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.
---- == from. O. and N. 610. AS. wíð
With, _adj._ == white, _q. v._
With, _adj._ for ‘wight,’ _q. v._
With, _adj._ == pleasant? Wright’s L. P. p. 45. AS. wéðe
Withal, _adv._ RG. 28
Withclepe, _v. a._ == oppose. Alys. 1301
Withdraw, _v. a._ RG. 447
---- _v. n._ Ps. cxviii. 115; ‘withdraw of’ == withdraw from. RG. 497
Wither, _adj._ == hostile. Rel. S. i. 12; S. S. wiðer. See Gloss. to Laȝ.
Withering, _sb._ == adversary. K. Horn, 154
Witherthreat, _v. a._ Ps. xxxiv. 19; lxxiii. 10
Witherwendand, _part._ == opposing. Ps. iii. 8
Witherwine, _sb._ == adversary. RG. 325. AS. wiðer-winna, from winnan, to
strive
Witherword, _sb._ == a hostile word. Ps. xc. 3
Withhold, _v. a._ == to hold with, or make to accompany. HD. 2356, 2362
---- == restrain. Alys. 2302
Within, _adv._ RG. 375, 549
Without, _adv._ RG. 549. 267 B.; [widh wute]. O. and N. 1593
---- _prep._ RG. 369; [witute]. O. and N. 183; [withouten]. 33 B.
Withsay, _v. a._ RG. 369, 374
Withseek, _v. a._ == seek out. part. ‘wuthsoht.’ Rel. S. v. 54
Withsitten, _v. a._ == oppose. HD. 1683
Withstand, _v. n._ == oppose. 725 B.
Withy, _sb._ == halter of withy. Alys. 4714. AS. wíðie
Witless, _adj._ == mad. RG. 216; at a loss. Pilate, 242
Witness, _sb._ RG. 29
Witterli, _adv._ == certainly. Ps. cxix. 1. ON. víturlega
Witty, _adj._ == clever. RG. 189; full of knowledge. O. and N. 1187. F.
and P. 31
Witword, _sb._ == testimony. Ps. xxiv. 10. AS. wit-word
Wive, _v. n._ == marry. RG. 35
---- _v. a._ part. ‘iwived.’ RG. 529
Wiving, _sb._ == marriage. RG. 294
Wlak, _adj._ == lukewarm. Fr. Sci. 290 AS. wlæc
Wlate, _v. a._ == loathe. Ps. v. 7. AS. wlættian
---- _v. n._ == feel disgust for. O. and N. 354
---- _sb._ == disgust. O. and N. 1504. AS. wlætte
Wlatful, _adj._ == loathsome, abominable. Ps. lii. 2
Wlating, _sb._ == loathing, disgust. Ps lxxxvii. 9. AS. wlætung
Wlite, _v. n._ == look. Wright’s L. P. p. 43. AS. wlítan
---- _sb._ == countenance. O. and N. 439; Ps. xliv. 5. AS. wlíte
Wlonk, _adj._ == fair, proud. Pol. S. 156. AS. wlanc
Wluine, _sb._ == she wolf? HD. 573. Probably a metathesis of the ON.
ulfinna,
thus ulvin }
vluin }
Wo, _sb._ RG. 172, 485; [wai]. O. and N. 120; [wee]. Pol. S. 152; [weye].
Alys. 3449; [wa]. Ritson’s AS. viii. 152. AS. wá
Wo worth, i. e. woe be to, &c. Body and Soul, 7
Wobegone, _adj._ Body and Soul, 220
Wode, == went. See Go
Woderove, _sb._ == the woodruff; the asterula odorata of botanists.
Wright’s L. P. p. 43. In Wright’s Vocab. p. 140, ‘wuderove’ is given as
the transl. of ‘hastula regia’ or ‘muge de bois’
Wodewale, _sb._ == woodpecker. Wright’s L. P. p. 26
---- == wild thyme? Alys. 6793. AS. wudufille. Palsgrave has ‘wodewale, a
herbe’
Woht, _sb._ == sin. See Woȝ
Wolc, _sb._ == some bird. Wright’s L. P. p. 26
Wold, _sb._ == power, governance. Alys. 6716
Woldeneyed, == wall-eyed. Alys. 5274. Probably from the ON. vagl i augum
== festuca, pterygion. ‘En hinde, som trækker sig over öiet.’ B.
Haldorson.
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