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.
Kelyng, _sb._ == a small cod. HD. 757. ON. keila
Keme, _v. a._ == comb. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176
Ken, _v. a._ == discern. Body and Soul, 54
---- == inform. 31 β
---- == to ask. Marg. 24. AS. cunnan
Ken, _v. a._ == beget. Wright’s L. P. p. 36; part. ‘kumed’ [kunned ?].
Creed of St Athan. 46. AS. cennan
Kete, _adj._ == bright, fierce. Fragm. Sci. 262, used of the sun’s rays.
ON. katr, glad; cf. the Gr. χαροπός and Χάρων from χαρά
Kettle, _sb._ == pot. Ps. cvii. 10
Kever, _v. a._ == recover. RG. 392
Keverchief, _sb._ Pilate, 126
Kevil, _sb._ == a bit, bridle. Ps. xxxi. 9. AS. cæfli
Key, _sb._ RG. 539, 562. AS. cæg
Kin, _sb._ == relations. RG. 13; [kunne]. RG. 367
Kind, _sb._ == kin. RG. 91
Kind, _sb._ == nature. RG. 45; [icunde]. O. and N. 1381
---- == species [kun]. O. and N. 886
Kindle, _v. a._ == inflame. HD. 915; Ps. xvii. 9. ON. kynda
---- _v. a._ == beget. Alys. 5680
Kindred, _sb._ == affinity. RG. 466. [kemrede]
---- == relations. RG. 15; [cumraden]. Marg. 10
King, _sb._ RG. 371, 372
Kingdom, _sb._ RG. 372, 414
Kingless, _adj._ RG. 105
Kinsman, _sb._ RG. 343
Kippe, _v. a._ == catch up, clutch. RG. 125. HD. 2407. ON. kippa. AS.
cépan
Kirk, _sb._ == church, Body and Soul, 46
Kirtle, _sb._ 1167 B. Pol. S. 221
Kiss, _v. a._ [cusse]. 1779 B; pres. 2 and 3 s. ‘cust.’ RG. 435; pret.
‘custe.’ RG. 527; ‘cussede.’ RG. 14
---- _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 92
Kissing, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 70
Kiste, _sb._ == chest. HD. 2018
Kitchen, _sb._ HD. 936
---- == cookery. Alys. 4933
Kite, _sb._ (the bird). Alys. 3048. AS. cyta
Kive, _sb._ == a tub. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176. In p. 191 it is applied to the
pit of hell. AS. cyf
Kiwing, == carving? HD. 1736. Or may it not be ‘the chewing’ from AS.
‘cíwung,’ i. e. the meat to be chewed or eaten?
Knarr, _sb._ == a rock? O. and N. 999. Dan. knort, a knur, or knob. ON.
gnúpr, mons prominens
Knave, _sb._ == boy. 683 B.
Knee, _sb._ Pol. S. 190
---- == degree. RG. 228
Kneel, _v. n._ RG. 369
Knife, _sb._ RG. 104. AS. cníf
Knight, _sb._ RG. 368, 501; pl. ‘knutte.’ Alys. 2133. AS. cniht
Knight, _v. a._ K. Horn, 450
Knighthood, _sb._ K. Horn, 492
Knit, _v. a._ pret. ‘knutte.’ Alys. 2251. AS. cnytan
Knock, _sb._ == a blow. Alys. 1621. AS. cnucian
Knoll, _sb._ == a hill, eminence, rising ground. Ps. lxiv. 13. AS. cnoll
Knot, _sb._ 1479 B.
---- _v. a._ Alys. 4075
Know, _v. a._ RG. 8; pret, ‘knew.’ 138 B. ‘ikneu.’ 88 B.; part. ‘yknowe.’
RG. 432
---- == acknowledge [icnowe]. O. and N. 477
Knowledge, _v. a._ == acknowledge. Body and Soul, 48
Knulled, == heaped. Pol. S. 193. From ‘knoll,’ a mound
Komelyng, _sb._ == a stranger. RG. 18
Krawkan, == refuse of melted tallow. Ps. ci. 4. See Prompt. Parv. _s. v._
Cracoke, and the note there. ON. krekja, to throw away
Kun, == species. See Kind
Kunde, _adj._ == of kin, lawful or legitimate, as ‘kunde,’ heir. RG. 370,
371
---- == kinned, related, Fall and P. 49
Kundede, _sb._ == kindness. RG. 452
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