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trStaff E of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations: att'd=attested, OE=Old English, NHG=New High German, Du.=Dutch
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see Forshortenings.
| English | Word Class | Anglish | ||
| Attested | Not attested | |||
| eager | adj | keen, hungry, yearnsome | - | |
| eagle | n | - | arn/ern (<OE earn) | |
| ease | n | allaying, soothing, freedom from, smoothness, frith of mind, sweetness of life, straightforwardness | eath (Scots, from A-S) | |
| ease | vb | allay, unburden, unlade, smoothen, sooth, quell | - | |
| easy | adj | eathy, soft, light | - | |
| eau de toilette | n | bogwater (New English) | - | |
| ebony | adj & n | black, blackwood | - | |
| ebullition | n | outburst, flare-up, blowup, frothing | - | |
| eccentric | adj | crazy, flaky, freakish, kooky, nutty, queer, quirky, sunderling, weird | - | |
| eccentric | n | - | sunderling (calque from Du. zonderling, NHG Sonderling) | |
| ecclesiastical | adj | churchly, church | - | |
| echo | n | - | witherclank | |
| eclipse | v & n | behide, behiding | forshadowing | |
| economics | n | - | thriftlore, wealthlore, husbandry, alhusbandry | |
| economy | n | thrift, sparesomeness, wealthdom | householding (cf. Du. huishouding), householddom (loan translation of Grk Oikonomia and NHG Wirtschaft) | |
| ecosystem | n | - | lifeweb, lifeworld | |
| ecstatic | adj | athrill, upbeat, beside oneself | wended on (turned on) | |
| ecumenopolis | n | - | alworldburg, alborough | |
| edelweiss | n | - | athelwhite | |
| edible | adj | - | eatingly, eatbere | |
| edifice | n | building | outwork (<OE geweorc) | |
| edify | vb | - | intimber (<OE intimbrian) | |
| edifying | adj | enlightening, teaching, uplifting, mindworthy | - | |
| edit | vb | by-draft | bework (cf. Du. bewerken, NHG bearbeiten) | |
| edition | n | - | outgive (cf. NHG Ausgabe), forlay, run, putting-out, forthsending, uplay (cf. NHG Auflage) | |
| educate | vb | teach | lere (<OE læran, cf. Du. leren, NHG lehren)
atee (<OE ateon; cf. NHG erziehen) belearn | |
| educated | adj | learned, lorefast, lered | - | |
| education | n | learning, teaching | lorecraft | |
| educator | n | teacher | ateer (cf. NHG Erzieher), leerer | |
| educe | vb | outbring | bespell | |
| effervescent | adv | bubbling, bubbly, lively, frothing | - | |
| effect | n | outworking, uphit, inhit | - | |
| effeminate | adj | - | argy (cf. ON argr), argish | |
| effort | n | work, tew | - | |
| effrontery | n | barenebedness, shamelessness, unashamedness | - | |
| e.g. | abbrev. | - | f.b., 'for busen' or 'for byspell' (cf. NHG z.B., zum Beispiel) | |
| egalitarianism | n | evenfaith, evendom | - | |
| ego | n | - | I/me, pride | |
| egocentric | adj | selfish | - | |
| egoism | n | - | selfishdom, selflustdom, selfseekdom | |
| egotism | n | selfishness, selflove, selflust, selfseeking, overweeningness | - | |
| egregious | adj | glaring(ly bad), outstanding | - | |
| egressive | adj | outflowing | - | |
| Egypt | n | - | Two Narrows | |
| Egypt, Ancient | n | - | Blackland, Bankland | |
| ejaculate | vb | - | indrive (<OE indrífan) | |
| eject | vb | throw out, outthrow | - | |
| elaborate | adj | - | overwrought | |
| elastic | adj | rubbery | stretchingly | |
| elate | vb | uplift, stir up | - | |
| elect(politics) | vb | choose/wale (as leader) | - | |
| election | n | choosing, leadership poll | coreness (<OE corennes) | |
| electric | adj | - | sparkwork (an electrician is often called a 'sparky')
glarum (<OE glærum ... dat. pl. for amber) | |
| electrician | n | - | sparksmith | |
| electricity | n | - | sparkflow, wattflow, thunderflow, thundermight, thundersprack, ghostfire (Icl.) | |
| electron | n | - | amberling, glarumod (glarum+od ... see talk) | |
| elegant(ce) | n/adj | trim(ness), upheaded(ness) | smicker (<OE smicer) | |
| element | n | - | firststuff, shaftroot | |
| elephant | n | - | elp, armnoser, limbnoser | |
| elevate | vb | uppen, hoist, lift, lift up, heave up, raise | aloofen | |
| elevation | n | height, loftiness, heaving | - | |
| elevator | n | lift | - | |
| elite | n | (the) chosen, (the) chosen few, (the) chosen standing, picky group | (social elite:) swelldom | |
| elite | adj | picky | - | |
| ellipse | n | - | ringshadow, wheelshadow | |
| elocution | n | - | thylecraft | |
| elongate | vb | lengthen | - | |
| eloquent | adj | smooth spoken, silvery speech, silver-tongued, spoken readily, well-spoken | swotel spoken leetherfast (from OE hléoðrian, to speak), cwethskilled/queathskilled, cwethfast/queathfast (<OE cweðan, to speak) | |
| n/vb | - | wirewrit(e) | ||
| emanate | vb | - | forthstep (<OE forðstæppan) | |
| emasculate | vb | unman | - | |
| embarrass | vb | faze | - | |
| embody | vb | inbody, inflesh | - | |
| embrace | vb | fathom | hug, beclip, bearm, umgripe | |
| embroidery | n | needlework, needlecraft | - | |
| embryo | n | - | wightbloom, womb-berry | |
| emerge | vb | arise, unwhelm, forthcome | kythe, forthkythe | |
| emigrant | n | - | outcomer, outwanderer | |
| eminence | n | hill, knoll, link, mound, barrow, hurst, down, wold | - | |
| emissary | n | - | offsent (cf. NHG Abgesandte) | |
| emit | vb | forthsend, give out, send out, shine, give off, outsend | - | |
| emotion | n | feeling, heartfeeling | - | |
| emotional | adj | heartfelt | - | |
| emotional | phr | full of feeling | - | |
| empathy | n | fellow-feel, samefeel | - | |
| emperor | n | - | highking (cf. Manx ard-ree), Kiser, overlord | |
| emphasize | vb | underscore, highlight | - | |
| empire | n | - | rickdom (<OE ricedom, cf. OHG rihhituom), highkingdom (see "emperor"), oneweald/onewald (<OE anweald), rike, ryk, caserdom, kyserdom | |
| empiricism | n | - | afaringslore (calque of NHG Erfahrungslehre) | |
| employ(ed) | vb | hire(ed) | - | |
| employee | n | underling, hireling, worker, staff | - | |
| employer | n | hirer | workgiver (cf. Du. werkgever) | |
| employment | n | hirehood | - | |
| empress | n | - | highqueen (cf. Manx ard-venrein) | |
| emulate | vb | likedo, underfollow (att'd) | - | |
| emulsion | n | forblending | - | |
| en- | pref | um/em-, in-, on-, be- | - | |
| enable | vb | - | canen, mayen | |
| enact | vb | - | umdo, emdo | |
| en mass | adv | in bulk | - | |
| en route | phrase | on the way | - | |
| enchant | vb | spellbind, bewitch | - | |
| enchantment | n | spell, hex | - | |
| enchantress | n | witch | - | |
| encircle | vb | begird, beclip, beset | umring | |
| enclose | vb | hem | umfold inbeshut | |
| enclosure | n | haw, pen, paddock, field, yard | - | |
| encompass | vb | - | begird (att'd; <OE begyrdan) | |
| encounter | vb | meet | - | |
| encourage | vb | hearten on, mood on, foster, upprop, feed, help, egg on, goad, spur, will on | beld (<OE bieldan) | |
| encroachment | n | inroads | - | |
| encryption | n | - | forkeying | |
| encumber | vb | block, burden, hinder | - | |
| encumbrance | n | burden, hindering | - | |
| encyclopedia | n | wisdombook, allfrodwrit | alkenbook | |
| endeavour | vb | undertake, seek | inbework | |
| endeavour | n | ettle, undertaking | - | |
| endoplasmic reticulum | n (biol) | - | lifebrick net, lifebrick web | |
| endow | v | begift | - | |
| endure | vb | hold out, thole, dree, abear, withstand, undergo, bear, keep on, put up with, hold through, stand through, bear through | adree (<OE ādrēogan) | |
| edurance | n | - | adreeing outholdingness, throughholdingness, throughbearingness, throughstandingness | |
| enemy | n | fiend, foe | - | |
| energy | n | - | dodrive, inwork (calque), spring, drive, go, might, tirelessness, unweariness, unwaningness, trim, workmight, inmight, workstrength | |
| energy | phr | get-up and go, might and main | - | |
| enervate | vb | unman, weaken, unsettle, faze | - | |
| engaged | adj | betrothed | - | |
| engine | n | gearwork, iron horse | spincraft, wendcraft | |
| enigma | n | riddle, brainteaser, hidden meaning | - | |
| enjoyment | n | fun | brooking (<OE brucan), neeting (<OE neotan, cf. NHG genießen) | |
| enlarge | vb | swell, greaten | forgreaten (cf. NHG vergrößern) | |
| enmity | n | fiendship, foehood | - | |
| ennui | n | listlessness, boredom, doldrums, dullness, flatness, lifelessness, life-weariness, weariness, wanfeelingness | - | |
| enrich | vb | - | wellow (<OE weligian "to enrich", derived from welig "rich, wealthy") | |
| enrichment | n | - | wellowing (see above) | |
| ensnare | vb | - | swarl | |
| ensue | vb | follow, come after | - | |
| ensure | vb | sicker | forberrow (for + berrow <OE beorgan "to save"; cf. NHG verbürgen) | |
| enter | vb | go into, come into, begin, infare | - | |
| enter (data entry) | vb | input, key in | feed (cf. Fin. syöttää) | |
| enterprise | n | undertaking | thede | |
| entheogen | n | - | godenlivener, godinlivener | |
| enthusiasm | n | - | faith-heat, bedrivenness, listfulness, lustfulness, fele(lust/list) | |
| entice | vb | draw to, spur, goad, sweet talk | forlead (<OE forlǽdan, cf. NHG verleiten) | |
| entire | adj | whole | - | |
| entirely | adv | outright, wholly | - | |
| entirety | n | whole, fullness | all-hood | |
| entrance | n | way in | ingang, infaring | |
| entry | n | coming in, going in, in-going, way, way in, threshold, infaring | - | |
| entrance | vb | bewitch | - | |
| entrepreneur | n | businessman/woman | - | |
| enumerate | vb | - | tell out (cf. NLG uttellen, NHG auszählen), sum up (cf Du. opsommen) | |
| envelop | vb | - | bewrap, overspread | |
| envelope | n | wrapper | overspread, errandwritholder, umfang, infolder | |
| envious | adj | - | nithfull, lustfull | |
| environment | n | - | lifescape, setting umwhirft (<OE 'ymbhwyrft') lifeworld (cf. NHG Lebenswelt, Du levenswereld) | |
| envision | vb | foretell, foresee | mindsee | |
| envy | vb | - | evest (<OE æfest) nithe (hatred) | |
| envy, malice | n | green-eyedness | evest, nithe | |
| envy | adj | green-eyed | - | |
| enzyme | n | - | yeaster, yeastuff | |
| ephemeral | adj | fleeting, short-lived | dwimmerly, dwimmerlike | |
| epic | n | saga | held (<OE hæleþ) | |
| epic | adj | awesome | held | |
| epicentrum | n | - | middleord, quakebeginning, quakeheart | |
| epilepsy | n | falling sickness (att'd) | brothfall | |
| epilogue | n | - | end-speech, endwrit, afterthought, aftertale, afterword, last words, last thing, end tale, wind up | |
| epiphany | n | - | sweetling (<OE sweotolung), atewing | |
| Epiphany (liturgy) | n | - | Sweetlingday (<OE sweotolungdæg), Atewmas (after Christmas, Candlemas, etc.) | |
| epistemology | n | - | orwitlore | |
| epithet | n | - | byword, byname, nickname | |
| Epsom salts | n | - | bitter salts | |
| equal | adj | even, alike, same, evenworthy, sameworthy | ||
| equal | n | match | - | |
| equality | n | evenhood, evenness, sameness, fairness, evenworth, sameworth | - | |
| equalness | n | samehood, draw, tie, deadlock, deadheat | - | |
| equanimity | n | - | evenmood | |
| equate | vb | - | besame, sameset | |
| equation | n | - | likening (cf. Nynorsk likning, NHG Gleichung), besaming, bematching | |
| equator | n | - | evener (cf. Fr. 'evener', Du. 'evenaar') midring, girdlering | |
| equidistant | adj | midway, evenfar | - | |
| equines | n | horse, steed, ass, mare, broodmare, drafthorse, foal, gelding, stot | - | |
| equinox | n | - | evennight (<OE efenniht) | |
| equip | vb | graith, (be)gear, fit (out), gear up, outfit, rig up, beweapon | - | |
| equipment | n | gear, graith | - | |
| equitable | adj | fair | - | |
| equivalent | adj | crossmatching, worthwhile | - | |
| equivalent | n | crossmatch, match, samehood | - | |
| era | n | timespan, time, world | - | |
| eradicate | vb | - | forspill, upalock [past upaloke, ppt upaloken] (<OE úpálúcan), benothing, nothingen, kill, uproot, root out, wipe out | |
| erase | vb | rub out, outrub, kill, wipe out | - | |
| eraser | n | rubber | - | |
| erect | n | upright | - | |
| erect | vb | rear, raise, set up, lift up, uprighten | aheave [ahove, ahoven] (<OE ahebban) | |
| erection | n | hardon, uprighting, building | ||
| ergo | conj & adv | therefore, thus forthy (att'd < OE for + thy, the instrumental form of the article) | - | |
| erinacine | n | hedgehog | hedgepig, furze-pig | |
| eritrocyte | n | red bloodmote | - | |
| erotic | adj | lovely, lewd, kinky | - | |
| err | vb | wander | dwole (<OE dwolian, cf Du dwalen) | |
| error | n | wrong, dwild | dwild (<OE), dwole (<OE dwola), dwoleship (<OE dwolscip), slip, slip-up, mistake | |
| erupt | vb | blow up, break out, burst out | upblow (<OE úpábláwan), | |
| eruption | n | outburst, outbreak | - | |
| escape | vb | break free, flee, get away, break out, break away | withfare (<OE wiþfaran) othshake (<OE oþscacan) losy (<OE losian) othshoot (<OE oþsceotan) othrin/othrun (<OE oþrinnan) | |
| escape by rowboat | vb | - | othrow (<OE oþrowan) | |
| escape by swimming | vb | - | othswim (<OE oþswimman) | |
| escape | n | breakout, getaway, fleeing, breaking free, breakaway | - | |
|
especially | adv | namely | sundrily (cf. OE syndriglice), besunders (cf. NHG besonders, Du in het bijzonder) moreso, above all | |
| essay | n | - | spellwrit, lorewriting, lorewise writing | |
| essence | n | nub, heart, kernel, pith, being, whatness, broth | wist (<OE) | |
| essential | adj | key, foremost | - | |
| essentially | adv & phr | mostly, all but, all-in-all, as good as, as much as, mainly, at heart, in itself, on the whole, really, uterrly, well-nigh | - | |
| establish | vb | build, begin, settle, install, set up | staddle (<OE staðolian) | |
| established | adj | longstanding | staddled | |
| establishment | n | body, steadyhood | staddling | |
| esteem | vb | - | eight (<OE eahtian, cf. Du./NHG achten) | |
| estimate | vb & n | guess, forecast, looking at, roughcast | shatting (<OE sceatt, cf. Du. schatting, NHG Schätzung, Swed. skattning) upshatting (cf. Swed. uppskattning) | |
| estimation | n | - | shatting (<OE sceatt, cf. Du. schatting, NHG Schätzung, Swed. skattning) upshatting (cf. Swed. uppskattning) | |
| estuary | n | mouth, firth, inlay | - | |
| esurient | adj | hungry, greedy | - | |
| et al(ia) | phr | and others | - | |
| et cetera | phr | and so on, and so forth, and the like, and others, and what-not | - | |
| etc. | abbrev. | a.s.f. (and so forth), a.s.o. (and so on) | - | |
| eternal | adj | ay, everlasting | - | |
| ether | n | - | swail (<OE swegl) | |
| ethic | n | - | god-walk, lief-walk, awefast-walk | |
| ethnic group | n | folkstock | - | |
| ethnic minority | n | - | outlandish fellowship | |
| etymology | n | - | truewordlore, wordbirthlore, sothwudlore | |
| eu- | n | - | bet- ("good" <PG *bataz, cf. "better," "best) | |
| eucalyptus | n | gumtree | - | |
| eucalyptus pilularis | n | - | flintwood | |
| eugenics | n | - | goodkinth, goodkinthdom | |
| eukaryote | n | - | wholekerneling (calque from Icelandic "heilkjörnungar"), pithaving | |
| euphemism | n | - | hullword (NHG Hüllwort), nicetalk, mellowspeak, mildname | |
| euphoria | n | good-feeling | well-at-burden | |
| Europe | n | - | Eveningland, Evenland, Eveland, Quildland (quild "evening" <OE cwild(tid) + land, cf. High Ic. Kvöldland and NHG Abendland "Occident"), broadfaceland | |
| euthanasia | n | - | freedeath, gooddeath | |
| evacuate | vb | empty | - | |
| evade | vb | dodge, sidestep | - | |
| evaluate | vb | - | bedeem, bereckon, beworthen, think over, weigh up, look carefully at, sift through | |
| evaluation | n | - | bedeeming (calque from Dan. bedømme), bereckoning, beworthening worthreckoning, worthening | |
| evangelism | n | holy errand | - | |
| event | n | happening, hap | - | |
| eventually | adv | in time, in the end | outendly ( cf. Du. uiteindelijk | |
| evidence | n | word, witness, truth of | bewise ( cf. Du. bewijs ) | |
| evince | vb | - | becouthe | |
| evocative | adj | mindful | eftminding | |
| evoke | vb | awake, call forth, call up, bring to mind, stir up, kindle again | - | |
| evolution | n | unfolding, growth | forblooming, forblowing | |
| evolve | vb | unfold, grow, turn into | forbloom, forblow | |
| ex– | prefix | ere-, fore-, or- | - | |
| exaggerate | vb | overplay, overdo | overdrive (calque of many Germanic languages) | |
| exaggeration | n | - | overblowing, whid, overdriving | |
| exalt | vb |
upabraid [past upabrowd, ppt upabrowden] (<OE úpábregdan) lift uplift heighten | aheave (<OE ahebban) | |
| examine | vb | go over, con | underseek/underseech (<OE undersecan, cf. NHG untersuchen) | |
| example | n | - | bisen (<OE bysen), byspell (<OE bispell, cf. NHG Beispiel), lodestar, loadstar, forbus, forbuild (cf. Du. voorbeeld, W.Fris. foarbyld) | |
| example (for) | n | thus | for bisen, for byspell | |
| exaptation | n | kludging | - | |
| exasperate | vb | embitter, irk | - | |
| excavate | n | delve, unearth, hollow out, dig up | - | |
| excavation | n | delving, unearthing, digging up | - | |
| exceed | vb | - | overgo, overshoot, outstrip, overstep, overreach, overstride | |
| excel | vb | - | overtop | |
| excellent | adj | swell | forepully | |
| except | prep | but, other than | - | |
| exception | n | standout, outstander, outtake | - | |
| exceptional | adj | outstanding | - | |
| excessive | adj | overmuch, steep, sharp, rank | overdeedly ( cf. Du. overdadig ) | |
| excessively | adv | overly | - | |
| exchange | vb | swap, wrixle | - | |
| excise | vb | snithe, cut out | - | |
| excite | vb | upedge, thrill, key up | upwake ( cf. Du. opwekken ) upwind ( cf. Du. opwinden ) | |
| exclude | vb | outshut | - | |
| excommunication | vb | - | amansing (<OE ámánsumung) | |
| excoriate | vb | chide, flay, scathe through | - | |
| excrement | n | - | shittle (<OE scytel) | |
| excursion | n | outing | - | |
| excuse | vb | forgive | offsake (<Ic. 'af-saka') | |
| ex-directory | adj | unlisted | - | |
| execute | vb | kill, quell, slay | - | |
| executioner | n | hangman, deathman, headsman, headman | - | |
| exercise | vb | work out | aven (cf. Du. oeveren, NHG üben) | |
| exert | vb | put forth | - | |
| exhale | vb | breathe out | athom (<OE ǽðmian) | |
| exhaust | vb | overwork, wear out, forspend, tire | - | |
| exhausted | adj | tired, weary, worn out, drained, overtired, work-wearied, fordone, windless | - | |
| exhaustive | adj | all-out | - | |
| exhaustive | adj | thoroughgoing | groundly ( cf. Du. grondig NHG gründlich ) | |
| exhibit | vb | show | - | |
| exhume | vb | dig up, unearth | - | |
| exile | vb | send away, outlaw, blackball, blacklist | - | |
| exile | n | outcast, outlaw, castaway, banling | - | |
| exist | vb | be, live | bestand (<OE gestandan; cf. NHG 'bestehen', Du 'bestaan'), forelie (cf. NHG vorliegen) | |
| existence | n | life, lifetime | ishood, wist (<OE wist), being, issomeness,hereness, witsith | |
| existent | adj | - | wesand (<OE), forelying (cf. NHG vorliegend), issome | |
| exit | n | way out, outway | outgang ( cf. Du. uitgang NHG ausgang ) | |
| exit | vb | leave, move out of, go out | forlet ( cf. Du. verlaten NHG verlassen ) | |
| exotic | vb | outlandish | elthedish, farlandish | |
| expand | vb | broaden
greaten swell spread (out) bloat widen | athen (<OE aþenian/aþennan "to stretch out, expand," a compounded form of þennan "to stretch," cf. NHG dehnen, Du. dennen, ON þenja, L tendere)
upabraid outbraid/braid out (cf. Du. uitbreiden) forgreat (cf. Du. vergroten) awider (cf. NHG erweitern) | |
| expanse | n | spread | outstretched (cf. Du uitgestrekt ) | |
| expect | vb | wait (sb/sth) through (separable), await, ween | forwait (cf. Du. verwachten) | |
| expectation | n | waiting-for (William Tyndale) | throughwait, brighthope | |
| expectorate | vb | spit | - | |
| expedient | n | makeshift, stopgap | - | |
| expedite | vb | hurry, quicken | - | |
| expedition | n | ladenfare, outing, outfooting | - | |
| expeditious | adj | fast, quick, swift, speedy | - | |
| expel | vb | drive out, throw out | fordrive (<OE fordrifan, cf. NHG vertreiben, Du verdrijven) | |
| expenditure(s) | n | outgoing(s), dole out(s) | - | |
| expenses | n | overheads, dole outs | - | |
| expensive | adj | dear, dearbought, unthrifty | - | |
| experience | vb | undergo, go through, uplive | afare [afore, afaren] (cf. NHG erfahren, Du ervaren), fand | |
| experience | n | bad: ordeal | afanding | |
| experienced | adj/ppt | - | afaren (cf. NHG erfahren, Du ervaren) | |
| experiment | n/vb | fand | fanding (cf. OE afundennes) | |
| expert | n | dab | - | |
| expertise | n | know-how, skill | - | |
| expiate | vb | atone | - | |
| expiration date | n | sell-by | holdberenessdate (calque of NHG Haltbarkeitsdatum) | |
| explain | vb | tell thoroughly of, unravel, unriddle, speak out, bespeak, atell | sweetle (<OE sweotolian) | |
| explanation | n | atelling | sweetling (<OE sweotolung) | |
| explicit | n | outfold | - | |
| explode | vb | burst, toburst, blow up | - | |
| exploit | vb | overwork | - | |
| explore | vb | - | aseek [asought, asought] (<OE asecan) | |
| explorer | n | pathfinder, foregoer, forerunner, groundbreaker | - | |
| explosive | n | - | fireshot (from "shotfirer"), tinderstuff, blasttinder, springstuff, firespringer, burster | |
| exponent | n | - | mightscore | |
| exponentiate | vb | - | mightsraise, mightsforheave (cf. Du. machtsverheffen) | |
| export | vb | outsend, outbear | - | |
| expose | vb | bare | - | |
| exposé | n | bewraying, naked truth | - | |
| exposition | n | - | outstelling (cf. NHG ausstellung) | |
| expound | vb | flesh out | - | |
| express | vb | - | outthrutch (calque of NHG ausdrücken [out- + thrutch <OE þryccan], cf. Du. uitdrukken, Dan. udtrykke, Norw. uttrykke, Swed. uttrycka)
awring [past awrang, ppt awrung] (<OE awringan), swettle, outthrimp, utter, tell out | |
| expression | n | - | swettling; sainess, sayness (<OE gesegnes, cf Du. gezegde) | |
| expulsion | n | outcast, driving out, throwing out, banning | - | |
| extant | adj | lasting, still-living, still being, still going, keeping on | - | |
| extend | vb | lengthen
outstretch stretch (out) | athen (<OE aþenian/aþennan "to stretch out, expand," a compounded form of þennan "to stretch," cf. NHG dehnen, Du. dennen, ON þenja, L tendere)
outbraid/braid out (cf. Du. uitbreiden) forgreat (cf. Du. vergroten) awider (cf. NHG erweitern) | |
| extend for | vb | span | - | |
| extension | n | furthering | - | |
| extensive | adj | far-reaching, farflung, fulsome, sweeping, wide, widespread, broad, great, bounding, no-end-of, deep | - | |
| extensively | adv | fulsomely, wholesale | - | |
| extent | n | length, breadth, reach | - | |
| exterior | adj | outer | - | |
| exterior | n | outside | - | |
| exterminate | vb | wipe out, kill all | - | |
| external | adj | outward, outer | - | |
| extinct | adj | dead, gone, lost | - | |
| extinction | n | passing-way, death, death knell, doom, knell, wiping out | - | |
| extinguish | vb | Douse, dout, put out | acwench (<OE ácwencan), adrech (<OE ádrysnan) | |
| extra | adj | spare, more, more other(s), more else, othermore | - | |
| extra time | n | overtime | - | |
| extract | vb | take out, draw out, pull out, pluck, unearth, harvest, worm out | - | |
| extraordinary | adj | amazing, geason | - | |
| extraterrestrial | adj | unearthly, outearthly | - | |
| extravagance | n | wanthrift | - | |
| extreme | adj | utmost, uphighly | outermost (Indo-European cognate) | |
| extrinsic | adj | outborn, outly | - | |
| extroverted | adj | outgoing | outwardsome | |
| exuberant | adj | outgoing, sparkling | - | |
| exultation | n | glee | highting (<OE hyhting) | |
| exuviate | vb | shed, cast off, slough | - | |
