這份術語彙編收集了在我看來不易理解的詞(包括詞形、含義與現代用法不同的詞)。這份列表的內容源於外來的規範,顯然不可能是系統性的。
an if
bent open place covered with grass
bid offered
chase hunting ground
b old past tense ofclimb
corse corpse
croft small plot of land
drouth dryness
ereat
envermined full of noxious creatures.這個詞似乎沒有其他記錄。
fell hide
flittermouse bat
fered starved
frith wood,woodland
frore very cold
glamoury magitment
haggard (of hills)wild
haply perhaps
hem and hedge enclose and fence off
howe burial mound,barrow
inay
lave wash
leeches physis
let hiheir goi『hiheir passing』
like please(indoth it like thee?)
limber supple
march borderland
neb beak,bill
nesh soft,tender
opes opens
parlous dangerous
pled old past tense ofplead
quook old past tense ofquake
rede sel
rove past tense ofrive『rend,tear apart,cleave』
ruel-bone ivory
runagate deserter,renegade
scullion kit drudge
shores supports
sigaldry sorcery
slot track of an animal
spoor the same asslot
sprite spirit
sylphine of the nature of a sylph(a spirit inhabiting the air).這個形容詞沒有記錄。
swath (space left after passage of a mower)track,trace
tarn a small mountain lake
thews bodily strength
thrall a slave,one who is in bohraldom)
trammelled hampered,impeded
u unbed
viol a stringed instrument played with a bow
weft woven fabric
weird fate
weregild (Old English)the price set upon a man in accordah his rank
whin gorse
wolfhame wolfskin
woof woven fabric
would wished