English Wordbook/S
From The Anglish Moot
Italic textStaff S of the English Wordbook.
| sacred | adj | holy |
| Sacrement | n | holy oath, holy undertaking |
| sacrosanct | adj | holy, hallowed |
| safe | adj | shielded, sheltered, unharmed |
| sagacity | n | wisdom |
| Saint (St.) | epithet | Holy |
| saint | n | holyman |
| salmon | n | lox |
| salary | n | year's pay, earnings, income, salt |
| salutary | n | healthy, healthful, well, whole, hearty, sound, hale |
| salutation | n | greeting, welcome |
| sanctify | vb | hallow |
| sanctuary | n | haven, grith, holyroom, hallow |
| sapience | n | wisdom |
| sapient | adj | wise, thoughtful |
| satchel | n | knapsack, rucksack, |
| satiate | vb | fulfill, quench, slake |
| satire | n | wry scolding, scoldcraft |
| satirist | n | scold |
| satisfaction | n | aftergladness |
| satisfy | vb | slake, fulfill, aftergladden, sate, quench |
| saturate | vb | sop, soak, steep |
| sauce | n | dip |
| sauerkraut | n | sourcole |
| sauna | n | steam room, hot-house, hotroom, sweatbath |
| sausage | n | pudding, banger, swineflesh |
| save | vb | hain, stow, hoard, spare, heal |
| saviour | n | halend, healer |
| scale | vb | climb, go up |
| scar | n | healmark, woundheal, skinmark, woundfleck, wale, weal, wheal, wen, welt |
| scarabaeus stercoreous | n | turd-weevil |
| scarce | adj | short, scanty |
| scarcely | adv | hardly, barely, only, a little, ever so little, slightly, weakly |
| scarcity | n | lack, shortness, seldomness, fewness, dearth |
| scatter | vb | broadcast, cast, deal out, go-off, go through, let go, oversow, overspread, put to flight, spread, strew |
| scene | n | scape |
| Schleswig-Holstein | n | Sleswick-Holstan(-Holston) Cf. Ger Schleswig-Holstein, Dan Slesvig-Holsten (First element is from traditional English name for the territory: "Sleswick-Holsatia"; second element is a calque of the continental names. Note: '-stan', '-ston' element is the regular English reflex of continental -'stein' and '-sten' where it occurs in proper names and place names, e.g. 'Edelstein'= 'Athelstan', 'T(h)orsten= Thurston etc.) |
| scholar | n | lorechild, learned man, thinker, brainwright, man of books, underseeker |
| scholarship | n | bookhood |
| school | n | lorehall, lorehouse |
| science | n | witship (calque from Nynorsk 'Vitskap'), lore, learncraft, wisecraft, the knowledges, -kith (analogous usage to Ger and Dutch '-kunde' which means 'knowledge', 'acquaintance', and 'science'. OE used the ancestor of 'kith' in a similar manner, meaning both acquaintance, i.e. 'kith', and knowledge. It maybe argued, therefore, that it is only natural to extend the meaning of the word, as German and Dutch did, from knowledge to science. |
| scintillate | vb | sparkle, flash, shine |
| scintillating | adj | sparkling |
| scissors | n | shears |
| scout | n | pathfinder |
| scowling | adj | black-browed, threatening in look, |
| scrotum | n | ballbag, cod |
| search | vb | seek, comb, delve |
| search word | n | seekword |
| season | n | yeartide, yeartime, time of year |
| sebum | n | tallow |
| Second World War | n | Other World Orlay, Other World Orlaw, Other World Unfrith |
| secret | adj | hidden, withdrawn, unseen, inward, stealthy, untold, unbeheld, underground, underhanded, hushhush, |
| secret | n | hushthought, hushword, hiddle |
| secrete | vb | hide, seep, leak, ooze |
| secular | adj | worldly |
| secure | adj | belayed, fast, steadfast |
| secure | vb | belay, fasten |
| sediment | n | dregs, silt, draff, dross |
| segregation | n | aparthood, asunderhood |
| seizure | n | fit |
| select | vb | choose, pick, wale |
| self-esteem | n | self-worth |
| selvedge | vb & n | forel |
| semester | n | sixmonth, half-year |
| seminar | n | workshop |
| sempiternity | n | endlessness, unendinghood, alwayness, everlastingness |
| semi- | pref | half- |
| senile | adj | old, elderly, doted |
| senior citizens | n | elderly, old folks, eldfolk, eldman |
| sensate | adj | feeling |
| sensation | n | feeling |
| sensational | adj | amazing |
| sense | n | feeling, meaning |
| sense | vb | feel |
| sensitive | adj | feeling, keen, sharp |
| sentence | n | wordstring; byword, saw; judging |
| sentence | vb | doom |
| sententious | adj | pithy |
| sentiment | n | feeling |
| separate | vb | sunder, split |
| separate | adj | sundry, freestanding |
| September | n | holymonth, sheddingmonth |
| serious | adj | earnest, unfunny, grave |
| seriously | adv | earnestly, thoroughly, wholeheartedly, with heart & soul, willingly, agoodly, weightily |
| serpent | n | snake |
| servant | n | housekeeper, maid (fm.), dey (fm.), bondsman, loaf-eater |
| serve | vb | stead, bestead |
| session | n | sitting, stint |
| several | adj | sundry |
| severe | adj | stern, hard, harsh, tough, unyielding |
| severely | adv | badly, bitterly,not mildy, sharply, roughly, keenly, unfeelingly |
| sex | n | folkhalf |
| sex act | n | swive, fuck, screw, shag, houghmagandie |
| sexual reproduction | n | breeding, swiveful matchyielding, swiveful matchbearing |
| shantytown | n | tinstow, hutstead, soweto |
| shingles | n | tetter |
| sign | n | token, shingle |
| sign | vb | underwrite |
| signal | n | bale-fire, beacon |
| signal | vb | beckon |
| significantly | adj | weightily |
| signify | vb | betoken |
| silence | n | stillness |
| silhouette | n | outline, shadow |
| similar | adj | like, alike, same, likekind; much of a muchness, much the same, not unlike, something like, near, nearly |
| similarity | n | alikeness |
| similarly | adv | likewise |
| simple | adj | straightforward, fewfold, onefold |
| simpleton | n | half-wit, gowk |
| single (trip) | n | one-way |
| single out | vb phr | key in on |
| sinister | adj | ill-boding, boding evil, foreshadowing darkness, forbidding, threatening, black, black-in-deed |
| site | n | stead, setting, ground |
| site | vb | put |
| situation | n | setting |
| sketch | vb | draw, inword, write |
| slanderer | n | backbiter, knocker |
| slave | n | thrall |
| slave driver | n | hardmaster, harry-goad |
| slavery | n | thralldom |
| sluggard | n | slug, slacker, sloth, slouch, loafer, bum, deadbeat, do-nothing, idler, sleepyhead, drone |
| snooping | n | key-holeing |
| socialize | vb | chat, hobnob |
| society | n | fellowship, club, fereship, guild, folkset, folkweld, seldship, selship |
| sociology | n | kithlore |
| sofa | n | settee |
| soil | n | earth |
| skeleton | n | frame, boneframe, bodyframe |
| solar | adj | sun (in compounds) |
| sole | adj | only |
| sole | n | last (of the foot) |
| solicit | vb | seek, tout |
| solid | n | thickstuff, faststuff (calque from Ger. 'Feststoff', Du. 'veste stoff' and other continental Germanic cognates) |
| solitary | n | lonesome, alone, unkithed and unkinned |
| solitude | n | loneliness, aloneness |
| solstice | n | sunwend |
| solution | n | loosening, answer |
| somnolent | adj | drowsy, sleepy, yawny, weary, heavy-eyed, half-asleep, sloomy |
| sophisticated | adj | worldly |
| sorority | n | sisterhood |
| sort | n | kind |
| sound | n | loud, din, pitch |
| soup | n | broth |
| source | n | springhead, root, stem, beginning, start, rise, wellhead, wellspring |
| source code | n | wroughtdraught, working draught |
| souvenir | n | keepsake |
| space | n | room |
| spacious | adj | roomy |
| spaghetti | n | strings (calque from original word, plural of "spaghetto", meaning string) |
| spasm | n | throe, pang |
| special | adj | byous |
| specific | adv | ahone |
| specifically | adv | ahonely |
| specified | adj | hone, spell out |
| specious | adj | empty-truth, hollow-truth |
| spectacles | n | glasses |
| spectator | n | bystander, onlooker |
| spend | vb | outlay |
| speleothem | n | dripstone, dropstone |
| spending | n | outlay |
| spine | n | backbone |
| spiral | n | whorl |
| spirit | n | ghost (as in soul), elf, wraith (as in specter) |
| spirit | n | might |
| spleen | n | milt |
| spoil | vb | rot, mar |
| sponsor | vb | back, stake, underwrite, uphold |
| spool | n | reel |
| sports | n | games |
| sporty | adj | gamesome |
| spouse | n | helpmeet, helpmate |
| spy | vb | keek |
| square | n | (of a town), folkstead |
| squid | n | inkfish |
| stable | n | standstead |
| Stack | n | rick, mow (of hay) |
| stagnant | adj | forstilled, gone orf |
| stain | n | spot, fleck, blot |
| stainless steel | n | eversilver |
| stampede | n | headlong rush, wild flight |
| stanch/staunch | vb | stem, halt |
| standard | n | set way (of), benchmark |
| standardize | vb | set down a way |
| state | n | rike, shire |
| stateless person | n | lackland |
| status | n | standing |
| stay | vb | linger, be left, tarry |
| stellar | adj | star (in compounds) |
| stelliferous | adj | starry, star-filled |
| sternum | n | breastbone |
| stimulate | vb | kittle, whet, quicken |
| stomach | n | belly, bouck (Old English buc, cf. Dutch buik German Bauch), midriff, maw |
| stomach | vb | bear, abide, brook, swallow, take, withstand |
| stop | vb | give over, bring to a standstill |
| stop | n | standstill, break, shutdown |
| store | n | shop, outlet, hoard, stock, warehouse |
| store | vb | keep, hoard, |
| story | n | tale, saga, yarn |
| strange | adj | odd, weird, uncouth, unbeknown, queer |
| strangle | vb | throttle |
| stratagem | n | wile |
| structure | n | framework, shapework, brandrod |
| struggle | n | camp |
| student | n | schooler (as in highschooler) |
| studio | n | workroom, workfloor |
| study | n | reading room, drawing room |
| study | vb | con, learn, learn about |
| stuff | vb | pack |
| stupefy | vb | bewilder |
| stupid | adj | dumb, dull, dim, daft, dumheaded |
| stylish | adj | dapper |
| subconcious | n | undermind, nethermind |
| subdue | vb | overcome, quell |
| submarine | n | underseaboat (Calque of German 'Unterseeboot') |
| subordinate | n | underling |
| subjugate | vb | yoke |
| subjugation | n | yoke |
| submerge | vb | overwhelm, dip, dunk |
| submissive | adj | weak |
| submit | vb | yield, buckle, abow, give in, bend to, come over to, fall in with, go along with, put up with; put forward, bring before, set down |
| subsequent | adj | following, later |
| substance | n | pith |
| substantial | adj | sound, strong, heavy |
| substitute | n | ersatz |
| subterranean | adj | underground |
| subtract | vb | take away |
| suburbs | n | outerborough(s), outskirts, |
| subvert | vb | overthrow |
| succeed (in) | vb | win (in) |
| successful | adj. | thriving, fruitful, well-ended, winning |
| successor | n | aftercomer |
| succour | n | food, help, bread, manna, heavenly-food |
| succour | vb |
help, run to, breadcast (phr) free from hunger, drop food, |
| sudden | adj | headlong, hasty |
| suet | n | tallow, wightfat |
| suffer | vb | bear, thole, undergo, stand, put up with, live through, given to, abide, brook, not forbid, adree |
| suffice | vb | be enough, answer, do |
| sufficient | adj | enough |
| suffix | n | endfastning |
| suffocate | vb | choke, achoke, throttle, smother, stop the breath |
| sugar | n | beeless honey, sweetener |
| suicide | n | selfslaughter, selfmurder |
| suit | n | outfit |
| suit | vb | befit, beseem |
| suitable | adj | seemly, fitting, becoming, comely |
| sullen | adj | sulky |
| sulphur | n | brimstone |
| summary | n | outline, rundown |
| summit | n | peak, top, brow, cop, knap |
| summons | vb | draw on, |
| superficial | adj | shallow, skin-deep |
| superfluous | adj | overmuch, underneeded, more than is needed |
| superior | n & vb | better, higher |
| superiority | n | higherness, betterhood, overmight |
| superstructure | n | overworks |
| supervise | vb | oversee |
| supervisor | n | overseer, foreman, overlooker |
| supple | adj | lithe |
| supplement | vb | eke |
| supply | vb | keep full, fill up, give, hand over |
| support | vb | back, uphold, help, strengthen, underpin, bolster, bear, carry, shore, shore up |
| support | n | prop, crutch |
| suppose | vb | trow, guess, reckon, feel, gather, hold as, look upon as, mean to say, take to be, think likely, |
| suppress | vb | hold down, keep in, crush, quell |
| supremacy | n | leadership, mastery |
| supreme | adj | uppermost |
| surface | n | topside, skin, husk |
| surgery | n | fleshwork, cutwork |
| surname | n | aftername, byname |
| surpass | vb | overtake, outdo, beat, draw away |
| surplice | n | nightshirt, sark |
| surplus | n | overmuch |
| surprise | n | wonder, unforeseen meeting, sudden hap |
| surprise | vb | take aback, strike with wonder, floor, waylay, come upon, take unaware, fall upon |
| surprising | adj | wondering, dumbfounding, flooring, earthshaking |
| surrender | vb | yield, give up, ofgiven |
| surround | vb | girt, bego, umclap, umclip, beset |
| surrounded | adj | begone, girt, beset |
| surrounding | adj | outlying |
| survey | vb | behold, look upon, ingather |
| survive | vb | live through, outlive, outlast, belive |
| suspend | vb | hang |
| suspicion | n | misgiving |
| suspicious | adj | shady, queer, misdeemful |
| sustain | vb | keep going, bear, bolster, uphold |
| sustenance | n | food |
| svelte | adj | slim |
| sweet potato | n | sweet shaderoot |
| sycophant | n | backscratcher, bootlicker, fawner, fleecher, mealymouth, selfseeker |
| symbol | n | token |
| symbolise | vb | betoken |
| symptom | n | betokener of ill health, forerunner |
| synopsis | n | outline |
| synthetic | adj | man-made |
| syphillis | n | great pox |
| syphon | n | waterpipe, standpipe, drawpipe,reedpipe |
| syphon | vb | draw from, draw out, succk out |
| system | n | framework, make-up, set-up |
