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.
Ȝeynchar, _sb._ == repentance. Wright’s L. P. p. 46. See App. to Mapes’s
Poems, p. 343. AS. cerran with ‘gen’
Ȝeȝe, _v. n._ == jog along, go. Wright’s L. P. p. 111
---- _v. a._ == jog. Pol. S. 158
Ȝif. See If
Ȝiverness, _sb._ == avarice. Rel. S. vii. 11. AS. gífer
Ȝoe, == she. See under He
Ȝoe, == joy, _q. v._
Ȝokkyn, _sb._ == joking? Wright’s L. P. p. 50
Ȝomere, _adj._ == sorrowful. O. and N. 415. AS. geomor
Ȝonie, == yawn, _q. v._
Ȝoȝelinge, _sb._ == chattering, gabbling. O. and N. 40. Probably the same
as the later ‘gaggle,’ which is used of a confused noise of people
talking, in the Poem on the Deposition of Richard II. p. 18, and of geese,
in Churchyard’s Pleasant Conceit penned in Verse (1593), cited in the
pref. to Nash’s Pierce Penniless. (Shaksp. Soc.’s ed.), p. xviii.
Ȝraihand. See Thraying
Ȝuling. See Yelling
Ȝulle. See Yell
Ȝulpe. See Yelp
Ȝulping. See Yelping
ADDENDA.
Baru, add AS. bearh
Bert, _v. n._ == crepitum ventris edere. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211
Bidde, _v. n._ == need, ought. HD. 1733. Another form of ‘bud.’ Dan. bör.
Compare Chaucer’s ‘bode.’ Rom. Rose, 790
Birde, _sb._ For HD. 2760, read Wright’s L. P. pp. 25, 30
Birde, _vb. pret._ == it behoved. HD. 2760. ON. byrjar. Dan. bör
Brol ? Rel. Ant. ii. 192
By, _v. a._ == to defame. Manuel des Pecches, 1355. ON. bía, maculare
Ferblet. Possibly ‘suffused with blood,’ ‘sanguine.’ Cf. ‘forbled,’ in the
Anturs of Arthur at Tarne Wathelan, st. 51
Graueth. Probably for ‘graveth,’ or ‘geraveth,’ from AS. reáf, clothing
JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.
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