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.
Hove, _v. n._ == remain, stop, or hover. Fragm. Sci. 216. RG. 547, 172
---- == float? 368 β See the Prompt. Parv. _s. v._ hovyn
Hoventinge, == encircling? (as a haven does ships). O. and N. 999.
Probably another form of ‘hovening’ or ‘havening,’ a derivative of ‘haven’
(cf. spene, spend; lene, lend). See Dähnert’s Lexicon. _s. v._ havenung
Hoving, _sb._ == delay, remaining [hevyng]. Wright’s L. P. p. 36
How, _adv._ [hou]. RG. 367; [hu]. O. and N. 728
How, _sb._ == hue, cry. Alys. 5306
Howe, _v. n._ == remove, go away. Wright’s L. P. p. 23
Howe, _sb._ == care, anxiety. RG. 461; [hoȝe]. O. and N. 701. AS. hoga
Howsoever, _adv._ 194 B.
Huckster, _sb._ [hokester]. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176. Dut. hucker
Hue, _sb._ == colour. HD. 2918; [hou]. O. and N. 619; [howe]. O. and N.
577. AS. híw
Hued, _adj._ [ihewed]. 2223 B.
Huene, == wanton girl. St Kath. 97. AS. hunel
Hundred, _adj._ RG. 371. Pol. S. 189
Hunger, _sb._ RG. 404
---- _v. n._ == become hungry. Wright’s L. P. p. 37
---- _vb. impers._ ‘him hungrede.’ HD. 654
Hungred, _sb._ == hunger. HD. 2454
Hunke, _pron. dual._ == to us two. O. and N. 1731
Hunt, _v. a._ RG. 16, 564
Hunter, _sb._ 1099 B.
Hunteth, _sb._ == hunting. RG. 375, 418. AS. huntað
Hunting, _sb._ RG. 564
Hurdice, _sb._ == hurdle. Alys. 2785
Hurdle, _sb._ RG. 232
Hure, _sb._ == a covering for the head. 2111 B. Pol. S. 156. Fr. hure, the
head
Hure, _pron. gen. pl._ == of us. O. and N. 185
Hure, ‘and hure and hure.’ O. and N. 11, 481. This phrase is probably the
French ‘hure á hure,’ or ‘téte a téte,’ and seems to mean ‘in company
with, or together.’ See Roq. _s. v._
Hurfte, _sb._ == circumference, circuit. Fragm. Sci. 4. AS. hwearft
Hurl, _v. a._ pret. ‘harlede.’ RG. 487, 537
Hurne, _sb._ == a corner. RG. 45, 137, 272. AS. hirne
Hurt, _v. a._ Alys. 5814; part. ‘y-hurt.’ RG. 288
Husband, _sb._ == husbandman. RG. 544
Hwat, _vb._ == quoth. HD. 1878
Hyde. See Hide, _sb._
Hymn, _sb._ [ympne]. Ps. xcix. 4; cxviii. 171.
Hynde, _adj._ == courteous. Alys. 3762. Probably another form of ‘hende’
Hynder, _sb._ == an insulter. Fragm. Sci. 282. AS. hynð, or it may mean
‘subtle,’ as in Laȝ. ii. 12
I.
[For most participles and substantives commencing with ‘i’ see under
the consonant following.]
I, _pron._ [Ich]. O. and N. 1189, et seq.; [Ih]. O. and N. 866
_acc. s._ ‘me.’ O. and N. 1182
_gen. dual._ ‘unker.’ O. and N. 151
_dat. dual._ ‘hunke.’ O. and N. 1731
_nom. pl._ ‘we.’ RG. 306. O. and N. 177
_gen. pl._ ‘hure.’ O. and N. 185?
_acc. pl_, ‘us.’ O. and N. 201
Iambleue, _sb._ == gambolling. Cok. 164
Ibedde, _sb._ == bedfellow, wife. O. and N. 1488
---- == husband. O. and N. 1568
Ibede, _sb._ == command. Fragm. in Warton, H. E. P. vol. i. p. 21
Ibobbed, _part._ == insulted. Fall and P. 59. Fr. bobance
Ice, _sb._ RG. 463
Icholde. See Shall
Icore, == chosen. 718 β
Icund, _adj._ == natural. O. and N. 85
Icunde, _part._ == taught by nature. O. and N. 114
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