11/12/2022 0 Comments Word origin dictionariesberr-serkr, 'bare-shirt') frenzied warriors billow bylgja birth byrðr bleak bleikr (="pale") blend Possibly from Old Norse blanda (="to mix") blunder blundra (="shut one's eye") boast Probably from a Scandinavian source via Anglo-French both baðir boon bon (="a petition, prayer") booth From Old Danish boþ (="temporary dwelling"), from East Norse *boa (="to dwell") brunt Likely from Old Norse brundr (="sexual heat") or bruna =("to advance like wildfire") bug búkr (="insect within tree trunks") bulk bulki bull boli bylaw bylög ('by'=village 'lög'=law 'village-law') C cake kaka (="cake") call kalla (="cry loudly") cast kasta (="to throw") clip klippa (="to cut") club klubba (="cudgel") cog Probably a Scandinavian borrowing, related to Norwegian kugg cozy Likely of Scandinavian origin via Scots, perhaps related to Norwegian kose seg crawl krafla (="to claw") craze Possibly from Old Norse krasa (="shatter") via Old French crasir creek kriki ("corner, nook") through ME creke ("narrow inlet in a coastline") altered from kryk perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman crique itself from a Scandinavian source via Norman-French crook krokr (="hook-shaped instrument or weapon") cur kurra (="to growl") cut Possibly from North Germanic *kut- D die deyja (="pass away") dirt drit (="feces") dregs dregg (="sediment") dump Possibly related to Danish dumpe (="fall hard"), Norwegian dumpa (="to fall suddenly"), and Old Norse dumpa (="to beat"). of baða "bathe" (baðast, baða sig) berserk berserkr, lit. English provenance = c 1205 AD (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe)Īwkward the first element is from Old Norse ǫfugr ("=turned-backward"), the '-ward' part is from Old English weard B bag baggi bait beita band band (="rope") bark bǫrkr bask baðask reflex.angr ("=trouble, affliction") root ang (="strait, straitened, troubled") Īre merger of Old English ( earun, earon) and Old Norse ( er) cognates auk A type of Arctic seabird.á ("=in, on, to") + lopt ("=air, atmosphere, sky, heaven, upper floor, loft").A ado influenced by Norse "at" ("to", infinitive marker) which was used with English "do" in certain English dialects aloft
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