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.
Alday, _adv._ == all the day. RG. 197
---- == continually. RG. 92
Aldeman, _sb._ == elder. Ps. civ. 22
Aldest, == oldest. RG. 232
Alderelde, _sb._ == extreme old age. Ps. lxx. 18
Ale, _sb._ HD. 14
Alegge, _v. a._ == to lay down, put down. 1928 B. part, ‘aleyd.’ ==
quelled, subdued. Wright’s L. P. p. 105
---- (of laws) == to annul. RG. 422. part. ‘aleyd.’ RG. 144 == ‘to
confute.’ O. and N. 394. AS. a-lecgan
Alesen, _v. a._ == loose. Marg. 24
Alight, _v. a._ == descend, alight. 1897 B. RG. 468. part, ‘alight.’ RG.
433. AS. a-lihtan
Alighting, _sb._ RG. 430
Alisaundre, _sb._ == the herb alexander, or horse-parsley. Wright’s L. P.
p. 26. See the Prompt. Parv. s. v.
Alive, _adv._ 67 B. See Gloss. Rem. to Laȝamon, p. 442
Alike, _adj._ [iliche]. 1894 B.
---- _adv._ 714 β
Alinlaz. See Anlace
All, _adj._ RG. 373, == the whole
---- RG. 371, == every one of a number gen. s. ‘alles,’ used adverbially,
== very, entirely. RG. 17; 73 B. gen. pl. ‘alre,’ 1332 B. ‘aller,’ RG. 135
All, _adv._ RG. 367, et passim
Allerfurst, == first of all. Alys. 1569
Allermost, _adv._ RG. 44
Alliance, _sb._ RG. 89, 295; [enlyance]. RG. 12
Allong, == during the whole of; ‘al longe day.’ 403 B. ‘allonge niȝt.’ 595
β
Allout, _adv._ == entirely. 1940 B.
Ally, _v. a._ RG. 65
Allyng, _adv._ == entirely. RG. 48. AS. eallunga
Almatour, _sb._ == almoner. Alys. 3042
Almesse, _sb._ == alms. RG. 330
Almightand, == almighty. Creed. 33
Almighty, _adj._ 1041 B.
Almost, _adv._ RG. 389. Ps. cxviii. 87
Almsdeed, _sb._ Rel. S. iv. 39
Almsful, _adj._ 1676. B.
Almshede, _sb._ RG. 498
Alnil, == and only? Pol. S. 201
Alond, _adv._ == on the land. RG. 389
Alone, _adj._ 59 B.
Along, _adv._ == straight on, ‘to go along.’ Alys. 3410
---- == lengthwise [o lonke]. Pol. S. 156
Alothe, _v. n._ == become loathsome. O. and N. 1275
Alour, _sb._ == corridor. Alys. 7210. _pl._ ‘alurs.’ RG. 192. Fr. aller
Alout, _v. n._ == bow. RG. 476
Alre, _gen. pl._ of ‘all,’ forms numerous compounds with adjj. in the
superlative degree,--thus ‘alre-hecst,’ == highest of all. O. and N. 687;
‘alre-mest,’ ib. 684; ‘alre-necst,’ ib. 685; ‘alre-wrste,’ ib. 121; &c.
&c.
Als, == as. HD. 306, == as if. HD. 508
Alsauf, _adv._ == without fail. RG. 391
Also, == besides. RG. 369
---- == as. RG. 561. HD. 1872
---- == as if. HD. 468
Alswa, _adv._ == also, in like manner. O. and N. 237
---- == as if. O. and N. 146
Altar, _sb._ 2215 B.
Altherbest, == best of all. HD. 182
Alto, _adv._ 99 B.
Alumere, _adj._ == bright. Wright’s L. P. p. 68
Alȝare, _adv._ == already. 917 B.
Am, == them. Ps. v. 12
Am, _vb._ == 1s pret. of ‘be.’ 337 RG.
Amad, _part._ == amaied or dismayed. Alys. 1749. K. Horn. 586
---- == mad. Pol. S. 156
Amaistre, _v. a._ == reduce to subjection. Pilate 60
Amanse, _v. a._ == curse. RG. 474. AS. amánsumian, lit. to disjoin, hence
to excommunicate
Amar, _v. a._ Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211
Amarstle, _v. a._ == to stuff full? Wright’s L. P. p. 111. AS. amæstan
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