From OE ricedom: power, rule, dominion: Ðín rícedóm ofer ús ríxie ... usually translated as: 'thy kingdom come' (word for word: Thy rikedom over us govern ...)
(O. Sax. ríki-dóm power : O. Frs. ríke-dóm : O. H. Ger. ríhhi-tuom imperium; divitiae : Icel. rík-dómr power; wealth.)
From OE ricedom: power, rule, dominion: Ðín rícedóm ofer ús ríxie ... usually translated as: 'thy kingdom come' (word for word: Thy rikedom over us govern ...)
(O. Sax. ríki-dóm power : O. Frs. ríke-dóm : O. H. Ger. ríhhi-tuom imperium; divitiae : Icel. rík-dómr power; wealth.)
Unlike many words in Uncleftish Beholding (cleverly done), the word rike IS a standing English word and not made up.
For al þis rike A ded knyght wald I noght strike. — Seven Sages, a1425
The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike. —Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth, 1857
I think this is an eggcorn of kith and kin. Albeit, an old one. The word kith more generally refers to friends and acquaintances while kin refers to family ... thus kith and kin means "friends and family".
The word kine is an archaic plural of cow. So kith and kine would mean "friends and cows".
Kin and Kine would make more sense than kith and kine. Other than a play on words in a book about cows, I haven't found "kith and kine" used.
In ME English we find such spelling variations: Oþer whyle þou muste be fals a-monge kythe & kynne. ... and here kynne = kin.
Go not forthe as a dombe freke. — Book of Courtesy, 1475
From ME freke, from OE freca.
plural - frekes or freken
1. A brave man, a warrior, a man-at-arms
* Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght. — Destruction of Troy, 1540
* There was never a freke one foot would flee, but still in stour did stand,” — Henry Morley, A Bundle of Ballads, 1891
2. A man, a human being, a person
*þes fifti, alle ferliche freken. — St. Katherine of Alexandria, 1225
*Go not forthe as a dombe freke. — Book of Courtesy, 1475
3. A creature such as a giant, demon, angel
*Bringing my love, for Time’s a freke of jealous strain; — Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, 1885
Middle English
1. To send or bring speedily; to hasten; to launch, to hurl a weapon; to proceed
He lette þider fusen al þat he hafde ihalden, þat corn of þissen londe. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
2. To put to flight; pursue, to banish, to rush or charge at
Oþer þu heom fusen, oþer þu heom feolle. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
fus (foos) - striving forward, eager for, ready for, inclined to, willing, prompt
expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, dying. >>> ME fous >>> fouse
I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there,
Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
--Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven
swink + ful
(a) Full of toil, toilsome; laborious, arduous; of pain: toilsome, distressing, full of travail
(b) hard-working, diligent
(c) as noun: those who toil or labor.
From ME kire (also cyre, cure), from Old English cyre (choice, free will).
*choice, preference
*chosen, the elite
*custom; customary
*free will
*decision, selection
Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale, twie-wifing; for ai was rigt and ***kire*** bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. — "Genesis and Exodus"
Luke 21:15 KJV
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist .
Other gain- words:
gainclap (also gainclapp) - counterstroke, counterblow, riposte
gaincope - head off, cut off
gainstand - to stand against
gainstrive - to strive against
Inwit, a term for conscience, suggests the inner senses and interior sensibility, which accords nicely with the current state of the senses under the regime of electric technologies. — Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, 1998
It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the *witcraft* of argument) ... — Gillian Symon, Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis, Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1., 2008
From Middle English lude (“noise, clamor, sound”), from Old English hlȳd (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūdijō (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewe- (“to hear”).
Cognate with Scots lood, luid (“sound, noise, tone, voice”), Dutch geluid (“sound”), German Laut (“sound”), Swedish ljud (“sound”), Icelandic hljóð (“sound”).
Noun
ġewiss n
*certainty, surety, that which is certain
Adjective
*certain, sure
*trustworthy, reliable; knowing, aware
Usage notes
When used adverbally with mid, (i.e. mid ġewisse), the word means "especially", or "certainly"
Also gewiss
Noun
ġewis n
*certainty, surety, that which is certain
Adjective
*certain, sure
*trustworthy, reliable; knowing, aware
Usage notes
When used adverbally with mid, (i.e. mid ġewisse), the word means "especially", or "certainly"
From Middle English foresetten, from Old English foresettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- + set.
Verb
foreset (present participle foresetting, simple past and past participle foreset)
*To set before or in front of ... thus to propose, suggest
*To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
Derived Terms: foresetting
Noun
foreset (plural foresets)
*That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
*(geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.
Derived Terms: (geology) foreset bed
Adjective
foreset (comparative more foreset, superlative most foreset)
Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.
foredraft (plural foredrafts)
***Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835
He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,… — A Modern Antaeus, 1901
We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
***A current of air that flows forward
If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006
Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
***(nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985
***proposal
@sionnach ... I think you meant "was likened" or maybe you mean "is likened"? I've never heard a hot water bottle called a bedoven but if it burst then you might be bedoven in hot water!
The comparison was doven to bedoven. Bedoven is the past participle of the archaic bedive.
Nov 18, 2011
Comments for AnWulf
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.
AnWulf commented on the word wrakedom
Avenging, revenge
Apr 6, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word ricedom
From OE ricedom: power, rule, dominion: Ðín rícedóm ofer ús ríxie ... usually translated as: 'thy kingdom come' (word for word: Thy rikedom over us govern ...)
(O. Sax. ríki-dóm power : O. Frs. ríke-dóm : O. H. Ger. ríhhi-tuom imperium; divitiae : Icel. rík-dómr power; wealth.)
Apr 6, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word rikedom
From OE ricedom: power, rule, dominion: Ðín rícedóm ofer ús ríxie ... usually translated as: 'thy kingdom come' (word for word: Thy rikedom over us govern ...)
(O. Sax. ríki-dóm power : O. Frs. ríke-dóm : O. H. Ger. ríhhi-tuom imperium; divitiae : Icel. rík-dómr power; wealth.)
Apr 6, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word vath
vath - danger
1909, John Barbour, The Bruce, Volume 1, edition digitized, Adam and Charlie Black, published 2020, page 124:
With few menyhe mycht soyn thame scath, / And yhet eschape withouten vath.
Mar 29, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word ingang
@ bilby ... No from Middle English ingang, from Old English ingang.
Feb 13, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word reinheitsgebot
From German meaning "purity law" (Reinheit=purity, Gebot=law, order (see gebod)) ... normally associated with brewing beer.
Pronounced like /rine-HITE-ge-bote/ or with diacritics: /rīn-HĪT-ge-bōt/
Feb 7, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word gebod
Old English and Dutch: order, command, mandate
Pronounced with a long ō ... /ge-BODE/.
Feb 7, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word rike
Unlike many words in Uncleftish Beholding (cleverly done), the word rike IS a standing English word and not made up.
For al þis rike A ded knyght wald I noght strike. — Seven Sages, a1425
The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike. —Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth, 1857
Jan 27, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word dwaal
From the OED:
dwaal |dwɑːl|
noun S. African
a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state: You're in a real dwaal !
Jan 25, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word berg
From Middle English bergh, berg, from Old English berg, beorg (“mountain, hill”).
Jan 22, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word samod
samod - I. adv. simultaneously, at the same time, together; entirely; also, as well, too.
II. prep. together with, at (of time) compare to Ger. sammt.
Jan 5, 2012
AnWulf commented on the word nutte
nutte, n — use, usefulness; nought to nuttes, of no use, useless.
c1275 Layamon's Brut: A he seide þat Bruttes neoren noht to nuttes, ah he seide þat þe Peohtes weoren gode cnihtes.
Dec 27, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gemote
"I will to the West, and gemote alle mie knyghtes" — Thomas Chatterton, "The Rowley Poems", 1778
Dec 20, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word boten
Old plural form of bote, bot.
Dec 19, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word maegbot
From the OED: A fine to be paid as compensation to a close kinsman of the victim of a killing.
Other forms: magbote, maegbote
see also manbot
Dec 18, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word seadrake
From OE sædraca
*sea-dragon
Dec 17, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word kith and kine
I think this is an eggcorn of kith and kin. Albeit, an old one. The word kith more generally refers to friends and acquaintances while kin refers to family ... thus kith and kin means "friends and family".
The word kine is an archaic plural of cow. So kith and kine would mean "friends and cows".
Kin and Kine would make more sense than kith and kine. Other than a play on words in a book about cows, I haven't found "kith and kine" used.
In ME English we find such spelling variations: Oþer whyle þou muste be fals a-monge kythe & kynne. ... and here kynne = kin.
So I think this is nothing more than eggcorn.
Dec 17, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word freca
OE - warrior, hero
Descendant
freke
Dec 11, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word freke
Go not forthe as a dombe freke. — Book of Courtesy, 1475
From ME freke, from OE freca.
plural - frekes or freken
1. A brave man, a warrior, a man-at-arms
* Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght. — Destruction of Troy, 1540
* There was never a freke one foot would flee, but still in stour did stand,” — Henry Morley, A Bundle of Ballads, 1891
2. A man, a human being, a person
*þes fifti, alle ferliche freken. — St. Katherine of Alexandria, 1225
*Go not forthe as a dombe freke. — Book of Courtesy, 1475
3. A creature such as a giant, demon, angel
*Bringing my love, for Time’s a freke of jealous strain; — Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, 1885
Dec 11, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word fusen
Middle English
1. To send or bring speedily; to hasten; to launch, to hurl a weapon; to proceed
He lette þider fusen al þat he hafde ihalden, þat corn of þissen londe. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
2. To put to flight; pursue, to banish, to rush or charge at
Oþer þu heom fusen, oþer þu heom feolle. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
3. To urge on or exhort
Related to fus.
Dec 10, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word fus
fus (foos) - striving forward, eager for, ready for, inclined to, willing, prompt
expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, dying. >>> ME fous >>> fouse
Same root:
fûse = fûslîce
fûslêoþ n.- death-song, dirge.
fûslic - ready to start: excellent.
fûslîce adv - readily, gladly.
fûsnes f. - quickness
Dec 10, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word fela
fela - I. sbn. and adj. - many, much II. adv. very much, many. .. (fele; Ger. viel)
Dec 9, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word forthen
adv. even, exactly, quite, already, just as, at first, further, previously; from OE forþum, forþan, forþon.
Dec 7, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word fele
Also spelled fela (OE fela) ...
As a noun/pronoun = many, majority
As an adj =many, much, various comparativ ... feler (more), felest (most)
As an adv = very, greatly
The felest = the majority
Dec 7, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word upstare
I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there,
Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
--Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven
Dec 4, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word urgrund
urgrund: basis; primary principle, cause or factor.
Other words with ur- urtext, ursprache
Dec 4, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gainclapp
counterstroke, counterblow, riposte
Byspel: Patton's gainclapp against the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge crushed their offensive.
Dec 1, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word swinkful
swink + ful
(a) Full of toil, toilsome; laborious, arduous; of pain: toilsome, distressing, full of travail
(b) hard-working, diligent
(c) as noun: those who toil or labor.
Dec 1, 2011
AnWulf commented on the list eosin-english
huru, umbe are two more good ones
Nov 30, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word whilwende
whilwende (adj.) Also (early) whilende; from OE hwilwende, hwilende (transitory, temporary)
*transitory, temporary
Nov 30, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word beshone
beshone - beautified, lighted, enlightened, brightened, well lit
Nov 30, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word kire
From ME kire (also cyre, cure), from Old English cyre (choice, free will).
*choice, preference
*chosen, the elite
*custom; customary
*free will
*decision, selection
Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale, twie-wifing; for ai was rigt and ***kire*** bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. — "Genesis and Exodus"
Japanese:
kire (hiragana きれ)
切れ: sharpness; cloth; slice
Nov 30, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gainsay
Benote gainsay? Eath!
Luke 21:15 KJV
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist .
Other gain- words:
gainclap (also gainclapp) - counterstroke, counterblow, riposte
gaincope - head off, cut off
gainstand - to stand against
gainstrive - to strive against
Nov 29, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gainclap
counterstroke, counterblow, riposte
Patton's gainclap against the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge crushed their offensive.
Nov 29, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word agenbite
"The Weekly Standard" moved the writ to: here
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/094mwbwu.asp
Nov 28, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word dalf
delve, dalf, dolven
Nov 28, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word inwit
Inwit, a term for conscience, suggests the inner senses and interior sensibility, which accords nicely with the current state of the senses under the regime of electric technologies. — Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, 1998
Nov 28, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word dolven
Also means "buried".
Nov 28, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word witcraft
It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the *witcraft* of argument) ... — Gillian Symon, Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis, Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1., 2008
Nov 26, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word swikeful
Of persons: perfidious, traitorous, false, deceitful;
of behavior: treacherous.
Nov 25, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word beknow
(a) To know or realize (sth.), be aware of; realize
(b) to recognize (sb.); beknown: known, acquainted.
Nov 24, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word ferrups
I think it has been besteaded by frack/frak ... What the frack? What a frack up! LOL
Nov 23, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word lude
From Middle English lude (“noise, clamor, sound”), from Old English hlȳd (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūdijō (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewe- (“to hear”).
Cognate with Scots lood, luid (“sound, noise, tone, voice”), Dutch geluid (“sound”), German Laut (“sound”), Swedish ljud (“sound”), Icelandic hljóð (“sound”).
lude (n), (plural luden)
*** Sound, noise, clamor
- Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora *lude*. — Layamon's Brut
- Þa *luden* heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden. — Layamon's Brut
Nov 22, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word beteld
verb from OE to cover, hem in, surround: overload, oppress ... root is teld (tent)
other verbs with teld as the root: upteld, unteld.
Nov 22, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word seldseen
And seldseen costly stones of so great price — Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
... and awakening, saw a serpent like a dragon, a seldseen sight, — The Arabian Nights
Nov 21, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gewiss
Noun
ġewiss n
*certainty, surety, that which is certain
Adjective
*certain, sure
*trustworthy, reliable; knowing, aware
Usage notes
When used adverbally with mid, (i.e. mid ġewisse), the word means "especially", or "certainly"
Also gewis
Nov 21, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word gewis
Also gewiss
Noun
ġewis n
*certainty, surety, that which is certain
Adjective
*certain, sure
*trustworthy, reliable; knowing, aware
Usage notes
When used adverbally with mid, (i.e. mid ġewisse), the word means "especially", or "certainly"
Nov 21, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word foreset
From Middle English foresetten, from Old English foresettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- + set.
Verb
foreset (present participle foresetting, simple past and past participle foreset)
*To set before or in front of ... thus to propose, suggest
*To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
Derived Terms: foresetting
Noun
foreset (plural foresets)
*That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
*(geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.
Derived Terms: (geology) foreset bed
Adjective
foreset (comparative more foreset, superlative most foreset)
Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.
Nov 21, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word foredraft
foredraft (plural foredrafts)
***Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835
He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,… — A Modern Antaeus, 1901
We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
***A current of air that flows forward
If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006
Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
***(nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985
***proposal
Nov 19, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word doven
@sionnach ... I think you meant "was likened" or maybe you mean "is likened"? I've never heard a hot water bottle called a bedoven but if it burst then you might be bedoven in hot water!
The comparison was doven to bedoven. Bedoven is the past participle of the archaic bedive.
Nov 18, 2011