Wiktionary:Requested entries (Old English)

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• ȝeƿrit - the most common word on ang.wikipedia that uses both "ȝ" and "ƿ"

  Yogh is not a letter in Old English. Sometimes it is used to render <g> when pronounced as /j/. At Wiktionary though we just use g (or ġ in piped links), so this should be at gewrit or geƿrit. It's a variant prefixed form of writ#Old_English. Ƿidsiþ 09:59, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

• ǣlepūte - etymon of English eelpout

  It's ǣleputa Vergencescattered (talk) 06:12, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

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• bæce
• banc or banca, compare Old Norse bakki
• bremlum

  I feel like this is just alternative form of the dative plural form of brēmle, but I read on another site that it means fire. Do you know where you read this? - Writend

  it's in the Old English Heptateuch, Ælfric's translation of Genesis 22:13, "Ða beseah Abraham sona underbæc and geseah þær anne ramm betyx þam bremelum, be ðam hornum gehæft. And he ahefde þone ramm to þære offrung and hyne þær ofnsað, God to lace, for hys sunu Isaac" (click, ebook pg 47). here it certainly means brambles. it is in the form "bremlum" (rather than bremelum) on the University of Glasgow's site, click. i'm not sure if it's from another translation or if it's a simplified & normalized version of Ælfric for students. Iesbian (talk) 15:55, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

• broðor = monk? brother?

  broþor; the guideline page Wiktionary:About Old English discourages the creation of Old English entries with ð. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 16:31, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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• carrworðign
• creag: a game mentioned in some old texts, sometimes thought to be a forerunner of cricket (but probably wrongly)
• clynnan (“to sound, resound”)

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• dipondio

Blue link due to Latin word not sure if it is related to the Old English word or not 71.181.117.68 20:44, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Where did you find this? - Writend

• dēopian, dīepan (“dip, immerse”), the latter mentioned for comparison at OE dyppan (“dip”) and German taufen (“baptise”). Both are mentioned at Middle English depen. From the context both are presumably verbs. The BT has the following possibly relevant forms (evidently using a slightly different orthography) dípan; deópian; deópian; ge-deópian; dýpan; dýpan; dýpan; the DOE has forms for dēopian, ge-dēopian, dȳpan, but not (so far as I can find) dīepan. The form díepan (“deepen”) also shows up at our reconstruction for Proto-Germanic *diupijaną, from context this is presumably a different word but in any case a strange (attestable?) orthography which should probably be checked.
• Engaland - mentioned in German England
• deall (“proud, eminent”) - mentioned in Old Norse Heimdallr

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• eaggemearc (“limit of view, horizon”) — from eage (“eye”) + mearc (“mark, limit”), thus literally meaning "eye-mark" or "eye-limit"; according to etymonline, Bosworth-Toller A-S Dictionary (there spelled eág-gemearc).

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• gedæghwamlican — daily, as found in an OE version of the Lord's Prayer

"Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg" (give us today our daily bread)

• gesundfull

  It is gesundful. - Writend

• gilte — a young female pig, cf. https://bosworthtoller.com/17081

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• heaþorōf — See heaþo-.

  I can't find anything on it. Where did you see this?. - Writend

  I found it in Sweet's The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon. I'll create the page. Vergencescattered (talk) 18:37, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

• hēr-wiþ, herwið - ancestor of herewith
• hoesel - hazel
• Hwæssa - from the etymology of Washington
• hymlīc, hemlīc - ancestor of hemlock

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• inþinga - see intinga

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• læge - mentioned in Leyland entry, the entry currently has no Old English section. Acolyte of Ice (talk) 12:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

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• mæsten (“to fatten”)

  It's mæstan. Ƿidsiþ 05:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• misbrook

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• nemn is an alternative form of nemne(name) and it has a past tense nempt(named)
• nempt, an alternative form of nemde(named), the past tense of nemnan(to name)

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• *papol, cited in etymology of pebble; moved from Requested entries (English)
• *plyċċan, cited in etymology of {{m|en|pluck}

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• ræċċ (see English rach) or ræcc (see Old Norse rakki)

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• Sodoma, Sodome, originally listed as entries in Sodom, I removed them because the head words weren't the same as the pagename. Anyone know of an Old English Bible? Mglovesfun (talk) 16:19, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

  Sodoma is blue-linked because of Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish entries; Sodome is blue-linked because of a French entry. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 13:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

  I made articles for them, but there's some related adjectives and nouns which I shall probably add later. - Writend

• sæn, supposedly means "bad". From Widsith, line 67: "Næs þæt sæne cyning!" (That was not a bad King). Mårtensås (talk) 11:53, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

  Turns out the lemma is sæne; https://bosworthtoller.com/26247. It means "slow, dull, sluggish, inactive". ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Wiktionary's most active Proto-Norse editor ᛭ Ask me anything 17:38, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

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• tāl (“blame”). via tælan Etymology ?
• þeatian plan, deliberate; þeat plan; might be northern ? - DCDuring TALK 01:37, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

  Mmmm....I think possibly you might mean (deprecated template usage) þeahtian, (deprecated template usage) þeaht. At any rate I can't find any examples of it without the H. Ƿidsiþ 08:28, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

• trollen, from which I removed the Old English for 'no usable content', but if it exists it should obviously have an entry. Might actually be trollan, no? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:11, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

  Doesn't appear to exist. Ƿidsiþ 05:30, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

  Blue-linked because of a Swedish entry. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 13:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

• tæpan (“strip of cloth”)

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• unræd

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• wælsceaft a spear. Neuter gender.

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