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English Word
Class
Anglish
Attested Not attested
dairy n milkhouse deyhouse
damage n harm -
damage vb wreck, fordo, shend -
damaged adj broken, dented, unsound -
damaging adj harmful, hurtful, baleful, baneful -
damn vb forordeal (forordealt-forordealt, cf. Du. veroordelen, NHG verurteilen)
damnation n ordeal (cf. NHG Urteil)
dance v strut, twist tumb, wirl
danger(ous) n/adj plight(ful), threat(ening) freech(ful (<OE fréĉen)
data n put, rawput, worth(s) ongift(s), meteworth(s)

Givele, metele, metebit ,

Givens (calque. Latin data < datum, plural pp. of 'to give' )

database n putbank -
dative (case) n forgivingly, giver namefall
daub vb spread, besmear -
de- pref un- and- (<OE and-, cf. Fries. and-)
deadline n - frist (cf. NHG Frist)
dear n beloved, darling, dear, drout, lief, love -
debatable adj moot -
debut n beginning, coming-out, first showing fanding (<OE fandian: to try, experience)
decade n - tenyear
decapitate vb behead -
decay v rot, wane, wither abreeth
deceased adj dead -
deceive vb swike, mislead, forlead, fop, outwit -
December n - Ereyule
decent adj good, upstanding, befitting daven, thewly
decentralization n - outkerneling
deception n swiking, beswikening, misleading of, falsehood, clouding, cunning, darkening, hoodwinking, snow job -
decide vb choose, settle on, make up one's mind, reckon out, bychoose, shut through betake
beshut (cf. Du. besluiten)
decision n choice, settle-on, onsettling, reckon-out, outreckoning, bychoice throughshut, beshut
decisive adj all-out, out-and-out, outright, straight-out, telling -
declaration n - atueness (<OE ætywnys)
declare vb - spell out
declination n dwining, dwindling forbowing
decline vb dwine, dwindle, wane, fordwine, slump, lessen, weaken, flag, downgrow, down off, nether off forbow (<OE forbugan)
decoction n - Hell's broth(infernal);
decorate vb deck, bedeck, beset, bestud, trim, tool, gild -
decrease vb shrink, lower, wane, lessen thwine (<OE þwínan)
decree vb - astight (<OE ástihtan), law-bode
decrepit vb timeworn -
dedicate vb - beteach (<OE betǽcan)
de facto adj/adv - in deed
defame vb file, shend, besmirch, befile unbreme
default n flaw -
defeat n loss, licking, drubbing netherlay, netherthrow
defeat vb beat, overcome, overrun, overwhelm, overthrow netherlay, netherthrow
defecate vb drite, shite (obscene) -
defect n - asprungness (<OE asprungennes)
defend vb bestand, ward, fend -
defenestrate vb throw out outwindow
defense n weir, warding, fending -
deficiency n lack, shorthood -
deficient adj wanting, missing, lacking -
deficit n shortfall undermuch, undermuchhood
defile vb befile, besmite, befoul, sully andhallow
define vb mark, nail-tailed, narrow, set out, mark off -
deform vb misshape, unshape -
deformed adj misshapen, crippled, ill-made, ill-shaped, misbegotten, twisted, thrawn -
deformity n misshapenness -
defragment vb cleave, misbreak -
defraud vb swindle -
defrost vb thaw -
defy vb thwart, withstand, hold, dare -
degrade vb bemean, nether, beneathen, below -
degree n - mete, height, reach, rung, stair, stand, standing, strength
deicide vb - godslaughter, godmurder
deify vb begod (att'd) -
deity n god -
Deism n - Godtroth
delay n lag, holdup -
delay vb stall, forestall, tarry -
delete(tion) vb/n bleep(ing) forwipe(ing), calque of Latin de- (from, away) and -linere (to smear, to wipe)
deliberate adj willful, meaningful -
deliberate(tion) vb/n - embthreed(ing) (<OE ymbþreodian)
delicious adj belickly, licksome -
delight n gladness, lust queemness
delightful adj bewitching, witching, thrilling, enthralling, taking, lovely, fair, good, heavenly, winsome, dainty, toothsome queemness
delirious adj bewildered, mind-wandering, dwale -
delude vb mislead -
deluge n flood, rainstorm, cloudburst, overflowing, drenching "The Deluge" The Flood, Sinflood
delusion n misbelief -
demeanour n jib -
dementia n madness, mindloss -
demilitarized adj unweaponed -
demise n - hengang (< OE hingang, "a going hence, departure, death"; Cf. NHG Hingang, "death, demise")
democracy n - folkship (<OE folkscipe)
demodulation n - backrighting
demograph n folk outline -
demolish vb tear down, forspill -
demolition n forspilling, wipeout, tear-down, downtear -
demon n fiend, hellfiend, mare orc (<OE)
egleche (<OE áglæca)
demonstrate vb kithe, show, forshow, show-how -
dendrite n - sinewtwig
dendrochronology n -

tree-ring-timetelling (loan-oversetting of Ic. trjáhringjatímatal)

denial n - andsake
denigrate(tion) vb/n slight(ing), belittle, beswart, blackwash, downcast -
denote n betoken -
dénouement n unravelling -
dense adj thick -
density n - huddle

thickhood (cf. Fris. tichtheid, Du. dichtheid, Swe. täthet, Norw. tetthet)

dentist n - toothleech (cf. Dan. tandlæge)
denude vb unclothe, strip -
deny vb gainsay, naysay, withhold asake
deodorant n - missreeker, reekkiller
deoxyribonucleic acid n - lifetwine
depart vb afare, go away, leave, outfare, outgo, set off, set out, put forth wite (<OE wítan) to go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
departing n & adj leaving, waygoing, outward-bound, outbound afaring, witing
department n - offdealing, bedealing
depend vb hang, hinge on, rest on, trust in onhang, onhinge
dependance n - onhanginess, offhanginess
dependent adj - hingey, onhang(-y/-some)
depict vb show -
depreciate vb cheapen, lessen, write off underworthe
depression n moodsink, blues, downer, downheartedness, glumness, woefulness netherhithood (cf. NHG niedergeschlagenheit), downhitness, moodlessness
deprivation n 1. lack, want 2. bereaving -
deprive (of) vb bereave, strip benim; beshear
deracinate vb uproot -
deranged adj crazed, mad, moonstruck, unhinged wood
deregulation n - unreding
derive vb come from, bring from, spring from, stem from, draw off from ord from
dermatology n - skinlore, hidelore
dermis n skin, hide, rind, hackle -
descend vb fall, slope, bear nethergo
descendent n offspring, offshoot afterbear (by analogy to forebear), aftercomer, afterling
descent n downcoming, downgoing nethergoing
describe vb tell of, speak of, outline, set forth, set out, inword bewrite (NHG beschreiben)
description n bewriting, tale, inwording, drawing -
desecrate vb unhallow -
desert vb leave, forsake -
desert n dustbowl dryland
deserving adj meedful, worthy -
design vb/n lay out, draft, outline, set out -
designate vb betoken, mark, earmark, show, call, name -
desinfectant n - withersmite
desire vb crave, wish, lust, yearn, long, hanker (for, after), list -
desirous adj wishful, longing weening (<OE wenan)
desolate adj barren unbeheld
despair n hopelessness, wanhope

forthought

despair vb. - (to) hope-yearn

forthink (< OE)

Ortrow/Ortrew (OE < ortreowe)

Orween (OE < orwen)

desperate adj shakeneedy, hopeless, forlorn

hope-yearn(ing/ful)

Ortrowly/Ortrowly (OE - see 'despair')

Unweenly (OE < unwen)

despondency n - atsprungness (<OE ætsprungnes)
despise vb behate, loathe forhate (cf Norwegian forhatt)
despite prep although notwithstanding
dessert n afters, pudding, sweet -
destine vb tee, set up to happen -
destiny n lot elderlay (<OE ealdorlegu)
destroy vb fordo, forspill, forlese (past -lore, pp. -lorn), smite, wreck, wrack, wipe out, tear down towarp (<OE toweorp)
destruction vb fordoing, forlesing, smiting, wrecking, wracking, tearing, tearing down, fornime -
detail n tinymark, speckmark -
detective n sleuth, bloodhound -
deteriorate vb worsen -
determine vb name, settle; root out, track down -
detest vb hate, loathe -
detrimental n harmful, scatheful -
devalue vb cheapen downworthen
develop vb grow, build, unfold, unwrap -
developed, poorly adj wan-thriven -
development n becoming, unfolding, growth, blooming, blossoming, futhering, spreading, unfolding, upshot, upbuilding -
developmental adj becomesome, growthsome, building, building up, flowering, greatening, outgrowing, raising, readying, futhering, upgrowing, unfolding, waxing -
devious adj underhand -
devolve vb - netherwend
devote vb betake -
devour vb eat, eat up, fret, fret up, gobble up, wolf down forswallow (<OE forswelgan)
dexterity n deftness, sleight handwitness
dexterous adj deft handwit, handskillful, handcrafty
diabolic n devilish -
diacritic n mark -
diagonal adj aslant, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping, aslope -
dialect n - byleid
diameter n - straightspan, wreathwidth
diameter, inner n inner: bore
outer: girth
-
diamond n - hardore, hardestore, hardorestuff, hardestorestuff
diaphanous adj sheer -
diarrhoea n skitter, the runs -
diary n daybook -
diaspora n - forsplitting, the wanderings, spreading out of, the earth-walking of
dictator(ship) n - overlord(ship)
dictionary n wordbook -
diet n foodline -
difference n unlikeness dealing (cf. OE gedál)
shedding (cf. OE tóscéad)

sundriness

beshedness

therness
undershed (NHG Unterschied)

different adj unlike, unsame, forshed (cf. NHG verschieden)

missen (<OE missen), sundry

different adv other, otherwise sundrily
differentiate (inc. mathematics) vb. beshed/beshade, toshed, besunder -
differentiation (mathematics) n. beshedcraft/beshadecraft, toshedcraft, besundercraft -
differently adv otherwise sunderly
difficult adj hard, tough, unyielding, burdensome -
diffident adj shy -
digit n finger, toe -
digital adj scorely bitly
dignity n worth, selfworth -
digress n - umbsweep (<OE ymbswæpe)
dilapidated adj downtrodden -
dilate v - abreed (<OE abreoþan)
diligent adj - nerd
nerdledging (<OE cneordlǣcan)

heedfast

diminish vb lessen, lower, wane, dwindle, dwine, fordwine -
diminutive adj tiny, impish, small, little -
diminutive n let -
dimorphism n twoshapenness -
diningroom n - buttern (<OE beotern - table-room.)
dinner n supper -
dinosaur n - bulkwight, forebird
diocese n - bishopric, bishopshire
diploma n - lore sickernote
direct adj rode, straight, straightforward, unbending, head-on, forthright, open, outspoken -
direct vb lead, steer, beward, beright, right wees (<OE wisian)
direction n wending, warding, wardedness (backmade from -ward in toward, backward etc.)
(adverbially) -ward: sameward, "in the same direction," otherward, "in the other direction"
-
directory n - threadlist
dis- pref mis- and- (<OE and-, cf. NHG ent-)
disable vb cripple, afounder, to make lame -
disabled adj handicapped, lame, halt -
disadvantage n drawback, downside -
disadvantaged adj handicapped, hindered -
disappear vb unkythe, unsighten, fordwindle, show away -
disappoint vb let down -
disarm vb unweapon -
disarrange vb rumple, tousle -
disaster n ill-hap, banefall, banespill, baneburst, banestrike, grimming harrow-hap
disastrous adj baneful, deadly, dreadful, black, hapless, harmful, doomfull, wrackful -
discard vb get rid of, deep-six awayen
discharge vb - unload
disciple n - loreknight (<OE larcniht)
discipline n/vb learnship (be)tought(en)
disclaim vb foreswear, forego mishold, unhold
disclose vb bare, show, tell -
disconcerting adj offputting, upsetting -
discontinue vb cut, end -
discount n - falloff (c.f. Ic. af-fall)
discourse n talk, speech, spell (also as a suffix -spel e.g. lifespel - 'life's discourse/ path') wordling/wordering (<OE wordlung/*wordrung, cf. wordrian)
discourse, area of n - wordlingbereach (wordling [see above] + bereach, cf. NHG Diskursbereich)
discourse vb talk, speak wordle/worder (<OE wordlian/wordrian)
discover vb & phr find, come upon, happen upon, beget, behold, bring to light, ken, get hold of, get wise to, see, witness onfind, anddeck
discovery n - onfinding, anddecking
discredit vb smirch -
discriminate n treat unfairly beshed (<OE bescéadan)
discuss vb talk about, talk over, talk through -
disease n addle, cothe, sickness, illness, wanhaleness -
disease, skin n tetter skinaddle
disfigure vb mar, misshape -
disgrace n & vb shame, shend -
disgusting adj loathely, wlatsome, foul, pukening, gruesome, ghastly, rank -
dishevel vb tousle, rumple, tangle -
disheveled adj tousled, thrummy -
disinclined adj loath -
disinfect vb - unsmittle
disinfectant adj - unsmittlesome
disinfectant n - unsmittler
disk n - shife (cf. Du. shijf, NHG Scheibe), round, flat
dislike vb mislike -
dismember vb - alithe, unlimb
dismiss vb snub, slight, sack, fire -
disobedience n - overhearness (<OE oferhirness)
disobedient adj unhold, unhearsome, hardheaded, stubborn, wayward -
disordered adj unsided, throughanother -
disperse vb scatter, spread, strew todrive, tofare
displace vb uproot unord
display n reading window -
displease vb weary, irk athreet [past athrote, ppt athrotten] (<OE aþreótan)
disposable adj throwaway -
disposal n deep-six -
disprove vb belie -
dispute vb call out against, moot, belie, half-believe -
disqualify vb unfit -
disregard vb overlook, forheed -
disruption n upheaving -
dissect vb sithe, cut up -
dissemble vb - atlike
dissolution n breakup -
dissonance n strife pitchclash
distance n span, stretch, farness -
distant adj 1. aferron, far, faraway, far off
2. aloof, standoffish
-
distilate n - of-burn, forsteam
distort vb twist, throw, warp -
distract vb throw off heed off, mind off
distraught adj woeful, awondered, amazed -
distress vb harry, harrow, unfrith, to-slite, to-tear -
distribute vb deal out, hand out, give out, fordeal, bedeal, of-give, out-mete, share brit (<OE, bryttian)
distribution n fordealing, bedealing, out-meting, of-giving, forspreading, outdealing, dealing-out, spread -
district n shire, riding, leet, -wick, wike, stretch -
distrust vb forthink, mistrust -
disturb vb stir dreve (<OE dréfan)
disturbance n - roughhouse, stirring, dreefing, dreep-hap
diurnal adj daily, dayish -
diverse adj manifold, sundry, manikind -
divert n - of-lead
divide n split, gap -
divide vb cleave, shed, split, sunder, share, of-mete, deal to-tweem (<OE to-twaémen)
divination n - wile (<OE wigle)
divine adj godly, holy wily
divinity n holiness, godhood -
division n cleaving, splitting, tweeming, shedding, sundering to-tweeming
divorce n - wedcleave, wedcleaving, wedlockcleave, wedlockcleaving
docile adj meek -
doctor, medical n healer, healthsmith leech
document n writ, wrote -
dogma n - ground lief
dolphin n mereswine (cf. Ger. meerschwein, OE mereswīn, O.N. marswīn) tumbler (c.f. NHG: Tümmler)
domain n - lorddom
domestic vb homeland (politics), house, household, every-day -
domesticate vb tame houseteach, houserede
dominate vb overweigh, (lord it over), (have the say), (have clout), (keep down), (keep under), lead, (have might over), (have sway over), inthrall, bestride, top, outtop, overtop, (rise above), own -
donate vb bestow, give, overgive, yield -
donation n gift, yeld -
doppelgänger n look-alike, evil look-alike, ill-boding look-alike -
dormant adj sleeping, drowsing -
dormitory n sleepstow, bedroom -
dorsal adj back -
dosage n muchness -
double n twosome, twin -
double vb twofold, twicen, twicefold -
double stack adj two-row, staggered -
doubt n qualm, niggle, wonder ink (<OE inca; ME inke)
douse vb drench -
dozen adj twelve -
dozen n tens -
draconian adj - draconish, harsh, rough
dragon n drake lindworm
dragonfly n - Adder-fly, adderbolt
dramatic adj lively, startling, bustling, uproarish, striking, stirring, quickening, thrilling, overdone, underplayed -
dramatist n playwright -
dress n bodyskirt, fullskirt, long skirt -
dress vb clothe, trim, ready, don, doff, agraith -
dromadary n - drylander
dual adj twin, twofold -
dub vb name, call -
dubious adj & phr hard to believe, of two minds, fickle, dark, shifty, ill-gotten, trustless, untrustworthy,unsettled -
duchy n - aldermanry, heratowerdom
due adj owing -
duel n - twifight, twistruggle
duet n - twising
dugong n - seacow
duke n - alderman (<OE ealdorman)
dunce n mouth breather -
during prep throughout bewhile
Dutch adj - Lowlandish, Netherlandish
Dutchman n - Lowlander, Netherlander
duvet n bedspread, eiderdown -
dynamic n snell speedfast, bewayfull
dynasty n - erverike
dysentery n - reddrif (<OE drif: fever)
dysfunctional adj unworking, badworking -
dyslexic n - wordblind
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