pound

enm-noun

pound (plural poundes or pounden or pound)

poundes (plural)
pounden (plural)
pound (plural)

English: pound

Scots: pund, poond

From Old English pund, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondō.

A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.


quarter

English: quarter

Scots: quarter, corter

Yola: curthere, cortere

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartārius.

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).


hundred

English: hundred

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.


talent

English: talent

Scots: talent

From Old French talent and Old English talente, both from Latin talentum, from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton).


hide

hides (plural)
hiden (plural)
hide (plural)

English: hide

Scots: hyd, hid

from Old English hīd, hȳd, hīġed, hīġid (“a measure of land”), from earlier *hīwid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hīwaz, *hīwō (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), related to *hīwô (“household”).


hide

Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)


hide

enm-verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)

hideth (present singular third-person)
hidende (participle present)
hidde (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)


rode

English: rud

Scots: rud, rudd

Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)


cloth

English: cloth

Scots: clath, clathe, claith

From Old English clāþ, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą.

Cloth; fabric or an individual piece of it, especially made by weaving:

Table linen; a decorative cloth for the table.


seem

English: seam

Scots: seam

Inherited from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz. The "nail" sense is a semantic loan from Old Norse saumr.

inh+

A furrow or trench; a depression in the ground.


pipe

English: pipe (see there for further descendants)

Scots: pipe

Yola: peeps (plural)

Inherited from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā; reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa; some senses are from Old French pipe.

A unit measuring the mass or amount (equivalent to such a container).


pot

English: pot

Scots: pott, pat

From Old English pott and Old French pot, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *puttaz, from Proto-Indo-European *budnós.

A measurement for the quantity of liquids.


steppe

English: step

Scots: step, stap, stop

From Old English stæpe, stepe, from Proto-West Germanic *stapi. The (historical) geminate is due to the influence of steppen.

(rare) The length covered by a step (as a unit of length, ~2.5 feet)


furlong

English: furlong

From Old English furlang; equivalent to forow + long.


corn

English: corn (see there for further descendants)

Scots: corn, curn

Yola: coorn, koorn

Inherited from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of greyn.

Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.

þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær.

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:

Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.

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.

An oþer parable iheſus puttide foꝛþ to hem. / ⁊ ſeide / þe kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a coꝛn of ſeneuey · which a man took ⁊ ſewe in his feeld · / which is þe leeſt of alle ſeedis / but whanne it haþ woxen .· it is the mooſt of alle woꝛtis · ⁊ is maad a tre / ſo þe bꝛiddis of þe eir comen ⁊ dwellen in þe bowis þerof.

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 13:31-32, page 6v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

Jesus put another parable forwards to them, saying: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field; / it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the largest of all plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.


fot

enm-noun

fot (plural feet or fot or (rare) fotes)

feet (plural)
fot (plural)
fotes (plural rare)

English: foot (see there for further descendants)

Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute

Yola: voote

Inherited from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

One of a set of units of measurement:
square foot (unit for measuring area)


fother

English: fother

Scots: fother

From Old Norse fóðr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą. Doublet of fodder.

a great quantity, especially a load or of people.


brace

English: brace

Scots: brace

From Old French brace, from Latin bracchia, plural of bracchium.


gauge

English: gauge

Scots: gauge

/ˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

From Old Northern French gauge, from Frankish *galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô. Doublet of galwes.


swathe

English: swaðe

A strip or wrap, especially for wrapping babies in.


swathe

English: swath, swathe

Scots: swa, swarth

From Old English swaþu, from Proto-Germanic *swaþō, from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to bend, turn, swing”).

der

(rare) A strip of land as a unit of measure.

(rare) A trace left behind by something.


ounce

English: ounce, unce

Scots: ounce

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

By ounces henge his lokkes that he hadde / And therwith he his shuldres overspradde

a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, archived from the original on 2019-02-22, lines 677–678:

By very little hung the locks that he had; / He draped them over his shoulders

(rare) A minuscule or insignificant amount or quantity.


warp

English: warp

Scots: warp

From Old English wearp, warp, from Proto-West Germanic *warp, from Proto-Germanic *warpą. Related to werpen.


lege

English: liege

Scots: liege

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lige, liege; further etymology is disputed.

(One of) one's subjects or vassals; (one of) those under one's control.

(rare) One's feudal overlords or superiors.


lege

English: liege

Able to command obedience from one's inferiors.

Pledged to obey one's superiors; subject to duty by an authority.

(rare) Otherwise bound by feudal obligations.


wel

English: well

Scots: weel, wele, weil, weill

From Old English wel, from Proto-Germanic *wela.

(rare) Having good grooming or personal hygiene.


sive

English: sieve

Scots: sieve, siffe, syffe, sif, syf


sak

English: sack
→ Japanese: サック (sakku)

Scots: seck

Inherited from Old English sacc, sæcc, from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from Proto-Germanic *sakkuz, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos), from a Semitic language.

A sack (large coarse bag):
A sack (unit of measure)


capacite

English: capacity

From Old French capacite, from Latin capācitās.

Ability, competence, capableness; the degree to which something is capable.


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)

English: number

Scots: nummer

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

(rare) To deduce or realise; to come to a conclusion.


assise

English: assize

Scots: assize (now rare)

From Old French assises, from Latin assideō. Compare syse.


brede

Scots: brede

From Old English brǣde, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *brādō, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”). Doublet of brawne.

(hunting) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.


brede

English: bread (“breadth”) (dialectal)

Scots: brede, breid

From Old English brǣdu, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *braidī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄.

extent (space to which something extends):

The total extent of a surface or object.

(figurative) The extent or totality of one's feelings.


perche

English: perch

Borrowed from Old French perche, from Latin pertica.


spanne

English: span

Scots: span

From Old English spann, from Proto-West Germanic *spannu, from Proto-Germanic *spānnõ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

der

A specific measure of volume that corresponds to the quantity that fits in a person's hands while cupped.


scheef

English: sheaf

Scots: sheaf

Yola: shives (plural)


staf

enm-noun

staf (plural staves or staven or staffes)

staves (plural)
staven (plural)
staffes (plural)

English: staff, stave

Scots: staf, staff

Yola: stheeves (plural)

From Old English stæf, from Proto-West Germanic *stab.

A staff, rod or pole; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object:

A clerical staff, often curled; a crozier.

A staff serving as an emblem of authority and rulership.

A rod for conveying or transporting items upon.

A staff for blending or mixing ingredients.

(figurative) One's nourishment or lifeblood; that which aids one.


lengthe

English: length

Scots: lenth, lainth

Inherited from Old English lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō; equivalent to long + -the (abstract nominal suffix).


cubite

English: cubit

Scots: cubit (obsolete)

A cubit (unit of length measuring one and a half feet)


ston

ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)

stones (plural)
ston (plural)
stonen (plural rare)

English: stone (see there for further descendants)

Geordie English: styen

Scots: stane

Yola: sthoan

→ Anglo-Norman: ston

Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

A stone, boulder, or pebble:
A pebble used in a slingshot.


rodde

English: rod

Scots: rod, rodd

Yola: rade

From Old English *rodd; further provenance is uncertain.


balaunce

English: balance

Scots: ballance

From Old French balance, from Late Latin *bilancia.

(astrology, astronomy) Libra (constellation; member of the Zodiac)


elne

English: ell

Scots: elne, ellne, eln, el, ell


erthe

English: earth, Earth

q

influenced by <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">erd</i>

Scots: erd (influenced by erd)

Yola: erth, eart, eard, eorth, eord

From Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō.


hoggeshed

English: hogshead

→ Old French: hoggeshed


depthe

English: depth

Scots: deepth

Inherited from Old English *dīepþ, from Proto-West Germanic *diupiþu, from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō; equivalent to depe + -the (abstract nominal suffix).

(rare) The sea floor; the part of the earth's surface which is submerged.


gaugen

gaugen (infinitive)
to gaugen (infinitive)
gauge (infinitive)
gauge (first-person present singular)
gauged (first-person past singular)
gaugest (present second-person singular)
gaugedest (past second-person singular)
gaugeth (present singular third-person)
gauged (past singular third-person)
gauge (present singular subjunctive)
gauged (past singular subjunctive)
gauge (imperative present singular)
gaugen (plural present)
gauge (plural present)
gaugeden (past plural)
gaugede (past plural)
gaugeth (imperative plural present)
gauge (imperative plural present)
gaugynge (participle present)
gaugende (participle present)
gauged (participle past)
ygauged (participle past)

English: (to) gauge

Scots: (to) gauge

/ˈɡau̯d͡ʒən/

From Old Northern French gauger; equivalent to gauge + -en (infinitival suffix).

(transitive) To formally measure; make a measurement of.


thombe

English: thumb

Scots: thoum

Yola: thoome, thoume

Inherited from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.
As shown by their early attestation, spellings with final -b- are not mere hypercorrect forms, but rather represent pronunciations with /b/; such pronunciations presumably originated in a plural *thomben (from Old English þūman). Such a plural form is also presumably the origin of variants with a short vowel.


depnesse

English: deepness

Scots: deepness

From Old English dēopnes; equivalent to depe + -nesse.

depth (the third dimension, after height and width)


myle

English: mile

Scots: mile

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

mile (unit of measure composed of 8 furlongs)

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


serchen

serchen (infinitive)
to serchen (infinitive)
serche (infinitive)
serche (first-person present singular)
serched (first-person past singular)
serchest (present second-person singular)
serchedest (past second-person singular)
sercheth (present singular third-person)
serched (past singular third-person)
serche (present singular subjunctive)
serched (past singular subjunctive)
serche (imperative present singular)
serchen (plural present)
serche (plural present)
sercheden (past plural)
serchede (past plural)
sercheth (imperative plural present)
serche (imperative plural present)
serchynge (participle present)
serchende (participle present)
serched (participle past)
yserched (participle past)

English: search

Scots: sairch

/ˈsɛːrt͡ʃən/

/ˈsɛːrd͡ʒən/

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, from Latin circō; equivalent to serche + -en (infinitival suffix).

To comb through (in order to find or investigate something).

(rare) To take or perform measurements or readings.


ȝerde

English: yard, yerd

Scots: yaird, yeard, yird

Inherited from Old English ġerd, from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi, from Proto-Germanic *gazdijō. related to Polish żerdź from Proto-Slavic *žьrdь ("perch, pole, ricker").

A yard (unit of length consisting of three feet, often used for fabric)


journe

English: journey

Scots: jurney

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

The happenings or accomplishments of a day:

A unit of distance equalling a the distance covered in a day of travel (around 20 miles)


nayl

English: nail

Scots: nail, nale

Yola: niel

(figurative) A bothersome predicament or annoyance.

A nail (metal fastening pin):
A bothersome predicament or annoyance.


fynger

English: finger
Sranan Tongo: finga

Scots: finger

Yola: vinger

Inherited from Old English finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.

A finger (mobile extensions of the hand):

The fingers as a representation of divine craftsmanship.

A digit or finger (unit of length around as long or wide as a finger).

Blessid be my Lord God, that techith myn hondis to werre and my fyngris to batel.

a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalm 143:1”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

Blessed be my Lord God, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to battle.

And with hir fynger signes made she / That Damyan sholde clymbe upon a tree

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 2209–2210:

And with her finger she made signs / That Damian should climb onto a tree


potell

English: pottle

Scots: pottle

Borrowed from Old French potel; equivalent to pot + -el (diminutive suffix).

A pottle (a unit of volume equalling a half-gallon)


schovel

English: shovel (dialectal shoul, shool)

→ Fiji Hindi: sabbal

→ Marshallese: jabōļ

Scots: shuffle, schule, shule, shuil

Yola: shule

Inherited from Old English sċofl, *sċufl, from Proto-Germanic *skuflō. Akin to schoven.

A shovel or spade; a scooped tool with a handle.


quantite

English: quantity

Borrowed from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās.

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

Degree, extent; the relative amount or significance of something.


wyspe

English: wisp

Scots: wisp, wusp

Perhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”). Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.

(glassblowing, obsolete, rare) A fifteenth-century unit for measuring window glass.


ynche

enm-noun

ynche (plural ynches or enchen or ynche)

ynches (plural)
enchen (plural)
ynche (plural)

English: inch (see there for further descendants)

Scots: inch

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


spere schaft

English: spearshaft


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

English: minute
Tok Pisin: minit

Scots: meenit

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


busshel

English: bushel

Scots: bushel

ne me tendiþ not a lanterne / ⁊ puttiþ it vndur a buſſhel [translating mōdius] · but on a candilſtike· that it ȝyue liȝt to alle þat ben in þe hous

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 5:15, page 1v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

You don't light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, so it gives light to everybody who's at home.


bredthe

English: breadth

Scots: breedth, breeth

From brede (“breadth”) + -the (abstract nominal suffix).


hondbrede

⇒ English: handbreadth

Scots: handbreid

From hond + brede (“breadth”); some forms are influenced by brood (“broad”). The supposed Old English *handbrǣd, *handbrǣdu mentioned by some sources is not likely to have existed.


maunde

English: maundy (Maundy Thursday)

Borrowed from Old French mande, from Latin mandātum.

A washing of feet (by Christ or at Maundy Thursday).


schyd

English: shide (obsolete)

Middle Scots: schide, schyde

From Old English sċīd, from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą.


sponeful

English: spoonful

Scots: spuinfu, speenfu, spinfu


caudroun

desc

English: cauldron (obsolete caldron, caudron); chaldron

Scots: caudron, cauthron

Borrowed from Old Northern French cauderon (Parisien chauderon), ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”).