ram

English: ram

Scots: ram

From Old English ramm, from Proto-Germanic *rammaz.


ewe

English: ewe

Scots: yowe, yhow

Yola: yowe

Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.

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dame

English: dame; dam

Scots: dame, deem; dam

From Old French dame, from Latin domina.

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
abbess (governor of a nunnery)

(rare) A female anchorite (with servants)

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
A female anchorite (with servants)

A mother (of humans, animals, or plants)


hound

enm-noun

hound (plural houndes or (rare) hounden)

houndes (plural)
hounden (plural rare)
hound (accusative nominative singular)
houndes (accusative nominative plural)
houndes (genitive singular)
hounde (genitive plural)
hounde (dative singular)
hounden (dative plural)

English: hound

Northumbrian: hoond, hund

Scots: hoond, hund

Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris#Translingual

dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)

(specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.


drake

English: drake

Scots: drake

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).


hen

hen (plural hennes or hennen, genitive hennes or henne)

hennes (plural)
hennen (plural)
hennes (genitive)
henne (genitive)

English: hen

Scots: hen

Yola: hen, hin

From Old English henn, from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō.


steer

Alternative form of stere (“rudder, control”)


cou

English: cow (see there for further descendants)

Geordie English: coo

Scots: coo, coe, cou

Yola: keow

Inherited from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).


bole

English: bull

Scots: bul, bull

From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.


tercel

desc

English: tiercel, tercel, terzel, tassel, tassell, tarcel, tarsel, tarsell, tyercel, tyercle

→ Old Norse: tersél

Borrowed from Old French tercel, terçuel, from Medieval Latin tertiolus.


hert

English: hart

Scots: hert


sor

English: sore (obsolete)

From Old French sor, from Frankish *saur, from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz. Doublet of sere (“dry”).


ende

Scots: ennet, annet, annot

English: ende, annet, annot

From Old English ened, enid, æned, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts. Compare drake (“drake (male duck)”).

A duck (usually referring to the female)


tercelet

English: tercelet

Borrowed from Old French tercelet; equivalent to tercel + -et.

Tho dwelte a tercelet / me faſte by /That semed welle / of alle gentilleſſe

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Squiers Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 135, recto:

There flew a tercelet close by me / which seemed full of graciousness.


goos

English: goose

Scots: guse

From Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans; compare gandre.


sorel

English: sorel (obsolete)

From Old French sorel; equivalent to sor (“sorrel”) + -el (diminutive suffix).


fixen

English: vixen

From Old English fyxe, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī. The -en suffix suggests that the feminine suffix was later added, or that the word actually comes from Old English *fyxen (akin to German Füchsin). In either case, equivalent to fox + -en (feminine suffix).


bukke

English: buck

Scots: buk, buke, buik

Yola: buch

From Old English bucca, from Proto-West Germanic *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkô.


sowe

English: sow

Scots: sou

From Old English sūgu, sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu. Compare swyn. Use as a term for a siege engine is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin sūs.


cok

English: cock

Scots: cock, cok

Yola: cuck

From Old English coc, cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk.


cok

English: cock

From Old French coque; see cog (sense 2).


bicche

desctree

English: bitch
→ Dutch: bitch
→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze
→ French: bitch

Scots: bitch

From Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkja (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.


capoun

English: capon

Scots: capon (obsolete)

From a combination of Old Northern French capon and Old English capūn, both from Latin capo (Vulgar Latin *cappo).


bullok

English: bullock

Scots: bullok

Inherited from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk; equivalent to bole + -ok.


kokerel

English: cockerel


faucoun

English: falcon

Scots: faucon

Borrowed from Old French faucon, falcon, from Latin falcōnem, accusative singular of falcō.

Falco peregrinus
Falco peregrinus#Translingual

A peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) or any other bird of prey used in falconry.


gandre

English: gander

Scots: ganare, ganer, ganner

From Old English gandra, from earlier ganra.


roobukke

English: roebuck

Scots: raebuck

Yola: robunkshough (nasal)


eyrer

English: eyrer

Uncertain. Perhaps from ey, eyer (“egg(s)”). Or “eyre” to ride circuit.


heyfre

English: heifer (obsolete dialectal hefker, hekfer)

Scots: heifer

Yola: hiver

Inherited from Old English hēahfore, hēahfru, of disputed etymology; see that entry for discussion.
Notes on phonological development
Forms with /ɛː/ continue Late Old English hēafru, which develops from a syncopated hēahfru with simplification of the resulting consonant cluster /xfr/. In these forms, the first-syllable vowel /æ͜ɑː/ retained its length, regularly developing to /ɛː/ because the medial cluster /fr/ was identified as the onset of the second syllable (i.e. /ˈxæ͜ɑː.fre/). Forms with /ɛ/ and /a/ come in part from forms where the cluster was split between the two syllables, resulting in regular shortening of the initial-syllable vowel (i.e. /ˈxæ͜ɑf.re/), but as we will see, they also continue Old English trisyllabic hēahfore.
In trisyllabic forms of this word (hē̆ahfore, hē̆hfore), the first-syllabic vowel was regularly shortened due to trisyllabic shortening; the remaining forms with /ɛ/, /a/ develop when /x/ was lost before it could cause the diphthongisation ("breaking") of the preceding vowel, while those with /æi̯/ are the result of this breaking. In forms with /kf/, /x/ was subject to fortition instead of being lost (pace Liberman; compare sixt (“(thou) seest”), sikth (“(he) sees”)); forms with /fk/ are further developments of these forms due to metathesis.


yelte

English: yelt

From Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, from *galtō + *-jā, from Proto-Germanic *galtô (whence Old Norse gylta, gyltr (“young sow”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).