Old English Roots X
This word means many.
What is manig?
This word means to take.
What is niman?
This word means warrior.
What is scealc?
This word can mean several things, from trust to loyalty.
What is treow?
This word means boldly.
What is baldlice?
This word means strength, power, or army.
What is maegen?
This word means priest.
What is preost?
This word means money and is the origin of our Modern English phrase "scott-free."
What is sceatt?
This word means both "star" and what stars do.
What is tungol?
This word means ring-treasure.
What is beaghord?
This word means horse.
What is mearh?
This word means to read.
What is raedan?
This word is the root of our Modern English word "sibling" and means related.
What is gesib?
This is one of several Old English words for town and gives us modern place names like Chesterfield.
What is ceaster?
This word means middle-earth, the Nordic, Celtic, and Old English designation for the human world.
What is Middangeard?
This word, from which the name of the Nordic, Celtic, and Old English alphabet is derived, means a secret meditation.
What is run?
This word means story or message.
What is spell?
This word means nobleman, retainer, or warrior, and was integrated into the formal system of British nobility and knighthood.
What is þegn?
This word means to embrace.
What is clyppan?
This word means church.
What is mynster?
This word means bluff and forms part of the name of a famous Scottish lake.
What is naess?
This word means shadow.
What is sceadu?
This word means prince or lord and is the name of a major character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
What is þeoden?
This word means blood.
What is dreor?