | n | surprise; [calque of NHG ‘Überraschung’]
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oversetting | n | translation; [calque of NHG ‘Übersetzung’]
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overwin | v | to defeat, conquer, vanquish; [Calque from Dutch 'overwinnen' (to defeat, conquer)]
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overwinning | n | defeat; [overwin + ing]
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overwon | adj | defeated, conquered; [Past tense of 'overwin']
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Ox "Make an Ox out of a Fly" | phr | treat a minor problem as if it were a major disaster.; make a mountain out of a mole hill [proverb, metaphor.]
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