Browse Elements

ac Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "oak".

æcer Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "field".

æcermann Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ploughman".

ælf Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "elf".

ængle Anglo-Saxon
Old English name of the Germanic tribe the Angles.

æppel Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "apple".

æsc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ash tree".

æðele Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "noble".

ambra Late Roman
Medieval Latin word meaning "amber", ultimately of Arabic origin.

anne Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "alone, solitary".

ansetl Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hermitage".

aquilentum Late Roman (Hypothetical)
Vulgar Latin word meaning "prickly, eglantine".

ara coeli Late Roman
Latin phrase meaning "altar of the sky".

archiater Late Roman
Latin word meaning "doctor, physician".

azurium Late Roman
Medieval Latin word meaning "lapis lazuli, azure".

bæc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "stream".

bæcere Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "baker".

bærnan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to burn".

bærnet Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "a burning".

baiovarii Late Roman
Late Latin word referring to a Germanic tribe (see Bavaria).

ban Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bone".

baro Late Roman
Medieval Latin word meaning "man, freeman" (of Frankish origin).

barrum Late Roman (Hypothetical)
Vulgar Latin word meaning "clay, mud".

bat Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "boat".

battalia Late Roman
Vulgar Latin word meaning "battle".

beadu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "battle".

beald Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bold, brave".

beall Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ball".

bean Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bean".

bearn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "child, son".

bece Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "beech tree".

beo Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bee".

beofor Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "beaver".

beonet Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bent grass" (genus Agrostis).

beorc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "birch tree".

beorg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "mountain, hill".

beorht Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bright".

beorn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "warrior, man", probably originally meaning "bear".

beos Anglo-Saxon (Hypothetical)
Old English word meaning "bent grass" (genus Agrostis).

bera Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bear (animal)".

bere Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "barley".

blac Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "pale, shining, white".

bladona Late Roman
Latin word meaning "mullein plant" (of Celtic origin).

blæc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "black".

blancus Late Roman (Hypothetical)
Latin word meaning "white".

blaw Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "blue".

bliþe Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "happy, blithe".

bold 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "house".

boscus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "bush" (of Germanic origin).

bot 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "remedy, help".

botm Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ground, soil, bottom".

brad Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "broad".

bravus Late Roman (Hypothetical)
Vulgar Latin word meaning "angry, bold, brave".

breowan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to brew".

brer Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "briar".

bridd Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "young bird".

broc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "brook, small stream".

brun Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch (Hypothetical), Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old English, Old Dutch and Frankish word meaning "brown".

brunus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "brown".

brycg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bridge".

bucc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "buck, male deer".

bula Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bull".

bulgarus Late Roman
Latin word referring to the Turkic tribe of the Bulgars, possibly from a Turkic root meaning "mixed".

bur Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch, Old Saxon
Old High German, Old English, Old Dutch and Old Saxon word meaning "dwelling, room". In Old High German it also acquired the meaning "peasant", and later "farmer".

burg Old High German, Old Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Dutch and Frankish word meaning "fortress, fortification, citadel".

burgus Late Roman
Latin word meaning "village", of Frankish origin.

burna Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "spring, fountain, stream".

busc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bush".

bustum Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "ox pasture".

byrgen Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "burial mound".

cærse Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "watercress".

campana Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "bell".

capitaneus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "captain".

cappa Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "cloak, cape, hood".

cappella Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "chapel".

castellum Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "castle".

ceald Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cold".

ceapian Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to buy, to trade".

cempa Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "champion, warrior".

cene Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bold, keen".

ceol Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "keel (of a ship)".

cild Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "baby, child".

cirice Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "church" (from Greek).

clæg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "clay".

clarus Late Roman
Latin word meaning "clear, bright".

clericus Late Roman
Latin word meaning "cleric, priest", ultimately from Greek.

clif Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cliff".

cloh Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cleft, ravine, cliff".

cniht Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "servant, apprentice".

coc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "a cook".

cocc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "rooster, cock".

colt Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "colt".

cot Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cottage, small house".

crawe Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "crow".

cumb Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "valley".

cuprum Late Roman
Latin word meaning "copper".

cuþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "known, familiar".

cwic Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "alive".

cyne Anglo-Saxon
Old English element meaning "kingly, royal".

cyning Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "king".

cyningdom Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "kingdom".

dæg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "day".

dæl Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dale, valley".

damm Old Dutch (Hypothetical), Anglo-Saxon (Hypothetical)
Old Dutch and Old English word (unattested) meaning "dam".

deah Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dye".

denu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "valley".

deore Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dear".

diamas Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "diamond".

dic Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch
Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "ditch, dike".

dun Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hill, mountain".

dunn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dark, brown".

ea Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "river, stream".

ead Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "wealth, fortune".

eald Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "old".

ealh Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "temple".

eard Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "land".

east Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "east".

ecg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "edge, blade".

ende Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "end, limit".

eofor Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "boar".

eorl Anglo-Saxon
Old English noble title.

eormen Anglo-Saxon
Old English prefix meaning "whole, great, universal".

eowu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ewe".

est Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "grace".

evangelista Late Roman
Latin word meaning "evangelist, preacher".

fæger Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "beautiful".

falco Old High German, Late Roman
Old High German and Late Latin word meaning "falcon".

faru Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old English and Frankish word meaning "journey".

fearn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "fern".

feld Anglo-Saxon, Old High German, Old Saxon
Old English, Old High German and Old Saxon word meaning "field".

fenn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "fen, swamp".

fisc Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch
Old High German, Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "fish".

flæd Anglo-Saxon
Old English element possibly meaning "beauty" (unattested as a word).

flint Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "flint".

ford Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "ford, river crossing".

forestis Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "unenclosed forest".

fox Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "fox".

Franca Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "a Frank", referring to a member of the Germanic tribe.

freo Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "free".

friþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "peace".

frost Old High German, Anglo-Saxon
Old High German and Old English word meaning "frost".

fugol Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bird".

gæt Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "gate".

gar Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "spear".

gat Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "goat".

geoc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "oxen yoke".

geong Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "young".

gerefa Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "reeve, sheriff, prefect, official".

giefu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "gift".

glæd Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bright, cheerful, glad".

glæs Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "glass".

god 1 Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old English and Frankish word meaning "god".

god 2 Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old English and Frankish word meaning "good".

gold Anglo-Saxon, Old High German
Old English and Old High German word meaning "gold".

græg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "grey".

graf Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "grove".

grand 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "gravel".

grene Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "green".

grossus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "big, large", possibly of Germanic origin.

guð 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "battle".

hæg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "fence, enclosure".

hær Anglo-Saxon
Old English word (possibly) meaning "rock, heap of stones".

hæþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "heath, wilderness".

hafoc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hawk".

haga Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "enclosure, yard".

hagaþorn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hawthorn".

halh Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "nook, recess".

ham 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "home, estate, settlement".

ham 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "water meadow, enclosure".

hamel Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "crooked, mutilated".

har 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "grey".

hara 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hare".

heafod Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "head".

heah Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "high".

heall Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hall, manor".

heard Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".

heg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hay".

helm Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old English and Frankish word meaning "helmet".

heofon Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "sky, heaven".

heord Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "herd".

heorot Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hart, deer".

here 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "army".

hierde Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "herdsman, guardian".

hild Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon
Old English and Old Saxon word meaning "battle".

hlaw Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "mound, small hill".

hoc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hook, angle".

hod Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hood, hat".

hof Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch
Old High German, Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "yard, court, house".

hogg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hog".

hoh 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "heel, hough, point of land".

hol Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hollow, sunken, deep".

holegn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "holly".

holt Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Old Dutch, Old Saxon
Old English, Old Norse, Old Dutch and Old Saxon word meaning "forest".

horh Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dirt, mud, mucus".

horn Anglo-Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Dutch
Old English, Old High German, Old Norse and Old Dutch word meaning "horn".

hors Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "horse".

hrace Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "throat, gorge".

hræfn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "raven".

hreod Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "reed".

hriðer Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cattle, ox".

hroð Anglo-Saxon
Old English element meaning "fame, glory" (as a vocabulary word, it is spelled hreð).

hun 1 Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old English and Frankish element meaning "bear cub, offspring".

hunig Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "honey".

huntian Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to hunt".

hus Old High German, Old Dutch, Anglo-Saxon
Old High German, Old Dutch and Old English word meaning "house".

hux Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "insult, scorn".

hwæte Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "wheat".

hwit Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon
Old English and Old Saxon word meaning "white".

hyll Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hill".

hyrst Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "wood, thicket".

ieg Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "island".

ing Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch
Old High German, Old English and Old Dutch suffix meaning "belonging to".

lad Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "course, way".

land Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon and Frankish word meaning "land".

lang Anglo-Saxon, Old High German, Old Dutch (Hypothetical)
Old English, Old High German and Old Dutch word meaning "long".

leac Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "leek, herb".

leah Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "woodland, clearing".

leas Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "without, lacking".

leof Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "dear, beloved".

licc Anglo-Saxon (Hypothetical)
Old English word (unattested) meaning "stream".

lin Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "flax".

lind 2 Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse
Old English and Old Norse word meaning "linden tree, lime tree, shield".

lufu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "love".

macian Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to make".

mære Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "famous, illustrious, known".

mann Anglo-Saxon, Frankish (Hypothetical)
Old English and Frankish word meaning "person, man".

mansus Late Roman
Medieval Latin word meaning "dwelling".

marca Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "border, boundary, march", of Germanic origin.

marchisus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "marquis".

mariscalcus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "groom", ultimately derived from the Germanic roots *marhaz "horse" and *skalkaz "servant". This is the origin of the English word marshal.

martellus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "hammer".

matta Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "reed mat".

middel Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "middle".

milde Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "gentle, mild, pleasant".

molinus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "mill", from Classical Latin mola.

mona Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "moon".

monachus Late Roman
Medieval Latin word meaning "monk".

mor 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "moor, heath, bog".

mund Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "protection".

mus Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "mouse".

myrige Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "pleasant, delightful".

niþer Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "down".

niwe Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "new".

norþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "north".

noð Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "boldness, daring".

os Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "god".

peac Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "pointed hill, peak".

penn Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "pen, enclosure".

penning Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "penny".

perla Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "pearl".

pipian Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to peep, to pipe".

pitinnus Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "small".

planca Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "plank".

pol Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon
Old English and Old Saxon word meaning "pool".

preost Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "priest".

pytt Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "pit, hole, well".

ræd Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "counsel, advice".

ræde Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "prepared, prompt, ready".

raha Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "roe deer".

raw Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "row, line".

read Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "red".

ric Anglo-Saxon
Old English affix meaning "ruler, king".

rice Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "power, rule, realm" or "mighty, rich" (from rīkiją and rīkijaz, derivatives of rīks).

ridan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to ride".

rippel Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "coppice, grove, thicket".

rocca Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "rock", possibly of Celtic origin.

rod 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "cleared land".

rosarium Late Roman
Late Latin word meaning "rosary".

rum 2 Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch
Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "roomy, spacious".

run Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "secret lore, rune".

ryddan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to clear, to strip".

ryge Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "rye".

sæ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "sea".

sagu Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "saw".

sand Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "sand".

sape Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "soap".

sceaga Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "thicket, copse".

sceaphyrde Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "shepherd, sheep herder".

scearp Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "sharp".

sciene Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "beautiful".

scieran Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to cut, to shear".

scir 1 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "shire, district".

scir 2 Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "bright".

seaxa Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "a Saxon", referring to a member of the Germanic tribe.

segl Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "sail".

seolfor Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "silver".

sige Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "victory".

singan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to sing, to chant".

smæl Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "small".

smiþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "craftsman, smith".

snaw Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "snow".

snel Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Dutch (Hypothetical)
Old High German, Old English and Old Dutch word meaning "quick, fast".

sniþan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "to cut".

spere Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "spear, lance".

stan Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "stone".

stearc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "rigid, strong".

steorra Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "star".

stigweard Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "steward".

stiþ Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "hard, stiff, cruel".

stoc Anglo-Saxon
Old English word meaning "place, dwelling" (occurring mostly in place names).