saffron

English: saffron

Scots: sefron

c. 1200, borrowed from Old French safran, from Medieval Latin safranum, from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān);
as a colour adjective from the late 14th century.

saffroun (alternative)
safroun (alternative)
safferon (alternative)
safryn (alternative)
saffryn (alternative)
safran (alternative)
safron (alternative)
safurroun (alternative)
saferowne (alternative)
saffren (alternative)
safur (alternative)
safer (alternative)
saffyron (alternative)
saffran (alternative)
saferon (alternative)
saffrin (alternative)
safroune (alternative)


sour

English: sour

Scots: sour

sower (alternative)
soure (alternative)
sowre (alternative)


palate

English: palate

From Old French palat, from Latin palātum.

palet (alternative)
palat (alternative)
palette (alternative)
palete (alternative)

One's sense of taste (the palate was believed to be the source of this).


tart

English: tart, teart

Scots: tairt

From Old English teart, from Proto-Germanic *tartaz.

teart (alternative)
tarte (alternative)
terte (alternative)


douce

English: douce

Scots: douce

Borrowed from Old French dous, dolz, douce, from Latin dulcem.

bor+

douse (alternative)
dowce (alternative)
dowse (alternative)


doucet

English: dulcet

From Old French doucet; equivalent to douce + -et.

dowcet (alternative)
dowset (alternative)
dowsett (alternative)
dulcett (alternative)

(rare, Late Middle English) Sweet-tasting, sugary.

(rare, Late Middle English) Nice-tasting, tasty or delicious.

(rare, Late Middle English) Nice, friendly, kind.


smaken

smaken (infinitive)
to smaken (infinitive)
smake (infinitive)
smake (first-person present singular)
smaked (first-person past singular)
smakest (present second-person singular)
smakedest (past second-person singular)
smaketh (present singular third-person)
smaked (past singular third-person)
smake (present singular subjunctive)
smaked (past singular subjunctive)
smake (imperative present singular)
smaken (plural present)
smake (plural present)
smakeden (past plural)
smakede (past plural)
smaketh (imperative plural present)
smake (imperative plural present)
smakynge (participle present)
smakende (participle present)
smaked (participle past)
ysmaked (participle past)
smake (alternative)
smakie (alternative)
smakkyn (alternative)
smakyn (alternative)
smacky (alternative Kent)

English: smack

Scots: smack

Yola: smack

Borrowed from Middle Low German smāken, from Old Saxon *smakōn, from Proto-West Germanic *smakēn; compare smacchen. Some forms are remodelled on smak.

(ambitransitive) To have a taste; to taste (something).


smak

English: smack

Scots: smack

⇒? Scots: smick

Inherited from Old English smæc, smæċċ, from Proto-West Germanic *smakk, *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz. Some forms are influenced by smacchen.

smac (alternative)
smach (alternative)
smech (alternative)
ssmak (alternative)
smacche (alternative)
smake (alternative)
smatche (alternative)
smacc (alternative)


swete

swetes (plural)
suete (alternative)
sweete (alternative)
swote (alternative)
swoote (alternative)
swoot (alternative)
sote (alternative)
soot (alternative)


atter

enm-noun

atter (uncountable, dative attre, attere)

attre (dative)
attere (dative)
attere (alternative)
attir (alternative)
attre (alternative)
atture (alternative)
attyr (alternative)
attyre (alternative)
atterr (alternative Ormulum)

English: atter

Scots: atter, etter

From Old English āttor, ǣttor, variants of ātor, from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-.


egre

English: eager

Scots: laager, laeger

Yola: aagar

From Old French egre, aigre, from Late Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer.

eger (alternative)
egyr (alternative)
egir (alternative)
egur (alternative)
egor (alternative)
egree (alternative)


tonge

tonges (plural)
tongen (plural)
tang (alternative)
tange (alternative)
tongge (alternative)
toonge (alternative)
tounge (alternative)

English: tong (tongs); tang

Scots: tang, taing

From Old English tang, tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō. Reinforced by Old Norse tangi.


sotil

head

sotil (comparative sotiler, superlative sotilest)

sotiler (comparative)
sotilest (superlative)
subtile (alternative)
subtyl (alternative)
sutile (alternative)
subtil (alternative)
sotell (alternative)
sutille (alternative)
subtille (alternative)
sutyll (alternative)
sutil (alternative)
sotell (alternative)
suptyl (alternative)
sutill (alternative)

desc

English: subtle, subtil, subtile, suttle (all obsolete)

Scots: suttle

Borrowed from Old French sotil, soutil, subtil, from Latin subtīlis.

(foods) Bland; having little taste or flavour.

Low in a measurement; small or mean:
Bland; having little taste or flavour.


saturnous

From Saturne + -ous, from Latin Sāturnus.

Beth they war of metes that encresith sede..& suche metis ben..stronge, swete wyne & saturnous; and good wyne þat is myghty & swete, bothe whit & rede.


egernesse

English: eagerness

egyrnesse (alternative)
egrenesse (alternative)
egrinesse (alternative)
egrenez (alternative)
egirnesse (alternative)
egirnes (alternative)
egrenes (alternative)

(rare) Acidity; the quality of being sour.


egurdouce

From Old French aigredouce (French aigre-doux); equivalent to egre + douce.

sweet-and-sour sauce
sweet-and-sour sauce

A form of sweet-and-sour sauce, or a meal with it as the main condiment.


doucen

doucen (infinitive)
to doucen (infinitive)
douce (infinitive)
douce (first-person present singular)
douced (first-person past singular)
doucest (present second-person singular)
doucedest (past second-person singular)
douceth (present singular third-person)
douced (past singular third-person)
douce (present singular subjunctive)
douced (past singular subjunctive)
douce (imperative present singular)
doucen (plural present)
douce (plural present)
douceden (past plural)
doucede (past plural)
douceth (imperative plural present)
douce (imperative plural present)
doucynge (participle present)
doucende (participle present)
douced (participle past)
ydouced (participle past)
dowce (alternative)

(rare, Late Middle English) to make sweet


sugren

sugren (infinitive)
to sugren (infinitive)
sugre (infinitive)
sugre (first-person present singular)
sugred (first-person past singular)
sugrest (present second-person singular)
sugredest (past second-person singular)
sugreth (present singular third-person)
sugred (past singular third-person)
sugre (present singular subjunctive)
sugred (past singular subjunctive)
sugre (imperative present singular)
sugren (plural present)
sugre (plural present)
sugreden (past plural)
sugrede (past plural)
sugreth (imperative plural present)
sugre (imperative plural present)
sugrynge (participle present)
sugrende (participle present)
sugred (participle past)
ysugred (participle past)
socoure (alternative)
suguren (alternative)

English: sugar

Scots: succar

To reduce one's pains or problems; to lessen pain.

To make something seem attractive or enticing, often dishonestly.

To endear; to make one liked or received well.

(rare) To make something strong and pleasant to the senses.

(rare) To sweeten; to add sugar to something.


chewynge

English: chewing

From Old English ċēowung, equivalent to chewen + -ing.

chawyng (alternative)
cheuing (alternative)
chewyng (alternative)
chiewynge (alternative)
chowynge (alternative)
chuynge (alternative)


poynaunt

English: poignant

From Anglo-Norman puignant; equivalent to poynen + -ant.

poynant (alternative)
punyant (alternative)
ponyaunt (alternative)
pugnaunt (alternative)
ponyawnt (alternative)
poignaunte (alternative)

Wo was his cook, but if his ſauce were / Poynaunt and ſhaꝛp, and redy al his geere.

c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 353–354:

Woe to his cook, except if his sauce was / sour and sharp, and all his equipment was ready.


deyntevous

dayntevos (alternative)
dayntevous (alternative)
deintevose (alternative)
deintous (alternative)
dentuos (alternative)
dentyvous (alternative)
dentywos (alternative)
deynteous (alternative)


deynteth

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman deintet, earlier form of deinte, from Latin dignitās, dignitātem. Doublet of deynte and dignyte.

dantyth (alternative)
dayenteth (alternative)
daynteth (alternative)
daynteþ (alternative)
denteth (alternative)
dentethe (alternative)
denteþ (alternative)
denteyth (alternative)
deinteþ (alternative)
deintithe (alternative)
deyntet (alternative)
deyntethe (alternative)
deynteþ (alternative)


deynte

English: dainty

Borrowed from Old French deintie, deinte, from Latin dignitās, dignitātem. Doublet of deynteth and dignyte.

dainte (alternative)
daintey (alternative)
daynte (alternative)
dayntee (alternative)
dayntie (alternative)
daynty (alternative)
dayntye (alternative)
deinte (alternative)
deintee (alternative)
dente (alternative)
dentee (alternative)
deyntee (alternative)
deyntei (alternative)
deyntey (alternative)
deyntie (alternative)
deynty (alternative)


deyntely

English: daintily

daynteli (alternative)
deyntele (alternative)
deynttely (alternative)
deyntili (alternative)
deyntily (alternative)


smacchen

smacchen (infinitive)
to smacchen (infinitive)
smacche (infinitive)
smacche (first-person present singular)
smaughte (first-person past singular)
smacchest (present second-person singular)
smaughtest (past second-person singular)
smaccheth (present singular third-person)
smaughte (past singular third-person)
smacche (present singular subjunctive)
smaughte (past singular subjunctive)
smacche (imperative present singular)
smacchen (plural present)
smacche (plural present)
smaughten (past plural)
smaughte (past plural)
smaccheth (imperative plural present)
smacche (imperative plural present)
smacchynge (participle present)
smacchende (participle present)
smaught (participle past)
ysmaught (participle past)
smachen (alternative)
smaicche (alternative)
smatchen (alternative)

English: smatch (obsolete)

Inherited from Old English smæċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan; equivalent to smak + -en (infinitival suffix).


sapour

English: sapor, sapour

Borrowed from Latin sapor, sapōrem. Doublet of savour.


baysk

Middle Scots: bask (hapax)

Scots: bask

Borrowed from Old Norse beiskr, from Proto-Germanic *baitskaz.

bask (alternative)
baiske (alternative)
bayscke (alternative)
bayske (alternative)
beȝȝsc (alternative Ormulum)