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Hace 3 días · List of English words of Old English origin. This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc ...
Hace 5 días · Her second book, Old English Word Studies: A Preliminary Author and Word Index (1983), was co-authored with Angus Cameron and Allison Kingsmill. This collection of vocabulary studies was intended initially to aid the editors of the Dictionary of Old English, but its publication has been of enormous benefit to scholars involved in the study of Old English.
Hace 4 días · The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern Dutch ooster and German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, Ēastron, or Ēastran; but also as Ēastru, Ēastro; and Ēastre or Ēostre.
Hace 1 día · A large number of English colloquialisms from various periods are American in origin; some have lost their American flavor (from OK and cool to nerd and 24/7), while others have not (have a nice day, for sure); many are now distinctly old-fashioned (swell, groovy). Some English words now in general use, such as hijacking, disc jockey, boost ...
Hace 5 días · mid-12c., forloren "disgraced, depraved," past participle of obsolete forlesan "be deprived of, lose, abandon," from Old English forleosan "to lose, abandon, let go; destroy, ruin," from for- "completely" + leosan "to lose" (from Proto-Germanic *lausa-, from PIE root *leu- "to lo
Hace 4 días · Dust off an old English phrase. Nothing to shout about Episode 180528 / 28 May 2018 A quiet phrase. Let sleeping dogs lie Episode 180521 / 21 May 2018 A trouble-free phrase. Bleed someone dry
Hace 4 días · Etymology: from Old Irish fot (length), from PIE *wasdʰos (long, wide), from *h₁weh₂-(empty, wasted). Words from the same roots include waste and vast in English, and vaste (profound) in French .
