in

innes (plural)
inn (alternative)
inne (alternative)
ine (alternative)
yn (alternative)
ynne (alternative)

English: inn

Scots: inn

Any kind of accommodation; particularly:

A holiday home or guesthouse; a house set up as accommodation.

An inn or hostel; a building with multiple rooms to let.

For who so wolde senge a cattes skyn / Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his In

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 62, recto:

For if someone wants to singe a cat’s skin, the cat would rather stay in its house.

A home or house; habitation or housing one lives in.


in

English: in

Scots: in, i, i'

Yola: ing, in, yn, i, ee, eee

From Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

ine (alternative)
i (alternative)
yn (alternative)
yne (alternative)
en (alternative)
i (alternative)
an (alternative)
y (alternative)

in; with the following special senses:
wearing, having on, clad in


store

English: store

Scots: store

→ Welsh: stôr

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.

stor (alternative)
stoure (alternative)
storre (alternative)
stour (alternative)
stoor (alternative)
stoore (alternative)


court

courtes (plural)
cort (alternative)
corte (alternative)
cortt (alternative)
courte (alternative)
curt (alternative)
curth (alternative)

English: court (see there for further descendants)

Scots: court, coort

Borrowed from Old French cort, curt, from Latin cōrs, contraction of cohors, cohortem.

A court of law; the body which administers justice:


bern

bernes (plural)
barn (alternative)
baryn (alternative)
berne (alternative)
bærn (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: barn

Scots: bern

Yola: barrn

From Old English bearn, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”). Equivalent to bere + -ern.

whos wynewing cloþ is in his hond .· ⁊ he ſchal fulli clenſe his coꝛn flooꝛ / and he ſchal gadere his wheete in to his berne .· but þe chaf he ſchal bꝛenne wiþ fier þat mai not be quenchid

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 3:12, page 2r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

His winnowing fan is in his hand; he'll fully clean his threshing-floor, he'll gather up his wheat into his barn, and he'll burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.


chapitre

chapitres (plural)
capyter (alternative)
chaipitur (alternative)
chapetere (alternative)
chapetir (alternative)
chapetre (alternative)
chapihtre (alternative)
chapiter (alternative)
chapitere (alternative)
chapitir (alternative)
chapitr (alternative)
chapitur (alternative)
chapter (alternative)
chaptre (alternative)
chaptyr (alternative)
chapyter (alternative)
chaypitur (alternative)

English: chapter; chapiter

Scots: chaipter

Borrowed from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum.

A chapterhouse; a building hosting such a group.


halle

alternative form of hale (“hale (temporary structure for housing, entertaining, eating meals, etc.)”)


hous

hous (plural)
houses (plural)
housen (plural)
hus (alternative)
hows (alternative)
house (alternative)

English: house (see there for further descendants)

Geordie English: hoose

Scots: hoose

Yola: heouse, houze, howze

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
From Old English hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.
Cognate with Dutch huis, German Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus, Swedish hus.

etymon

[…]if ony of þi puple Iſrael biſechiþ, and knowiþ his veniaunce and ſikenesse, and if he ſpꝛediþ abꝛood hiſe hondis in þis hows[…]

a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:29”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

[…] If any of your people Israel prays, and knows their destruction and disease, and spreads his hands to this temple […]


castel

castels (plural)
castell (alternative)
castelle (alternative)
castle (alternative)
chastel (alternative)

English: castle
→ Tongan: kāsolo

Scots: castle

→ Scottish Gaelic: caisteal

From late Old English castel, castell, borrowed from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French castel, itself also from castellum.


rof

roves (plural)
rofes (plural)
roof (alternative)
ruffe (alternative)
rhof (alternative)
rooff (alternative)
rufe (alternative)

English: roof

Geordie English: ruif, reuf

Scots: ruf, ruif

From Old English hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą.

A house or building; an edifice used for inhabitance.


librarie

libraries (plural)
librarye (alternative)
liberary (alternative)
lybrary (alternative)
library (alternative)

English: library (see there for further descendants)

Scots: leebrary

From Anglo-Norman librarie, ultimately from Latin librarium.


prisoun

prisouns (plural)
prisounes (plural)
prison (alternative)
prisun (alternative)
prisen (alternative)
pryson (alternative)
prisone (alternative)

English: prison

Scots: preeson

From late Anglo-Norman prisoun, spelt prisun in early Anglo-Norman. Ultimately from Latin prehensiō, prehensiōnem.

prison, jail, dungeon (place where captives are held)


cloistre

English: cloister

Scots: closter (< closter)

From Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum.

cloister (alternative)
closter (alternative)
cloystre (alternative)
cloyster (alternative)
clostre (alternative)
cloistir (alternative)
cleystir (alternative)
cloysture (alternative)

A monastery or cloister; a place where a monastic lifestyle is practiced.

A cloister (roofed path, especially at a monastic complex)

That which is cloistered; a confined location.

(figurative, rare) The uterus as a protective location.


gerner

gerners (plural)
garnell (alternative)
garner (alternative)
garnere (alternative)
gernarde (alternative)
gerneer (alternative)
gernere (alternative)
gernier (alternative)
greyner (alternative)
gurner (alternative)

English: garner

Scots: girnel, garnel

Borrowed from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin grānārium; equivalent to greyn + -er.


cleve

English: cleve

Inherited from Old English clēofa, from Proto-Germanic *klebô.

(rare) An abode or home; where someone resides.


tolsey

English: tolsey

tolsell (alternative)
tolseld (alternative)
tollseld (alternative)


chirche

chirches (plural)
chirchen (plural)
cherch (alternative)
cherche (alternative)
chirch (alternative)
chorche (alternative)
church (alternative)
churche (alternative)
chyrch (alternative)
chyrche (alternative)
kirke (alternative)
kyrk (alternative)
kyrke (alternative)
schyrsche (alternative)
chireche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
chiriche (alternative Early-Middle-English)
circe (alternative Early-Middle-English)
cyrce (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: church

Geordie English: chorch, kirk

Scots: kirk

Yola: chourch

/ˈt͡ʃɛrt͡ʃ(ə)/

From Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).

Foꝛ ouer ſithon ne · foꝛ baren. hi nouther circe ne cyrceiard. oc namen al þe god ð þar inne ƿaſ. ⁊ brenden ſythen þe cyrce ⁊ al te gædere.

p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

Because after a while, they spared neither churches or churchyards, but stole all the valuables within them before burning the church and everything in it.

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church


mylne

mylnes (plural)
mele (alternative)
melle (alternative)
mille (alternative)
miln (alternative)
milne (alternative)
myle (alternative)
mylene (alternative)
mylle (alternative)
myln (alternative)
molle (alternative Southern)
mule (alternative Southern)
mulle (alternative Southern)
mulne (alternative Southern)

desctree

English: mill
Sranan Tongo: miri
→ Hindi: मिल (mil)

Scots: mill, mull

Yola: mile

From Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu.

A mill; a grinding apparatus or a building housing one:


sege

seges (plural)
segen (plural)
cege (alternative)
schege (alternative)
seege (alternative)
seegge (alternative)
segge (alternative)
segh (alternative)
seghe (alternative)
syege (alternative)

English: siege

Scots: siege

Borrowed from Old French sege, siege, from Vulgar Latin *sēdicum, from sēdēs.

A siege; an attack or assault on a walled city:

A seat, especially that which indicates authority:

A portable seat; a seat on the back of a mount.

A location, especially something's usual location.

(rare) Ones's position, office, or station.

A group of herons; a perch used by herons.


bochous

From Old English bōchus; equivalent to bok + hous.


salthous

English: salthouse

From Old English sealthūs; equivalent to salt + hous.

saltehous (alternative)
salthouse (alternative)
salthus (alternative)


armurie

armuries (plural)
armurye (alternative)
armury (alternative)
armore (alternative)
armury (alternative)
armourry (alternative)
armerie (alternative)
armery (alternative)

English: armory, armoury

From Old French armoierie; equivalent to armure + -ie.


tolboth

English: tollbooth

Scots: towebuith

tolbothe (alternative)
tolle bothe (alternative)
tol-boþe (alternative)
tholboth (alternative)
tolboythe (alternative)
tolle-boþe (alternative)

A tollhouse or tollbooth; a facility that tolls or fees are paid at.


warderobe

warderobes (plural)
wardrop (alternative)
warderop (alternative)
warderope (alternative)
waardrop (alternative)
wardrape (alternative)
wardroppe (alternative)

English: wardrobe

Scots: wardrop (obsolete)

From Old Northern French warderoube; equivalent to ward + robe.

A division of an aristocratic residence which organises the procurement of supplies; the location which contains one.


jewell hous

jewelhows (alternative)
jewelhous (alternative)

A location where the English royal valuables were stored.


skynnery

English: skinnery


heggynge

English: hedging

Scots: hedgin

heching (alternative)
hechinge (alternative)
hedgyng (alternative)
heggeyng (alternative)
hegging (alternative)
hegginge (alternative)
heggyng (alternative)
hegyng (alternative)

(rare) A hedge or fence that looks like a hedge.


brewhous

brewhouses (plural)
bruhouse (alternative)
brewehouse (alternative)
brewehous (alternative)
brew hous (alternative)
brewhowse (alternative)
bruehous (alternative)
brewhouse (alternative)
breuhuse (alternative)

English: brewhouse

A brewhouse or brewery; a place for making beer.

(rare) An inn or tavern with an on-site brewery.


wyndmylne

English: windmill

Middle Scots: wyndmyln, wind milne

Scots: windmill, win'-mull

Equivalent to wynd + mylne; compare parallel formations in other West Germanic languages such as Middle Dutch wintmōlen.

windmulle (alternative)
wyndemelle (alternative)
wynde myln (alternative)
wynde mylne (alternative)
wynd-melle (alternative)
wyndmyll (alternative)
wyndmylle (alternative)