day

dayes (plural)
dawes (plural)
dai (alternative)
dæi (alternative)
dey (alternative)
daȝ (alternative)
dæȝ (alternative)
dei (alternative)
daye (alternative)
daȝȝ (alternative)
daȝh (alternative)
daiȝ (alternative)
*dah (alternative)

English: day

Scots: day

Yola: die, dei, dey, daie

Inherited from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.


abreggen

enm-verb

abreggen (third-person singular simple present abreggeth, present participle abreggende, abreggynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle abregged)

abreggeth (present singular third-person)
abreggende (participle present)
abreggynge (participle present)
abregged (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
abreggen (infinitive)
to abreggen (infinitive)
abregge (infinitive)
abregge (first-person present singular)
abregged (first-person past singular)
abreggest (present second-person singular)
abreggedest (past second-person singular)
abreggeth (present singular third-person)
abregged (past singular third-person)
abregge (present singular subjunctive)
abregged (past singular subjunctive)
abregge (imperative present singular)
abreggen (plural present)
abregge (plural present)
abreggeden (past plural)
abreggede (past plural)
abreggeth (imperative plural present)
abregge (imperative plural present)
abreggynge (participle present)
abreggende (participle present)
abregged (participle past)
yabregged (participle past)
abregen (alternative)
abriggen (alternative)
abrigen (alternative)
obriggen (alternative)
abregge (alternative)
abrigge (alternative)

English: abridge

From Old French abreger, from Latin abbreviō.

Al mowe they yet tho dayes wel abregge, / Ther nedeth noght noon auctoritee t'allegge

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 2999–3000:

Though they could potentially make those days shorter, / No authority is needed to assert that […]

To shorten or reduce in duration or time.


quarter

quarters (plural)
quartere (alternative)
quartier (alternative)
quartre (alternative)
quater (alternative)
quatere (alternative)
quatter (alternative)
qwarter (alternative)
wharter (alternative)

English: quarter

Scots: quarter, corter

Yola: curthere, cortere

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartārius.

A quarter (fourth part of something):
A quarter of a whole chicken.

A quarter of the year; a three-month period.

A quarter of the night; a three-hour period.

A quarter of an hour; a 15-minute period.

A unit of capacity (being a quarter of another measure).

A unit of weight (often a quarter of an ounce or pound).

A unit of length (nine inches; being quarter of an ell).


world

worldes (plural)
weoreld (alternative)
werld (alternative)
wordle (alternative)
woreld (alternative)
worild (alternative)
worlde (alternative)
woruld (alternative)
werelld (alternative Ormulum)
weorelld (alternative Ormulum)

English: world

Scots: warld

East Anglia, Kent, Southern, Southwest Midlands

Inherited from Old English woruld, worold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.


yesterday

From Old English ġiestrandæġ; equivalent to yester- + day.

ȝusterday (alternative)
ȝurstendæi (alternative)
ȝisterday (alternative)
yisterday (alternative)
ȝesterdai (alternative)
yusterday (alternative)
ȝerstendæi (alternative)
yurstai (alternative)

At another preceding point in time; in the past


yesterday

English: yesterday

Scots: ȝisterday, ȝesterday

Yola: yersthei, yerstei, yerstey


age

ages (plural)
aage (alternative rare)
ayge (alternative rare)

English: age

Scots: age

Borrowed from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem.

Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.


future

futures (plural)
futur (alternative)
ffutur (alternative)
futire (alternative)

English: future

Scots: futur

Borrowed from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, past participle of sum (cognate to Middle English been).

(rare) The future; the time beyond the present.


long

head

long (plural and weak singular longe, comparative lengere, superlative lengest)

longe (plural)
longe (singular weak)
lengere (comparative)
lengest (superlative)
longe (alternative Late-Middle-English)
lang (alternative Early-Middle-English Northern)
lange (alternative Early-Middle-English Northern)

English: long

Geordie English: lang

Scots: lang

Yola: lhaung, long

From Old English lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.
The sense "due to" is from Old English ġelang, from Proto-West Germanic *galang.

Distant or remote in time or (rarely) space.


old

old (plural and weak singular olde, comparative eldre, superlative eldest)

olde (plural)
olde (singular weak)
eldre (comparative)
eldest (superlative)
eeld (alternative)
eelde (alternative)
eld (alternative)
elde (alternative)
holde (alternative)
oold (alternative)
olde (alternative)
wolde (alternative)
ald (alternative Northern)
awlde (alternative Northern)
eild (alternative Northern)
eald (alternative Kent)
yalde (alternative Kent)
yealde (alternative Kent)
yolde (alternative Southwestern)
yhold (alternative Southwestern)
yolle (alternative Southwestern)

desc

English: old (dialectal ole, ould, wold)

Geordie English: awd, auld

Scots: auld

Yola: yole, yold, yola, yolaw

Inherited from Anglian Old English ald, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-.
Forms with /ɛː/ are either from forms such as West Saxon and Kentish Old English eald or due to analogy with the comparative eldre or superlative eldest.


eternal

English: eternal, tarnal

Scots: eternal

/ɛːtɛrˈnɛːl/

Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from Latin aeternālis; equivalent to eterne + -al.

eterneel (alternative)
eternall (alternative)


stage

English: stage

From Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”).

A duration or period; an amount of time.


place

places (plural)
plaace (alternative)
plache (alternative)
plas (alternative)
plasce (alternative)
plase (alternative)
plasse (alternative)

q

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">pleace</i>

English: place (dialectal pleace)

Pijin: ples

Tok Pisin: ples

Scots: place, pleece

From Old English plæċe and Old French place, both from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

A place, station, or position; an appropriate or designated spot:

A favourable or propitious occasion; an opportunity.


tome

tom (alternative)
thome (alternative)
tame (alternative Northern)

English: toom

Middle Scots: tume, toym, toyme, toume

From Old Norse tom (“leisure, ease”). Compare Icelandic tóm (“empty space; leisure”).


ounce

ounces (plural)
ounce (plural)
unce (alternative)
ownce (alternative)
ounse (alternative)
nounce (alternative)
nowns (alternative)

English: ounce, unce

Scots: ounce

From Middle French once, from Old French once, unce, from Latin uncia. Doublet of ynche.

(rare) An eight-minute unit for measuring time.


vespers

English: vespers

From Old French vespres, from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”); see English vespers.

der

(Christianity) The liturgical service celebrated at this time.


kalender

kalenderes (plural)
calender (alternative)
kalendere (alternative)
calendder (alternative)
kalendar (alternative)
kalander (alternative)
calendre (alternative)
kalunder (alternative)
calundere (alternative)

desctree

English: calendar, kalendar (archaic), calender (obsolete)
Tok Pisin: kalenda
→ Gujarati: કેલેંડર (keleṇḍar)
→ Japanese: カレンダー (karendā)
→ Korean: 카렌다 (karenda)
→ Korean: 캘린더 (kaellindeo)
→ Swahili: kalenda

Scots: calendar

→ Welsh: calendr

From Old French calendier, from Latin calendārium, kalendārium; equivalent to kalende + -er.


forme

head

forme (plural and weak singular forme, comparative formere, superlative formest)

forme (plural)
forme (singular weak)
formere (comparative)
formest (superlative)
form (alternative)
forrme (alternative Ormulum)

Inherited from Old English forma, from Proto-West Germanic *formō, *frumō, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

(superlative) earliest, oldest (in time)


cours

courses (plural)
cors (alternative)
cource (alternative)
course (alternative)
cowrs (alternative)
cowrse (alternative)
curs (alternative)
kours (alternative)

desctree

English: course
→ Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)

Scots: coorse

→ Welsh: cwrs

Borrowed from Old French cours, curs, from Latin cursus; compare Middle Dutch coers.

A series of occurrences; a course of time:


eternally

English: eternally

Scots: eternally

In an eternal, endless, or permanent manner.


stede

stedes (plural)
stad (alternative)
sted (alternative)
stedd (alternative)
stedde (alternative)
steed (alternative)
steede (alternative)
steyd (alternative)
stid (alternative)
stide (alternative)
styd (alternative)
stydde (alternative)
styde (alternative)
steode (alternative West-Midlands)
stoede (alternative West-Midlands)
stud (alternative West-Midlands)
stude (alternative West-Midlands)
stode (alternative Ireland)

English: stead

Scots: steid, sted

Inherited from Old English stede, steode, styd, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz.

A location or position in time; time, moment.


hete

hetes (plural)
heten (plural)
heet (alternative)
heete (alternative)
heite (alternative)
hette (alternative)
hetee (alternative)
hæte (alternative Early-Middle-English)
heate (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: heat

Scots: hete, heit

Yola: het

Inherited from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄.

The condition of being hot; a hot thing:


nombren

enm-verb

nombren (third-person singular simple present nombreth, present participle nombrende, nombrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle nombred)

nombreth (present singular third-person)
nombrende (participle present)
nombrynge (participle present)
nombred (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
nombren (infinitive)
to nombren (infinitive)
nombre (infinitive)
nombre (first-person present singular)
nombred (first-person past singular)
nombrest (present second-person singular)
nombredest (past second-person singular)
nombreth (present singular third-person)
nombred (past singular third-person)
nombre (present singular subjunctive)
nombred (past singular subjunctive)
nombre (imperative present singular)
nombren (plural present)
nombre (plural present)
nombreden (past plural)
nombrede (past plural)
nombreth (imperative plural present)
nombre (imperative plural present)
nombrynge (participle present)
nombrende (participle present)
nombred (participle past)
ynombred (participle past)
nombre (alternative)
noumbre (alternative)
noumbren (alternative)
noumbri (alternative)
nowmeron (alternative)
nowmeryn (alternative)
nowmyr (alternative)
nownber (alternative)
numbre (alternative)

English: number

Scots: nummer

Borrowed from Old French nombrer, from Latin numerō; equivalent to nombre + -en (infinitival suffix).

To calculate; to perform arithmetic or measurement (especially time passing)


secunde

English: second

Scots: seicont

From Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda.

A unit of time equal to a sixtieth of a (horological) minute.


breid

breides (plural)
breyd (alternative)
breyde (alternative)
brayd (alternative)
brayde (alternative)
braid (alternative)
braide (alternative)
breide (alternative)
brede (alternative)

English: braid

Scots: braid

From a conflation of Old English brægd, Old English gebregd, and Old Norse bragð; influenced by breiden.


eterne

English: eterne, etern (obsolete)

Scots: eterne, etern (obsolete)

Borrowed from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus, contraction of aeviternus.


houre

houres (plural)
hour (alternative)
our (alternative)
oure (alternative)
howr (alternative)
howre (alternative)
ower (alternative)
awyr (alternative)

English: hour (see there for further descendants)

Northumbrian: oor

Scots: oor

From Anglo-Norman houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).


tyme

tymes (plural)
tymen (plural)
teme (alternative)
teyme (alternative)
tim (alternative)
time (alternative)
tym (alternative)
tima (alternative Early-Middle-English)
timæ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
tyma (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: time (see there for further descendants)

Scots: time, teime, tim

Yola: deemes (plural)

From Old English tīma, from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Doublet of demon.

A reign; the duration of a ruler's office.

A lifetime; the duration of a person's life.

Part of a period of time (especially a season or yeartide).

A specific duration; a period of time:
Part of a process or event.

A brief or ephemeral point in time; an instance.

And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem”

1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:


moneth

monethes (plural)
moneþ (alternative)
month (alternative)
monthe (alternative)
monþ (alternative)
monæþ (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: month

Scots: moneth

From Old English mōnaþ. Equivalent to mone + -th.


yeer

yeeres (plural)
yeer (plural)
here (alternative)
yere (alternative)
ȝere (alternative)

desctree

English: year
Jamaican Creole: ier
Tok Pisin: yia
→ Chuukese: ier
→ Japanese: イヤー (iyā)
→ Volapük: yel

Scots: year

From Old English ġēar, from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą.

Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:

You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]


faren

enm-verb

faren (third-person singular simple present fareth, present participle farynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative ferde, past participle ferd)

fareth (present singular third-person)
farynge (participle present)
ferde (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
ferd (participle past)
faren (infinitive)
to faren (infinitive)
fare (infinitive)
fare (first-person present singular)
for (first-person past singular)
ferde (first-person past singular)
farest (present second-person singular)
fore (past second-person singular)
for (past second-person singular)
ferdest (past second-person singular)
fareth (present singular third-person)
for (past singular third-person)
ferde (past singular third-person)
fare (present singular subjunctive)
fore (past singular subjunctive)
ferde (past singular subjunctive)
fare (imperative present singular)
faren (plural present)
fare (plural present)
foren (past plural)
fore (past plural)
ferden (past plural)
ferde (past plural)
fareth (imperative plural present)
fare (imperative plural present)
farynge (participle present)
farende (participle present)
faren (participle past)
fare (participle past)
ferd (participle past)
yfaren (participle past)
yfare (participle past)
yferd (participle past)
fare (alternative)
faryn (alternative)
feren (alternative)
ffare (alternative)
varen (alternative)
faran (alternative Early-Middle-English)
farenn (alternative Early-Middle-English)
fearen (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: fare

Scots: fare

Originally two distinct verbs:
* Old English faran, from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.
* Old English fēran, from Proto-West Germanic *fōrijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną.

To move, go or travel:
To attack; to charge against.

To proceed to do; to start or continue doing.


tofore

English: tofore (obsolete)

From Old English tōforan; equivalent to to- + fore.

toforen (alternative)
tofor (alternative)
toforon (alternative)
toforn (alternative)
toforne (alternative)
toforan (alternative)
toffor (alternative)
toffore (alternative)
tofforn (alternative)
toforowe (alternative)
tofour (alternative)
tovor (alternative)
tovore (alternative)
tovoren (alternative)
tefor (alternative)
tefore (alternative)
teforen (alternative)
toforn (alternative)
tofor (alternative)
to-fore (alternative)
to-forn (alternative)
to-for (alternative)


weke

wekes (plural)
weken (plural)
week (alternative)
weeke (alternative)
weyke (alternative)
wieke (alternative)
wike (alternative)
woke (alternative)
wouke (alternative)
wowke (alternative)
wuke (alternative)
wycke (alternative)
wyke (alternative)

English: week

Scots: wouk

Yola: wick, wik

From Old English wiċe, wucu; from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

week (a duration of seven days from Sunday to Saturday; a calendar week)

week (any duration of (around) seven days)


weke

English: wick

Scots: week

From Old English wēoce, from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”), see also West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”).

cog

wec (alternative)
weeke (alternative)
weike (alternative)
weyk (alternative)
weyke (alternative)
wik (alternative)
wyk (alternative)

The cord or rope used to create wicks; wicking.


wasten

enm-verb

wasten (third-person singular simple present wasteth, present participle wastende, wastynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wasted)

wasteth (present singular third-person)
wastende (participle present)
wastynge (participle present)
wasted (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
wasten (infinitive)
to wasten (infinitive)
waste (infinitive)
waste (first-person present singular)
wasted (first-person past singular)
wastest (present second-person singular)
wastedest (past second-person singular)
wasteth (present singular third-person)
wasted (past singular third-person)
waste (present singular subjunctive)
wasted (past singular subjunctive)
waste (imperative present singular)
wasten (plural present)
waste (plural present)
wasteden (past plural)
wastede (past plural)
wasteth (imperative plural present)
waste (imperative plural present)
wastynge (participle present)
wastende (participle present)
wasted (participle past)
waaste (alternative)
waasten (alternative)
waaston (alternative)
waastye (alternative)
waist (alternative)
wast (alternative)
waste (alternative)
wasti (alternative)
wayst (alternative)

English: waste

Scots: waste

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman waster (Parisien guaster), from Latin vāstō, with influence from Frankish *wōstijan; equivalent to wast (“desolate”) + -en (infinitival suffix). Compare westen (“to devastate”).

af

To utilise or expend (resources or supplies):

To expend time (usually in a wasteful way)


drawen

enm-verb

drawen (third-person singular simple present draweth, present participle drawinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative drogh or drew, past participle drawen)

draweth (present singular third-person)
drawinge (participle present)
drogh (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
drew (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
drawen (participle past)
drawen (infinitive)
to drawen (infinitive)
drawe (infinitive)
drawe (first-person present singular)
drogh (first-person past singular)
drew (first-person past singular)
drawest (present second-person singular)
drowe (past second-person singular)
drewe (past second-person singular)
drogh (past second-person singular)
drew (past second-person singular)
draweth (present singular third-person)
drogh (past singular third-person)
drew (past singular third-person)
drawe (present singular subjunctive)
drowe (past singular subjunctive)
drewe (past singular subjunctive)
drawe (imperative present singular)
drawen (plural present)
drawe (plural present)
drowen (past plural)
drowe (past plural)
drewen (past plural)
drewe (past plural)
draweth (imperative plural present)
drawe (imperative plural present)
drawynge (participle present)
drawende (participle present)
drawen (participle past)
drawe (participle past)
ydrawen (participle past)
ydrawe (participle past)
drauen (alternative)
dragen (alternative)
draghen (alternative)
draȝen (alternative)
drauhen (alternative)
draȝhenn (alternative)
drawe (alternative)
draue (alternative)
draȝe (alternative)

English: draw

Scots: draw

Yola: dra

From Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan. Many senses are calqued from Latin trahere.

To draw out; to spread out or extend:
To prolong; to extend in time.


dwellen

dwelen (infinitive)
to dwelen (infinitive)
dwele (infinitive)
dwele (first-person present singular)
dweled (first-person past singular)
dwelte (first-person past singular)
dwelest (present second-person singular)
dweledest (past second-person singular)
dweltest (past second-person singular)
dweleth (present singular third-person)
dweled (past singular third-person)
dwelte (past singular third-person)
dwele (present singular subjunctive)
dweled (past singular subjunctive)
dwelte (past singular subjunctive)
dwele (imperative present singular)
dwelen (plural present)
dwele (plural present)
dweleden (past plural)
dwelede (past plural)
dwelten (past plural)
dwelte (past plural)
dweleth (imperative plural present)
dwele (imperative plural present)
dwelynge (participle present)
dwelende (participle present)
dweled (participle past)
dwelt (participle past)
ydweled (participle past)
ydwelt (participle past)
duell (alternative)
duelle (alternative)
dwel (alternative)
dwell (alternative)
dwelle (alternative)
dwellyn (alternative)
dweylle (alternative)

English: dwell

Scots: dwall

From Old English dwellan (with semantic influence from Old Norse dvelja), from Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną.


fillen

fillen (third-person singular simple present filleth, present participle fillynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative filde, past participle fild)

filleth (present singular third-person)
fillynge (participle present)
filde (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
fild (participle past)
fillen (infinitive)
to fillen (infinitive)
fille (infinitive)
fille (first-person present singular)
filled (first-person past singular)
filde (first-person past singular)
fillest (present second-person singular)
filledest (past second-person singular)
fildest (past second-person singular)
filleth (present singular third-person)
filled (past singular third-person)
filde (past singular third-person)
fille (present singular subjunctive)
filled (past singular subjunctive)
filde (past singular subjunctive)
fille (imperative present singular)
fillen (plural present)
fille (plural present)
filleden (past plural)
fillede (past plural)
filden (past plural)
filde (past plural)
filleth (imperative plural present)
fille (imperative plural present)
fillynge (participle present)
fillende (participle present)
filled (participle past)
fild (participle past)
yfilled (participle past)
yfild (participle past)
felle (alternative)
fellen (alternative)
fil (alternative)
fill (alternative)
fille (alternative)
fillyn (alternative)
fulle (alternative)
fullen (alternative)
fylle (alternative)
velle (alternative)
vullen (alternative)
fillenn (alternative Ormulum)

English: fill

Scots: fill

Yola: vill

From Old English fyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną; equivalent to fille + -en (infinitival suffix). Compare fullen.

(rare, of time) To pass; to become complete.


governaunce

governaunces (plural)
gouvernance (alternative)
gouvernaunce (alternative)
governance (alternative)
governans (alternative)
governauns (alternative)
guvernance (alternative)

English: governance

Middle Scots: governance

Borrowed from Old French gouvernance, governance; equivalent to governen + -aunce.

Authority, rule, or leadership; the holding of power:

(rare) A term or tenure; a period of office.


morwe

morwes (plural)
morewe (alternative)
morowe (alternative)
morow (alternative)
morrou (alternative)
morue (alternative)
morw (alternative)
morȝe (alternative)
morewen (alternative)
morowen (alternative)
morȝen (alternative)
morwen (alternative)
morwyn (alternative)
morwhen (alternative)
morwoun (alternative)
morun (alternative)
moron (alternative)
moryn (alternative)
morn (alternative)
morgen (alternative)
marhen (alternative)
mareȝen (alternative)
morghen (alternative)
moruwe (alternative)

English: morrow; morn

Scots: morrow, morra; morn

From Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz.
Compare West Frisian moarn.


loveday

lovedayes (plural)
lofeday (alternative)
lovedai (alternative)
love-day (alternative)
love day (alternative)
lowe-day (alternative)
lufday (alternative)

English: loveday (now historical)

(figuratively) Any time of peaceableness.


degre

degres (plural)
degree (alternative)
degrece (alternative)
de-gre (alternative)
degrie (alternative)

English: degree

Scots: degree

Borrowed from Old French degré, degréz (hence the variant degrece); equivalent to de- + gre.

A measurement of time amounting to around four minutes.


tydy

English: tidy

Scots: tidy

tide (alternative)
tidi (alternative)
tyde (alternative)
tydee (alternative)
tyedy (alternative)


fulfillen

fulfillen (third-person singular simple present fulfilleth, present participle fulfillynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fulfilde, past participle fulfild)

fulfilleth (present singular third-person)
fulfillynge (participle present)
fulfilde (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
fulfild (participle past)
fulfillen (infinitive)
to fulfillen (infinitive)
fulfille (infinitive)
fulfille (first-person present singular)
fulfilled (first-person past singular)
fulfilde (first-person past singular)
fulfillest (present second-person singular)
fulfilledest (past second-person singular)
fulfildest (past second-person singular)
fulfilleth (present singular third-person)
fulfilled (past singular third-person)
fulfilde (past singular third-person)
fulfille (present singular subjunctive)
fulfilled (past singular subjunctive)
fulfilde (past singular subjunctive)
fulfille (imperative present singular)
fulfillen (plural present)
fulfille (plural present)
fulfilleden (past plural)
fulfillede (past plural)
fulfilden (past plural)
fulfilde (past plural)
fulfilleth (imperative plural present)
fulfille (imperative plural present)
fulfillynge (participle present)
fulfillende (participle present)
fulfilled (participle past)
fulfild (participle past)
ffol-ffulle (alternative)
folfulle (alternative)
fulfil (alternative)
fulfill (alternative)
fulfille (alternative)
fulfulle (alternative)
fulfyl (alternative)
fulfyll (alternative)
fulfylle (alternative)
fullefille (alternative)
fullfill (alternative)
fulvullen (alternative Southern)
volvulle (alternative Southern)
volvelle (alternative Kent)

English: fulfill, fulfil

From Old English fullfyllan; equivalent to ful- + fillen.

To finish or end; to become or make complete:


cleven

cleven (infinitive)
to cleven (infinitive)
cleve (infinitive)
cleve (first-person present singular)
cleved (first-person past singular)
clof (first-person past singular)
clevest (present second-person singular)
clevedest (past second-person singular)
clove (past second-person singular)
clive (past second-person singular)
clof (past second-person singular)
cleveth (present singular third-person)
cleved (past singular third-person)
clof (past singular third-person)
cleve (present singular subjunctive)
cleved (past singular subjunctive)
clove (past singular subjunctive)
clive (past singular subjunctive)
cleve (imperative present singular)
cleven (plural present)
cleve (plural present)
cleveden (past plural)
clevede (past plural)
cloven (past plural)
clove (past plural)
cliven (past plural)
clive (past plural)
cleveth (imperative plural present)
cleve (imperative plural present)
clevynge (participle present)
clevende (participle present)
cleved (participle past)
cliven (participle past)
clive (participle past)
ycleved (participle past)
ycliven (participle past)
clefian (alternative)
cleeven (alternative)
cleve (alternative)
clevyn (alternative)
cliven (alternative)
cliviȝe (alternative)
clyve (alternative)
clyven (alternative)
cleovien (alternative)
clevyen (alternative)

English: cleave

Scots: cleave, cleif

Originally two distinct verbs:
* Old English cleofian, clifian, from Proto-West Germanic *klibēn, from Proto-Germanic *klibāną.
* Old English clīfan, from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną.

To withstand or stay put; to weather time.


yesternyght

English: yesternight

From Old English ġiestranniht; equivalent to yester- + nighte.

yisternight (alternative)
yesternyȝt (alternative)
ȝisternight (alternative)
ȝustir nyȝt (alternative)
yistre nyght (alternative)


barnhede

barn-hede (alternative)
barnehede (alternative)
barenhede (alternative)
barnehed (alternative)

(Late Middle English) The duration when one is a child; childhood.


tymely

English: timely

Scots: tymely (obsolete)

From Old English tīmlīce; equivalent to and reinforced by tyme (“time”) + -ly.

timliche (alternative)
timeliche (alternative)
timely (alternative)
tymly (alternative)
tymliche (alternative)
tymelich (alternative)
tymeli (alternative)
tymelie (alternative)
timelich (alternative)


tymeful

English: timeful (archaic)

(rare) Having a duration or period of time.


myle

myles (plural)
mylen (plural)
mile (alternative)

English: mile

Scots: mile

From Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju. The final vowel is generalised from Old English inflected forms.

The time it takes to walk a mile (reckoned at 20 minutes)


vespertyne

English: vespertine

From Latin vespertīnus (“occurring in the evening”).

bor

Pertaining to or occurring during the evening.


journe

journes (plural)
journee (alternative)
journey (alternative)
jorne (alternative)
jornee (alternative)
jorney (alternative)
jornay (alternative)
jornaye (alternative)
gurnay (alternative)
jurnei (alternative)
jurnee (alternative)

English: journey

Scots: jurney

Borrowed from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta.


day sterne

Scots: daystern


daysterre

enm-noun

daysterre (plural daysterres or daysterren)

daysterres (plural)
daysterren (plural)
day sterre (alternative)
day (alternative)
sterre (alternative)

English: daystar

From Old English dæġsteorra, equivalent to day + sterre.


ende-day

English: end-day (obsolete)

Scots: end-day (obsolete)

From Old English endedæġ; equivalent to ende + day.

ende-dai (alternative)
ende day (alternative)
enddai (alternative)
endeday (alternative)
endedaȝȝ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
endedæȝ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
ende dei (alternative Early-Middle-English)
ande-daiȝe (alternative Early-Middle-English)


endeles

English: endless

Scots: endless

From Old English endelēas, from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz; equivalent to ende + -les.

endelese (alternative)
endeliese (alternative)
endles (alternative)
endlees (alternative)
yendles (alternative)
eendeles (alternative)
endelees (alternative)
endeleas (alternative)
yndelesse (alternative)
endlez (alternative)
endelez (alternative)

Unending in time; endless, timeless, lasting without end.


endeles

For an infinite time; endlessly, timelessly, lasting without end.


endelesly

English: endlessly

From Old English endelēaslīce; equivalent to endeles + -ly.

ȝendlesly (alternative)
endlesly (alternative)
eendeleesly (alternative)
endelesliche (alternative)
endlesli (alternative)


endelesnesse

English: endlessness

From Old English endelēasnes; equivalent to endeles + -nesse.

endelesnes (alternative)
endlesnes (alternative)

(rare, Late Middle English) endlessness, eternalness


endyng

endynges (plural)
endunge (alternative)
ȝiendunȝe (alternative)
hendinke (alternative)
endingge (alternative)
endyngge (alternative)
ending (alternative)
eendyng (alternative)
endynge (alternative)
hendynge (alternative)
heyndynge (alternative)

English: ending

Scots: endin

Yola: endeen

From Old English endung, ġeendung; equivalent to ende + -ing.

An ending, termination, or conclusion.
The end of one's life; death or dying.

(Christianity) The end of the current world; the biblical Apocalypse.

The ending point of a literary creation or work.

An ending, termination, or conclusion.
A grammatical ending; a suffix.


endyng day

endingday (alternative)
ending day (alternative)
ending dai (alternative)
endyng-day (alternative)
endyng daye (alternative)

The day which one dies on; one's deathday.


kalende

kalendes (plural)
kalande (alternative)
calende (alternative)
kalend (alternative)

English: calends

From Old English calend, a singular form back-formed from Latin kalendae, calendae.

Rosh Hodesh; the Jewish celebration of a month beginning.


sodeyn

English: sudden

q

Scots: sudden, suddent (modified to match the Middle Scots past participle -and, -ant)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Latin subitāneus.

sodain (alternative)
sodaine (alternative)
sodayne (alternative)
sodeyne (alternative)
soodeyn (alternative)
soden (alternative)
sodan (alternative)
sudeyn (alternative)
sudeyne (alternative)
sudayne (alternative)
soudein (alternative)
soddeyn (alternative)
suddayne (alternative)
sodand (alternative)

(rare) Ephemeral; short-lived or impermanent.


sodeynly

English: suddenly

Scots: suddenly, suddently (modified to match the Middle Scots past participle -and, -ant)

sudeinliche (alternative)
sodeinliche (alternative)
sodainliche (alternative)
sodenly (alternative)
sodeinly (alternative)
sodaynely (alternative)
soudaynely (alternative)
sudeynly (alternative)
soubdeynly (alternative)
sotheynly (alternative)
sodaynlyche (alternative)
sodanli (alternative)


quantite

quantites (plural)
quantitee (alternative)
qwantyte (alternative)
quantyte (alternative)
quantytee (alternative)

English: quantity

Borrowed from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās.

Number, quantity or amount (either discrete or continuous):

Amount or length of time (that something occurs or happens over]


duracioun

English: duration

From Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.


sevenyght

English: sevennight, sennight

seven niȝt (alternative)
seven-nyȝt (alternative)
sevyn-night (alternative)
sevenyst (alternative)
sevenist (alternative)
senyght (alternative)
sennyȝte (alternative)
seven-nyght (alternative)
sevenight (alternative)
sevenyghte (alternative)
seven nyght (alternative)
sefennnahht (alternative Early-Middle-English)
seoven niht (alternative Early-Middle-English)


sevenyght

English: sennight


governail

governails (plural)
governail (alternative)
governaill (alternative)
governaille (alternative)
governayle (alternative)
governaylle (alternative)
governele (alternative)
governeylle (alternative)

English: governail (archaic)

Middle Scots: governall

Borrowed from Middle French governail, from Old French governail, governaille, from Latin gubernāculum.

The duration an office is held for; reign, tenure.


eternyte

eternytees (plural)
eternite (alternative)
eternytee (alternative)
eternitee (alternative)
eternytie (alternative)

English: eternity

Scots: eternity

Borrowed from Old French eternité, eternitez, from Latin aeternitās; equivalent to eterne + -ite.

Existence without end; eternity, lasting forever.

The expanse of time; all of time (contrasted with time)

(rare) A large amount or quantity of time.


ynche

enm-noun

ynche (plural ynches or enchen or ynche)

ynches (plural)
enchen (plural)
ynche (plural)
ench (alternative)
enche (alternative)
inch (alternative)
inche (alternative)
neynche (alternative)
ninche (alternative)
unch (alternative)
unche (alternative)
ynch (alternative)

English: inch (see there for further descendants)

Scots: inch

From Old English ynċe, from earlier *unċi-, from Latin uncia. Doublet of ounce.


differren

differren (infinitive)
to differren (infinitive)
differre (infinitive)
differre (first-person present singular)
differred (first-person past singular)
differrest (present second-person singular)
differredest (past second-person singular)
differreth (present singular third-person)
differred (past singular third-person)
differre (present singular subjunctive)
differred (past singular subjunctive)
differre (imperative present singular)
differren (plural present)
differre (plural present)
differreden (past plural)
differrede (past plural)
differreth (imperative plural present)
differre (imperative plural present)
differrynge (participle present)
differrende (participle present)
differred (participle past)
ydifferred (participle past)
deferre (alternative)
deferren (alternative)
defferre (alternative)
differre (alternative)
dyfferre (alternative)

English: differ; defer (Etymology 1)

Scots: differ

Borrowed from Old French differer, diferer, from Latin differō.

To postpone or defer; to do later than was planned.

(rare) To block or halt; to cause to stop.


attome

English: atom

Scots: atom

From Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”).

der

atom (fifteen ninety-fourths of a second)


mynute

mynutes (plural)
minute (alternative)
mynut (alternative)
mynet (alternative)
minut (alternative)

English: minute
Tok Pisin: minit

Scots: meenit

From Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta. Compare menuse.

minute (sixtieth of an hour or similar period)


demuren

demuren (infinitive)
to demuren (infinitive)
demure (infinitive)
demure (first-person present singular)
demured (first-person past singular)
demurest (present second-person singular)
demuredest (past second-person singular)
demureth (present singular third-person)
demured (past singular third-person)
demure (present singular subjunctive)
demured (past singular subjunctive)
demure (imperative present singular)
demuren (plural present)
demure (plural present)
demureden (past plural)
demurede (past plural)
demureth (imperative plural present)
demure (imperative plural present)
demurynge (participle present)
demurende (participle present)
demured (participle past)
demere (alternative)
demure (alternative)

English: demur

From Anglo-Norman demorer, from Vulgar Latin dēmoro, from Latin dēmoror; equivalent to demure (“delay”) + -en (infinitival ending).


unstedefast

English: unsteadfast

Inherited from Old English unstedefæst; equivalent to un- + stedefast.

unstedfast (alternative)
un-stedfast (alternative)
unstedefaste (alternative)
unstedeffaste (alternative)
unsteffast (alternative)
unsteffaste (alternative)
unstidfast (alternative)
unstidefast (alternative)
unstidefaste (alternative)
unstudefast (alternative)
un-studfast (alternative)
unstedevast (alternative)
unstedevest (alternative)

Lacking permanence; temporary, impermanent, passing.


stedefastly

English: steadfastly

Scots: steadfastly

From stedefast + -ly (adverbial suffix).

stedefasliche (alternative)
stedefastli (alternative)
stedefastliche (alternative)
stedfastili (alternative)
stedfastli (alternative)
stedfastlie (alternative)
stedfastlich (alternative)
stedfastliche (alternative)
stedfastly (alternative)
stedfastlych (alternative)
stedfastlyk (alternative)
stidefastli (alternative)
stidefastly (alternative)
stidfastly (alternative)
studefastliche (alternative)
studefastlych (alternative)
studfastly (alternative)
stedefæstliche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
stedevastliche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
studevastliche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
studevestliche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
stedevestliche (alternative Kent)
stedevestlyche (alternative Kent)

Uninterruptedly, eternally; without halt.


stedefastnesse

English: steadfastness

Middle Scots: steidfastnes

Inherited from Old English stedefæstnes; equivalent to stedefast + -nesse.

stedfastnes (alternative)
stedfastnesse (alternative)
stiddefastnes (alternative)
stidefastnes (alternative)
stidefastnesse (alternative)
studefastnes (alternative)
studfastnes (alternative)
stedevestnesse (alternative)

Perdurance; continual existence or endurance.


stedefast

English: steadfast

Middle Scots: stedfast

Inherited from Old English stedefæst, from Proto-West Germanic *stadifast, from Proto-Germanic *stadifastaz; equivalent to stede (“place”) + -fast.

steddefast (alternative)
stedefaste (alternative)
stedeffast (alternative)
stedfast (alternative)
stedfaste (alternative)
stidefast (alternative)
stidfast (alternative)
stodefast (alternative)
studefast (alternative)
studfast (alternative)
studfaste (alternative)
stydfast (alternative)
stydfaste (alternative)
stedefasst (alternative Early-Middle-English)
studefest (alternative Early-Middle-English)
studevest (alternative Early-Middle-English)
stedevast (alternative Kent)
stedevest (alternative Kent)


rymthe

desc

remodelled after <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">room</i>

English: roomth (remodelled after room)

>? Middle Scots: rind

Apparently inherited from Old English rȳmþ (despite the gap in attestation), from Proto-West Germanic *rūmiþu; equivalent to roum + -the (abstract nominal suffix).

(Late Middle English, rare) room (space or opportunity to do something)


fourtenyght

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">fortnith</i>

English: fortnight (dialectal fortnith)

Scots: fortnicht, fornicht

Inherited from Old English fēowertīene niht (“fourteen nights”); equivalent to fourtene (“fourteen”) + nyght (“nights”).

af

ffourtene niȝt (alternative)
faurtenyȝte (alternative)
fourtene niȝt (alternative)
fourtene nyght (alternative)
fourtene-nyȝht (alternative)
fourteniȝt (alternative)
fourtenniȝt (alternative)
fourten niȝt (alternative)
fourtenniht (alternative)
fourtenyte (alternative)
fourtnythe (alternative)
fourthnyght (alternative)
fowrtene nyghte (alternative)
foirtennist (alternative Early-Middle-English)
fowertene niht (alternative Early-Middle-English)


acounten

enm-verb

acounten (third-person singular simple present acounteth, present participle acountende, acountynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle acounted)

acounteth (present singular third-person)
acountende (participle present)
acountynge (participle present)
acounted (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
acounten (infinitive)
to acounten (infinitive)
acounte (infinitive)
acounte (first-person present singular)
acounted (first-person past singular)
acountest (present second-person singular)
acountedest (past second-person singular)
acounteth (present singular third-person)
acounted (past singular third-person)
acounte (present singular subjunctive)
acounted (past singular subjunctive)
acounte (imperative present singular)
acounten (plural present)
acounte (plural present)
acounteden (past plural)
acountede (past plural)
acounteth (imperative plural present)
acounte (imperative plural present)
acountynge (participle present)
acountende (participle present)
acounted (participle past)
accompt (alternative)
acompte (alternative)
accounte (alternative)
a-count (alternative)
acounte (alternative)
a-counti (alternative)
acownt (alternative)
a-coynt (alternative)

English: account, accompt

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman acounter, aconter; equivalent to acounte (“account”) + -en (infinitival suffix) or a- + counten (“to count”).

af

To measure or calculate (especially time):

To count (enumerate; give the number of)


computacioun

English: computation

Borrowed from Middle French computation or its etymon Latin computātiō (“computation”), from computō (“to compute”); compare counten.

computacion (alternative)
computacyoun (alternative)
computation (alternative)

Computation, calculation (of time or in arithmetic or astronomy).


parformen

enm-verb

parformen (third-person singular simple present parformeth, present participle parformende, parformynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle parformed)

parformeth (present singular third-person)
parformende (participle present)
parformynge (participle present)
parformed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
parformen (infinitive)
to parformen (infinitive)
parforme (infinitive)
parforme (first-person present singular)
parformed (first-person past singular)
parformest (present second-person singular)
parformedest (past second-person singular)
parformeth (present singular third-person)
parformed (past singular third-person)
parforme (present singular subjunctive)
parformed (past singular subjunctive)
parforme (imperative present singular)
parformen (plural present)
parforme (plural present)
parformeden (past plural)
parformede (past plural)
parformeth (imperative plural present)
parforme (imperative plural present)
parformynge (participle present)
parformende (participle present)
parformed (participle past)
parforme (alternative)
parfourme (alternative)
performe (alternative)
performen (alternative)
perfourme (alternative)
perfourmen (alternative)
paarformyn (alternative)
par fourmi (alternative)
parfoorme (alternative)
perfoorme (alternative)
parfourn (alternative)
parfourne (alternative)
parfournen (alternative)
perforne (alternative)
perfourne (alternative)
perfourny (alternative)
parforne (alternative)

English: perform

Middle Scots: perform, performe

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman parformir, parfornir, from par- + fornir (“to furnish”).
Forms with /m/ are due to the analogy of Anglo-Norman former (“to create”) (Middle English formen); though both such forms and those with /n/ were borrowed into Middle English, the latter predominate after 1400, likely due to continuing analogical influence.

To finish; to make complete or whole:
(rare) To survive or while away (time).

To finish; to make complete or whole:
To survive or while away (time).