Staff W of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
- OE = Old English
- ME = Middle English
- SC = Scots
- WF = West Frish
- NF = North Frish
- SF = Saterlandish Frish
- WLG = West Low Theech
- ELG = East Low Theech
- NL = Netherlandish
- NHG = New High Theech
- IC = Icelandish
- HIC = High Icelandish
- NO = Nornish
- SW = Swedish
- DN = Danish
- MLG = Middle Low Theech
- MNL = Middle Netherlandish
- MHG = Middle High Theech
- OF = Old Frish
- OS = Old Saxish
- OHG = Old High Theech
- ON = Old Norse
- GO = Gottish
- PWG = Or-West-Theedish
- PG = Or-Theedish
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| wager | n/vb | lay, bet, stake, pledge, flutter, put on, long shot | - | |
| wallpaper | n | - | wallleaf, wallbilth (wall is a child of PG wallaz 'wall,' 'barrier'), waughleaf, waughbilth. | |
| walrus | n | sea horse | horsewhale (calque), tuskseal | |
| wapiti | n | (lesser) elk | - | |
| war (<late Old English <Old North French <Frankish *werra <PG) | n | fight | wye (<OE wig), gouth (<OE gúð), crig (<PG krīgaz, cf. NHG Krieg), orlay (W.Fris oarloch) | |
| War Minister | n | - | wyeambighter
crigambighter (Cf. G Kriegminister) | |
| warrior | n | fighter | wyeman (<OE wigman), wyer seg, harrier (cf. ON einherjar), fyrdman, gouthledge (<OE gúðgelæca), hildthrim (<OE hildeþremma), wyebern (<OE beornwig) youth: dreng (<OE) crigger, crigsman (cf. Dan/Norw. Kriger, NHG Krieger) rinc (<OE rinc; can also mean a man) fyrdrinc (<OE) | |
| waste (<Old North French <Frankish *wosti <PG) | vb | blow, fiddle away, lose, smash, wreck, squander, throw away | reave, fornim, fortake | |
| waste | n | chaff, dross, dust; barren, heath, no man's land, westen; dirt, dung, slops | money: feespilling (<OE feohspilling) | |
| waste | adj | bony, dead, stark | - | |
| wasteland | n | barren, dryland, heath, no-man's-land, westen | - | |
| watch cap | n | beanie | knit hat, woolly hat | |
| watermelon | n | - | waterrindberry, watershellberry, waterbarkberry | |
| waive | vb | yield, forsake, forgo; overlook | - | |
| website | n | webside | webbook (from web + book, referencing the fact that they are composed of pages)
webstead | |
| webcam | n | - | webfanger (from "web" + bildfanger (prior Anglish translation)) | |
| whiskey | n | jack | lifewater | |
| woodpecker | n | - | hickle (<OE hicel, hicol) | |
| wreckage | n | loss, ashes, wrack, wreck | - | |