English Wordbook/A

From The Anglish Moot

Staff A of the English Wordbook.

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aardvark	n	ant bear, earthswine
abandon	vb	forsake, forlese (pt. -lore, pp. -lorn), forlet, of-give, up-give
abandon	n	wantonness, recklessness
abase	vb	bemean, grovel, lower, shame, nideren, nitheren
abash	vb	(a)shame
abate	vb	lessen, ebb, wane
abattoir	n	slaughterhouse
abbess	n	overmother
abbot	n	overfather
abbreviate	vb	shorten, foreshorten
abbreviation	n	shortening, foreshortening
abdicate	vb	forswear
abdomen	n	riff, belly
abduct	vb	kidnap, steal, steal away, neednim
aberration	n	freak, wandering
abet	vb	help, goad, spur, hearten, frofer
abhor	vb	hate, loathe, mislike
ability	n	skill, dought, might, craft
abject	adj	mean, wretched, neadly
abjure	vb	afterquethe
abjure	vb	forswear, swear off, of-swear
ablactate	vb	wean
ablative	n	away namefall
ablaut	n	offloud
able	adj	mighty, doughty, likely, fit
able to, had been	phrase	might have, dought have
able to, is	vb	may, dow, is mighty for/to, is up to, is like to
able to, was	phrase	might, dought
ablution	n	washing, bathing, cleansing
abnegate	vb	forgo, forswear
abnormal	adj	odd, amiss, wrong, unwell
abolish	vb	fordo, get rid of, rid
abominable	n	evil, foul, hateful, nasty, unholy, wargedly(OE), worgedly, wargly
aboriginal	adj	erd-folkish, first-folkish, inborn, of-ginning, forebiding
aborigine	n	erd-folk, first-folk,urfolk
abort	vb	scrap, fordo, awaywarp(OE)
abortion	n	scrapping, wightbloom-scrap, forbirthing, awaywarpness(OE)
abound	vb	of-ythe(from OE cognate of latin "undus"; found in WNID2e), overflow
abrasion	n	offgrinding
abridge	vb	foreshorten, cut, littlen(OE)
abscond	vb	sneak away
absence	n	lack, want, of-being, offwardness(OE)
absent	adj	missing, of-being, offward(OE)
absinth(e)1	n	wormwood
absinth(e) (the liquor)	n	wormwine
absolute	adj	outright, utter, full
absolutely	adv	fully, wholly
absorb	vb	soak up, swallow, drink, up-soak, forsoak
abstain	vb	forbear
abstain (from)	vb	forbear, forgo, give up, quit, spurn, hold off on
abundant	adj	teeming, swarming, overflowing, fulsome, rife, fat, thick, awash of-ything
abuse	vb	belittle, harm, do so. harm curse, mishandle, scathe, taw, wrong, do so. wrong misbrook
abysmal	adj	hellish, nethly
abyss	n	hell, hole, depth</fong>, ground, netherworld
acacia	n	thornbloom, hookthorn
academia	n	lorework, loredom
academic	adj	moot, lettered, lorewise
academic	n	lorester, loreman, letterman
accelerate	vb	speed, quicken, swiften
accept	vb	brook, take, thole, choose, nim, hold with, settle on
acceptable	adj	lovewont, loveweened, likeworthy, takeworthy, choiceworthy
access	n	ingoing
accessible	adj	yea-fere
accessory	vb	deedmate, bykeeper
accident	n	mishap
accompany	vb	yea-fereshipen, yea-feren
accompanyment	n	yea-fereship
accomplice	n	deedmate, yea-fere
accordeon	n	bellowharp
according to	adj	by
account	n	ledger, ledgerbook, reckoning, tale, telling, writ, rede, umbe(on account of)
accountant	n	bookkeeper, teller
accumulate	vb	at-flow(intransitive)
accurate	adj	near, straight, aright, clean, right on
accusative (case)	adj	tholefall (cf. Icelandic "þolfall")
accuse	vb	guilt, wray, atwite
accustomed	adj	wont
acetone	n	sourghost
achieve	vb	bring about, bring into being, pull off, put through, work out
acid	n	sourwater, firewater, burnwater
acne	n	coppernose
aconite	n	wolfsbane(nb. att'd)
acquaint	vb	befriend, ken, con, meet, kithe, bekithe
acquiesce	vb	cool, bow, thave
acquire	vb	get, gain, earn, yea-own(OE)
acquisition	n	gaining, take over, (unexpected): windfall
acrobat	n	stringtumb
act	n	deed, work, play
act	v	do, work
action	n	deed, doing, work
actor	n	showplayer
actress	n	showplayster
actual	adj	true
actually	adv	indeed, truly, forsooth, soothly, wittedly(OE), deedly, in truth, as it happans
acupuncture	n	pinpricking, pinprick healing, nailhealing
acute	adj	sharp, shrill (accent), keen, honed, breme, cunning
ad infinitum	adv	forevermore, at eke, ekely, for eke
adam's apple	n	throat boll
adapter	n	joinfiter
add	vb	eke, raise by, reckon up, put on, tack on, at-eke(OE)
addiction	n	craving, yearning,
additionally	adv	furthermore, moreover, what is more, at-ekely, ekely, eke(also)
address	vb	call, name, clip, hote, at-speak, bequethe, bespeak
address	n	dwellstead
adept	adj	skillful
adequate	adj	enough, fit, likely, befitting, good enough, fit enough
adhere	vb	cling, stick, cleave, hold, bond, at-cleave(OE)
adherence to good morals	n	thewfastness
adherent	n	believer, followerclinger, liefard
adiposis	n	overweight
adjacent	adj	near, next
adjective	n	honeword
adjust	vb	set, fitten, tweak
administration	n	handle
administrator	n	handler
admiral	n	fleetmaster, fleetleader
admire	vb	bewonder, at-wonder, at-look
admission	n	infare(entrance), kenning(acknowledgement)
admit	vb	acknowledge, let, yea-thave, let in, inbring, inlet
admonish	vb	warn, ware, teach, learn, tell off
adolescent	n	youth, halfling, younker, frumbierding, youngling, youngster, youngun
adopt	vb	nim, foster yea-kin, take on, take up
adoption	n	niming, fostering, uptake, taking on, yea-kinning
adorable	adj	lovely
adorn	vb	bedeck, bedight, yare, trim
adrenaline	n	bykidney workstuff
adulation	n	flaundering, glavering
adult	n	grown-up, man, woman, fullwaxener
adultery	n	whoredom wedlock breach, breach of wedlock, lawbreach
advance	vb	further, go, forward, aforth
advance, in	adj	beforehand
advantage	n	gain, boot, good, behoof, upside
advantageous	adj	gainful, furthersome, helpful, boot, behoofsome
advent	n	coming
adverb	n	likeword, thewword
adversity	n	<gont color=blue>hardship, hurdle, pitfall, worry, thwartsomeness, hardhap
adversive	n	thwartsome
advice	n	rede, warning, input, lore, teaching, learning, bethought
advise	vb	rede, warn, steer, help, hint, learn, teach, clew, yea-bethought
aerodynamic	adj	streamlined, wind deft, windfit, loftlithe
affair	n	doing
affection	n	fondness, love
affectionate	adj	fond, friendly, loving, lovesome, warm-hearted
affinity	n	forwanting
affirmative	adv	aye, yes, yea, so, yeah, yep Yes-some, Yes-ly, Yes-ish, ayesome
afflict	vb	ail, smite, dretch, swink, swinge
affluence	n	wealth, weal, riches, fat
affluent	adj	wealthy, well-to-do, well-off, rich, fat
afraid	adj	frightened, scared, afeared, unfrithed(afraid being from frankish afray(n.) meaning unfrith)
Africa	n	sunnygreatland
age	n	oldness, years, time, eld eldth
age	vb	eld, olden, forold
age(era)	n	eld, time, day, tide, older, eew, timestretch, yorestretch
aged	adj	elderly, olden, forold, yore, yoren, elt, old, forolded, oldened
agenda	n	todolist
agglomerate	vb	clodden
agglutinate	vb	wordlink
aggressive	adj	threatening, fighty
aggressor	n	scather
agile	adj	nimble, limber, lithe, lithesome, yare, light-footed, lithecrafty, light
agility	n	nimbleness, limberness, lithesomeness, light-footedness, lithecraftiness, lightness
agitation	n	worry, mindfret, phr fret of mind, ything, seething, churning
agoraphobia	n	steadfear
agree	vb	, settle on, hold with, *stimm to, thave
agriculture	n	fieldlore, croplore, farming
aid	n	help, fultum
aid	vb	help, full out, frofer
AIDS	n	Earned Bodyweir Scantness Sickness
aim	n	goal, mark, ettle
air	n	wind, sky, loft, weather, life's breathe
air force	n	loft-might, sky might, loft-weapon, loft-weir
airport	n	skydock
aisle	n	gangway
alarm clock	n	wakerclock, wire-waker, wirerooster, lilter, uprouser, uprearer
alas	interj	alack, woe, welaway
albino	n	whiteling
album	n	whitebook
albumen	n	egg white, egg lime
alcohol	n	booze, firewater, wineghost
alcoholic	adj	boozen
alcoholic	n	sot, drunkard, malt-worm
alien	adj	unearthly, outlandish, fremd, wayward born, altheodish, farlandish, fremmed, fremmd frimmed, frimm, from abroad, from overseas, from afar
alienate	vb	unkithen, fremd
alkali	n	lyestuff
allegory	n	forlikening
allergy	n	overfeeling
alleviate	vb	allay, lighten, alay
alliance	n	bond, tie
alliteration	n	staverhyme
allocate	vb	earmark, let, fordeal
allotment	n	fordealing
allow	vb	let, leave
allowable	adj	leavely, leavesome, letsome
alloy	n	mastling
allude	vb	anenten
almanac	n	yearbook
alphabet	n	, abecede(OE word for alphabet), staffhoard, staffrow, staverow
alphabet, runic	n	futhorc(English), futhark(Norsk)
altar	n	offerboard
altercation	n	fight, brangling, tangle, snarl, dust-up
alternative	adj	other
altitude	n	aloftness(aloft means above the ground)
altruism	n	selflessness
altruistic	adj	selfless, unselfish
amass	vb	gather, heap, build up, mill
amateur	n	lover of
amazed	adj	(from Old English)aghast
amazing	adj	geason, awesome, cool (colloquial)
ambassador	n	rikesboder
amber	n	burnstone
ambidextrous	vb	twihanded, umbecrafty, umbehandy, both-handy, umberight
ambience	n	mood, feeling
ambivalence	n	waver
ambulance	n	sickwagon
ameliorate	vb	better , eather
amen	interj	soothly , yelayay
America	n	Amerigoland, New World, Westlands
amicable	adj	friendly
ammonia	n	hartshorn, water of hartshorn
amnesia	n	blackout , thoughtloss
amoeba	n	slimewightlet
amorphous	adj	shapeless
amount	n	muchness(nb. att'd), deal, lot
amphibian	n	shorewight
amphitheater	n	playstow, umbewitstow
amplifier	n	forstronger
amplitude	n	slingwidth
amputate	n	cut
amusement	n	fun
amusing	adj	funny
anaconda	n	whipsnake
anagram	n	stavewrixel
anal	adj	arse, bottom, arsely
analgesic	n	painlessener
analyze	vb	check
anathema	n	acursed thing
anatomy	n	bodylore
ancestor	n	forebear, forefather, forerunner, elder, foremother
ancient	adj	olden, fern, yore, eldern, farback, long ago, of old
andiron	n	firegoat
anemone	n	windrose
angle	n	nook, nookspan, nookwidth
angular	adj	nook-shotten(nb. att'd)
Anglosphere, the	n	English (speaking) world, the
anguish	n	headhell, wrath
animal	n	wight, deer, neat
animate	vb	enliven/inliven, quicken, liven beliven
annelid	n	ringworm
annihilate	n	wipe out
anniversary	n	yeartide
announce	vb	ban, bode, bid, kithe
annoy	vb	irk, nettle
annual	adj	yearly
annual	n	yearbook
annul	vb	fordo
anoint	v	anele
anonym	adj	nameless
anorexia	n	fastlust
antagonist	n	fiend, foe gainstander
antarctic	n	southpole
Antarctica	n	witherbearland, South Pole, South Worldstem
antediluvian	adj	foreflood
anterior	adj	fore, foremost
anterior	n	fore, foreside
anthology	n	blossoms
anthropology	n	manlore
anticipate	vb	foresee, foretaste, forecome
anticlockwise	adj & adv	withershins, widdershins, gainclockwise
antidote	n	gainatter
antigen	n	offweirstuff
antilope	n	bloomgoat
antimatter	n	gainstuff, unbeing, unstuff
antipathy	n	mislike
antipathy	n	mislike
antiquity	n	oldness, elderliness, olden-times, eldness oldendom, eldern, eldtime, afern
antirrhinum	n	snapdragon
antisemitism	n	jewhate
antiseptic	adj	gainrot
antitoxin	n	gainatter
antler	n	eyesprout, branchhorn
antonym	n	gainname
anulus	n	ring
anus	n	arsehole, arsegang(OE), outgang(OE), settle(OE)
anxiety	n	worry, angst, fear
aorta	n	lofty heartpipe
apart	adv	asunder, aside, away
apartment	n	flat, room
apathy	adj	uncaring
aperture	n	opening, breech
apex	n	peakpoint
aphid	n	greenfly, blackfly, plant lice
aphrodisiac	n	lustwaker
apitoxin	n	beebane
apogee	n	highpoint
apologize	vb	say sorry, answer
apology	n	answer, sorrowsaying, besaying, (defend), words of rue, rueword (regret)
apostle	n	liefcarrier
apparel	n	clothes, wear, threads, weed, glad rags, donnings, step-outs
apparent	adj	seeming
apparently	adv & phr	seemingly, at first sight, in name only, on the outside, openly, outwardly, to the eye, staringly, truthlessly
appeal	vb	call, call upon, ask, beckon
appealing	adj	winsomeness, fair
appear	vb	become, seem, kythe, loom
appear	v	atew
appearance	n	look, kything, cast
appearance	n	look, kything, cast
appease	vb	allay
appellation	n	name
appendage	n	outgrowth
appendix	n	blindgut
appetite	n	craving
appoint	vb	fix, fit, fix time, set up, set aside, earmark, settle, turn out, deem, name
apprehension	n	dread, foreboding, misgiving, fear
approach	v	near
approaching	adj	forthcoming, coming, upcoming, oncoming, nearing, nighlocking, nighledging
appropriate	adj	fitting, seemly, meet
appropriate (be)	vb	befit, beseem, behoove, behave
approximate	adj	rough, near, nearby, handy
approximately	adv	about, roughly, nearly, nigh
April	n	Eastermonth
apron	n	barmcloth
apt	adj	fit
aquaculture	n	fish-farming
aquaduct	n	waterlining
aqualung	n	waterlung
aquamarine	adj	seagreen
aquarium	n	fishtank fishhouse
aquatic	adj	watery, mere,
arable	adj	plowable
arachnid	n	spinerwight
arboreal	adj	treewise
arboretum	n	treeyard
arc	n	bow
archaeology	n	oldenlore, erelore
archaeopterix lithographica	n	stoneprinted oldenwing
archeology	n	oldeldthlore
archer	n	bowman
archery	n	bowmanship, bowcraft
archipelago	n	islandsea, islandgroup
architecture	n	builthlore, timbercraft
arctic	adj	bear-, northern
arctic	n	northpole
area	n	ground, stow, stead, stigh, erd
argent	n	silver
arguable	adj	moot
argue	vb	wrestle, squabble, wrangle, bicker, fight, tilt
argument	n	row
aridity	n	drought, droughth, dryness, rainlessness, dryth.
aristocrat	n	blue-blood, , rikeborn, richard, thoroughbred
aristocratic	adj	blue-blooded, full-blooded, highbred, highborn, wellborn, rikeborn
arm	vb	beweapon
arm	n	handweapon
armistice	n	truce
armour	n	shield
army	n	here, ferd, landfyrd, harr, harrmen, heer, dright, drightfolk(people's army), warband, weremight, herefolk, landferd, ganghere(foot men), inhere(homeland here)
aroma	n	smell, sweetsmell
around	prep & adj & adv	about, umbe
arouse	vb	stir, awake, arear
array	vb	lay out, set out
arrest	vb	nab, avast
arrive at	vb	reach, find, come upon, get to
arrogant	adj	proud, highhanded, overweening
arsenal	n	weaponhoard
arson	n	firestarting
arsonist	n	firestarter
art	n	craft
artery	n	loftblood pipe
article	n	thing, writ
artificial	adj	manmade, craftly
artillery	n	gunware
artisan	n	craftsman, wright, handyman
artistry	n	craftsmanship
Asatru	av	Esetroth, Ostroth
asbestos	n	thrumstone, stone-flax, earthflax
ascend	vb	climb, stigh
asexual reproduction	n	swiveless matchbearing
Asgard	n	Osyard
Asia	n	easterngreatland, the East
asparagus	n	sparrowgrass
asphalt	n	streettar
assassin	n	murderer
assault	n	onset
assemble	vb	gather, ban; timber, frame, build , put together, set up
assembly	n	gathering, meeting, moot, meet, thing; building, timbering, framing
assembly	n	gathering
asset	n	holding
assiduity	n	beeishness, one-mindness, steadfastness, thoroughness, tirelessness, weariless
assign	vb	let, bequethe, pass on, hand on, give out, make over, deed over
assimilate	vb	blend in with, be one with, bring near to, fall in with
assist	vb	help, help out
assistant	n	helper
association	n	guild, club, yea-fering
assume	vb	take, nim, fang, gather, believe, trow; fill, uptake, bear, take on, take it that, gather that
assure	n	forspeaking
aster	n	starbloom
asterisk	n	star
asterisk	n	starlet
asteroid	n	worldlet
asthma	n	hardbreathing, angbreast
astonish	vb	dumbfound, amaze, bewonder, startle, make speechless
astonished	adj	speechless, amazed, dumbfounded, bewondered, startled answerless, awondered
astral	adj	starly,
astronaut	n	starfarer
astronomy	n	starlore
astute	adj	shrewd, cunning, pretty, sharp, quick-witted
asylum	n	haven, madhouse
atelier	n	workshop
atheist	adj	godless, without belief in gods, beliefless, ungodsome, unliefsome, liefless
atlas	n	[chart]book
atmosphere	n	welkin
atom	n	uncleft
atrocious	adj	outmad
atrophy	n	withering, dying, waning
attack	n	onslaught, onset, strike, infall (upon or into)
attack	vb	fight, smite, beset , onslay, set upon, strike at, raid
attain	vb	reach, gain
attempt	n	shot, undertaking, bash
attempt	vb	seek, forseek, undertake, fand, give a shot, have a bash, have a go
attend	vb	heed, hear
attendant	n	steward, thane, knight, thrall, thew, theow
attention	n	heed
attest	vb	witness, bear out
attic	n	loft
attic	n	loft, roofroom
attire	n	clading
attitude	n	standing, outlook
attorney	n	lawyer
attract	vb	latch, indraw
attractive	adj	comely, good-looking, lovely, fair, handsome
attribute	n	ownship
aubergine	n	eggwort
audacious	adj	daring, bold, fearless, cheeky, dare-all, dareful, breme, unfearing, reckless, stoor, thriste, unfrightened, daresome, unafeared, ballsy
audacity	n	gall, guts, hardihood, hardiness, boldness, balls, daring
audible	adj	hearable
audience	n	hearing; hearers, listeners
augment	vb	eke, eken, eke out
August	n	Weedmonth
aura	n	holyshine
aurora	n	dawn, daybreak, sunrise, sun-up, shrike o' day
aurora borealis	n	northern lights
aurum	n	gold, yellow dust
austere	adj	yarewit
austerity	n	hardliness
Australia	n	Southgreatland
author	n	writer, maker, bookwright
authority	n	leadership, swinge, higher rank
auto-	prefix	self-
autodidact	adj	self-taught
automaker	n	wainwright
autonomy	n	selflaw
autonym	n	selfname
autopsy	n	open bodychecking
autumn	n	fall, harvest
auxillary	adj	eke, backup, fallback
available	adj	free, forthcoming, come to hand
avalanche	n	bergfall, fellfall, snowslide
avant garde	n	forhead
avenge	vb	wreak
average	adj	mean, middling
avert	vb	forfend(prevent), umbewend(redirect), forethwart, offturn
aviary	n	birdhouse
aviator	n	flyer, airman, skyman
avid	adj	eager
avoid	vb	miss, beware, shun formithe (half calque from German and Dutch), mithe, ware, guard against
avow	vb	swear, trow, own, yea-say
award	vb	bestow (upon), forlend
axis	n	axle
azimuth	n	starway, southernwidth, northernwidth
azote	n	stickstuff
azure	adj	skyblue