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Staff F 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.

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English Word
Class
Anglish
Attested Not attested
fable n tale -
fabric n cloth thrum
fabricate vb bring into being, build, make, put together, run up, set up, shape; think up, write; lie, make up -
fabulous adj groovy, amazing, sterling, top-shelf, wonderful -
facade n foreside, out side, outer side, outer skin, outward look, bold outer, seeming, outward show, put-on -
face (any surface) n side, foreside -
face (anatomy) n - nebb (<OE nebb)
andlit, anleth (<ME anleth)
leer (originally meant the face)
hue, blee, mug
face-to-face phr - nebb with nebb (<OE nebb wið nebb)
facet n side, bearing -
facetious adj biting, tung-in-cheek, sharp-witted, salty, smart, witty -
facilitate vb easen -
facsimile n - farwriter, bildsender
fact n truth deedsake (cf. NHG Tatsache)
fact, in adv phr in truth, indeed in sooth
factor n maker, doer
grounds
-
factory n - buildworks
worksmithy (cf. Ic. verksmiðja)
faculty n - lorehalldeal
fad n hit, brainstorm -
fade vb dwindle, wane -
faeces n shit, shite, stool, dirt, dung, scat -
faggot n - stickbind, stickfasten, stickbundle
fagocyte n - eatlot
faience n - earthenware
fail(ure) vb/n - trock(ness) (<OE trucian)
swether(ing)
forsay(ing) (cf. NHG versagen)
faint vb swoon, flake out, black out -
fair n hoppings -
fairy (tale) n - elvin (rime)
fait accompli n done deed, done deal fulfilled, carried out, (thing) over and done -
faith n belief, troth lief (<OE léafa)
faithful adj trothen, steadfast, lieveful -
faith, to have vb trust, lief -
falcon(er/ry) n - falk (er/craft) (cf. NHG Falke, Du. valk)
fallible adj wanting, unsound -
false adj lease, wrong, fake, untrue -
falsely accuse vb - forwray (<OE forwregan)
fame n name, wellstanding, stardom, limelight, greatness breme (<OE)
familiar adj kithy, trusted hiewcouth (<OE hiwcuþ)
forwildering (as unlike bewildering)
family n kin, kinline, kindred, household, ilk inherd
famine n dearth, hunger -
famished adj hungry, starving, hunger-bitten -
famous adj well-known breme (<OE brēme)
fan n - device: blower, waffer, waffend

enthusiast: fultumer (<OE: fultum, support) bewonderer (cf. Du. bewonderaar), lovehaver (cf. Du. liefhebber, NHG Liebhaber)

fanatic n diehard, hardnose -
fanatism n - overingod, diehardness
fancy n liking, longing, bent, flighty thought, daresay, brainwave -
fancy adj showy -
fanfare n outward show, loud outburst, great-to-do -
fantastic adj wonderful -
fantasy n - wonder flight (a fantasy adventure or wonderful dream)

daydream, mindwander (wonderful daytime envisionment)

farce n take-off, dry-wit -
farm (of OE origin) n wick, thorp -
farmer n ackerman, plowman, yeoman, tiller, tillerman, tillman -
farming n tilling, husbandry -
farrago n mash, mashing, all-kinds-of sundrying
fasces n bundle -
fascia n strip. band -
fascism n - rikeboundom, rike businessdom
fascinate vb bewitch, spellbind, draw, fire, inthrall, eyebite (cited by Richard Chenevix Trench) -
fascinated adj inthralled, bewitched, spellbound, eyebitten -
fashion vb - hue (<OE hiwian)
maithwlite (<OE mǣġþwlitian)
fangle
fashion n trend, way fangling
fashionable adj trendy, dapper -
fashioned, old adj - old-fangled
fastidious adj choosy, picksome -
fatal adj deadly -
fatamorgana n - loftglass
fate n doom wyrd (<OE)
orlay (<OE orlæg)
fatigue n tireness, weariness, burn out, bone sore, strengthlessness, weakliness -
fatuous adj weak, silly, mindless, shallow, brainless, cock-eyed, hollow, thoughtless, unthinking, witless, unwitty -
fault n failing, shortcoming, want, weakness

dwild (<OE)

misfeng (<OE)

shild (<OE scyld; cf. NHG Schuld)

fauna n - deerworld, wightlife
faux-pas n mistake, misstep, slipup -
favor, grace, pleasure n kindness est
favourable adj fair-boding belikening
favourite adj beloved, darling, most liked belikened
fawn adj (hue) brownish-yellow, dun, dun-brown -
fawn vb bow, stoop, bootlick, yield, woo, suck up to -
fax (machine) n - farwrit(er), bildsend(er)
feasible adj likely, doingly, seemingly, timely, welltimed, wieldly, worthwhile howingly (<OE hogian: plan)
feast n merrymaking simble (<OE symbel)
Feast day (religious) n holiday simbleday (<OE symbeldæg)
feature n shape, look, make, mark -
February n - Solmonth, Horningmonth
feckless adj bootless, careless, good-for-nothing, worthless, untrustworthy, thoughtless, thriftless, unthinking -
federal(ist) adj/n - gade- (<egade as "confederate"<OE gegada "confederate, colleague, consort," with derivative < *gada being "federate" having removed the ge->e- prefix which is cognate to con-), bandish(er)
federation n - band
fee (of OE origin) n toll, scot -
feeble adj weak -
fee simple n freehold -
feign vb phr make lieve, let on like, make as if, make out like, play, put on -
feint n blind, hoodwinking, make- believe, put-on, red herring -
felicitate vb phr hail -
female adj she-kind
pref: she-
-
female sex n - wifehood (<OE wífhád), womanhood
feminism n - shehoodness
femto-byte pre fifteen- -
femur n thigh bone -
fence n wall, hedge, sundering -
fend (off) vb ward off, hold off, keep off -
fender n shield, windshield, hob; midriff -
fennec n - dryland fox
feodalism n - loanframework
feral adj wild, untamed, running mad, tameless -
feric adj ironlike -
feriferous adj - iron-yielding, ironbear, ironbere
ferment n barm -
ferocious adj fiendish, mad, grim, warlike, wild, frothing -
ferret n - whitrat
ferret vb hound, harry, seek out nease (<OE neosian)
fertile n fallow, yielding, loamy wastombear
fervent adj fiery, fast, heated, het-up, hardworking, heartfelt, hot blooded, whole-hearted -
fester vb burn, rot, weep, blain -
festival n - guild (<OE gield), frealsing
festive adj festlike, cheery, grooving, upbeat, hearty, merry, gleeful frealsing
festoon n wreathe, streamers -
festoon vb - clad up
fetid adj smelly, stenchy, rank -
fetish n kink, overlust -
feudal adj toll-run, feeholding, lendship -
feud n foe-fighting, bad blood, ill-feeling -
fever n - driff, rithing (<OE)
fiancee n betrothed, husband-to-be, wife-to-be -
fiasco n out-and out breakdown, full-blight, misdeal -
fibre n thread, thrum -
fibula n calf bone, bow pin -
fiction n - umbtruth
fidelity n faithfullness, troth heldrede (<OE hyldræden)
field of battle n - gouthfield
figment n - dwimmer
figure out vb work out -
filings n swarf -
filter n/vb sieve, sift, winnow, trawl -
final adj end, last -
finale n showdown -
finally adv at last, endily -
finance n thrift, money geldlore, geldwist/geltwist (cf. NHG Geldwesen), geldwit/geltwit, markwist
fine adj 1. sheer
2. good, well
1. sifer, swotel
fine (fee) n - lawslight
finish vb end, fullcome -
finish n ending -
firm adj fast, bound, unyielding, stalwart -
firmament n sky, heaven, welkin -
fiscal n - tollstaid, geldstaid
fissure n crack, split, cleft chine (<OE chin)
fix vb/n fasten(ing) -
fixed adj given, fast, fastened -
flaccid adj limp -
flagellate n - whipwight
flagellum n whip -
flame n blaze, fire, fire-shoot, lowe -
flamingo n - stiltswan, fireswan
flange n rim -
flatulence n wind -
flavour n tang, smack, smatch -
flax n - linwirt
flexible adj lithe, bendy, limber, bendfull, bendsome, bowsome -
flexibility n limberness bendfullness (<OE bendfulnes)
flinch vb draw back, wince, hang back, reel, shy, blench -
flirt vb eye-tease, eye play -
floccinaucinihilipilificate vb deem worthless -
flora n - bloomlife, wortlife
Florence n - Fairburgh (cf. Icelandish Fagurborg)
flour n meal -
flourish vb bloom, blossom -
flower n bloom, blossom -
fluctuate n swing -
fluent adj flowing, smoothspoken -
fluorescent aj leaming flowglowing
flux n flowing -
focus n sharpness fuster (< OE fustra)
folly n - wanwit
fondant n frosting, icing -
fondue n - smeltcheese
fool n crazy, sucker nare/nore/narr (cf. other Germ. langs.)
fool's gold n mullock -
foolhardy adj brash, bold, headlong, heedless, hot-headed, daring, daresome, reckless -
footprint n footmark footspoor, trod
force n strength, dint, might, thring main (<OE mægen)
thrake (<OE þracu), thrack (<OE þræc)
groundswell (nautical)
forceps n tongs -
forcible adj strong-arm -
foreign adj - walsh/welsh (<OE wealh + -ish), walsk/welsk, farlandish, outlandish, ellendish, fremd, althedish
foreign country n farland, faraway land, outland althede
foreigner n outlander, outsider altheder, farlander, frem-folk
forest n wald, weald, wold, wood(land), holt,, frith -
forficula n earwig forky tail, clipshear
forge n smithy -
form n shape hue (<OE hiwian)
form vb shape, make, begin, build maithwlite (<OE mǣġþwlitian)
formal adj starchy, stiff, stilted -
formation n setting up, shaping, building, making forestalling
formidable adj stalwart -
formula n 1. draft 2. leechwrit, spellwrit
fornicate vb - whore, awhore
fornication n - whorery (cf. NHG Hurerei), awhoring
fort(ress) n keep, stronghold, fastness burgfast (<OE burg-faesten)
fortification n stronghold, fastness umthrimming (<OE ymbtrymming)

befasting (cf. S.Fris befäästenge, Sw. befästning, Da. befæstning)

fortitude n grit, pluck mindthrack
fortune n hap, luck -
forum n moot, soapbox mootstow (<OE mótstów)
fossil n forbone wightstone
fotanelle n mould -
found vb ground, build, begin, settle -
foundation n groundwork, groundstone, staddle -
fountain n wellspring -
fountainhead n headspring -
foyer n lobby -
fraction n share, lot, deal, breaking -
fracture n & vb break -
fragile adj brittle, weak, unstrong, untrim brokenly (<OE brocenlic)
fragment n thrum, scrap breakdeal
fragmentation n - forsplintering
framboise n raspberry -
fraternal adj brotherly -
fraternity n brotherhood -
fraud n swindle -
fray vb frazzle -
frenum (oral) n - tungfrum
frenzy n madness hestmadness
frequency n oftenness -
frequent vb beseek often, go often -
frequently adv often, oftentimes unseld, unseldom (not infrequently)
lome (<OE gelóma)
oftsithe
see also 'common' in C .
fresco n - chalkmealing
fricative aj rubclank -
friction n rubbing -
fringe n edge, outskirt -
front n fore, afore, foreside -
frontier n border -
fructose n berrysweet -
fruit n - ovet (cf. Du. ooft, NHG Obst)

wastom/wastem//wasthom (<OE wæstm/wæstem/wæsþm), wax (c.f. OE wæstm and PG *waχstmo-z)
blede (<ME blede <OE bled)
berry

fruitful adj lush wastomly (<OE wæstmlic), wastombere (<OE wæstmbære), wastomfast (<OE wæstmfæst)
fruitfulness n - wastombereness, wastomfastness
frustrate vb thwart -
fucacae n seaweed float-wort, seawrack
fuchsia n - foxbloom, bellbloom
fuel n - firefod (<OE fyrfoda), firefodder, firefood
fugitive n runaway, lamster flightling
fulcrum n - bethrowingsord (be {by} + throwing's {cf. NHG drehen} + ord {point}), throword (cf. NHG Drehpunkt)
fulfilment n fulfilling -
fuliginous adj sooty, grimy, blackish, darkish, dusty, emberlike, cinderly, ashlike, coomy -
fulmination n lightning skyfire, firelaught, fireflaught, skybolt, blixen, blitzen
function n work brooking (<OE brucing)
workgoal
functional adj working -
function, important n - highthaning (<OE héahþegnung)
fund n nest egg stock groundfest
fundament n groundwork -
fundamental adj underlying, innermost, key needmickle (<OE nidmicel)
funeral n - begraving
funeral fire n - baleblaze

'fungus, 'fungi

n - ~ mushroom of French origin

swamb (<OE swamm; cf. OHG swamb, NHG Schwamb, ON svöppr); Kingdom: Swambendom

furnace n oven -
furniture n fittings, roomware, houseware -
fuse n meld forsmelt
futile(ity) adj/n worthless(ness) brookless(ness), neetless(ness)
future n & phr forthshaft, hereafter, aftertide, aftertime, afterday(s), upcoming, time-to-come, yet-to-be, about to be, by-and -by, coming up tocome (calque from Dutch, "toekomst")
future adj forthcoming -
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