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Have an entry request? Add it to the list – but please:

  • Consider creating a citations page with your evidence that the word exists instead of simply listing it here
  • Think twice before adding long lists of words as they may be ignored.
  • If possible provide context, usage, field of relevance, etc.
  • Check the Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion if you are unsure if it belongs in the dictionary.
  • If the entry already exists, but seems incomplete or incorrect, do not add it here; add a request template to the entry itself to ask someone to fix the problem, e.g. {{rfp}} or {{rfe}} for pronunciation or etymology respectively.
    — Note also that such requests, like the information requested, belong on the base form of a word, not on inflected forms.

Please remove entries from this list once they have been written (i.e. the link is “live”, shown in blue, and has a section for the correct language)

There are a few things you can do to help:

  • Add glosses or brief definitions.
  • Add the part of speech, preferably using a standardized template.
  • If you know what a word means, consider creating the entry yourself instead of using this request page.
  • Please indicate the gender(s) .
  • If you see inflected forms (plurals, past tenses, superlatives, etc.) indicate the base form (singular, infinitive, absolute, etc.) of the requested term and the type of inflection used in the request.
  • Don’t delete words just because you don’t know them – it may be that they are used only in certain contexts or are archaic or obsolete.
  • Don’t simply replace words with what you believe is the correct form. The form here may be rare or regional. Instead add the standard form and comment that the requested form seems to be an error in your experience.

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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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

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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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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)[reply]

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

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  • 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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