A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300 — John Shaqi
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.
Baudekyn, _sb._ == a stuff made of silk and gold, so called from Bagdad,
Ital. Baldacco, where it was made. Alys. 202
Bawmed, == embalmed. Alys. 4670
Bay, _v. a._ == listen to, render fortunate. Wright’s L. P. p. 27. Fr.
bayer. Vid. Roq.
---- _v. a._ == to bait (a boar), pret. ‘bede.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 27
---- _sb._ == baiting, ‘bay of bor.’ Alys. 4376
Bay, == boy. Alys. 4376
Be, _v. n._ 402 B. [beo], 403 B. [beon], 404 B. [bon], O. and N. 262.
[ben], Wright’s L. P. p. 24. [buen], ib. p. 25
---- _pres. ind._ 1 s. ‘am.’ O. and N. 276
2 s. ‘art.’ O. and N. 561. ‘is.’ Ps. 1. 6
3 s. ‘is.’ O. and N. 570. ‘esse.’ Ps. xci. 16. ‘bes.’ Ps. cxlvi. 10;
cxxvii. 2
1 pl. ‘buen.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 25
3 pl. ‘aren.’ Wright’s L. P. pp. 34, 22; ‘both.’ O. and N. 568.
‘beth.’ RG 368. ‘beoth.’ 411 B.
---- _pres. subj._ 2 s. ‘bo.’ O. and N. 566
3 s. ‘bo.’ O. and N. 1376. ‘beo.’ O. and N. 1531
3 pl. ‘be.’ RG. 369. ‘bo.’ O. and N. 567
---- _pret. ind._ 1 s. ‘wes.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 97
3 s. ‘wes.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 25. ‘was.’ RG. 374
3 pl. ‘were.’ Rel. S. v. 178
---- _pret. subj._ 2 s. ‘were.’ O. and N. 1312
3 s. ‘were.’ O. and N. 1299
3 pl. ‘were.’ RG. 374
---- _imper. sing._ ‘be.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 97
---- _part._ ‘ibeo.’ 434 B.
Beadle, _sb._ HD. 266. [budel.] Wright’s L. P. p. 22. pl. ‘bedeles.’ 987
B. AS. bydel
Beam, _sb._ RG. 288
Bean, _sb._ RG. 497
Bear, _sb._ (the animal). HD. 573
Bear, _v. n._ == incline towards. 362 B.
Bear, _v. a._ == carry. RG. 375. pret. ‘bar.’ 224 B.
---- == pay, render. RG. 378
---- == produce (as fruit). RG. 352
---- == bring forth a child, part. ‘i-bore.’ RG. 516. O. and N. 716
Beard, _sb._ 611 β
Bearing, _sb._ == birth. Alys. 636
Beast, _sb._ RG. 375, 376
Beat, _v. a._ HD. 2763. RG. 453. 3 pl. pret. ‘beoten.’ St Andr. 69. part.
‘bete’ == beaten, of gold. Wright’s L. P. p. 35
Beauty, _sb._ [bealté]. Wright’s L. P. p. 53
Beaver, _sb._ M. Ode, 182
Bebled, == covered with blood. Alys. 3813
Beck, _sb._ == brook. Ritson’s AS. viii. 63 AS. becc. Germ. bach
Beck, _v. n._ == beckon. Ps. xxxiv. 19
Beckon, [bocken] _v. n._ Pol. S. 149. AS. bécnan
Beclip, _v. a._ == embrace. RG. 469. Alys. 7416. AS. beclyppan
Becoll, _v. a._ == blacken. pret. ‘becolmede.’ K. Horn, 1096. AS. col
Become, _v. n._ == come into existence. RG. 15
---- == suit a person, with ‘to.’ RG. 36
Bed, _sb._ RG. 377
---- == bedfellow. O. and N. 1498
Bed, _v. a._ HD. 1237
Bedag, _v. a._ == bedew with mud; part. ‘bydagged.’ Alys. 5485. ON. dögg.
Sw dagg. == dew. Not connected with ‘dagged’ == cut into slips; vandyked,
as applied to clothing, which comes from AS. dág
Bede, _v. a._ == pray. RG. 547. 2 s. pres. ‘byst.’ RG. 337. 3 s. ‘bit.’ O.
and N. 571. 3 pl. pret. ‘baden.’ Ps. cv. 19
---- == offer. Ps. lxxi. 10
---- _sb._ == prayer. RG. 571
Bedgang, _sb._ == going to bed. Ps. liv. 3
Bedsister, _sb._ == concubine. RG. 27
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