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.
Glutton, _sb._ HD. 2104. Lat. gluttus, the throat
Gluttony, _sb._ RG. 330
Gnaist, _v. n._ == rage. Ps. ii. 1. ON. gnista
Gnat, _sb._ Ps. civ. 31
Gnaw, _v. a._ RG. 404, 417. AS. gnagan
Gnede, _adj._ == niggardly. HD. 97. Body and Soul, 20. AS. gneðen
Gnide, _v. a._ == dash to pieces. Ps. xvii. 43; pret. ‘gnode.’ Ps.
lxxxviii. 45. AS gnidan
Gnoste, _sb._ == noise or clamour? Pol. S. 237. ON. gnaust
Go, _v. n._ RG. 13; [gon]. 74 B.; 2 s. pres. ‘gest.’ O. and N. 836, 536; 3
s. pres. ‘goth.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 61; ‘gas.’ Ps. lxxxix. 6; pret. ‘eode.’
RG. 417; ‘wende.’ RG. 368; ‘wode.’ 1481 B.; ‘ȝeode.’ 99 B.; part,
‘going.’ RG. 538
Go, == good. _q. v._
Goad, _sb._ [gad]. HD. 279. AS. gád
Goat, _sb._ pl. ‘geet.’ Pol. S. 198
God. RG. 468
Goderhele, _sb._ == happiness. RG. 368
Godhede, _sb._ == goodness. Alys. 7060
Godly, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 38
Godness, _sb._ == God-head. Creed of St Athan. v. 62
Godson, _sb._ 21 β
Gold, _sb._ RG. 1, 383
Golnes, _sb._ == lasciviousness. O. and N. 492. Ps. lxvii. 14. AS. gál
Goldfinch, _sb._ Alys. 783
Golokes. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176; perhaps another form of ‘galker’ == a tub
for wort. See Phil. Soc. Trans. for 1855, p. 267
Gome, _sb._ == a man. Wright’s L. P. p. 38. AS. guma
Gome, _sb._ == care, thought. RG. 454, 537. AS. gýmen
Gome, _sb._ See Game
Gonfanon, _sb._ == banner. Alys. 1963
Goninde, _part._ == gaping, yawning. Marg. 43. AS. geonan
Gonnylde, _adj._ == foolish? Pol. S. 237. See Hall. _s. vv._ Goneil and
Gomerill
Good, _adj._ RG. 375, 384; acc. ‘godne.’ K. Horn, 753
---- _sb._ 19 B. ‘to do good’
---- _adv._ == will. Alys. 6267
Goods, _sb._ [god]. RG. 495
Goodman, _sb._ == husband
---- == a good man. RG. 257
Goodness, _sb._ RG. 434, 436
Goose, _sb._ HD. 702
Gore, _sb._ == a narrow slip let into a woman’s dress, hence the dress
itself, as in the phrase ‘geynest under gore.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 29. ON.
gára, to rend
Gorge, _v. a._ == devour, feed. Alys. 5625
---- _v. n._ Alys. 5625
Gorger, _sb._ == gorget. Alys. 3636
Goshawk, _sb._ Alys. 483
Goshorne ? Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176
Gospel, _sb._ RG. 470
Gothele, _v. n._ == make a noise, as water does when a hot iron is placed
in it. Fragm. Sci. 140. ON. gutla
Goule, _v. n._ == howl. HD. 164, 454. ON. góla
Gout, _sb._ RG. 564, 564
Govern, _v. a._ RG. 398
---- _sb._ == government. 1792 B.
Grace, _sb._ ‘year of grace.’ RG. 382
---- == pardon. RG. 563
Gracious, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 52
Grade, _sb._ == a cry. Alys. 5740
Grain, _sb._ [grein]. == a small piece. Wright’s L. P. p. 38
Gram, _adj._ == angry. HD. 2469, 214. AS. gram
Grame, Grome, == anger. Pol. S. 199
---- == sorrow. Pol. S. 219. AS. grama
Grandsire, _sb._ RG. 311
Grange, _sb._ HD. 764. Fr. grange, from Lat. granum
Grant, _v. a._ RG. 447, 477, 208
Grape, _sb._ 417 β
Grass, _sb._ RG. 43
Grasshopper, _sb._ [gressop], Ps. lxxvii. 46; civ. 34
Grate, _sb._ == firegrate. Body and Soul, 204
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