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.
Somewanne, _adv._ == at some time. RG. 260
Son, _sb._ RG. 370
Sonde, _sb._ == a messenger. RG. 383. AS. sand, sond
---- == a message. Alys. 2893
Sondres. See Sunder
Song, _sb._ 1888 B.
Sonte, _sb._ == saint, _q. v._
Soon, _adv._ RG. 367
Soot, _sb._ Pol. S. 195. Alys. 6636. AS. sót
Sooth, _adj._ == true. 1201 B. AS. sóð
---- _sb._ == truth, in the phrase ‘to sooth,’ i. e. ‘in truth.’ 1023,
2118 B.
Soothfastness, _sb._ Ps. xci. 3
Soothful, _adj._ Fragment in Warton, H. E. P. vol. i. p. 21
Soothly, _adv._ Ps. xxxvi. 33
Soothness, _sb._ RG. 457
Sorcery, _sb._ Alys. 478. Fr. sort. Lat. sors
Sore, _adj._ RG. 435
---- _sb._ 130 B.
Sorefully, _adv._ Body and Soul, 6
Soreness, _sb._ RG. 131
Sorimod, _adj._ == sorrowful. O. and N. 1216
Soriness, _sb._ K. Horn, 950
Sorrow, _sb._ RG. 374, 378; [seorhe]. O. and N. 1597. AS. sorh
---- _v. n._ Wright’s L. P. p. 50
Sorrowful, _adj._ HD. 1248
Sorrowing, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 53
Sorry, _adj._ == sorrowful. RG. 52
---- == bad or sad, ‘a sori chirchegon.’ RG. 379
Sortes, a misprint for ‘sottes.’ O. and N. 1469
Sot, _adj._ == sottish. O. and N. 1433. Rel. S. ii. 37. AS. sot
---- _sb._ O. and N. 297
Sothede, _sb._ O. and N. 1372
Sotoned, _adj._ == made like a long cassock. Alys. 5150. Fr. soutane
Sotter, _sb._ == a cobler. Rel. Ant. ii. 175. Lat. sutor
Soul, _sb._ RG. 383, 526
Soulneed, _sb._ Body and Soul, 49
Sound, _sb._ (sonus). RG. 283; [sone]. Alys. 1183
Sound, _adj._ RG. 402; [isunde]. O. and N. 1100
Soundeful, _v. n._ == prosper. Ps. i. 3. AS. sundfullian
---- _adj._ == prosperous. Ps. xliv. 5
Sour, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 114. AS. súr
---- _v. n._ == become sour. Alys. 7002
Sourmouncie, _sb._ == lordship. Alys. 595. Fr. surmonter
Sousprior, == subprior, _q. v._
South. Wright’s L. P. p. 53
Southeast. Alys. 5225
Southern, _adj._ 463 β
Southward. 513 β
Southwest [southerwest]. Ritson’s AS. viii. 155
Sove, == seven. Fr. Sci. 29
Sovereign, _sb._ RG. 15
Sow, _v. a._ RG. 499; ‘to sow of one’s land.’ RG. 496; pret. ‘sewe.’ RG.
29; part. ‘isowe.’ O. and N. 1127
Sowel, _sb._ == anything eaten with bread; sauce, meat, &c. HD. 767. Dan.
suul
Spade, _sb._ RG. 99. AS. spád
Spakely, _adv._ == surely, certainly. Wright’s L. P. p. 37. ON. spakligr.
‘spakky’ in Rel. Ant. ii. 212, is a mistake for ‘spakly’
Spale, _sb._ == rest? O. and N. 258. Sw. ‘spel,’ game or play
Span, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 35. AS. span
---- _v. a._ == allure. O. and N. 1488. AS. spanan
Spannew, _adj._ Alys. 4055. HD. 968; lit. ‘as new as a chip,’ from AS.
spón, a chip; cf. Swed. ‘spillerny’ == span-new, with Sw. spiltra, a
splinter, and Engl. ‘spill’
Sparc, _sb._ == park. RG. 439
Spare, _v. a._ RG. 428, 429
Spark, _sb._ HD. 91
---- _v. n._ == sparkle. HD. 2144
Sparkle, _sb._ Body and Soul, 208
Sparrow, _sb._ 1098 B.
Spatle, _v. n._ == slobber in speaking. Rel. Ant. ii. 211
Speak. RG. 497; pret. ‘speke.’ RG. 419; part. ‘ispeke.’ 936 B.
Spear, _sb._ RG. 48, 564. AS. spére
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