List of old English words and meanings
February 29, 2016
Words change meaning all the time — and over time. Language historian Anne Curzan takes a closer look at this phenomenon, and shares some words…
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Words with old
June 29, 2015
We’ve all been talking about 😂, but last year’s Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, vape, is a prime example of our capacity to save ourselves…
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Old fashioned word for you
July 17, 2015
We’re all familiar with contractions. Plenty are signalled by an apostrophe and others don’t hide their origins with any notable ingenuity –…
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Beautiful old English words
November 13, 2014
Medieval Compliments, or, How to call someone beautiful in Middle English This is for the person who found my blog by googling how to say…
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Words to English Translation
December 7, 2014
You can translate text written in a different language, such as phrases or paragraphs, individual words (by using the Mini Translator), or translate…
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Old English words and meaning
March 1, 2015
When considering the Scandinavian loanwords in English one can compare them with those from French. Immediately very obvious differences between…
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Word Translation
March 12, 2014
The seemingly straightforward question ‘So, what do you do for a living?’ sends professional interpreters into an existential quandary; we struggle…
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List of Anglo Saxon words
December 22, 2014
Synonym = a word’s twin in meaning, e.g. “big” and “large” are synonyms. Ever wonder why English has so many freaking synonyms? Because it’s…
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Old fashioned word for party
May 30, 2015
When I was a child, my grandmother routinely used a word that is all but extinct now. Once, while I was reporting on my progress in school, she…
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Words from old English
January 16, 2016
Have you ever noticed that many of our swear words sound very much like German ones and not at all like French ones? From vulgar words for body…
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Medieval words
May 18, 2015
Somehow A Song of Ice and Fire, the colossal fantasy series by George R. R. Martin, had escaped my notice until the critically acclaimed TV series…
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Word for i
May 21, 2015
There are days where I feel like I can’t find inspiration in anything I do. I don’t feel grounded in who I am or in the process. There are times…
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Example of old English words
April 3, 2015
The language spoken in England from roughly 500 to 1100. Old English is one of the Germanic languages derived from a prehistoric Common Germanic…
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English old words
September 24, 2015
In 1905, the Oxford University Press published the sixth and final volume of The English Dialect Dictionary, a compilation of local British words…
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Old English words for your
June 8, 2015
The OED has a lot to say about thou, pron and n¹. Here is just a very small bit of that: History of use of forms In Old English, the inherited…
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Anglo Saxon words and meanings
August 31, 2015
The vocabulary of Englisc during the Anglo-Saxon period (from 449 through 1066 AD) was mostly Germanic in origin, with reluctant borrowings from…
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Common Old English words
August 16, 2015
The list below presents some 500 Old English words which could be regarded as literary core vocabulary. Some of the words are among the most…
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