A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Whether, _adv._ RG. 16; [whar]. 67 B; ‘whether--the’ == whether--or. O.
and N. 1358, 1360
---- _adj._ RG. 408
Whey, _sb._ [wei]. O. and N. 1007. AS. wæg
Which, _rel. pron._ RG. 472; [hwucche]. O. and N. 934; [wuch]. O. and N.
1376
---- == what. 974 B. RG. 454
While, _sb._ == time. O. and N. 1589
---- with the def. art. == whilst [þe wule]. RG. 377
Whilom, _adv._ == formerly (dat. pl. of while). Wright’s L. P. p. 87
Whine, _v. n._ [wonie]. O. and N. 973. AS. wánian. Dut. weynen
Whining, _sb._ [wonyng]. O. and N. 311
Whistle, _v. n._ Alys. 5348, 5263. AS. hwistlian
White, _adj._ RG. 2, 228; [with]. HD. 48
---- _sb._ == white of an egg. HD. 240
Whiten, _v. a._ Ps. l. 9
Whither, _adv._ 693 B.
Whitherward, _adv._ 59 B.
Who, _rel. pron._ [hoo]. RG. 40; [hwo]. O. and N. 1193
gen. ‘was.’ RG. 475
dat. and acc. ‘whom.’ RG. 10; ‘wham.’ 116 B.; ‘hwam.’ Rel. S. ii. 2;
‘hwan.’ O. and N. 1508
Who, == one, ‘as who seith’ == as one saith. RG. 328; ‘alle ho’ == every
one. O. and N. 66
Whole, _adj._ == sound. RG. 377. 676 β
Whore, _sb._ RG. 279
Whoredom, _sb._ RG. 241, 479
Whoreling, _sb._ Rel. S. vii. 29
Whoreson, _sb._ Alys. 880
Whoso, _pron._ Wright’s L. P. p. 26; [whose]. Ibid. p. 114
Why, _interr._ [wu]. RG. 307; [hwi]. O. and N. 1256; [wi]. O. and N. 1232
---- _rel. adv._ O. and N. 474; [whi]. 1573 B.
Wick, _adj._ == wicked. RG. 208. From AS. wǽc, weak
---- == bad, wretched; ‘wikke clothes.’ HD. 2458
Wicke, _adj._ ‘wicke tune,’ O. and N. 730, means probably
‘establishments.’ From the AS. wíc-tunas
Wicked, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. pp. 24, 30; ‘a wicked weed’ == a wretched
garment. Serm. 40
Wickedness, _sb._ Pol. S. 230
Wickehede, _sb._ == wickedness. Body and Soul, 43
Wicket, _sb._ K. Horn, 1106. Fr. guichet
Wiclik, _adv._ == wickedly. Ps. xliii. 18
Wide, _adj._ RG. 410.
Widow, _sb._ HD. 79. AS. wuduwe
Wield, _v. a._ == govern, rule. 816 B.; [wolde]. RG. 147
Wife, _sb._ RG. 26, 380
Wigeling, _sb._ == an out-of-the-way place? Ps. cvi. 40. AS. wicelian, to
stagger, to go out of the direct road
Wight, _sb._ == a man. RG. 533. 470 β. AS. wiht
Wight, _adj._ == active. HD. 9; [with]. HD. 1756; comp. ‘wyghtyore.’ Alys.
2396. Swed. vig
---- _adv._ == immediately, quickly. Wright’s L. P. p. 44
Wighth, _sb._ == a space of time. Alys. 5362; a space. Ps. viii. 6. AS.
wuht, wiht
Wightness, _sb._ == valour, activity. Alys. 5001
Wike, _sb._ == dwelling. O. and N. 604. AS. wic
Wike, _sb._ == office, duty. O. and N. 603; station. Alys. 4608. See Gl.
to Orm. _s. v._ Wikenn
Wike, _v. n._ == be weary. Wright’s L. P. p. 87. AS. wícan
Wikness, _sb._ == wickedness. Ps. v. 5
Wil, _adj._ == wild, uncertain. HD. 1042
Wild, _adj._ == fierce. RG. 374, 510; ‘wild beasts.’ RG. 375
Wilderness, _sb._ == a desolate place. RG. 15
Wildfire, _sb._ RG. 410
Wile, _sb._ == trick, deceit. Ritson’s AS. viii. 180. AS. wile
Wilful, _adj._ RG. 359; [willesful]. RG. 77
---- == voluntary. Ps. lxvii. 10
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