Some fun Anglo-Saxon words
Some words I came across in J. R. Clark Hall’s A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary that struck me as amusing or interesting:
- alb: white garment
- brægnloca: brain-house, head
- cossian: to kiss
- deaðwang: plain of death
- dreamcræft: art of music
- dreamleas: joyless, sad
- Eastermonað: April
- faroðstræt: path of the sea
- felasynnig: very guilty
- hamfaru: attack of an enemy in his house, a housebreaking
- handscyldig: condemned to lose a hand
- insocn: brawl in a house
- instæpe: entrance
- lobbe: spider
- manweorðung: adoration of human beings
- nydniman: to take by force
- orðanc: cleverness, skill
- paddanieg: toad-meadow, frog-island
- rihtæðelcwen: lawful wife
- scremman: to cause to stumble
- tintregðegn: torturer, executioner
- utlendisc: strange, foreign
- wælmist: mist of death